It is also a time for reflection, assessment, and planning for the future. Many people regard Juneteenth as a time to strengthen ties with family and their larger communities. And so, thank you for having the courage and the care to start the conversation, because that’s all it takes. It definitely is a tough conversation, but it’s a conversation that needs to happen. I didn’t know how much I needed that session until I went through the experience.
By the fourth minute, I could not stop the tears from coming. You get four minutes to talk about whatever it is you want to talk about, and then we take 30 seconds of pure silence just to hold that respect for your words and your thoughts, and to let others know that we hear you, we love you, and thank you so much for sharing. There’s a breathing exercise before we start to dig into our emotions. The Courageous Conversations, which are now a community of listening and listening circles. I also really took a moment to pause and understood, if I’m feeling this way, I know that there’s so many more team members within our organization that feel the exact same way and need a safe place to be able to talk about their feelings, talk about their emotions, and understand what can the company do to support them and also hear some candid feedback about ways that we can continue to get better as an organization. “OK, here’s what we’ve got going out for donations, today.” I also thought, as a mother of a young black boy, how can I protect him, and how can I make sure that he understood the seriousness of what African Americans have to go through every day because of the color of their skin? And so I started by knocking on the doors of these small business owners and asking them, if there were four things that I could give you, what would that be? I need to be out with my feet on the street protesting and letting the voices of us be heard on how we demand and need change. My immediate thought was, I need to be out. What happened the day that George Floyd was murdered was very devastating for me personally. Arche Taylor, Branch Manager, Wells Fargo Community Banking:
0 kommentar(er)
