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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17 | FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

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THE FIRST ANNUAL GLOBAL EMOTIONAL EMANCIPATION SUMMIT
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17 | FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18

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“We are going to emancipate ourselves from mental slavery because whilst

others might free the body, none but ourselves can free the mind.“

— Marcus Garvey

Welcome. Thank you for joining us for Valuing Black Lives: The First Annual Global Emotional Emancipation
SummitSM . This Summit is designed to launch a ground-breaking international conversation that will lead
to concerted action to overturn--once and for all--the lies of White superiority and Black inferiority: the root
causes of the devaluing of Black lives and the systematic underdevelopment of Black communities the
world over.

This is a working Summit. Our charge is to be action-oriented and solutions-focused.

Our aims are:
1) to leave this Summit with a framework for the Summit Communiqué, which will include an outline of
agreed-upon next steps, and which will be finalized and sent, on or before September 30, 2015, to Summit
participants; members of the Congressional Black Caucus; the United Nations; the African Union; the Pan
African Congress; national Black organizations in the United States, the Caribbean, Central and South
America, Canada, and Europe; all embassies of the African Diaspora; and other key associations; and

2) to continue working together to implement, evaluate, and refine the 2015 Valuing Black Lives Summit
agreed-upon action steps, and to plan for the 2016 Valuing Black Lives Summit through Working Groups--
using The Way Back Home, our online portal designed to facilitate ongoing international collaboration.

Our Summit Objectives are to: spark the creation
of energized working
begin to establish a groups that will
global agenda and drive an agenda for
course of action continuing collaborative
to dismantle the international action to
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of White superiority and for all.
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Everyone has an important role to play to help us move
forward. In order to make the most of our time together,
panelists and participants are being invited to serve in one or
more of three equally essential roles:

Summit Framers

to set the thematic framework for the
small group deliberations to follow;

Summit Circle Facilitators/Rapporteurs

to shepherd the process of small group
deliberations to capture themes and
critical points, and to ensure that concrete
ideas and strategies emerge from each
deliberation; and

Summit Discussants

usually referred to as the attendees or
audience in a typical conference, but for
this Summit, members of the audience are
asked to work in Deliberative Circles and
play the critical role of reaching consensus
on key issues, and serving as co-creators
of strategies to help us free ourselves and
our children from the lies.

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“If you want to go quickly, go alone–
If you want to go far, go together.“

— African Proverb

We come together in the spirit of Ubuntu, as Ubuntu is the essence of being
expressed in the proverb – human. It reflects the idea that my
“Umuntu Ngumuntu Ngabantu – a person humanity is tied to and inextricably
is a person because of other people.” bound to your humanity. Through
Ubuntu, we recognize our shared
humanity, our commonalities, and we
show humility, compassion and
tolerance. A person with Ubuntu is
welcoming, hospitable, warm,
generous, and willing to share.

This is the standard to which we
aspire--to be Ubuntu people—people
who are open and available to others,
willing to be vulnerable, and affirming
of each other, knowing that we belong
within a greater whole.

Ubuntu
“Umuntu Ngumuntu Ngabantu –

a person is a person because of other people.”

— African Proverb

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AGENDA

Thursday, September 17 | ROOM 206

“Until the lion has a historian,
the hunter will always be the hero.” — African Proverb

12 to 12 30 Thanks to God and Our Ancestors, and an Appeal to Our Children for Forgiveness
12:30 to 12 45
Welcome and Thanks to Supporters
12:45 to 2:15 A.J. Robinson, Moderator, President, Symphonic Strategies
Karen Bass, (D.CA), Ranking Member, Africa Subcommittee, U.S. House of Representatives
Enola Aird, Founder and President, Community Healing Network, Inc.
Kevin Washington, President, The Association of Black Psychologists

PANEL FRAMING SESSION #1
“The Lions and Lionesses Tell their Story” — A Panoramic View of the Origin and
Effects, and a Beginning Analysis of, the Lies of White Superiority and Black Inferiority

Hilary Beckles | Momodou Jallow | Paul Zeleza | Devon Carbado | Gisela Arandia

2:15 to 2:30 Responses from Europeans of African Descent
European Delegation:
2:30 to 4:00
4:00 to 4:05 MP Helen Morgan ( United Kingdom) | Louis-George Tin (France)
4:05 to 4:45 Mitchell Esajas (The Netherlands) |Simon Woolley (United Kingdom)
4:45 to 5:00
Circle Deliberations in Response to Session #1 (Circles Organized Regionally)

