Destiny Lines: Sacred Activism for Peacemaking and Ending Violence with Rachel Mann PhD

Trustbuilding Across Difference with Rob Corcoran, author of Trustbuilding and Founder of Initiatives for Change

December 20, 2022 Rachel Mann PhD Season 1 Episode 9
Destiny Lines: Sacred Activism for Peacemaking and Ending Violence with Rachel Mann PhD
Trustbuilding Across Difference with Rob Corcoran, author of Trustbuilding and Founder of Initiatives for Change
Show Notes

 Rachel discusses with Rob Corcoran, author of Trustbuilding: An Honest Conversation on Race, Reconciliation, and Responsibility, about the  power of trustbuilding to transforming misunderstandings, prejudices and even ending violence between groups. He shares how his work in Richmond, Virginia over several decades broke down barriers to interracial friendships and collaboration on projects illuminating and healing the city’s history of slavery.  He reflects on the spiritual underpinings of the work in compassion and love. 

Rob Corcoran is trainer facilitator, Rydell writer, racial healing practitioner and international consultant, who has led workshops and dialogues among diverse and polarized groups across North America and in Europe, South America, Indian, Australia and Brazil. From 2006 to 2016. He served as US National Director of initiatives of Change International, a global network of people of all faiths, and social backgrounds dedicated to building bridges of trust across racial, religious, political and class lines. In 1993, he founded Hope in the Cities, the Initiatives of Change national flagship program based in Richmond, Virginia. His book,Trustbuilding: An Honest Conversation on Race, Reconciliation, and Responsibility is about this journey and the process. He was co author of a dialogue guide for President Clinton's Race initiative AND he consulted with the WK Kellogg Foundation in the creation of its national truth, racial healing and transformation enterprise. he serves on the UNESCO slave Route Project Task Force on Racial Healing, and the National Episcopal Churches Advisory Committee for Beloved Community Implementation. robcorcoran.org

Destiny Lines: Sacred Activism for Peacemaking and Ending Violence
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