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Balancing Life: Listening Skills to Support Racial Understanding

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ALCE-212NP

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Presented by Crystal Tyler-Mackey, Extension Specialist, Community Viability; Maurice D. Smith, Jr., Assistant Professor and 4-H Youth Development Extension Specialist, College of Agriculture, Virginia State University; Cintia Aguilar, Latino Programs Manager, Community and Rural Development, North Carolina State University; Michelle Eley, Community & Economic Development Specialist, North Carolina A &T; and Kittrane Sanders, Extension Agent, Community and Rural Development, North Carolina A & T

This resource is available as a video only.

In this session members of the Virginia and North Carolina Coming Together for Racial Understanding teams begin laying the foundation for listening to understand as a key step towards acknowledging one another's lived experiences. This acknowledgement, without debate or rebuttal, is essential to feeling heard and moving productively forward towards racial understanding.

For more videos in this series, visit Balancing Life.

 


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Publication Date

July 14, 2020