WORKING TO MAKE 2020–2030 THE DECADE TO EMBRACE THE TRUTH OF BLACK HUMANITY
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Click the image to view Ep.1: "Moving Beyond Bad History." |
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Introducing Builders of the Movement for Emotional Emancipation
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Community Healing Network and the Association of Black Psychologists (led by the formidable Dr. Cheryl Tawede Grills) have trained more than 1000 facilitators to be catalysts for the emotional emancipation, healing, wellness, and empowerment of Black people across the African Diaspora.
We are delighted to introduce Builders of the Movement for Emotional Emancipation --designed to lift up the wonderfully committed people who have assumed the sacred responsibility of serving as EE Circle Facilitators. They are doing the day-to-day work in families, neighborhoods, and communities of building the global grassroots movement to free us all from the grip of the lie of White superiority and Black inferiority, the most powerful weapon ever formed against us as a people.
Our first episode of Builders of the Movement for Emotional Emancipation features a fun, delightful, and powerful exchange with three queen warriors in Rochester, New York. Frederick Douglass is buried in Rochester, which is near Auburn, N.Y., Harriet Tubman’s final resting place. Their spirits are alive and well in the brilliant and exciting work of our dear Sisters, Melanie Funchess, Jackie Dozier, and Sherita Bullock.
They are at the center of a city-wide movement to create an ecosystem for Black wellness—with EE Circles at its foundation.
Here are just a few highlights of our conversation:
“What unites us is we realized our role as gatekeepers and we have kept the doggone gate. Our bottom line is: Is this good for our people?"
“EECs are foundational to a Black wellness ecosystem because ‘as a man thinketh, so is he’."
“The lie of White superiority and Black inferiority is like the air we breathe. We need to bring people into a room and pump in fresh air.”
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Week of Ubuntu Healing Circles
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The challenges to our dignity and humanity as Black people keep coming. We are a strong people. But to overcome these challenges, we urgently need spaces for emotional and psychological rest and refreshment.
Please mark your calendars now to take time to breathe. Join us for A Week of Virtual Ubuntu Healing Circles, Sunday, April 18 through April 24, 2021, where we, Black people, are coming together to be refreshed, remember who and whose we are, and strengthen our emotional foundations for the journey ahead.
This series will begin with a 90-minute Ubuntu Healing Circle on Sunday, April 18, 2021, co-sponsored by Wombwork Productions, Community Healing Network, The Association of Black Psychologists, and ARTpartheid.
We are coming together in the spirit of Ubuntu ("I am because we are") and Black self-love. Join us for a time of self-care and community care, where we can de-stress and be each others' medicine.
The schedule and contact information for the follow up Ubuntu Healing Circles is as follows (Click the link to register; space is limited):
Sunday, April 18
(Capacity reached; no space available)
Monday, April 19
Tuesday, April 20
Wednesday, April 21
Thursday, April 22
Friday, April 23
5-6pm PST/ 8-9pm EST
Saturday, April 24
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It's not just about racial "equality" or even racial "justice."
The lie of White superiority and Black inferiority, invented 600 years ago to justify the enslavement of Africans and the exploitation of Africa, essentially cast Black people out of the circle of humanity. It's about us, Black people, reclaiming our rightful place in the circle.
Assert Your Black Humanity!
Join us in working to make 2020-2030 the Decade to Embrace the Truth of Black Humanity!
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NOW LIVE | Episodes 1– 7 of the Breathe, Baby, BreatheSM Podcast
Episode 8, Moving Beyond Bad History, is forthcoming.
Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, iHeartRadio, and Pandora.
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CHNConnect is an online community of communities that gives us, as people of African ancestry all around the world, a place to connect, learn, heal, and grow. Joining CHNConnect is easy, Just click “sign-in” in the upper right corner of the CHN website:
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Get to CHNConnect by clicking “sign-in” on the CHN website
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Follow the easy instructions for getting the best out of CHNConnect,
- Register,
- Create a profile,
- Post your photo, it encourages engagement and connection,
- Send a message to someone you know or would like to know,
- Make a post and or comment on a post in your community
- Join another community and set how frequently you would like to be notified about new posts and messages from your community members and connections,
- Visit CHNConnect regularly, invite your family and friends, and make a virtual home with the CHNConnect network of commons and communities.
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Defy the Lie and Embrace the Truth
to Flourish While Black
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Join us. Take the pledge to Defy the Lie of White Superiority and Black Inferiority and Embrace the Truth of Black Humanity. Each pledge will make us stronger as a global African community.
Taking the pledge will make you part of a growing global culture of resistance that is standing up to—and that will ultimately extinguish—the lie, to reclaim our dignity and humanity as people of African ancestry.
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Help us create a culture of emotional emancipation, healing, wellness, and empowerment in families and neighborhoods across the Diaspora–so that Black people everywhere can move beyond surviving to flourishing. |
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For more information, please contact us at
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LEGAL NOTICES: A Journey of Discovery: On the Humanity of Black People, Flourishing While Black,Valuing Black Lives Global Summit, Global Truth Campaign and Tour, Defy the Lie, Embrace the Truth, Flourish While Black, Emotional Emancipation Circles, EE Circles, EECs, Breathe, Baby, Breathe, Clearing the Way for Back Children to Flourish, Community Healing Days, and all related Community Healing Network copyrights, marks, and logos are copyrights and service marks owned exclusively--and stewarded--by Community Healing Network, Inc., and may not be used without its prior written permission. Local hosts and organizers, EEC facilitators, trainers and others in similar roles are wholly independent, and are not employees, agents, partners, or affiliates of Community Healing Network, Inc.
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