VIRTUAL EVENT
Elevate your voice in the discussion of racism and its impact on our community. W E D N E S DAY, A P R I L 28 1:00 - 3:00 P M
it’s time to talk: FORUMS ON RACE
youth edition Welcome Angela Myles Vice President Racial Justice YWCA Minneapolis
Keynote Speaker Calvin Terrell Founder and Director Social Centric Institute
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Facilitated Dialogues
Closing Remarks Angela Myles
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Calvin Terrell Calvin is founder and director of Social Centric Institute, a nonprofit he built to educate anyone and everyone to be healers of historical trauma around racial intersections, class, religion, gender and environmental disruption. For more than 25 years, Calvin has engaged every demographic throughout the U.S. in historical trauma healing processes. His approaches draw from many technologies that are colonial, decolonized and Indigenous. For his dedication to human rights, Calvin has been awarded with honors from faith, educational, civic and activist organizations, as well as government institutions, including the city of Phoenix’s Martin Luther King, Jr. “Living the Dream” Award in 2000. The demand of his services prompted organizations such as Harpo Inc., Oprah Winfrey’s production company, to contract Calvin to train executive producers, coach various members of the production team and assist in their transition to the Oprah Winfrey Network. He was also honored to be a contributing consultant in designing the Muhammed Ali Center in Louisville, Kentucky. Most recently, the Obama Foundation sought Calvin’s collaboration in regards to community empowerment. Calvin challenges the privileged to abandon fragile pedestals of inconsiderate obliviousness, while he encourages the oppressed to remember their power developed from surviving historical unfairness. He invites all to abandon identity superstitions and materialistic traditions so humanity can meet and collaborate on a healing field of justice waiting for cultivation. His greatest achievements are marriage, fatherhood and a relationship with the Infinite Power that fashioned the stars. Calvin is not a Democrat, nor a Republican, a libertarian or anarchist; he is a soul experiencing Black membership of the human race. He doesn’t care what you think or feel about him, but he loves you! As Calvin, the Drapetomaniac, he’s discovered that volunteering is an event, giving is a “season,” but service is a lifelong culture of joy, tests and victories. He invites you to serve with him to heal humanity and be better with all relations.
C O N V E R SAT I O N GUIDELINES
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Facilitators use these conversation guidelines at your virtual “table” (breakout room). • What you share within the context of the conversation is confidential, honored and respected. • Use “I” statements. No one speaks for another or for an entire group of people. • Focus on your own experiences. • Be honest and willing to share. • Listen with curiosity and the willingness to learn and change. Resist the desire to interrupt. • Be brief and share the time equitably. • Be open to the kernel of wisdom in each person’s story.
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