Racial Trauma & Healing Gathering
Engaging Story as a Pathway of Healing
Story is always playing out in your life, weaving together the past, present, and future. Your personal and your collective stories share an inextricably fluid relationship. It is impossible to engage your personal story without, to some degree, also engaging your collective story. The same is true regarding collective stories.
In racially-traumatized communities, it is common and necessary to tell stories of resilience and triumph. Every community needs those stories that grow hope. However, if those are the only stories that are told, then it will invariably lead to partial healing and sustained fragmentation. The stories of trauma and harm must be spoken, engaged, held, and heard with care and honor in a process that invites the whole person.
The Racial Trauma & Healing Gatherings are intended to be safer spaces that invite you to learn, process, feel, and articulate the personal and collective stories of trauma you have endured as someone within racially-traumatized communities.
If your trauma is not addressed, cared for, and healed, it will continue to proliferate throughout communities and over generations.
But there is hope: Your pathway to freedom is through engaging stories, both the joyful stories and the trauma stories. What we learn through the Gospel is that trauma is not the end of the story.
When you engage your personal and collective stories, you can set out on the journey to experience true healing, to redeem those stories, and to create a new narrative.
Led by Allender Center Strategic Alliance Manager Linda Royster, LCMHC, the Racial Trauma & Healing Gathering is an invitation to you and your community to enter into the work of healing that will move you further and deeper into your calling. This healing can empower you to participate in the healing of others in your family, in your community, and in generations to come.
Bring the Event to Your Community
We are now offering the Racial Trauma & Healing Gathering as a live, in-person experience. This is a unique opportunity to create an embodied space for healing and transformation tailored to your local context.
Booking Requirements:
- A group of 50 or more anticipated participants (preferred)
- A secured in-person venue (such as a church, college, or community center)
- This offering is available exclusively as an in-person event to hold a fully embodied and relational space
To begin the conversation and share your interest in hosting an event, please click below.