Film Nineteen

In Someone Else's Shoes

{31 minutes}

In Someone Else's Shoes

Don't judge until you've walked a mile in someone else's shoes.

In this film with master mindfulness and diversity trainer Lee Mun Wah, Tiara Maldonaldo, Earl Simms, Rucha Chitnis, and Natureza Gabriel, Mun Wah invites us to imagine what it would be like to live as a person of another race.

Related Practices:

This film is part of the series that begins with How Whiteness Operates, and continues in An Unfinished Conversation about Race. See the category Relating Across Difference, Common Ways of Disconnecting, Relational Mindfulness, and Reflective Listening. See Building Peace.

Who taught us this?

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?

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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