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SUMMARY:Racial Awareness and Sensitivity Support Group- Multi-Racial - Charlottesville\, VA
DESCRIPTION:CAVA will lead group sessions for the community to encourage cross-racial conversations and dialogue about how RACE matters in a therapeutic way that fosters cross-racial relationships. Stressing the importance of being comfortable with being uncomfortable\, the group will create space to practice the necessary muscles to foster deeper connections across racial lines.   \nThe six crucial muscles to build and engage in cross-racial relationships and conversations are: \n\nIntensity\nIntimacy\ntransparency\nauthenticity\ncongruency\ncomplexity\n\n It understands the importance of managing one’s privileged and subjugated positions related to day-to-day racially abusive interactions (aka – Micro and Macro aggression) experienced in the community\, workplace\, and social situations. \nWe are dismantling Institutional Racism and structural Racism while Increasing the volume of the “Voiceless” (subjugated) and increasing risk-taking in our Allies (privileged). \nThe goal is to move from being Racially Oblivious to Racially Aware to Racially Sensitive and ultimately Racially Responsible. \nWe all start from somewhere in Dismantling White Supremacy/Whiteness and restoring humanity wherever and whenever possible. \n 
URL:https://www.cavahelps.com/event/racial-awareness-and-sensitivity-support-group-multi-racial-charlottesville-va-3-2020-12-15-2022-02-15-2025-07-01/2026-08-18/
LOCATION:Platform: CAVA Zoom\, VA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community Racial Healing Work,Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:The Breathing Room - Understanding and Re-channeling our Rage\, Sadness\, and Hopelessness due to white domination and on-going Dehumanization\, Devaluation and Oppression!!
DESCRIPTION:Black/African American Affinity Support Group \nThis group allows African American/Black people to authentically and freely “let their hair down” and talk as if one was at home with their family without judgment. Truly decenter the privileged and without the compulsion or need to take care of white or other people. Create a space to talk and process the most recent traumas. Understand racially abusive transactions (aka – micro and macro aggressions) that African American and Black people endure daily due to whiteness\, white superiority\, white terror\, white supremacy\, denial\, projection\, and repression.\nThe facilitator will create and manage a safe\, comfortable\, and brave space to assist with rechanneling one’s rage and anger\, acknowledging and validating one’s experience with systemic and institutional racism while practicing exhaling\, encouraging the need to breathe\, and unlocking learned voicelessness due to 500 years of subjugation/oppression/repression/white supremacy. \n 
URL:https://www.cavahelps.com/event/the-breathing-room-understanding-and-managing-our-rage-sadness-and-hopelessness-due-to-white-supremacy-and-generations-of-suffrage-and-oppression-morning-session-15-2025-07-02/2026-08-19/
LOCATION:Platform: CAVA Zoom\, VA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community Racial Healing Work,Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Racial Awareness and Sensitivity Support Group- Multi-Racial - Charlottesville\, VA
DESCRIPTION:CAVA will lead group sessions for the community to encourage cross-racial conversations and dialogue about how RACE matters in a therapeutic way that fosters cross-racial relationships. Stressing the importance of being comfortable with being uncomfortable\, the group will create space to practice the necessary muscles to foster deeper connections across racial lines.   \nThe six crucial muscles to build and engage in cross-racial relationships and conversations are: \n\nIntensity\nIntimacy\ntransparency\nauthenticity\ncongruency\ncomplexity\n\n It understands the importance of managing one’s privileged and subjugated positions related to day-to-day racially abusive interactions (aka – Micro and Macro aggression) experienced in the community\, workplace\, and social situations. \nWe are dismantling Institutional Racism and structural Racism while Increasing the volume of the “Voiceless” (subjugated) and increasing risk-taking in our Allies (privileged). \nThe goal is to move from being Racially Oblivious to Racially Aware to Racially Sensitive and ultimately Racially Responsible. \nWe all start from somewhere in Dismantling White Supremacy/Whiteness and restoring humanity wherever and whenever possible. \n 
URL:https://www.cavahelps.com/event/racial-awareness-and-sensitivity-support-group-multi-racial-charlottesville-va-3-2020-12-15-2022-02-15-2025-07-01/2026-09-01/
LOCATION:Platform: CAVA Zoom\, VA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community Racial Healing Work,Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:REAL TALK: Racially and Culturally Trauma Informed Group for Teenage Males- In Person
