THE SACRED WORK OF UNDOING RACISM
Facilitated by: Rev. Dr. Salome Raheim
Available by: Watch Online Recordings (learn more about videoconference)
Price: General Public: $ 100.00 | One Spirit Graduates: $ 90.00
Elective Credit: 1
This course is designed for anyone interested in deepening their understanding of racism and increasing their capacities to heal its inner and outer harms. Together, we will create a container of respect, openness, and compassion to approach undoing racism as sacred work.
Examine the origins of racism and what perpetuates it
Explore the effects of racism on ourselves and others—individuals, families, communities, organizations, nations, and the earth.
Identify inner and outer obstacles and opportunities for engaging in racial justice work
Engage in spiritual practices to support undoing racism and healing the harm it creates
FACULTY:
Rev. Dr. Salome Raheim
Rev. Dr. Salome Raheim (pronouns: she/her) is an Interfaith Interspiritual Minister, spiritual coach, and organizational consultant and trainer. She is passionate about actualizing the depths of human potential for caring, compassion, connection, healing, and justice. She is Dean Emeritus at the University of Connecticut School of Social Work and Professor Emeritus at the University at Albany—SUNY School of Social Welfare. Rev. Dr. Raheim is a national leader in promoting integrative body-mind-spirit approaches in social work education and social and economic justice. In recognition of her leadership, she received a U.S. Senate Tribute from Senator Richard Blumenthal and a NASW Social Work Pioneer award. Her accomplishments are chronicled in the Sophia Smith Collection of Women's History Social Work Archives Oral History collection. Rev. Dr. Raheim’s commitment to promoting justice and wellbeing has taken her across the United States and to four continents to deliver presentations and provide training and consultation to schools, universities, nonprofit organizations, governmental organizations, and businesses. She received ordination from One Spirit Interfaith Seminary (www.1Spirit.org) and now serves the seminary as a dean for 1st year students. She holds the PhD in Communication Studies from the University of Iowa, MSW from Catholic University of America, MA in Integrative Health and Healing from The Graduate Institute, and BSW from Bowie State University, a historically black institution. She is a certified mindfulness and chair yoga instructor and is a native of Baltimore, Maryland. She acknowledges with humility and respect living upon unceded Nacotchtank ancestral land.