BREATHE

Circle Facilitators/Rapporteurs—Report Back

Closing

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AGENDA

Friday, September 18 | Room 207B

“We have a beautiful history, and we shall create another in
the future that will astonish the world.“ — Marcus Garvey

9:00 to 9: 30 OPENING
Summation and Reflections on Session #1—Cheryl Tawede Grills

9:30 to 11:00 PANEL FRAMING SESSION #2
11:00 to 11:05 Why the Lies Were Propagated and Why and How the Lies Persist
(The Roles of Psychology,Media,Religion,Education,etc.)
Wade Nobles | Omowale Amuleru-Marshall, | Daryl Rowe | Frederick J. Streets |Charisse L’Pree

BREATHE

11:05 to 12:30 Circle Deliberations in Response to Session #2 (Circles Organized Generationally)

12:30 to 1:30 LUNCH

1:30 to 2:30 PANEL FRAMING SESSION #3
Creating a Shared Vision: Imagining a Future in Which Black Lives are Valued

Adonia Ayebare | Ikaweba Bunting | Aiesha Turman | Erika Totten

2:30 to 3:30 Circle Deliberations in Response to Session #3 (Circles Organized by Discipline/Area of Expertise)

3:30 to 3:35 BREATHE

3:35 to 5:30 Community Dialogue -- Building the Global Movement to Value Black Lives
Circle Facilitators/Rapporteurs—Report Back
Brief Summary Statements: Ramona Edelin | Paul Zeleza | Ikaweba Bunting | Enola Aird

Initial Framer/Discussant Responses from the Floor:
Wade Nobles | Momodou Jallow | Mischa Thompson | Adonia Ayebare

Responses and Recommended Next Steps Entertained from the Floor
Summary of Next Steps
Cheryl Tawede Grills | Daryl Taasogle Rowe | Enola Aird

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Summit Presenters

OUR HOST

Representative Karen Bass
Karen Bass represents California‘s 37th Congressional District in the United States
House of Representatives and is the Ranking Member of the House Africa
Subcommittee.

OUR MODERATOR

A.J. Robinson, Jr.
Founder and CEO of Symphonic Strategies, a full service research, training, and
consulting firm that specializes in solving collective action challenges.

PRESENTING ORGANIZATIONS

Community Healing Network, Inc.
Enola G. Aird
Founder and President of Community Healing Network, Inc., originator of the Valuing
Black Lives Global Summit, Emotional Emancipation Circles, and other initiatives to
help build the global grassroots movement for emotional emancipation.

THE ASSOCIATION OF BLACK PSYCHOLOGISTS
Dr. Kevin Washington
Licensed psychologist, President of The Association of Black Psychologists,
Distinguished Visiting Professor in Counseling Psychology at Howard University, and
formerly consultant for Essence Magazine and BET News.

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Summit Framers

Professor Sir Hilary Beckles
Vice Chancellor of the University of the West Indies and the Chairman of the Caribbean
Reparations Commission. He is also Vice President of the International Task force For
the UNESCO Slave Route Project.

Momodou Malcolm Jallow
Founder and chair of the Pan African Movement for Justice, the Vice chair of the
European Network Against Racism, and chair of ENAR’s steering group for people of
African descent.

Dr. Paul Tiyambe Zeleza
Former Vice President of Academic Affairs and Professor of History at Quinnipiac
University, currently a fellow at the Hutchins Center at Harvard, and author of more than
two dozen books including Africa‘s Resurgence: Domestic, Global and Diaspora
Transformations.

Professor Devon Carbado
Honorable Harry Pregerson Professor of Law at UCLA School of Law. He has won
numerous teaching awards, being twice elected as Professor of the Year and receiving
the University‘s Distinguished Teaching Award.

Gisela Arandia Covarrubias
Ph.D. Candidate, Institute of Philosophy, Havana, author, Afro-Descendant Population in
Cuba Today. Expert Consultant --Afro themes for U.N. Doc., Member-Regional Network
of Women of African Descent.

