Dismantling White Supremacy Culture: Beloved Conversations course at Meadville Lombard

By Megan Foley

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One way for UUs to deepen their personal antiracism work is to take the Meadville Lombard course, Beloved Conversations. Even better is when a group or a whole congregation take it together! Congregations report that their antiracism efforts deepen and broaden when Beloved Conversations work is widespread. And now that Beloved Conversations is online, everyone can participate!

Registration for the Beloved Conversations core training, Within, is open now for the Spring session.

Quoting from the Beloved Conversations website:

Within, our program's first phase, focuses on the internal work that each of us needs to do as we engage in deeper personal understanding, explorations of race and racism, extracting our souls and spirits from white supremacy culture, and work for racial justice. This work is different for white folks and for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC+) and is done entirely in different courses: Gathering Our Selves for BIPOC+ and Un/Learning for Liberation for white people.

The Within program includes individual Lessons, using videos, music, and readings, accompanied by personal reflection prompts and suggested conversations with a Critical Friend chosen by the participant; bi-weekly small group conversations in a Learning Pod; and larger, monthly, facilitated Meaning Making Sessions on Zoom.

There are two separate terms of the Within program—Fall and Spring—which contain different content. Participants can sign up for one or both and may begin in Spring or Fall.

Gather a group and sign up now! Or get started and bring it to your congregation after you’ve experienced it.

About the Author

Megan Foley

Rev. Dr. Megan Foley serves as Deputy Director for Congregational Life as well as Regional Lead for the Central East Region staff. Before joining regional staff she served for six years as the minister of the Sugarloaf Congregation of Unitarian Universalists in Germantown, Maryland....

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