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Happy New Year!

We love you and wish you a Happy New Year!

We feel so blessed to know as we enter into 2021 that we have your hearts and minds focused on a vision for the Black community -- a vision rooted in truth, love, excellence and abundance.

Thank you for your service to our community! And let's celebrate the progress we made together in 2020. Take a look at the updated BLC Priorities & Actions to see what we have completed and the collaborative work that continues: http://bit.ly/BLC2020Update

 
FREE  TRAINING + HEALING SESSION FOR BLACK LEADERS COLLECTIVE

To help us be even stronger leaders for our community, we invite and encourage you to join our first BLC healing and training session on Jan 8 and Jan 9.

 

Why?

 

Because the same white supremacy and internalized racism we struggled with in 2020 is still here in 2021 -- but we can now learn the tools to root it out, forgive ourselves and others, and strengthen our leadership abilities. 


Liberated Leadership is led by Rodney Thomas from Chicago. Rodney has spent his entire professional career uplifting leaders in Black and Brown communities. Check out the FB Live interview with Rodney below.

 

Liberated Leadership will help you identify your core beliefs and values for how you experience the world and engage through this lens, create space for collective healing and relationship building, and identify practical steps for collective action.

Sign up now for Liberated Leadership with Rodney Thomas to work through our self-awareness and develop our leadership for this movement. 
Jan 8,  9 a.m . - noon
Jan 9,  1 p.m. - 4 p.m.
*Please note you will be charged a fee if you register and do not attend both days. 

Wishing you the best year yet,
Terry + Shuronda

PS - See you next Friday and Saturday for our BLC collaborators training session. It's a free session, so please Register Today.
Liberated Leadership:
Black Leaders Collective Workshop to Learn Tools to Deal with Our Own Internalized Racism

January 8-9, 2021

How will we continue to deepen our own self-awareness and understanding of how oppression operates in ourselves, our community and beyond?

The BLC is excited to bring you a national expert in helping Black and brown peoples deal with the traumas of white supremacy and internalized racism. Register today.

Rodney Thomas, a former teacher and corporate organizational development trainer, has spent his entire career  "I've been fortunate enough in my career to have multiple experiences that have provided me with a set of unique skills that are applicable in both the private and public sector -- educator, consultant, project manager, instructional designer and leadership coach."

In the January workshop, Rodney will help us to understand how to be a leader in our current context. "We must first grapple with our beliefs about the very notion of how we see and experience oppression, based on individual identity and life experiences. Oppression hurts us all, no matter where we are in the social order."

This workshop will support you in identifying your core beliefs and values for how you experience the world and engage through this lens, create space for collective healing and relationship building, and identify practical steps for collective action.

 
Please join us for a two-day workshop on Liberated Leadership with Rodney Thomas to work through our self awareness and develop our leadership in this movement.
Jan 8,  9 a.m . - noon
Jan 9,  1 p.m. - 4 p.m.
Meet the Trainer: Facebook Live Interview with Rodney Thomas on Liberated Leadership
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About Black Leaders Collective

BLC formed in July 2020 against the backdrop of the killings of George Floyd and Mike Ramos, and widening racial disparities in wealth, health, education, and justice in Austin and surrounding cities. Following the group’s formation, BLC conducted a series of strategic planning sessions that resulted in the creation of The Black Leaders Collective Priorities & Action Plan 

 


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