#26: Creating Authentic Connection And How To Have Conversations About Race with Krystle Cobran
As a leader and an entrepreneur, it's important to know how to hold space for the folxs who enter your container.
Too often in spiritual communities, I've seen the "light and love" or "oneness" concept being used to invalidate or diminish the very real experiences of folxs with marginalized identities, and we NEED to do better.
Preaching oneness and light and love creates more division when you are not acknowledging and honoring the things that make us different in the 3D realm. It's imperative for all of us to create spaces where we can have real, brave and authentic conversations that bring us closer together.
In this week's episode my guest, Krystle Cobran, gets real about what it means to step into fear, to honor your voice, and have brave and meaningful conversations that help us weave our stories together.
In this episode, we dive into:
Krystle's story of how she was led into facilitating this powerful work [8:36]
On shifting from medical school to law school [11:20]
Krystle dipped her toes in teaching [17:10]
What does it mean for us to listen to one another? [29:44]
How to find our voice and be brave in speaking our truth? [39:10]
The palpable presence, on feeling like a fraud and realizations [43:05]
Why is preaching "oneness" isn't the answer? [52:46]
How we can step away from *fixing* and into fully *seeing* each other? [53:35]
And so much more!
Krystle's Bio:
There's a way to have the race conversation that weaves our stories together. We need doable tips, tools, and skills that help us learn how to listen to one another. We need to stop feeling so forgotten, abandoned, and alone. We need step-by-step support that helps us create connections and feel less lonely. We need clarity, judgement-free spaces to wrestle with hard questions, and spaces where we can talk about race feels like. We’re craving conversations with each other instead of with each other. What we’re looking for is a real, open, honest connection. The kind that weaves our stories together. That's what Krystle's work is all about. Krystle creates spaces, facilitates live conversations and workshops, and builds online training tools that help us listen to each other, see each other, and understand each other. She's here to help us connect more and fear less.
Links mentioned in this episode:
Download the free audio training here
To purchase my book The Brave Educator, Honest Conversations about Navigating Race in the Classroom, click here
My website: krystlecobran.com
Photograph: Amanda Olivia Photography (@amandaoliviaphoto on instagram)
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