College missionary Sandhya Oaks has a job that is built on relationships in this time of social separation. We chat her about her work in reconciliation and the racism that is coming up as a result of COVID. Sandhya gives five practical tips for engaging yourself and others during this time.
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Chris and Beth Bruno and Tracy Johnson of Restoration Counseling in Colorado chat with Maggie and Danielle about how the coronavirus has shifted the mental health field to digital format and how we can look at our past experiences with trauma as a way to inform our current responses to trauma. Check out their resources, both individual and group services at: www.careduringcorona.com
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Jenny McGrath is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor, Somatic Psychotherapist, Core facilitator at the Allender Center, and specializes in using movement, mindfulness and narrative work to help people find their way back to their bodies.
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Dan says it's a lot like "judging books by it's color," assuming someone is sick because of their race. Any race can get diseases, as shown throughout history. In fact, dominate culture has spread disease as was the case when Europeans came to this continent and decimated the Natives. Disease, when it originates in another culture, can be demonized... But that same narrative has not been told when the dominate culture brings the disease.
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Is it any wonder why black indigenous people of color whose cultures value oral tradition, place, narrative, movement, and harmony might gravitate to this type of theology; or why the oppression of this population (in the name of systematic theology)—would birth a counter theology of liberation based upon the biblical text?
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