There is much conversation these days about our country having arrived at “post racial” status, but the events over the last months tend to show that to be a hollow claim. While we have made strides in many arenas, we have yet to dismantle the systemic structures of white privilege and the oppressive forces that are generated by it causing people of color to internalize their oppression. These systems have brought us to this place in history still finding ourselves needing to find new ways to engage one another in conversations which can lead to a better understanding of the systems of oppression and the ways in which they function. Workshops, retreats, classes, sisters circles, talking circles and study circles are all helpful ways to chip away at 21st Century expressions of racism and can occur on college campuses or elsewhere.

Location: Floyd Campus,
Room: Three Rivers Classroom (L-135) in the Floyd Campus Library
Date: Friday, Oct. 2nd
Time: 9:00am-1:30pm

This workshop will be facilitated by Dr. Catherine Meeks, Retired Clara Carter Acree Distinguished Professor of Socio-Cultural Studies (Mercer University), Author, Community and Wellness Activist and Mid-wife to the Soul.

Dr. Meeks’ is also the founding Director of the Lane Center for Community Engagement and Service at Wesleyan College, Director of Aunt Maggie’s Kitchen Table, a family resource center located in a public housing facility, serving an underserved population and winner of the Jimmy and Rosalyn Carter Award for Community and Campus Partnership. Organizer of Standing on Their Shoulders: A Celebration of the Wisdom of African American Women, a nine year project which identified and honored 100 African American Women and published a coffee table book highlighting their lives. She is also a founding member of the Center for Racial Understanding, organizer of city wide marches against violence, organized and implemented major community wellness fairs and events such as weight loss programs for indigent women and food and clothing drives.

She currently serves on the Anti-Racism Commission and the Commission on Spiritual Growth for the Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta, organizing and implementing spiritual retreats and conducting workshops on a variety of wellness and spirituality issues, teaching courses on Jungian Psychology, cultural issues and spiritual development. Chaplain for the Anti Racism Commission.

This workshop will allow a maximum of 20 participants.

To register, please visit this link: http://goo.gl/forms/5krvsGYWl0