COMMON GROUND CONVERSATIONS ON RACE
Conversations about race can be hard ... but they don't have to be.
COMMON GROUND CONVERSATIONS ON RACE
Conversations about race can be hard ... but they don't have to be.
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CGC JOURNAL: WHAT'S INSIDE?
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
- Current Events - Big Picture, 3 Important Things to Know, Why it Matters
- Emily’s Corner - Emily’s reflections and insights
- Talking With Kids - Example of how this looks in our home or community
- Celebrating Change Agents - Feature of an empathetic societal change agent
- Conversation Starter - This month we’re asking about …
- Recommended Resources - Mike and Emily share our recommended resource
- Community Corner - Co-learning invitation; we want to learn from you
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We're excited to introduce the inaugural issue of our monthly CGC Journal on Substack. As a Journal subscriber, you're invited to join our journey of co-learners and become part of a growing community of empathetic societal change agents. As a subscriber, our CGC Journal will arrive in your email inbox during the first week of each month. Subscribe today.
OUR WORK
Finding Common Ground
Our unique Conversations Journey® has a proven track record of success in helping clients across varied industries improve their understanding of deep-rooted societal inequities and establish a path toward discovering effective solutions for leaders, staff and community.
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OUR UNIQUE PROCESS
OUR UNIQUE PROCESS
OUR UNIQUE PROCESS
CGC offers a trademarked Conversations Journey® process that guides groups through a paradigm-shifting learning process infused with engaging conversations and activities that embed practical tools.
OUR UNIQUE RESULTS
OUR UNIQUE PROCESS
OUR UNIQUE PROCESS
CGC effectively transforms natural skepticism, adopted historic narratives, racial and political ideologies, and even reluctance, into curiosity, empathy and energetic engagement that leads toward collective understanding.
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EMPATHY IS AN IMPORTANT ELEMENT
A valuable benefit of CGC’s Conversations Journey® process is an EMPATHY EDUCATION which exposes participants to paradigm-shifting new knowledge that helps them to better understand the story of the experiences of others in our society today through a lens of historical context.
AMERICANS WANT FACTS, NOT FINGER-POINTING
Systemic racism is not something invented by anyone living today. We all collectively inherited the struggles of past generations. CGC offers a no shame, no blame process of perceiving today's 21st century society through a lens of historical context. We establish a common ground of knowledge and understanding in a safe group learning environment. We provide empirical data, irrefutable resources and a memorable story of 26 generations of American history that children as young as 8 years of age can understand.
RACIAL EQUITY STARTS WITH RACE, BUT THE DESTINATION IS OWNERSHIP
Equity = Ownership. If we are to fairly and justly assess present-day conditions of racial equity and trends with empirical data to compare with past conditions, it is imperative that we have sufficient knowledge of the past conditions (of ownership) to which we can compare the present-day metrics in order to better understand the challenges and opportunities we face in changing or sustaining laws, systems, public policies and private sector practices that future generations will inherit.
WE DIDN'T CREATE TODAY'S CONDITIONS, WE ALL INHERITED THEM
None of us are to blame for today's racialized power dynamics across our society. Every sector of society (every industry) inherited the conditions, policies and cultures that were established in previous generations. The efforts across America to reform inherited 20th century institutional and corporate cultures toward racial equity have struggled to develop sustainable systemic outcomes with measurable results. Sadly, there continues to be pushback to DEI and other racial equity efforts.
CGC CAN HELP BUILD A COMMON GROUND OF UNDERSTANDING AND COLLABORATION
We believe we have an approach that can help. Our ongoing track record of success with municipal leaders, police departments, K-12 schools, churches, and community nonprofits supports our belief that there is a way forward together when we build a common ground of understanding.
