Racial Healing Circles at MCC
Racial Healing Circles at MCC!
What is the Racial Healing Circle?
Creating a container for us to be together, the circle:
- Places us facing one another so we can both see and be seen
- Creates a compassionate space for us to engage in the ongoing healing process and relationship building
The circle is an invitation to:
- Speak your truth
- Be seen, heard and felt
- Dip into our empathy well
- Expand our capacity for compassion
Benefits of Racial Healing Circle
Racism affects us as individuals and within our systems and institutions. "Racial"
is in our stories, yet race is often left at the door when we talk. Racial healing
and relationship building is people work.
The racial healing circle focuses on ways for all of us to:
- Heal from the wounds of the past
- Build mutually respectful relationships across lines of difference that honor and value each person's humanity
- Move us to build trusting intergenerational and diverse relationships that better reflect our common humanity
A racial healing circle is not a cure or an attempt to fix anyone:
"A healing circle's purpose is to reaffirm the humanity in all of us. And it lifts up what unites us rather than what divides us, while discovering, respecting and honoring the unique experiences of each person."
- W.K. Kellogg Foundation