Resilience in the Black Community

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Resilience in the Black Community

What does it mean to create resilience in the Black community, where anti-black racism has weaponized the violence of state against the Black community?

In the video above, with our colleagues Tiara Maldonaldo, Heart of Training, Earl Simms, Heart of Violence Prevention, and Gloria Yamato, Convener of the Black Wellness Initiative, all Black scholar-activist-practitioners, we explore what wellness and resilience look like in the Black community, which is under siege daily, and which possesses extra-ordinary resilience. This is part of our series on culture-specific formulations of restorative practice.

Related Practices:

With respect to practices, see Relating Across Difference, Common Ways of Disconnecting, Relational Mindfulness, and Reflective Listening. See our filmsThe Space Between Us, An Unfinished Conversation about Race, and The Faces we Fear. See the following conversations: A Polyvagal Perspective on Resilience with Dr. Stephen Porges, PhD). The Unangan Way, with Ilarion 'Kuuyux' Merculieff.

Who taught us this?

This conversation took place as part of the Global Resilience Summit with our colleagues Tiara Maldonaldo, Earl Simms, and Gloria Yamato. We have been studying this for years with Lee Mun Wah and Rainbow Markell. Our thinking has been shaped by James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Ta-Nehisi Coats, Robin DiAngelo, Anne Rhodes, and John Biewen, as well as our colleagues D'Andre Fisher, Dr. Karla Scott, Dr. Jen Carerra, Carianya Napoli, Tiara Maldonaldo, Earl Simms, Eric Pankonin, Doug Woodson, Rucha Chitnis, Serife Wong, Katrin Welch, Salina Mae, Cherine Badawi, Natalie Thoreson, and others.

Who taught us this?

This conversation took place as part of the Global Resilience Summit with our colleagues Tiara Maldonaldo, Earl Simms, and Gloria Yamato. We have been studying this for years with Lee Mun Wah and Rainbow Markell. Our thinking has been shaped by James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Ta-Nehisi Coats, Robin DiAngelo, Anne Rhodes, and John Biewen, as well as our colleagues D'Andre Fisher, Dr. Karla Scott, Dr. Jen Carerra, Carianya Napoli, Tiara Maldonaldo, Earl Simms, Eric Pankonin, Doug Woodson, Rucha Chitnis, Serife Wong, Katrin Welch, Salina Mae, Cherine Badawi, Natalie Thoreson, and others.

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