Experience an exciting community initiative that brings people together across lines of division in a thoughtful, healing way. The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham, Alabama Humanities Alliance, and the Birmingham Jewish Federation present Woven Together – The Art of Healing. The evening is offered as part of our continued learning series that seeks to bridge divides and build solutions.
We are excited to welcome our featured speaker Dr. Gail C. Christopher, D.N., executive director of the National Collaborative for Health Equity and an award-winning social change agent with expertise in the social determinants of health and well-being. She is known for her pioneering work to infuse holistic health and diversity concepts into public sector programs and policy discourse.
Dr. Christopher is the creator of the Healing Circle model and the author of “Rx Racial Healing: A Guide to Embracing Our Humanity,” a process of learning that we are one expansive human family. This process offers a path toward one another — from fractionalization to wholeness, from division and separateness to unity, and increases our individual and collective capacities for perspective-taking, empathy, and compassion.
Dr. Christopher will lead participants through a Healing Circle exercise, during which individuals from diverse ideological, racial, religious, and socioeconomic backgrounds can engage in open, honest, and empathetic dialogue to foster understanding.
Complimentary hors d’oeuvres and beverages will be available at a reception following the event. Register today. Seating is limited.