DESCRIPTION:Male Teens have been burdened by society’s challenges of living under duress and scrutiny on many levels.  Socially\, familial\, and interpersonal relationships\, all while trying to negotiate their basic needs in life: To love and be loved\, trust others while being a trustworthy person\, and to take in admiration and appreciation when taught or told you may not be good enough. Manage themselves in response to threats related to envy and internalized devaluation. \nCAVA is creating a comfortable\, safe space for male teens to accept support and lead more productive\, fulfilling lives. \nCome join us this coming fall for a didactic experiential experience with Ra-Twoine Fields\, PhD\, Student Intern with SayBook University\, California. \nRa-Twoine Fields\, forged in Jersey City\, NJ.\, has made Richmond\, VA his second home. After graduating from the University of Richmond with majors in Psychology\, Philosophy\, and Creative Writing\, Ra-Twoine embarked on an interdisciplinary journey marked by lived experience\, academia\, community immersion\, cultural relativity\, and authentic transformative justice. His work organically weaves together mental health\, art\, gun-violence intervention\, poetry\, and more across various channels. He is currently completing his PhD in Clinical Psychology\, with a focus on integrating harm reduction and addressing gun violence. Through this mission\, he has worked directly with organizations such as the Department of Justice\, the Department of Criminal Justice Services\, the Federal Bureau of Investigation\, the Department of Juvenile Justice\, the Bureau of Justice Assistance\, the Gun Violence Prevention Office of Richmond\, VA\, the Youth Justice Coalition\, and more. \nRa-Twoine currently serves as the owner of the Holistic Agency\, the founding owner and lead curator of Southside Contemporary Art Gallery\, the owner of the creative agency Crenius\, and a publishing poet. Hisethos centers birthing stories and shifting narratives \n\nGroup Goals: \n * An interpersonal and cognitive behavioral space for male teens. \n*Promotes understanding and healing from life experiences related to racially based and cultural trauma. \n*Encourages the development of healthy teens in our communities. \n\nGroup focus: \n\nManaging Invisible Wounds of grief and trauma\nResponsible thinking\nFeelings management\nCorrecting thinking errors\nIncreasing empathy for others\nFamily and Relationship issues\nHealthy Communication\nLife Transitions\n\n\nFunding options include: \n\nCSA Funds\nPrivate Pay\nCommercial Insurance (Per-individual plans – Prior Authorization may be required).\nMedicaid Insurance\n\n This is an in-person group.   Overall cost for 12 sessions = $360.00 per person \n  \n\nMake a referral \nPlease call or visit our website \n804.346.5165 \nwww.cavahelps.com
URL:https://www.cavahelps.com/event/real-talk-racially-and-culturally-trauma-informed-group-for-teenage-males-in-person/
LOCATION:Counseling Alliance of Virginia – Richmond\, Virgunia\, 2924 Emerywood Pkwy\, Henrico\, VA\, 23294\, United States
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SUMMARY:Racial Awareness and Sensitivity Support Group- Multi-Racial - Charlottesville\, VA
DESCRIPTION:CAVA will lead group sessions for the community to encourage cross-racial conversations and dialogue about how RACE matters in a therapeutic way that fosters cross-racial relationships. Stressing the importance of being comfortable with being uncomfortable\, the group will create space to practice the necessary muscles to foster deeper connections across racial lines.   \nThe six crucial muscles to build and engage in cross-racial relationships and conversations are: \n\nIntensity\nIntimacy\ntransparency\nauthenticity\ncongruency\ncomplexity\n\n It understands the importance of managing one’s privileged and subjugated positions related to day-to-day racially abusive interactions (aka – Micro and Macro aggression) experienced in the community\, workplace\, and social situations. \nWe are dismantling Institutional Racism and structural Racism while Increasing the volume of the “Voiceless” (subjugated) and increasing risk-taking in our Allies (privileged). \nThe goal is to move from being Racially Oblivious to Racially Aware to Racially Sensitive and ultimately Racially Responsible. \nWe all start from somewhere in Dismantling White Supremacy/Whiteness and restoring humanity wherever and whenever possible. \n 
URL:https://www.cavahelps.com/event/racial-awareness-and-sensitivity-support-group-multi-racial-charlottesville-va-3-2020-12-15-2022-02-15-2025-07-01/2026-09-15/
LOCATION:Platform: CAVA Zoom\, VA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community Racial Healing Work,Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:The Breathing Room - Understanding and Re-channeling our Rage\, Sadness\, and Hopelessness due to white domination and on-going Dehumanization\, Devaluation and Oppression!!
