Taking Action: What the World Needs Each of Us to Do, Part Three of Finding Our Voice Week - a podcast by Dr. JP Pawliw-Fry, Mindfulness and Emotional Intelligence Expert

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In today’s session, our third in the series, we discuss how to take action in two ways: by having difficult conversations and by engaging in the difficult actions.This is Finding Our Voice Week, where we are reflecting and pausing on the international story that is the response to the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis by police, and the long history of systemic racial oppression.

This is a great article that details the "75 Things White People Can Do For Racial Justice."

What Concrete Steps Can We Take to Find Our Voice and Help Change Occur?

Engage in a difficult conversation, or a Last 8% Conversation. Why? We need to understand that many people might not understand or believe there is a difference between individual acts and systemic racism. Which there most obviously is.
Engage in Difficult Actions: there are things we can do to use our platform and influence to help change happen. This includes listening to those most impacted by police violence.

Helen Keller said, "Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved."

Reading List:
Desmond Cole, The Skin We're In
Robyn Maynard, Policing Black Lives
Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility
Ibram X Kendi's book, How to Be Anti-Racist

It may seem strange for a morning routine to venture into what follows but know: our mission is founded on the belief that we are all capable of personal transformation. Indeed it is only by facing the difficult that we can transform, and it is only personal transformation that can help us see clearly and make change happen in society.

Moving from education to action, we look to Justice in June, an amazing guide put together by Autumn Gupta with Bryanna Wallace: https://docs.google.com/document/u/2/d/1H-Vxs6jEUByXylMS2BjGH1kQ7mEuZnHpPSs1Bpaqmw0/mobilebasic?fbclid=IwAR27Hbl0fWAHrWQVo1JFSmeN-7InRVgH8Ljm1YRATGj-9mMgQ-o3o_RZ5j0

If you are new to the Last 8% Morning, over the course of 15 minutes we integrate movement, mindfulness, and mental training exercises. Why? So we can build the skills necessary to be our best in our more difficult moments, what we call the Last 8%. What are these skills? These are skills of emotional intelligence. Why? We do this because it is emotion that get in our way.

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