Building Together - Don't Build Alone
Join Raquell Holmes and Rachelle Moore in their 4-week development space focused on creating something new with what we have and who we are. Building community in diverse groups of people, using what each participant brings, grows us emotionally, politically and professionally. Organizers, activists, scientists and professionals are invited to join them in creating this Black-led, multiracial short-term group.
Mondays, March 3, 10, 17, and 24 at 4:00 pm Pacific / 7:00 pm Eastern.
Location: Online via Zoom
Join Raquell Holmes and Rachelle Moore in their 4-week development space focused on creating something new with what we have and who we are. Building community in diverse groups of people, using what each participant brings, grows us emotionally, politically and professionally. Organizers, activists, scientists and professionals are invited to join them in creating this Black-led, multiracial short-term group.
Mondays, March 3, 10, 17, and 24 at 4:00 pm Pacific / 7:00 pm Eastern.
Location: Online via Zoom
Join Raquell Holmes and Rachelle Moore in their 4-week development space focused on creating something new with what we have and who we are. Building community in diverse groups of people, using what each participant brings, grows us emotionally, politically and professionally. Organizers, activists, scientists and professionals are invited to join them in creating this Black-led, multiracial short-term group.
Mondays, March 3, 10, 17, and 24 at 4:00 pm Pacific / 7:00 pm Eastern.
Location: Online via Zoom
Building Together - Don’t Build Alone
Are you working to bring Blackness to the environments you’re in?
Are you emotionally tired from trying to do transformational work within institutions that are fixed and unchanging?
Are you struggling to create environments in which the diversity of Blackness is visible, leading and upfront?
Come share your work, your passion and your daily challenges; and experience building community and unapologetically Black environments that inspire and rejuvenate you.
Excerpt from Black Man’s Roundtable with Rodney Butler. Season 2 Episode 33
Background
In May 2020, Raquell Holmes created Uncomfortable Independent Conversations (UIC) in response to her clients and colleagues requesting help to participate in the Black Lives Matter movement. In the UIC, people from different socio-economic and racial backgrounds came together and built conversations that transformed their experience of race and class in the USA.
Rachelle Moore attended and began working in the UIC with Raquell. Rachelle has described this experience as “totally transformational,” creating new ways to build with discomfort in her personal life and professional practice. Raquell and Rachelle are dedicated to creating multiracial spaces where Blackness, Black people and Black communities can lead and grow.
Rachelle Moore, LCSW
Rachelle Moore, LCSW, grew up in a Black family where there was no conversation of what it was to be Black. When she was excluded or treated differently, Blackness was never acknowledged. This left her feeling invisible and crazy. Rachelle majored in psychology at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, to discover “what was wrong” with her. The rise of the Black power movement, and meeting other Black activists who were passionate about making positive changes in the world, gave her a new option to grow. It fueled her desire to become a therapist and help other Black women and men grow and develop emotionally, professionally and politically. Rachelle has a diverse perspective on mental health and wellness given her long career working in psychiatric hospitals and corporate environments. She chooses to practice social therapeutics–a non-diagnostic, humanistic, relational psychology developed by Dr. Fred Newman.
Raquell Holmes, Ph.D.
Raquell Holmes, Ph.D. met social therapy in 1992 while becoming a scientist at Tufts Sackler and Harvard Medical Schools and building an independent Black-led, woman-led, multiracial political environment. She became a client and practitioner of the philosophical, practical approach of social therapeutics that informs her consulting practice, improvscience. Her work is part of an international community of educators, trainers and researchers who use play and creativity to address educational and humanitarian needs in the world.
She is a pioneer in the use of improvisation and performance in scientific research communities. In addition to improvscience, she founded and directs the innovative Arts Humanities and STEM conference--Cultivating Ensembles, and the radically inclusive Freedom Festival: Juneteenth to Independence Day.