OPTIONAL – Cultivating Courageous Connections Series: The Great Responsibility of Cultural Humility

Cultivating Courageous Connections: A Journey Through Humility, Resilience, and Allyship In this dynamic 3-part series, we explore essential pillars of fostering inclusion, equity, and belonging across our collective spheres of influence. Through a cultural humility framework, participants will examine their positionality, exploring the crossroads of who they are, how others perceive them, and how power shapes their place within social systems. Cultivating Resilient Communities equips participants to navigate generative conflict with a focus on strengthening relationships and centering healing. Finally, Allyship Amplified moves us toward action by disrupting harm and amplifying the voices of marginalized communities. Join us to engage in meaningful dialogue, practical strategies, and community-building for long-term social change.

• Session #1: The Great Responsibility of Cultural Humility Cultural humility offers a transformative shift from traditional cultural competence, focusing on self-reflection, power dynamics, and fostering deeper connections across differences. Using race as a key entry point, this interactive workshop invites participants to engage in critical self-work to examine systemic inequities that are hiding in plain sight.

 

Presenter Bio:

Amanda Florence Garcia Goodenough (she/her/hers) is a dedicated educator operating from a cultural humility framework to center and elevate historically marginalized voices, promote belongingness and mattering, disrupt structural inequities, and advance intersectional social and racial justice. Leaning on 20 years of professional experience in justice, equity, decolonization, and interconnectedness (JEDI) efforts, Amanda engages in systems-change work and strives to speak truth to power as an act of love and liberation.