DESCRIPTION:Black/African American Affinity Support Group \nThis group allows African American/Black people to authentically and freely “let their hair down” and talk as if one was at home with their family without judgment. Truly decenter the privileged and without the compulsion or need to take care of white or other people. Create a space to talk and process the most recent traumas. Understand racially abusive transactions (aka – micro and macro aggressions) that African American and Black people endure daily due to whiteness\, white superiority\, white terror\, white supremacy\, denial\, projection\, and repression.\nThe facilitator will create and manage a safe\, comfortable\, and brave space to assist with rechanneling one’s rage and anger\, acknowledging and validating one’s experience with systemic and institutional racism while practicing exhaling\, encouraging the need to breathe\, and unlocking learned voicelessness due to 500 years of subjugation/oppression/repression/white supremacy. \n 
URL:https://www.cavahelps.com/event/the-breathing-room-understanding-and-managing-our-rage-sadness-and-hopelessness-due-to-white-supremacy-and-generations-of-suffrage-and-oppression-morning-session-15-2025-07-02/2026-09-16/
LOCATION:Platform: CAVA Zoom\, VA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community Racial Healing Work,Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Racial Awareness and Sensitivity Support Group- Multi-Racial - Charlottesville\, VA
DESCRIPTION:CAVA will lead group sessions for the community to encourage cross-racial conversations and dialogue about how RACE matters in a therapeutic way that fosters cross-racial relationships. Stressing the importance of being comfortable with being uncomfortable\, the group will create space to practice the necessary muscles to foster deeper connections across racial lines.   \nThe six crucial muscles to build and engage in cross-racial relationships and conversations are: \n\nIntensity\nIntimacy\ntransparency\nauthenticity\ncongruency\ncomplexity\n\n It understands the importance of managing one’s privileged and subjugated positions related to day-to-day racially abusive interactions (aka – Micro and Macro aggression) experienced in the community\, workplace\, and social situations. \nWe are dismantling Institutional Racism and structural Racism while Increasing the volume of the “Voiceless” (subjugated) and increasing risk-taking in our Allies (privileged). \nThe goal is to move from being Racially Oblivious to Racially Aware to Racially Sensitive and ultimately Racially Responsible. \nWe all start from somewhere in Dismantling White Supremacy/Whiteness and restoring humanity wherever and whenever possible. \n 
URL:https://www.cavahelps.com/event/racial-awareness-and-sensitivity-support-group-multi-racial-charlottesville-va-3-2020-12-15-2022-02-15-2025-07-01/2026-10-06/
LOCATION:Platform: CAVA Zoom\, VA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community Racial Healing Work,Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261013T173000
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SUMMARY:Making Connections through RACE Matters in Schools   with  Albemarle County Public Schools - 2026-2027
DESCRIPTION:Albemarle County Public Schools\n&\nCounseling Alliance of Virginia\nThe organizations have partnered for the past 4 years to create space for stronger connections between students\, parents\, teachers\, and school administrators. This partnership aims to improve their school system and support their initiative to be intentional in developing a community and organization that fosters an Anti-Racist and Inclusive environment.\n\nUnderstanding the Impact of Race:\nDespite the racial progress made in virtually all domains of society\, race continues to be one of the most challenging and potentially polarizing issues of our time. Both the sensitivity and explosiveness associated with it breed caution and trepidation. Race permeates and powerfully affects all spheres of our interpersonal relationships. It is often a critical issue that provides an influential backdrop against which many professional relationships are transacted. Race\, and our relationship with it\, frequently compromises and complicates how we are and who we are in relationships. \nFinding ways to negotiate the delicate dilemmas associated with race effectively is imperative. Regardless of the setting or circumstance\, addressing intense racial interactions remains a monumental undertaking. Conversations involving race usually range from hyper-guarding and awkwardness to explosiveness\, often ignoring the middle ground. \nAs a society\, we seem to be entrapped in an inextricable racial quagmire. In our zest to put our turbulent and troubled past of racial injustice behind us\, we often deny the significance of race. We work assiduously to avoid seeing\, acknowledging\, or naming race. The perpetual denial of the importance of race is problematic in many ways. It contributes to an ever-widening chasm between the racially privileged and the racially oppressed. As a result\, the former