Participants are Saying. . .
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I don’t usually say this but, your session was life-changing.
Kathryn, Educator
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Wow, THANK YOU, Rie, for supporting us with the facilitated conversation. I appreciated feeling supported by you with your frameworks, calm presence, clear experience with this work...because I didn't have the courage to have the conversation alone.
Corrina, Teacher and Experience Designer
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I can't believe how much energy I have after this! I was feeling so Zoomed-out I almost didn't want to come, but now I'm ready to roll again!"
Rachel, Project Manager
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I am an HR Director for a nonprofit in the Twin Cities and found this session to be such a breath of fresh air compared to a lot of the "business" oriented trainings I do on this topic. I am a qualified administrator for the Intercultural Development Inventory and took away a number of coaching tips I can work into the debriefs I do with Staff and Board. In addition, I often facilitate conversations on these topics and loved the activities around awareness in the body. Thank you so much for the day!
Allison, HR Director
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Masterfully facilitated, I am so grateful for your leadership, time, spirit in this. Appreciate you.
Kalyan, Head of School
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Rie is a highly competent and charismatic facilitator in White racial affinity spaces. She brings with her many years of experience leading conversations about race and coaching White people in their racial identity development and consciousness. When Co-Facilitating with Rie, I could count on her to structure the time well and to hold space for productive conversations. She leads with transparency, humility and vulnerability.
Courtney, Equity Transformation Specialist
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Thank you for your unbelievable facilitation of today's session. . . . you created and held an amazing space of trust, creativity and freshness.
Dirk, Coach & Facilitator
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Rie is a phenomenal teacher and facilitator of racial equity. She has helped to skillfully bring growth in the area of racial equity and combatting racism in all its forms to both my church community and school student body. She provides an important balance of challenge that moves participants along on their journey as advocates for racial justice and eliminating their own biases, in an environment that does not allow participants to get stuck in guilt or denial. She provides clear guidelines for discussion and instinctively knows how to moderate a conversation, activity, or discussion to allow growth and racial justice to be the focus. She is a tireless advocate and lifelong learner of racial justice that allows her to be highly knowledgeable and well qualified to do this work.
Kari, Teacher
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Rie has done the necessary work on herself, first, to be able to compassionately and respectfully lead other white people, especially, through the task and the stages of personal racial development. She is humble, honest and constantly interrogating her own thoughts and conclusions; her modeling of that process helped me realize some of the faults and short-falls in my own thinking.
Linnea, Teacher and Administrator
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Rie has brought to us superb opportunities, masterfully crafted and presented or facilitated. Her facilitation of Sunday's Adult Forum with Vina from Voices for Racial Justice was a perfect example of the level of that work. It was deeply moving, informative and challenging--a sobering reminder of the serious amount of learning we have before us.
Susan, Priest