Sacred Ground
September 2024 Webinar: Sacred Ground Program Year Launch with Presiding Bishop Curry
This webinar, recorded September 24, 2024, is part of a suite of materials for Sacred Ground facilitators. Presiding Bishop Curry joins us for our monthly Sacred Ground facilitators webinar to launch our program year. He speaks about the importance of the Sacred Ground program, and answers questions about the future of Sacred Ground under Presiding […]
April 2024 Webinar: Recognizing and Responding to Environmental Racism Through the Lens of Sacred Ground
This webinar, recorded April 9, 2024, is part of a suite of materials for Sacred Ground facilitators. What does racial justice have to do with environmental pollution and climate change? How do the histories we explore in Sacred Ground shape environmental injustice today? This webinar explores the connections between the environment and the history of […]
November 2023 Webinar: Truth Telling – An Offering to Sacred Ground from Facilitators of Color
This webinar, recorded November 14, 2023, is part of a suite of materials for Sacred Ground facilitators. This webinar is an opportunity to hear from facilitators of Color on their experience of leading and co-leading Sacred Ground Circles. Powerful testimony and experience are shared for all of the Sacred Ground community. Learn more about Sacred […]
August 2023 Webinar: Reaching Beyond “Your Circle” and Across Differences to Build Beloved Community
This webinar, recorded August 29, 2023, is part of a suite of materials for Sacred Ground facilitators. This offering is a dialogue with three leaders with deep experience facilitating Sacred Ground and wider racial justice work within spaces where people come together across partisan and other differences. Each of our presenters will share about their […]
March 2023 Webinar: Addressing Conflict
This webinar, recorded March 8, 2023, is part of a suite of materials for Sacred Ground facilitators. This training is designed to offer guidance to Sacred Ground facilitators interested in understanding and responding to potential tensions and conflicts that may arise within their Circles. Areas addressed include: cultural differences in how tension and conflict are […]
October 2022 Webinar: Beginner Facilitator Training
This webinar, recorded October 28, 2022, is part of a suite of materials for Sacred Ground facilitators. This training, focused on empowering new Sacred Grounf facilitators, was led by Dr. Enid LaGesse and Dr. Jayne Osgood. These two facilitators have extensive experience leading Sacred Ground circles in a variety of contexts, together and separately, for Interracial Circles […]
September 2022 Sacred Ground Webinar with Presiding Bishop Michael Curry
Presiding Bishop Michael Curry spoke at the Sacred Ground fall kickoff webinar on September 15, 2022. In conversation with Canon Stephanie Spellers, Bishop Curry shared his vision for how Sacred Ground circles can and do contribute to racial reckoning and justice ministry, and offered his blessing to everyone on the Sacred Ground journey. Following the […]
Curricular & Web Page Edits and 4/29 Webinar
Dear Sacred Ground facilitators and organizers, We hope you had soulful Holy Week and Easter. In our previous email (4/4) we said we would let you know this week the exact day/days when curricular changes and other edits would be made to the Sacred Ground webpages. We can now report that those edits will be made this Thursday, […]
Deeper Dive Session 10: Becoming Beloved Community
The Deeper Dive recommendations come from a diverse array of facilitators, participants, and advisors. They’ve been curated by a curriculum review committee that will also periodically revise/update the lists. The lists are by no means comprehensive. The materials are offered for the sake of individual use, and circles may also decide to create structured use. […]
Deeper Dive Session 9: Racism’s Long Life
The Deeper Dive recommendations come from a diverse array of facilitators, participants, and advisors. They’ve been curated by a curriculum review committee that will also periodically revise/update the lists. The lists are by no means comprehensive. The materials are offered for the sake of individual use, and circles may also decide to create structured use. […]