MP Helen Grant
Member of Parliament (Conservative Party) –was the first Black woman to be elected
as a Conservative MP. She first served in government as Parliamentary
Under-Secretary of State for Women and Equalities (from 2012 to 2015).

Louis-George Tin
Chair of Le CRAN (Conseil Représentatif des Associations Noires de France/
Representative Council of France‘s Black Associations), Associate Doctor of Arts
and teacher at the University of Orleans.

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Summit Framers

Mitchell Esajas
Co-Founder/Chairman of New Urban Collective, a network of students and young
professionals with the mission to empower youth from diverse cultural backgrounds,
and one of the leaders of the anti-Black Pete movement.

Simon Woolley
Co-Founder and Director of Operation Black Vote, the first comprehensive campaign
to focus exclusively on the Black and minority democratic deficit in the United
Kingdom.

Dr. Cheryl Tawede Grills
Clinical and community psychologist and Professor of Psychology at Loyola
Marymount University, Past­President, The Association of Black Psychologists,
and one of the chief developers of the Emotional Emancipation Circle model.

Dr. Wade W. Nobles
Professor Emeritus of Africana Studies and Black Psychology at SFSU, Founding
Member/Past President of The Association of Black Psychologists, and founding
Executive Director of the Institute for the Advanced Study of Black Family Life and
Culture.

Dr. Ọmọwale Amulẹru-Marshall
Professor of Public Health and Preventive Medicine and Director of Community Health
and Outreach at St. George’s University in Grenada, and President of the Caribbean
Alliance of National Psychological Associations.

Dr. Taasogle Daryl Rowe
Licensed psychologist and Professor of Psychology at the Graduate School of
Education and Psychology, Pepperdine University; Immediate Past-President of The
Association of Black Psychologists; and one of the chief developers of the EEC model.

Rev. Dr. Frederick (Jerry) Streets
Former Chaplain of Yale University, adjunct faculty member of Yale Divinity School,
licensed clinical social worker, and Senior Pastor of the Dixwell Avenue Church in New
Haven, CT, the oldest African American Congregational Church in America.

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Summit Framers

Dr. Charisse L’Pree
Assistant Professor of Communications at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public
Communications at Syracuse University, researching the relationship between media
and identity, and media’s effects on how people think.

Ambassador Adonia Ayebare
Senior Adviser, Peace and Security at the African Union Permanent Observer Mission
at the United Nations. He has also served as the Deputy Permanent Representative and
Chargé d’Affaires a.i. of Uganda to the United Nations.

Dr. Ikaweba Bunting
Professor of Political Science and Sociology; Deputy Secretary General of the Pan
African Movement and the Organizing Committee of 8th Pan African Congress; Past
coordinator for Institutional Development of the Mwalimu Nyerere Foundation and
Rapporteur General for the Burundi Peace Negotiations.

Aiesha Turman
Founder and Executive Director of The Black Girl Project, aimed at transforming the
lives of Black women. Her research stresses Black motherhood and mediating
historical trauma and grief, using cultural productions.

Erika Totten
Founder and President of Black Lives Matter DMV, Founder and President of To Live
Unchained, and Emotional Emancipation Circles facilitator.

Dr. Ramona Hoage Edelin
Scholar and activist who has established cutting e­ dge programs in education,
community empowerment, and young adult leadership. She is also the author of
We the Village: Achieving Our Collective Greatness Now.

Dr. Mischa Thompson
Focused on anti-discrimination issues in Europe and North America at the U.S. Helsinki
Commission. Her work includes The Black European Summit and advancing the
African Descent Affairs Act for the global empowerment and protection of the African
diaspora.

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Circle Facilitators

Sil Lai Abrams
NABJ award­winning writer, domestic violence activist, author of the book No More
Drama: Nine Simple Steps to Transforming a Breakdown into a Breakthrough, and CEO
of Truth in Reality, a media advocacy organization.

Dr. Leon D. Caldwell
Counseling psychologist and member of The Association of Black Psychologists;
senior research director at a Washington, D.C., social innovation and research
collaborative, facilitating strategic planning, evaluation, and capacity-building.

Maurice Carney
An entrepreneur, human rights activist, media analyst and Co-F­ ounder and Executive
Director of Friends of the Congo, supporting Congolese institutions in their struggle for
peace and justice.

