Aerobics With Soul® -The African Dance Workout, is a unique and innovative use of African dance and music for exercise. Based on the dances from [...]
White supremacy shapes everyone who lives within its grasp. And yet, those effects are varied depending on the realities of our history, our bodies, our [...]
Arts, Culture, and Social Change
Backs Against the Wall Documentary
For some white participants Proctor is a rare experience of being a minority in a space curated and led by people of color. This workshop [...]
This workshop will focus on nonviolent direct action organizing, including the importance of relationship and community building as central to movement building. We are faced [...]
Can?t you feel a brand new day? What does it look like? Who makes it into the future? Heaven? History? Using the movie, The Wiz, [...]
This session explores how restorative justice processes are being used in Davidson County, TN to help court-involved youth unpack their own trauma and adverse childhood [...]
All children should be guaranteed the right to live, learn and grow up safely?free from violence and fear. This workshop will highlight key facts from [...]
Dance, song, and theater will be sued as a form of "edutainment." Participants will be engaged in a multilevel experience of liberation arts. Participants will [...]
Come discover how you can host or involve your congregation or community in the CDF Freedom Schools movement. Participants will gain an overview of the [...]
In these sessions, participants will have the opportunity to engage in conversation with some of the speakers from the morning Children and Justice Plenaries in [...]
The Church has played a significant role in establishing racism as an acceptable practice both in the US and globally. This has been true historically [...]
The school to prison pipeline extends beyond the terminology that has become cliche. The "pipeline" must be examined and reassessed as the issue begins in [...]
Food Justice, and Cultural Formation in Urban Life
No child should have to worry where her next meal will come from or whether she will have a place to sleep in the richest [...]
Christian Education for Emancipation
Great Preacher Series
American landscapes and narratives are ?haunted? by Indigenous genocide, Black enslavement and other historic and continuing social injustices. We will explore how trauma and resilience, [...]
Come join in this time of informal, intergenerational listening and learning from each other, facilitated by Ash-Lee Henderson, Co-Executive Director of Highlander Research and Education [...]
Come join in this time of informal, intergenerational listening and learning from each other, facilitated by Ash-Lee Henderson, Co-Executive Director of Highlander Research and Education [...]
Let The Children Come: Empowering Adults to Prevent Child Sexual Abuse Our congregations and community organizations endeavor to provide children with opportunities for personal and [...]
The Story of God?s amazing grace, transforming love, bold call to justice and faithful engagement in the world is witnessed throughout scripture. Too often it [...]
In the classic James Cleveland song "Lord, Do It", remade by Hezekiah Walker in 2001, the protagonist makes a pushy demand of Jesus, not unlike [...]
Those who advocate for the well-being of our nation's children and youths do so in a number of ways and in a variety of contexts. [...]
Learn how you can engage your congregation in the National Observance of Children's Sabbaths celebration, a nationwide multifaith weekend of worship, education, and action to [...]
Remember2019; an effort to make space for the congregation of the Black communities of Phillips County, AR. Our work is to support and facilitate local [...]
Piercing Consciousness: Reimaging the Voices of Immigrant Children through Storytelling and Art This session brings together the voices an Artist, Omari Booker, an Afro ? [...]
In this workshop we will explore the impact on society of caging people for their entire lives. In Tennessee over half of the people with [...]
All are welcome to participate in the Resurrection Choir under the direction of Dr. Eli Wilson, Proctor's Minister of Music, with Dr. Don Lewis, Proctor's [...]
Southerners On New Ground-SONG, is now in its 27th year of intentional multiracial, multi-issue, and multi-generational organizing in the South. We will have an interactive, [...]
The visual workshop is about ?life journeying? as seen from a Native woman?s perspective. As parts are contrasted and managed, a symbolic butterfly emerges to [...]
The passage of the Family First Prevention Services Act provides powerful tools to better serve the more than 435,000 children in foster care. The law [...]
Telling Our Stories of Communities in Crisis
Backs Against the Wall: Ending Child Poverty Children and Justice Plenary
Theology and Child Advocacy Plenary
In his meditation "To Make a Rest of Motion," Howard Thurman wrote "It is ever a grace and a benediction to be able to come [...]
A tour of the African Art on Campus including the description, ritual use and cultural context of the Art in The Nhambu Collection. Maria Nhambu [...]
This experiential workshop explores the effects of intergenerational trauma of violence. The trauma of domestic and sexual violence affects not only those who directly experience [...]
In CDF-Ohio's work to generate awareness, interest and participation in the 2020 Census, they engaged with Ohio's "Hard-to-Count" populations through grassroots partnerships and digital advocacy. [...]