14 June
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Equity is a practice. It is a practice of the personal and structural work of truth and transformation. This is what I help leaders and communities understand and embody as they unlearn various forms of inequity like racism, sexism, and queerantagonism. I introduce them to a 12-step process for unlearning addiction to the misuse of power. In order to do so from a place of authenticity, I had to begin my own journey unlearning habits of sexism that I didn’t even know were in me. Here’s a bit of my story, taken from UnLearn InEquity our new experiential course.   “People don’t want to bemore…

14 June
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Equity is a practice. It is a practice of the personal and structural work of truth and transformation. This is what I help leaders and communities understand and embody as they unlearn various forms of inequity like racism, sexism, and queerantagonism. I introduce them to a 12-step process for unlearning addiction to the misuse of power. In order to do so from a place of authenticity, I had to begin my own journey unlearning habits of sexism that I didn’t even know were in me. Here’s a bit of my story, taken from UnLearn InEquity our new experiential course.   I adapted the 12 stepsmore…

14 June
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Equity is a practice. It is a practice of the personal and structural work of truth and transformation. This is what I help leaders and communities understand and embody as they unlearn various forms of inequity like racism, sexism, and queerantagonism. I introduce them to a 12-step process for unlearning addiction to the misuse of power. In order to do so from a place of authenticity, I had to begin my own journey unlearning habits of sexism that I didn’t even know were in me. Here’s a bit of my story, taken from UnLearn InEquity our new experiential course.   I get it.  Cultivating amore…

14 June
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Equity is a practice. It is a practice of the personal and structural work of truth and transformation. This is what I help leaders and communities understand and embody as they unlearn various forms of inequity like racism, sexism, and queerantagonism. I introduce them to a 12-step process for unlearning addiction to the misuse of power. In order to do so from a place of authenticity, I had to begin my own journey unlearning habits of sexism that I didn’t even know were in me. Here’s a bit of my story, taken from UnLearn InEquity our new experiential course.   The need for truth andmore…

31 January
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In arouse SOLIDARITY, cultivate TRANSFORMATION, make PROGRESS
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Throughout 2022, Collabyrinth partnered with Auburn Theological Seminary to offer a series of accountability circles to, first, state-level justice leaders, then Black men leaders from all walks of life, and finally clergy at historically white settler churches, who are leading their congregations in reparations work. All three circles used the Truth & Transformation Model to frame their bi-weekly digital gatherings for a duration of 6 months. Auburn has been a tremendous partner in field testing the UnLearn InEquity methodology. We also want to shout-out Beautiful Ventures for hosting two of the circles in their gorgeous digital home known as The Dark Tower, a virtual homagemore…

16 March
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collabyrinth consultant melvin bray led the Finding Our Way Home annual gathering for religious workers of color for the Unitarian Universalist Association. to open the week’s work in downtown Albuquerque, NM, melvin took participants outside to participate in an invocation to honor the indigenous inhabitants of that land. In addition, melvin invited a subset of the participants to offer a dramatic reading of the famous clearing passage from toni morrison’s Beloved, “In this place we flesh….” afterward, participants broke into song. it was a moment of deep reverence and beauty that set the stage for critical healing and fortification work over the next few days.more…

22 August
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Article as it appeared on Sojo.net, 8/22-2017 By Melvin Bray   In the wake of the Charlottesville, Va., white nationalist race riot, several writers have reached for the metaphor of addiction to help characterize the gravity of what America is facing and the grip it has on us. It’s easy enough to understand why one would choose this particular comparison, especially when you take time to explore how compulsive behaviors affect the individuals engaged in them, their families and friends, and even their brains. The outcomes over time are devastating. In fact the similarities are so uncanny that it’s hard to justify calling this comparisonmore…

18 January
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collabyrinth’s rationale for the specific focus of it’s work could not be better articulated than it is in this excerpt from a speech by one of the best and brightest America has ever produced, Fred Hampton. Fred Hampton was cut down in his prime at the age of 21 by systemic racism. had his voice been amplified, many real tangible examples of beloved community would be proliferating realities in America by now. “A lot of people will tell you, ‘Well, the people don’t have any theory, they need some theory. They need some theory even if they don’t have any practice.’ And the Black Panthermore…