Program Overview

Regardless of whether your group is new to the topic, or if you’ve already taken our first program on racial equity, Spirituality and Racial Healing: Embracing Truth, Justice, and Restoration will guide your small group in the difficult but necessary conversation about our history of racism in the United States.

Spirituality and Racial Healing invites participants to formulate their own responses to racism in their families, workplaces, and communities. By fostering active listening, dialogue, and meditation, and by encouraging meditative practices and informed action, it cultivates an expanding community of people who work to dismantle racism in their respective contexts.

Spirituality and Racial Healing explains the historical context behind the racial inequalities we face today, whether in education, the criminal justice system, the workforce, or even in faith communities. Though we focused specifically on enslaved Africans and their descendants, this program will open participants’ eyes to patterns of injustice that affect other marginalized communities as well.

Spirituality and Racial Healing is not based on any one specific religion or denomination. It is designed for a more broadly spiritual audience. Those who are unaffiliated with a church or religious tradition, or who identify as “spiritual but not religious” will find the program content relevant and meaningful. This version of the program may also resonate with an interfaith audience. Meditative practices at the beginning and end of each session provide a spiritual foundation for the program. These practices draw from Hindu and Buddhist practices of mindfulness but do not arise from any one particular religious tradition. (A specifically Christian version of “Faith and Racial Healing” is also available).