Healing Racial Trauma: The Road to Resilience

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The rush to racial reconciliation often misses how interpersonal and systemic racism inflicts racial trauma that hampers thriving. Discover how to identify and address these deep wounds in ways that foster hope, healing, and resilience while we still pursue justice.

Time
: December 31, 3:15 pm
Room
: ICC 141-142
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Speakers
Sheila Wise Rowe

Sheila Wise Rowe is a truth-teller who's passionate about matters of faith, emotional healing, racial conciliation, and advocating for the dignity, rights, and healing of racial trauma and abuse survivors. For over 30 years, she’s offered spiritual direction and counseled children, adults, and groups in the U.S. Sheila also ministered to homeless and abused women and children in Johannesburg, South Africa, and taught counseling and trauma-related courses for a decade. Sheila is the author of the award-winning book Healing Racial Trauma: The Road to Resilience and recently released Young, Gifted, and Black: A Journey of Lament and Celebration.

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