This school year I co-chair the #multiculturalcommittee at @lrei. Yesterday we helped host the first Open PA Equity Meeting: Raising Race Conscious Children. This series was formerly known as “How to Raise an Ally”. This is from a printout from that meeting. . We used the Narrative 4 framework to have this discussion among the parent body. Narrative 4 is about the power of “story exchange” as a way to build empathy and better connections with understanding of another person’s lived experience and perspective. In practice it requires you pair up with another individual in a group, listen to a personal story they tell you that is inspired by one of a group of prompts. The turn is you have to introduce yourself as your partner and retell their personal story to your group as if it were your own from first perspective. My partner chose to “Tell a story about a memorable radicalized event, positive or negative, and how it felt to you and how it impacted your parenting”. I chose the prompt “What story can you tell when you realized how much race matters in the way you parent?”. . When I was listening to my partners’ story, I was getting incensed at this experience. When I was retelling this story - I could feel her frustration and anger and helplessness as if I had experienced it myself. . It was a VERY moving and POWERFUL experience. It really helped me to understand how easy it is to make assumptions about the white people or white person in front of you. It really created a connection among the parent body that was refreshing and some lessons were learned. Even if for this experience, it felt like you are being seen and heard. . Again, this was a really powerful experience. . #narrative4 #empathy #blacklivesmatter #translivesmatter #womensrights #wefight #weresist #wewillwin #outfittingtherevolution #deconstructtheconstruct #blackonblackbk #itslifeordeathforus #intersectionality #civilrights #humanrights #equality #equalityforall no #racism, (at Bedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn) https://www.instagram.com/p/BrI2BtnlNxR/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=jagkw6u08vny
