Most racial justice trainings focus primarily on increasing awareness, building understanding, and directing action for structural change. While education and action essential, information alone rarely transforms the embodied patterns through which racial harm continues to live in us, between us, and within our institutions.
Racism is not only a social, historical, and structural reality—it is also an embodied and relational one. It lives in our nervous systems, our habits of protection, our reflexes, our fears, and the ways we move toward or away from one another across difference. These patterns live in us differently depending on our social location, yet all of us have been shaped and wounded by a racialized society rooted in a hierarchy of human worth.
This training offers a distinct, healing-centered approach to racial justice formation—one that integrates spiritual practice, embodied awareness, trauma-informed healing, and relational reflection.
Together, we will slow down enough to notice what is happening in our bodies and relational fields as we engage the realities of race, racism, and racial wounding. Through guided practices, reflection, and sacred listening, participants will build greater capacity to remain present to difficult truths without collapsing into shame, defensiveness, urgency, numbness, or disconnection.
This training does not replace intellectual, historical, or structural approaches to racial justice. Rather, it offers a vital complement: helping us develop the inner and relational capacity needed to sustain meaningful transformation and repair.
Register here.
September 21, 2026 12:00 PM – September 28, 2026 03:00 PM
On Zoom.
The training will satisfy the racial justice requirement for clergy either level 1 or level 2.
The dates are
Session #1 – Monday September 21st from noon to 3pm
Session #2 – Monday September 28th from noon to 3pm
Facilitated by Rev. Angela Jernigan & Rev. Rhina Ramos
Two 3-hour sessions (via Zoom)
Participants will receive:
- A trauma-informed understanding of racial wounding and how it lives in bodies, relationships, and institutions
- Practical spiritual-somatic tools for grounding, regulation, and embodied awareness
- Guided practice in Sacred Listening and embodied sensing
- Greater awareness of how racial conditioning shapes nervous system responses such as urgency, perfectionism, defensiveness, disconnection, and fear
- Opportunities for reflection, journaling, and relational practice in a supportive container
- Increased capacity for repair, accountability, and relational resilience across difference
- A framework for understanding racial healing as part of the work of building Beloved Community
Credit for the picture: Chicago’s Fight for Fairness and Equality
