A call to support nonviolence and create change!

Sarah Peyton 11/16/214:07 PM

If the words "beloved community", "fierceness", "truth" and "compassion" resonate in your heart, but you’re daunted by conversations about racism, please read on!

My very dear colleague and collaborator, Roxy Manning, is working on Antiracist Conversations - the book so many people have asked her to write. And it’s powerful.

Yesterday, we kicked off our campaign to secure at least 1000 pre-orders of Roxy Manning's courageous first book, Antiracist Conversations, so we can get this timely work out in 2022!

It's an exciting moment and I urge you to visit our campaign page, read more about the project , and let your own voice be heard. Your pre-orders can decide the publishing outcome of Roxy's book and create more reach for an articulate and compelling voice.

Please also consider pre-ordering The Antiracist Heart - the companion workbook we are authoring together - due for publication once Roxy's book is out.

About the books
Antiracist Conversations is for activists, people harmed by racism, and all humans who would like to learn how to talk about race - without feeling intense discomfort or repeating trauma and injustice.

Roxy draws on Non-Violent Communication and Kingian nonviolence to help us have potentially painful conversations respectfully. She argues that we can all speak our truth fiercely, while still holding space for connection and positive change.

The Antiracist Heart looks at the very human reasons why racism is one of the most painful and difficult challenges we face today. When we feel too much, our brains make all kinds of contracts to keep us "safe" from grief or harm. But this sense of safety is often gained at the expense of others' experience, making healthy connections difficult to imagine, let alone take risks to create.

Roxy and I are co-writing The Antiracist Heart to integrate relational neuroscience with Roxy’s insights, and help readers bring core ideas and practices to life through the lens of brain-changing relationships.

Together these books offer tools for deep personal healing and positive social change! Please go to our Kickstarter page now to support the power of nonviolence to transform minds, hearts and relationships.

With so much love,
Sarah

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Frank Sterle Jr.Member

One means of proactively preventing or mitigating this racially-based social/societal problem may be by allowing young children to become accustomed to other races in a harmoniously positive manner. The early years are typically the best time to instill and even solidify positive social-interaction life skills/traits, like interracial harmonization, into a very young brain.

Human infancy is the prime (if not the only) time to instill and even solidify positive social-interaction characteristics into a very young mind. Irrational racist sentiment can be handed down generation to generation. If it’s deliberate, it’s something I strongly feel amounts to a form of child abuse: to rear one’s impressionably very young children in an environment of overt bigotry — especially against other races and/or sub-racial groups (i.e. ethnicities).

Not only does it fail to prepare children for the practical reality of an increasingly racially/ethnically diverse and populous society and workplace, it also makes it so much less likely those children will be emotionally content or (preferably) harmonious with their multicultural/-racial surroundings.

11/18/216:16 PM