What happens when a group of people is exposed to hundreds of years of torture, oppression and cruelty?
What if this untreated trauma is passed on to the next generation, and the next? What does it look like and how does it manifest? How do we re-learn to love ourselves when we have not experienced love, or to value ourselves when we have been assigned no value?
Who are we now?
Join us as for an hour of learning and discussion on generational internalized oppression and how we see it play out in our world today.
Speakers:
Ayesha Mutope-Johnson
Ayesha Mutope-Johnson has spent most of her life serving as a civil rights and social justice advocate. After practicing law for 30 years, she became a Licensed Professional Counselor. Now retired, she volunteers her time as chair of the Episcopal Church Province VII Anti-Racism Network, designing, planning and team-conducting racial reconciliation programs
and events. She designs Christian Education curricula and scripts to be used for these programs, and she writes articles for publication. Mutope brings her passion to issues of racial, economic and social injustice, and develops teaching workshops that bring focus to the pathologies which manifest when cultural and social groups are marginalized, or suffer generational trauma and oppression.
The Rev. Canon Ronald Byrd, Sr.
The Rev. Canon Ronald Byrd, Sr., is the Episcopal Church’s missioner for Black Ministries. Prior to assuming this position in 2017, he has led congregational vitality teams in several churches and ministries, helping to revitalize declining congregations and inspire in them relevant ministries to strengthen both the community and the congregation. His background prior to ordination was in executive management of corporations for more than 20 years. He has used these skills to assist in designing events and programs to serve Blacks in the Episcopal Church and the Diaspora, with a view to promoting reconciliation, collaboration and communication. Among the innovative programs of his Office of Black Ministry, is the “Healing from Internalized Oppression” curriculum, a series of modules on racism that educates members of the Episcopal Church into healing, and empowers them for transformational Christian ministry.