SACRED GROUND
A partnership among diocesan staff, the Racial Justice and Reconciliation Committee and notable consultants such as Dr. Catherine Meeks of the Absalom Jones Center in Atlanta, “Introduction to Dismantling Racism: Reclaiming Our Baptismal Promise” is an interactive workshop designed to deepen spiritual commitment to dismantling racism as participants in the Jesus Movement. Through presentations, prayer, story sharing, videos and small group discussion, participants explore how the sin of racism impacts all lives.
There is a $15 suggested donation for workshops.
Although it is online, we want you to know Introduction to Dismantling Racism is a participatory workshop in which we build community and learn from each other. Therefore, attendees will need a laptop or tablet with video capability and need to attend the two day workshop in its entirety.
CONTACT
Jenny Beaumont
Missioner: Adult & Life-Long Formation
Jenny Beaumont
Missioner: Adult & Life-long Formation
919-600-5299
EMAIL
Jenny Beaumont is a cradle-born Episcopalian who has lived in the Diocese of North Carolina for most of her adult life.
Jenny is a race and reconciliation leader and a national trainer for Education on Ministry through University of the South. She was the lead author of These Are Our Bodies: Talking Faith at Church and Home and co-author of These Are Our Bodies: Talking Faith at Church and Home: Foundation Book, all while running a learning center created to meet the needs of families and students with specific and expert support in learning.
Reimagining Christian formation for a 21st-century context is a focus and passion for Jenny. She uses both traditional in-person gatherings as well as online models to expand offerings and networks across our diverse diocese. Jenny collaborates in efforts, strategies and approaches in adult learning, emphasizing our mission priorities.
Jenny works closely with the diocesan youth missioners and other diocesan staff, the Chartered Commission for Lifelong Christian Formation, the Racial Justice and Reconciliation Committee, the Commission for the Diaconate and the Diocesan Council department for Christian formation, all of whom work together to continue to build relationships and cooperative efforts with formation leaders across the diocese and the wider Church.
Jenny is a Deep Living Spiritual Life Coach, certified in the Enneagram and is currently working towards her a Masters in Religious Studies from UNC-Charlotte. She lives in Charlotte with her spouse, Michael, and her three grown children. Jenny loves to read just about anything and to have her hands in the dirt—weeding, planting and sowing seeds.
SACRED GROUND FACILITATORS TRAINING
Who:
- People who have taken Sacred Ground and want to gain skills and support around facilitating Sacred Ground
- Experienced Facilitators who want to gain more insight and best practices
What:
- Three 90-minute sessions
- Opportunity to share the framework of Sacred Ground, share discussion questions and themes for each week, integrate “tools” to help participants move to action, integrate spiritual practices to ground the work in our faith and life
When:
- Please subscribe to the discipleship newsletter to stay apprised of these offerings. Contact Jenny Beaumont.
SACRED GROUND DIOCESAN GROUP
Have you wanted to offer Sacred Ground for your church but wanted to experience it first? This is your chance to experience the program. With this program, we want to equip facilitators to begin groups in the fall.
Who:
- People who have not taken Sacred Ground and may want to facilitate
- People who want to explore their faith and racial justice
What:
- 11 biweekly, 90-minute sessions
- Readings, two core books, and film and spiritual practices
- The two core books for the class are “Waking Up White” by Debby Irving and “Jesus and the Disinherited” by Howard Thurman. If you need the Diocese to order these books for you, please tell us which books you need in the registration form.
- Participants are invited to peel away the layers that have contributed to the challenges and divides of the present day – all while grounded in our call to faith, hope and love.
- Sacred Ground is a sensitive, prayerful resource that creates space for complex but respectful and transformative dialogue on race and racism.
- It invites participants to walk back through history to peel away the layers that brought us to today, reflecting on family histories and stories, as well as essential narratives that shape the collective American story.
- It holds as a guiding star the vision of beloved community – where all people are honored and protected and nurtured as beloved children of God, where we weep at one another’s pain and seek one another’s flourishing.
