Community Healing Days, Friday through Sunday, October 16,17, and 18, 2015

"Take a day to heal from the lies you've been told and the ones you've told yourself."-- Dr. Maya Angelou, Founding Chair, Community Healing Network Board of Advisors Dear Friends: Join us for the eighth annual celebration of Community Healing Days, this coming Friday through Sunday, October 16, 17, and 18, 2015. Community Healing Days are about putting "time for healing" on the Black community's agenda. They are about healing from the historical and continuing trauma of racism--healing from the lies of White superiority and Black inferiority: the root causes of the devaluing of Black lives. You can celebrate Community Healing Days wherever you are in the world. It's easy. First, Wear Sky Blue during Community Healing Days in response to Dr. Maya Angelou's call to show our collective determination to "turn the pain of the blues into the sky blue of unlimited possibilities." And join us to honor our ancestors and our elders by practicing Ubuntu, described by Bishop Desmond Tutu as showing that "my humanity is...inextricably bound up, in yours." This weekend, let's spend intergenerational Ubuntu time together--with elders listening to young people and young people listening to elders.  Let's take time to be especially generous, hospitable, friendly, caring, and compassionate with one another. Let's turn off the television sets and other digital devices that keep us so busy, take up so much of our energies, and often promote such negative images of Black people, and let's listen to each others' stories.  Please click here for more information and for questions to help get your Ubuntu conversations started. We invite you to share your 2015 Community Healing Days Ubuntu experiences--and photos of you and your family and friends rocking your sky blue--via text, audio, or video at info@communityhealingnet.org. We wish you a wonderful Community Healing Days weekend! Valuing Black Lives  Global Summit This Community Healing Days, we are especially excited to have seen another one of our dreams come true. We are still exhilarated by the great success of Valuing Black Lives: The First Annual Global Emotional Emancipation Summit, held on September 17 and 18, 2015, as part of the Annual Legislative Conference of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation. This Summit, originated by CHN and implemented in collaboration with The Association of Black Psychologists, brought together leaders from Africa, Europe, the Caribbean, Latin America, and the U.S. to develop action plans to dismantle the lies of White superiority and Black inferiority--once and for all. Summit participants will continue working together online to implement our action steps and to plan for the 2016 Valuing Black Lives Global Summit. Please take a moment to download the 2015 Summit Communique here, review it, and share it widely. We look forward to having you join us for the 2016 Valuing Black Lives Global Summit. Vision 2020 We invite you to invest in this ground-breaking and urgently-needed movement to value Black lives! If you have not already done so, PLEASE GIVE $20.19 or more TODAY to support our global network of Emotional Emancipation Circles, support groups to help Black people overcome, heal from, and overturn the lies of White superiority and Black inferiority, and next year's Valuing Black Lives Global Emotional Emancipation Summit. Remember, CHN is a grassroots organization that consists of a tiny, but hardworking, team of volunteers--so every little bit will help!   Please visit Crowdrise.com/Vision2020 TODAY to make your investment in the movement to Value Black Lives. Thank you! From Enola Aird, Jill Snyder, Dottie Green, Natalie Roche, Wizdom Powell, Sheila Warren, Tarice Gray, Carl Miller, A.D. Carson, Margo Fugate, and Albert Gentry III, and all your friends at Community Healing Network, Inc. Community Healing Network, Inc. | info@communityhealingnet.org |http://communityhealingnet.org 111 Whalley Avenue  New Haven, CT 06511 *Community Healing Days, Wear Sky Blue, Turn the Pain of the Blues into the Sky Blue of Unlimited Possibilities, Emotional Emancipation Circles, Valuing Black Lives: The Annual Global Emotional Emancipation Summit, and all related marks and logos are service marks owned exclusively by Community Healing Network, Inc.