“A Safe Space to Talk About Race” is an interactive 90-minute virtual workshop led by executive coach Akeisha Johnson to facilitate an inclusive professional community. We will be empowered to have frank, supportive discussions to further our commitment to being a diverse and welcoming environment for romance writers.

“A Safe Space to Talk About Race” will touch on the following:

• Considerations when speaking about race and racism

• Biological responses to conversations about race and racism

• Approaches and practices when speaking about race and racism

This event is very important to us and the SVRWA is providing it to past and current members for just $1. Non-members are welcome at $40. We hope you will join us!

Event agenda:

1. Introductions

2. Creating Groundrules

3. Core Conversation:

• Responses to conversions around race and racism

• Considerations when speaking about race and racism

• Approaches and practices to speaking about race and racism

4. Closing Thoughts

Akeisha Johnson of An Inspired Story Coaching is a dynamic Business Leadership Coach and public speaker. Well known by peers and clients for creating leaders that other people want to work for. She is the creator and facilitator of A Safe Space to Talk About Race (SafeSTTAR)™workshop, the former Program Director of The Oshun Project - a non-profit program whose work with Haitian farmers provides clean water in rural villages, and the previous host and co-producer of the podcast, Making It Work: Stories of Surviving and Thriving in the SF Bay Area.