Dr. Benson G. Cooke
Professor and Clinical Coordinator of the Graduate Mental Health Counseling Program
at The University of the District of Columbia, past National President of The
Association of Black Psychologists, and author of two books, including Personal
Empowerment for People of Color.

Dr. Carrie Dixon
Licensed psychologist and former registered nurse, providing geriatric counseling,
Medicaid disability and forensic evaluations; and serving as Midw­ estern Regional
Representative of The Association of Black Psychologists.

Leonard G. Dunston, MSW
Convener of the Institute of the Black World 21st Century‘s Black Family Summit, and
a Board member; President Emeritus of the National Association of Black Social
Workers; and a Retired Commissioner, New York State Division for Youth.

Al Gentry
Founder and Managing Principal of Cornerstone Development, LLC, a mixed-use and
mixed­income real estate development and asset management company based in the
Washington, D.C., area; and Board member of Community Healing Network.

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Circle Facilitators

Dr. Kristee L. Haggins
Psychologist and Senior Associate on the Health Equity Team at the California Institute of
Behavioral Health Solutions, serving as project manager on a range of projects to enhance
health equity and improve cultural competency.

Dr. Le Ondra Clark Harvey
Chief Policy Consultant to the California Assembly Committee on Business and
Professions, overseeing licensing boards throughout California; and Secretary of
The Association of Black Psychologists.

Davy Hay
A former mental health nurse and lecturer, co­-runs Pattigift Therapy, CIC, an African-
c­ entered organization providing talking, creative arts and physical therapies, as well as
training courses.

Dr. Sharon D. Johnson
Writer and depth psychologist who utilizes, teaches, and lectures on African-origin
phenomenological methods in her psychological, artistic, academic, and cultural work.

Dr. Jennifer Jones
Licensed psychologist and member of ABPsi with research interests in the
disproportionality of Black students being excluded from schools and the
over-representation of Black youth in the justice system.

Jeanine Primm Jones
Licensed clinical social worker, artist and public speaker, former Director of an
HIV clinic in Boston, Relationship Health Counselor for the NBA Players Association, and
teaching artist for troubled youth in New York City.

William Jahmal Miller, MHA
Deputy Director for the California Department of Public Health, Office of Health Equity.
State’s lead advisor on issues related to reducing health and mental health disparities and
achieving health equity for all Californians.

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Circle Facilitators

Rameri Reshkhi Moukam
Psychiatric and psychosocial nurse, psychotherapist, and Founder and Clinical Director
of Pattigift Therapy, CIC, an African-centered counseling and therapy service in
Birmingham, United Kingdom.

Charlene Phipps
Founder of iRead Book and Activities Klub, working with children and families to learn
Black history. She is an active Community Healing Advocate and co-­facilitates an
Emotional Emancipation Circle in Baltimore City.

Dr. Wizdom Powell
Associate Professor of Health Behavior at UNC-­Chapel Hill’s Gillings School of Global
Public Health, member of the Community Healing Network Board of Directors, and
former White House Fellow to Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta.

Annelle B. Primm, M.D. MPH
Community psychiatrist and Convener of the All Healers Mental Health Alliance, a
national network of health, mental health and faith leaders focused on facilitating
culturally tailored responses to disasters.

Dr. Harriette Richard
The Southern Regional Representative for ABPsi, Associate Professor of Psychology at
Johnson C. Smith University, with research interests in health, race, and pedagogy; and
a Fulbright Scholar and Salzburg Fellow.

Jarvis Sams
National Chair of The Association of Black Psychologists Student Circle, adjunct
faculty member at Pacific Oaks College in Pasadena, and third­-year doctoral student
at the Chicago School of Professional Psychology­-­-Los Angeles.

Jill Marie Snyder
Corporate Executive, CHN Board member, author of Dear Mary, Dear Luther:
A Courtship in Letters, a family memoir. Her journey to healing has included praying,
journaling, mindfulness, and participating in Emotional Emancipation Circles.

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Founder and facilitator of People Celebrating People, building relationships through
healing circles. Creator of RestorativeListeningDialogue, building relationships among
teachers, community, and parents through story-telling.

