Holding Up Your Corner: Leading Crucial Conversations of Difference, Challenge & Equity in Your Community

Opening Question What have you seen, felt, heard, or experienced that brought you to this conversation? What woke you? Folks share autobiography with those around them Give 2-3 minutes for silent note jotting, then 15-20 minutes for sharing. Important questions: -where did you develop childood notions of race? What were they? -When did you first notice racial difference? -When did you first notice discrimination/privilege? -What did/has the church taught you about race? One last question we could add if we have the time: -tell a story in which your idea/perception/understanding of race changed. What caused that change? HOLDUPYOUCORNER.COM

Welcome and Opening

Holding Up Your Corner refers to: Our physical and social locations—the places where we live and work, and the communities of which we’re a part, where we van use our influence to speak out and Our actions—the ways we step up to meet a particular problem of injustice or inequity, and proactively do something about it.

Reflection Questions How do we continue this conversation? What can we do in our own faith context to promote racial justice? How can we share what we learned/discussed here in our own contexts? HOLDUPYOUCORNER.COM

Acknowledge

Racial Autobiography A racial autobiography examines the formation of one’s understanding of and relation to race. The practice of constructing and sharing our racial autobiography allows us to consider the many factors involved in the formation of our understanding of and relation to race. Folks share autobiography with those around them Give 2-3 minutes for silent note jotting, then 15-20 minutes for sharing. Important questions: -where did you develop childood notions of race? What were they? -When did you first notice racial difference? -When did you first notice discrimination/privilege? -What did/has the church taught you about race? One last question we could add if we have the time: -tell a story in which your idea/perception/understanding of race changed. What caused that change? HOLDUPYOUCORNER.COM

Affirm

Hearing the Hollering HOLDUPYOUCORNER.COM

What metaphors are we using to describe the church in light of this hollering? How can the church have respectful conversation? What does respectful conversation look like? How can we healthfully engage with those with whom we disagree? How can we center our conversations around dialogue rather than debate? [HOLDUPYOUCORNER.COM

“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” -Anne Frank [HOLDUPYOUCORNER.COM

Act

What steps should leaders take? What are the most important things they should do and know?  How should leaders involve the congregation and/or community?  What are the big bad mistakes to avoid? Instruct people to make their own video and connect with us via social media

What is this book? Why did you write it? Who is it for? What is in the book, the participant guide, and the DVD?

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