Healing Circles & Events
Truth, Racial Healing and Transformation Rx Racial Healing™ Circles are open to any student, staff, faculty, or community members who wish to come together in dialogue. Please join us and speak your truths.
Healing Circles — Our Stories Matter
Truth Telling
False narratives hamper our ability to understand our world and relationships as they are, leading us to create and reinforce perceptions that are untrue. Help change the narrative.
Relationship Building
We work to heal from the wounds of the past, to build mutually respectful relationships across racial and ethnic lines that honor and value each person’s humanity, and to build trusting, intergenerational and diverse community relationships that better reflect our common humanity.
We teach when we speak; we learn when we listen; we build when we share; we heal when we trust.
About TRHT Rx Racial Healing™ Circles
The Division of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion hosts dialogue opportunities that bring together cross-racial groups to share stories, disrupt unjust narratives and behaviors, and to speak as a collective.
Come and share a safe space where your voice can be heard, where you can share your lived experience and truly listen to others in an effort to bring our campus and community together.
David Duprey, Community Member
Upcoming Healing Circles
Healing Circles are held on the first Friday of Each month at noon in the H.U.B. (unless
otherwise noted below). Join us on the following days for a Racial Healing Circle
in the H.U.B., Angell College Center 1st floor. Stay for a “cotton candy cool down”
after we finish.
All are welcome to attend!
- Saturday, Aug. 24, 2024 at 4 p.m.
- Friday, Sept. 6, 2024* at noon
- Friday, Oct. 4, 2024 at noon
- Friday, Nov. 1, 2024 at noon
- Friday, Dec. 6, 2024 at noon
- Friday, Feb. 7, 2025 at noon
- Friday, Mar. 7, 2025 at noon
- Friday, Apr. 4, 2025 at noon
- Friday, May 2, 2025 at noon
*Media notice: A campus photographer will be at this session to capture images for marketing and promotion. You will have the opportunity to opt out from being included in photography.
Touchstones & Group Agreements
- Be Authentic — Participation is voluntary, sharing is always by invitation and never forced or mandatory.
- Be Fully Present — Focus and engage completely in the experience, mindful of the shared space we build together.
- Be Kind and Compassionate — Listen deeply and share authentically, acknowledging the influence and benefit of our diversity.
- Suspend Judgment — We are not here to fix or judge others. Seek to understand differing ideas, inviting self-expression and personal reflection from others.
- Embrace Belongingness — Allow the lived-experiences and opinions of others to be informative and transformative.
- Respect Silence — Accept participation through silence, honoring feelings of self-protection, pauses for reflection, and the enabling of others to be heard.
- Be the Change — Recognize our commonality through the story of others and work to reframe harmful false beliefs of human value hierarchy that shape the spirit of this nation.
- Apply What is Learned — As we grow our perspective, we choose to model a way that honors our equal value and human dignity in our efforts to dismantle false narratives.