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Next steps

This Summit conversation is the first of many to come. Our goal is to continue the
conversation and planning for action through Working Groups to be convened on the
The Way Back Home, the online portal designed to facilitate ongoing international
collaboration.

1. If you wish to make a commitment to be part of one of the Working Groups to be
established, please fill out the Summit Commitment Sheet and return it to one of the Summit
volunteers.

2. Please also take a moment to sign our petition to Pope Francis and share it with your
family and friends.

The Pope is coming to the U.S. next week. When he visited Latin America in July, he
apologized to Native peoples for the sins of the Church. The Community Healing Network‘s
petition appeals to the Pope to issue a similar apology to the African peoples of the world.

Please visit CHN‘s website and click on the link for the petition.

3. Please mark your calendars now to celebrate Community Healing Days, observed annually
on the third weekend of October (October 16, 17, and 18, 2015). It is designed to put “time for
healing“ on the Black community‘s agenda.

We invite you to respond to the late Dr. Maya Angelou‘s Call to Wear Sky Blue during
Community Healing Days to show our collective determination to “move beyond the pain of
the blues to the sky blue of unlimited possibilities.“ Our theme for this year‘s celebration is
“Let‘s Listen to Our Elders.“ We invite everyone to turn off the screens that take up so much
of our energies and spend time with our elders giving them the respect they are due and
listening to their stories about family and community.

For more about Community Healing Days, please visit our website:
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Gratitude

This Summit is the result of the caring, committed, and concerted work of
many wonderful sisters and brothers, for whom we are profoundly grateful.

Community Healing Network and The Association of Black Psychologists wish to
express our deepest appreciation to the following individuals and organizations:

We are deeply honored by and grateful to our host, Representative Karen Bass, for her
steadfast leadership and support.

We thank all Summit Framers, Summit Circle Facilitators/ Rapporteurs, Summit
Discussants, and Summit Volunteers for their invaluable contributions.

For their generous material--and spiritual--support, we thank our Co-Sponsors:
The Institute for the Black World 21st Century Black Family Summit
The National Association of Black Social Workers
The European Network Against Racism
The Pan African Movement for Justice
The Caribbean Association of National Psychological Associations
Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute
Shiloh Baptist Church Social Justice Ministry
Howard K. Hill, and Howard K. Hill Funeral Services and The Prosperity Fund
Bea Dozier Taylor, and A Walk in Truth Books and Black Print Heritage Gallery
William Graustein and Jean Graustein
WOW! Creative Design

For the gift of art, performance, and music that enlivened and deepened our deliberations,
we thank Wombwork Productions.

We thank our moderator, A.J. Robinson, for guiding our deliberations with boldness, grace and
care.

For contributions truly beyond the call of duty, without whom Community Healing Network’s 15
work for the past eight years would not have been possible, we thank Courtney Crosslin,
CHN‘s Online Community Manager.

Many Thanks to One and All!

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About CHN and ABPsi

Community Healing Network (CHN), a The Association of Black Psychologists
(501)(c)(3) non-profit organization, has (ABPsi) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization
been working since 2006 to build the that seeks to promote and advance
global grassroots movement for emotional the profession of African psychology,
emancipation -- to help Black people influence and effect social change, and
overcome and overturn the lies of Black develop programs that address and work
Inferiority and White Superiority: the root to alleviate problems of Black communities
causes of the devaluing of Black lives. and other ethnic groups. ABPsi has been
working with CHN since 2011 to augment
CHN’s aim is to engage a critical mass the movement for emotional emancipation
of Black people in the movement for by bringing to it an international agenda
emotional emancipation by the year 2019, for the “liberation of the African mind and
the 400th anniversary of the forced arrival enlivenment and illumination of the African
of Africans at Jamestown colony in the spirit.”
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In 2011, CHN reached out to ABPsi to ask for its professional expertise and technical assistance
in helping to build an international network of Emotional Emancipation (EE) Circles, self-help
support groups designed to help Black people heal from the historical and continuing trauma of
racism.

Together, CHN and ABPsi have planted seeds for EE Circles in 15 cities across the United States,

including Ferguson, MO; New York City, NY; Baltimore, MD; New Haven, CT; Tuskegee, AL;

Oakland and San Diego, CA; and countries around the world, including the United Kingdom,

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