I am grateful to Coaches Shirley McAlpine and Ray Fisher for offering Time to Elevate, a virtual class on beginning to understand structural racism and our obligation to get educated and into action.
I took this class a few weeks ago and found it so helpful on many levels. Shirley and Ray provide pre and post homework including interviews from authors Ibram X. Kendi and Robin DiAngelo just to name a few.
You are asked to ideally find a partner to come to the class with so you can have discussions before and after a Time to Elevate. My teenage son watched some of the videos with me. In fact, he was my inspiration for taking the class because he asked why we weren’t doing more to protest and change structural racism? He was right. Why weren’t we? Why wasn’t I?
This class offers a space for you to feel your emotions and access your ideas about Black Lives Matter, race in America and to consider your role in all of it. For me one of my biggest take-aways was that I am not okay with being silent any more. That my being silent is a way of being complacent…and that is not who I want to be.
Shirley and Ray are easy to find, so contact them if you want to join an upcoming class: https://shirley-mcalpine-consulting-llc.mykajabi.com/sales-page-1 or see if they are available to consult to your organization.
xoxoxo