consistently underestimates the significance of race while the latter tends to overestimate it. As such\, the respective worlds of these two polarized groups travel a parallel course\, only intersecting when they collide. \nCommon ground is often a desirable and laudatory goal\, although it is virtually impossible to achieve because of strongly conflicting views about the significance of race. The tension that exists as a result of these persistent and long-standing irreconcilable differences is often ameliorated by an unspoken agreement to “not talk about race\,” especially in racially heterogeneous settings. Unfortunately\, the workplace is usually no exception to this rule. Whether in or outside the private or corporate sector\, having progressive conversations about race and the ability to address thorny racial issues effectively requires will and skill. Racial Sensitivity training is a crucial strategy for fostering a deeper understanding and acquiring the skills necessary to address race-related issues. \n\nCall to Action:\nPromoting awareness of and sensitivity to issues of race\, equity\, and inclusion (REI) is often enhanced by developing mastery in the three interrelated developmental areas of seeing\, being\, and doing. Evolving attention to the synergistic interplay among these three dynamics helps promote a deeper\, more comprehensive understanding of REI and the varied ways these issues inform and shape most interactions within organizations and institutions. \nThe process of the SEEING stage refers to developing a visual acuity to see the nuances and intricacies of race that are embedded in our historical roots as a nation\, as well as contemporary societal norms\, actions\, beliefs\, and interactions. he skill of seeing allows one to see the world through a prism of race while beginning to ask oneself: “How do I explicitly and tacitly contribute to what I am (now) seeing?” “What is my individual and collective relationship to what I am seeing?” and “How am I complicit with what I am seeing?” The culmination of the process of seeing leads one to begin to engage in acts of self-examination\, self-reflection\, and self-interrogation. When this occurs\, the focus shifts to being part of the process. \nThe BEING stage is the inevitable phase of the developmental process in which one develops a heightened sense of oneself as a racial being. This process is one of intense self-reflection\, examination\, and interrogation. It is during this phase that one engages in a critical self-critique of significant issues\, such as one’s understanding of and exposure to racial equity and inclusion. This phase is also devoted to exploring how one has been racially socialized and to examining internalized racial messages and implicit biases one holds. The being phase paves the way for one to ask oneself: “Now that I see what I see and know what I know\, what is my responsibility for action?” Other relevant questions include: “What action(s) am I willing to take on behalf of self and others?” and “What are the competencies and skills that I need to effectively carry out the plan of action I have assigned to myself?” These questions and self-reflections facilitate the transition to the final stage of developing awareness of sensitivity to REI issues: doing. \nThe DOING stage of the process is devoted to assessing and promoting will and skill\, the two crucial prerequisites to addressing REI issues. Will refers to having the intestinal fortitude and resolve to make the emotional\, psychological\, and resource investments necessary to take definitive\, decisive action to address and alter issues pertinent to REI. Skill\, on the other hand\, refers to possessing the tools and the accompanying “know-how” necessary to effect change. Among the many tasks that are emblematic of possessing the required skill\, demonstrating the ability to engage in substantive and progressive conversations about REI effectively is paramount. \nProfessional Development \nRace Matters in Schools would allow Teachers and School Personnel Who Require a License to fulfill their licensure renewal points. Attendees must attend all 12 sessions to earn 24 Points. This will apply to Statutory\, 5-Year\, and 10-Year requirements. \nEducational Project: An educational project is an option for the license holder to enhance skills or address the educational needs of the group being served. Activities within this option may include a broad range of programs: participation in a special project assigned by the division superintendent; participation in an alternative work-experience program (paid or volunteer) in which the license holder fulfills new professional responsibilities for a specified period of time; participation in a program of independent study\, provided that the license holder investigates a specific aspect of education\, produces a written report or other tangible product\, and evaluates the independent study and its product. Additional activities within this option may include institutional self-study projects\, administrative review projects\, teaching of a course for a college/university or for an employing educational agency\, and/or other activities for school improvement. \nDomains of Professional Competency: \n\nConcepts and principles of physical\, intellectual\, psychological\, social\, and emotional development of children and youth;\nConcepts and principles of communication\, learning\, exceptionality\, individuality\, and cultural differences\, such as oral and written communication\, motivation\, retention\, and individual differences; and\nConcepts and principles of effective relationships among schools\, families\, and communities.