The Global Emotional Emancipation Summit | Community Healing Network:
THE FIRST ANNUAL
VALUING BLACK LIVES:
THE FIRST ANNUAL
GLOBAL EMOTIONAL EMANCIPATION SUMMIT
Friday and Saturday, September 18-19, 2015
Walter E. Washington Convention Center, Washington D.C.
Walter E. Washington Convention Center, Washington D.C.
WHAT
Valuing Black Lives: The First Annual Global Emotional Emancipation Summit, a forum focused on solutions and action, will bring together leaders of African ancestry from around the world to develop and carry out plans of action to free ourselves, our children, and the world from the lie of Black inferiority: the root cause of the devaluing of the lives of Black people.
The purpose of the Valuing Black LivesSM Summit, presented by Community Healing Network (CHN) in collaboration with the Association of Black Psychologists (ABPsi), is to launch an international public conversation about: 1) the lie of Black inferiority and its origins; 2) the manifestations of the lie in different parts of the world; 3) the continuing effects of the lie; and 4) concrete strategies for extinguishing the lie–once and for all.
WHEN AND WHERE
The Global Emotional Emancipation SummitSM will be hosted by the Honorable Karen Bass (D-Calif.) on Friday and Saturday, September 18-19, 2015, in conjunction with the 45th Annual Legislative Conference of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, in Washington, D.C., at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center.
WHY
For nearly 400 years, the world has been fed toxic lies about the history, worth, and value of people of African ancestry. These lies are all rooted in one big lie: the lie of Black inferiority. The lie was devised to justify the enslavement and subjugation of African people around the world. The lie has led to the dehumanization of Black people and the devaluing of Black lives. It contributes to Black-White mental and physical health disparities, the criminalization, mass incarceration, and wanton killing of Black people, and many of the other problems facing Black communities. It also undermines our ability as a people to solve these problems.
HOW
In order to address the many challenges facing Black communities across the world, we, Black people, must free ourselves from the lie of Black inferiority. To do this, CHN is spearheading the global grassroots movement for the emotional emancipation of Black people to overcome and overturn the lie. The Global Emotional Emancipation Summit is part of a multi-faceted set of strategies developed by CHN to help build the movement for emotional emancipation.
WHO
CHN is a 501(c) (3) nonprofit organization that has been working since 2006 to build the global grassroots movement for emotional emancipation. (www.CommunityHealingNet.org).
ABPsi is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that seeks to promote and advance the profession of African psychology, influence and effect social change, and develop programs that address and work to alleviate problems of Black communities and other ethnic groups. (www.abpsi.org)
ABPsi is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that seeks to promote and advance the profession of African psychology, influence and effect social change, and develop programs that address and work to alleviate problems of Black communities and other ethnic groups. (www.abpsi.org)
In 2010, CHN reached out to ABPsi to request its professional expertise and technical assistance in refining another CHN movement-building strategy, Emotional Emancipation (EE) CirclesSM. EE Circles are self-help support groups designed to help Black people work together toward emotional healing, wellness, and empowerment. CHN and ABPsi collaborated to refine the EE Circles process, and, together, have planted seeds for EE Circles in cities across the country, including New Haven, CT; Tuskegee, AL; Los Angeles, CA; and Ferguson, MO; and in countries around the world, including the United Kingdom, Cuba, and Ghana.
Valuing Black Lives, The Global Emotional Emancipation Summit, Emotional Emancipation Circles, and EE Circles are service marks of Community Healing Network, Inc.
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