Changing the Lens - Facilitator Training (virtual):

Talking about Race and Racial Justice at Your Library

March 29, 2022
9:00 am - 12:30 pm EST

 

Participants will learn how to guide a small group conversation around issues of race and racial justice. Provides an overview of how to hold space for conversations around race, racial equity, and justice. Participant will gain skills and have opportunities to practice facilitation for Table Talks, Movie Nights, Listening Circles, Cultural Outings, and Book Clubs.

 

Your Facilitator

Suzanne Haley: Consultant, Facilitator, Storyteller

Suzanne Haley is the President and CEO of S. Haley & Associates and Co-founder of ​ Changing the Lens​, a community building movement. She has been building community and creating systems for human development her entire professional career. ​An experienced communicator, facilitator and master storyteller, Suzanne brings multi-disciplinary research and empirical data to the complex realities of a broad range of clientele, guiding individuals and teams toward strategic culture shifts which yield quantifiable results.

Suzanne has spent half of her professional life working in traditional ministry contexts with local, regional, national and international faith based organizations. In those years she learned to value and build community, develop leaders, and organize for collective impact in many diverse cultural settings. She developed and implemented strategy which guided hundreds of people seamlessly from a “me and mine” survival mindset to transformative, empowering communities that incubated leadership, nurtured human potential and produced exponential outcomes.
 

Working now, for over a decade, from a broader context, her passion remains to inspire, equip and enlighten people from all walks of life to their best selves. ​Her professional sensitivity and compassionate approach awakens new perspectives and boldness that leads to individual and organizational change and keeps her constituents on the cutting edge of progress.   

 

A graduate of Morgan State University with a Bachelor of Science in Psychology, Suzanne guides others to bring authenticity to the challenge of inside-out institutional change which begins with personal growth and transformation. Her own life experience, historic cultural enlightenment, and deep sense of calling continues to energize her to do this work of compassionate truth sharing, racial healing, and culture transformation through community building.