\n\nCultural Competency (15 points) \nClick the link for further details: Virginia Department of Education | Home \n\nWho Should Attend:\nParents\, Parent Teacher Organizations\, Special Ed Teachers \nTeachers\, Teacher Assistants\, Crossing Guards \nFood Service Workers\,  School Resource Officers\, \nAdministrative Staff\, School Bus Drivers\, \nSchool Nurses\,  School Mental Health Counselors\, \nSchool Social Workers\,  SchoolCustodians\, \nAcademic Advisers\, Maintenance\, \nGroundskeepers\, Guidance Counselors\, \nAthletic Directors\,  Sports Coaches\, \nVice Principals\, Principals \n\nEssential Takeaways:\nThe training will be built upon the three developmental principles of Seeing\, Being\, and\nDoing that will be translated into the following three primary training objectives:\nTo enhance racial sensitivity and awareness between and among members of the leadership and staff \nTo provide a framework for conducting progressive and productive conversations about race\, as well as other dimensions of diversity \nTo further enhance the delivery of racially informed\, culturally competent services \nThe entire training will be both didactic and experiential. \nRecommended readings will be made available to all participants upon completion of the training. \nThe sessions will provide hands-on coaching for participant-driven handling of sensitive and challenging race/equity/inclusion-related issues.  \n\nAlbemarle High School – Charlottesville\, Virginia \nOctober 13th & 27th\, November 10th\, December 8th\, \nJanuary 12th & 26th\, February 9th & 23rd\, \nMarch 9th & 23rd\, and April 13th & 27th.\n(Inclement Weather – Only – Sessions will be moved to Virtual) \n\n                                       5-5:30 – Refreshments                                         \n5:30-7:30 pm – Didactic and Experimental Instruction\n\nGroup Facilitators \nGene E. Cash Jr.\, a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in Virginia and Ohio\, is a proud Alum of The Ohio State University\, with a background in mental health since 1991\, including work in Acute Care Psychiatric and Chemical Dependency Inpatient Units\, Residential Community Corrections\, and private practice for over 34 years. Gene is passionate about caring for youth and their families and about raising the integrity of the field by training clinicians in family therapy and by understanding the importance of Racial Awareness and Sensitivity as they relate to Racial Trauma. As the Owner of Counseling Alliance of VA\, LLC in Richmond and Charlottesville\, Gene is dedicated to dismantling white supremacist ideology and how it impacts one’s mental health\, as well as caring and serving wherever he and his team go. \n \nLaTasha Edwards\, MS\, QMHP-C\, has a background in Community-Based Counseling and Education and currently serves on the Albemarle County Human Services Alternative Response Team (HART). She has a master’s degree in human services counseling\, with a cognate in Marriage and Family\, and is a Qualified Mental Health Professional. She believes CAVA’s intentionality and commitment to naming\, addressing\, and interrupting racism are invaluable to her. It has become a core value of the company and is interwoven throughout. Some of the key ways this is done include extensive training through Race Matters Workshops\, regular Racial Awareness & Sensitivity staff meetings\, and facilitating and co-facilitating community support groups focused on conversations about race. She continues to understand her own racial identity\, being aware of and developing sensitivity to others on their journey\, and creating “muscles” to have hard conversations with others about race. \n\nRACE Matters In Schools Volunteer Coordinator \nEmily Mathon \n                                                       emilymathon@gmail.com   \nAs an ACPS parent and committed volunteer\, Emily Mathon assists the Counseling Alliance of Virginia team with the Race Matters in Schools series by organizing behind-the-scenes.  Emily brings her years of experience in education and nonprofit work; she currently directs a summer camp in Vermont and engages locally during the school year.  Her passion for racial awareness and responsibility was re-ignited when her family moved to Charlottesville just weeks before the racist attacks in the summer of 2017.  Emily believes deeply in the possibility of public education and that individuals and communities must discuss race and racism directly in order to heal and build a world where everyone thrives.”
