We’ve hosted three major Courageous Conversations events around specific themes:
In the skin of the other – a presentation on systemic racism and the effects it has on society and POC. Then a structured panel discussion on race and breakout groups to further discuss these themes.
Unconscious Bias – two main speakers defining unconscious bias and how we all have it. Then we broke into breakout rooms to discuss different aspects of unconscious bias and what we could do about them.
Identity & Culture – guest speaker Patrick Briggs showed us how we identify ourselves shape our decision making and how we see and ‘judge’ others.
With our conversations, we invite people to share their knowledge and experience of race in society and within the Movement. Then within smaller sharing groups we try to go into depth about what we’ve heard or our own personal experiences, and think of ways we can work towards creating an anti-racist society.
For more information and a brief overview of previous Courageous Conversation sessions, you can click on Past Events on the Events tab. Videos of past conversations can be found on our YouTube page: Racial Equity @ Focolare.