URL:https://www.cavahelps.com/event/making-connections-through-race-matters-albemarle-county-public-schools-2025-2026/
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DESCRIPTION:CAVA will lead group sessions for the community to encourage cross-racial conversations and dialogue about how RACE matters in a therapeutic way that fosters cross-racial relationships. Stressing the importance of being comfortable with being uncomfortable\, the group will create space to practice the necessary muscles to foster deeper connections across racial lines.   \nThe six crucial muscles to build and engage in cross-racial relationships and conversations are: \n\nIntensity\nIntimacy\ntransparency\nauthenticity\ncongruency\ncomplexity\n\n It understands the importance of managing one’s privileged and subjugated positions related to day-to-day racially abusive interactions (aka – Micro and Macro aggression) experienced in the community\, workplace\, and social situations. \nWe are dismantling Institutional Racism and structural Racism while Increasing the volume of the “Voiceless” (subjugated) and increasing risk-taking in our Allies (privileged). \nThe goal is to move from being Racially Oblivious to Racially Aware to Racially Sensitive and ultimately Racially Responsible. \nWe all start from somewhere in Dismantling White Supremacy/Whiteness and restoring humanity wherever and whenever possible. \n 
URL:https://www.cavahelps.com/event/racial-awareness-and-sensitivity-support-group-multi-racial-charlottesville-va-3-2020-12-15-2022-02-15-2025-07-01/2026-10-20/
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UID:9226-1792605600-1792611000@www.cavahelps.com
SUMMARY:The Breathing Room - Understanding and Re-channeling our Rage\, Sadness\, and Hopelessness due to white domination and on-going Dehumanization\, Devaluation and Oppression!!
DESCRIPTION:Black/African American Affinity Support Group \nThis group allows African American/Black people to authentically and freely “let their hair down” and talk as if one was at home with their family without judgment. Truly decenter the privileged and without the compulsion or need to take care of white or other people. Create a space to talk and process the most recent traumas. Understand racially abusive transactions (aka – micro and macro aggressions) that African American and Black people endure daily due to whiteness\, white superiority\, white terror\, white supremacy\, denial\, projection\, and repression.\nThe facilitator will create and manage a safe\, comfortable\, and brave space to assist with rechanneling one’s rage and anger\, acknowledging and validating one’s experience with systemic and institutional racism while practicing exhaling\, encouraging the need to breathe\, and unlocking learned voicelessness due to 500 years of subjugation/oppression/repression/white supremacy. \n 
URL:https://www.cavahelps.com/event/the-breathing-room-understanding-and-managing-our-rage-sadness-and-hopelessness-due-to-white-supremacy-and-generations-of-suffrage-and-oppression-morning-session-15-2025-07-02/2026-10-21/
LOCATION:Platform: CAVA Zoom\, VA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community Racial Healing Work,Virtual Event
ORGANIZER;CN="Counseling%20Alliance%20of%20Virginia":MAILTO:callcava@cavahelps.com
GEO:37.4315734;-78.6568942
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261103T181500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261103T194500
DTSTAMP:20260809T001133
CREATED:20200708T055824Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260224T205245Z
UID:9275-1793729700-1793735100@www.cavahelps.com
SUMMARY:Racial Awareness and Sensitivity Support Group- Multi-Racial - Charlottesville\, VA
DESCRIPTION:CAVA will lead group sessions for the community to encourage cross-racial conversations and dialogue about how RACE matters in a therapeutic way that fosters cross-racial relationships. Stressing the importance of being comfortable with being uncomfortable\, the group will create space to practice the necessary muscles to foster deeper connections across racial lines.   \nThe six crucial muscles to build and engage in cross-racial relationships and conversations are: \n\nIntensity\nIntimacy\ntransparency\nauthenticity\ncongruency\ncomplexity\n\n It understands the importance of managing one’s privileged and subjugated positions related to day-to-day racially abusive interactions (aka – Micro and Macro aggression) experienced in the community\, workplace\, and social situations. \nWe are dismantling Institutional Racism and structural Racism while Increasing the volume of the “Voiceless” (subjugated) and increasing risk-taking in our Allies (privileged). \nThe goal is to move from being Racially Oblivious to Racially Aware to Racially Sensitive and ultimately Racially Responsible. \nWe all start from somewhere in Dismantling White Supremacy/Whiteness and restoring humanity wherever and whenever possible. \n 
URL:https://www.cavahelps.com/event/racial-awareness-and-sensitivity-support-group-multi-racial-charlottesville-va-3-2020-12-15-2022-02-15-2025-07-01/2026-11-03/
LOCATION:Platform: CAVA Zoom\, VA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community Racial Healing Work,Virtual Event
GEO:37.4315734;-78.6568942
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261117T181500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261117T194500
DTSTAMP:20260809T001133
CREATED:20200708T055824Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260224T205247Z
UID:9299-1794939300-1794944700@www.cavahelps.com
SUMMARY:Racial Awareness and Sensitivity Support Group- Multi-Racial - Charlottesville\, VA
DESCRIPTION:CAVA will lead group sessions for the community to encourage cross-racial conversations and dialogue about how RACE matters in a therapeutic way that fosters cross-racial relationships. Stressing the importance of being comfortable with being uncomfortable\, the group will create space to practice the necessary muscles to foster deeper connections across racial lines.   \nThe six crucial muscles to build and engage in cross-racial relationships and conversations are: \n\nIntensity\nIntimacy\ntransparency\nauthenticity\ncongruency\ncomplexity\n\n It understands the importance of managing one’s privileged and subjugated positions related to day-to-day racially abusive interactions (aka – Micro and Macro aggression) experienced in the community\, workplace\, and social situations. \nWe are dismantling Institutional Racism and structural Racism while Increasing the volume of the “Voiceless” (subjugated) and increasing risk-taking in our Allies (privileged). \nThe goal is to move from being Racially Oblivious to Racially Aware to Racially Sensitive and ultimately Racially Responsible. \nWe all start from somewhere in Dismantling White Supremacy/Whiteness and restoring humanity wherever and whenever possible. \n 
URL:https://www.cavahelps.com/event/racial-awareness-and-sensitivity-support-group-multi-racial-charlottesville-va-3-2020-12-15-2022-02-15-2025-07-01/2026-11-17/
LOCATION:Platform: CAVA Zoom\, VA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community Racial Healing Work,Virtual Event
GEO:37.4315734;-78.6568942
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261118T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261118T193000
DTSTAMP:20260809T001133
CREATED:20240424T221017Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260224T204808Z
UID:9227-1795024800-1795030200@www.cavahelps.com
SUMMARY:The Breathing Room - Understanding and Re-channeling our Rage\, Sadness\, and Hopelessness due to white domination and on-going Dehumanization\, Devaluation and Oppression!!
DESCRIPTION:Black/African American Affinity Support Group \nThis group allows African American/Black people to authentically and freely “let their hair down” and talk as if one was at home with their family without judgment. Truly decenter the privileged and without the compulsion or need to take care of white or other people. Create a space to talk and process the most recent traumas. Understand racially abusive transactions (aka – micro and macro aggressions) that African American and Black people endure daily due to whiteness\, white superiority\, white terror\, white supremacy\, denial\, projection\, and repression.\nThe facilitator will create and manage a safe\, comfortable\, and brave space to assist with rechanneling one’s rage and anger\, acknowledging and validating one’s experience with systemic and institutional racism while practicing exhaling\, encouraging the need to breathe\, and unlocking learned voicelessness due to 500 years of subjugation/oppression/repression/white supremacy. \n 
URL:https://www.cavahelps.com/event/the-breathing-room-understanding-and-managing-our-rage-sadness-and-hopelessness-due-to-white-supremacy-and-generations-of-suffrage-and-oppression-morning-session-15-2025-07-02/2026-11-18/
LOCATION:Platform: CAVA Zoom\, VA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community Racial Healing Work,Virtual Event
ORGANIZER;CN="Counseling%20Alliance%20of%20Virginia":MAILTO:callcava@cavahelps.com
GEO:37.4315734;-78.6568942
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261201T181500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261201T194500
DTSTAMP:20260809T001133
CREATED:20200708T055824Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260224T205247Z
UID:9276-1796148900-1796154300@www.cavahelps.com
SUMMARY:Racial Awareness and Sensitivity Support Group- Multi-Racial - Charlottesville\, VA
DESCRIPTION:CAVA will lead group sessions for the community to encourage cross-racial conversations and dialogue about how RACE matters in a therapeutic way that fosters cross-racial relationships. Stressing the importance of being comfortable with being uncomfortable\, the group will create space to practice the necessary muscles to foster deeper connections across racial lines.   \nThe six crucial muscles to build and engage in cross-racial relationships and conversations are: \n\nIntensity\nIntimacy\ntransparency\nauthenticity\ncongruency\ncomplexity\n\n It understands the importance of managing one’s privileged and subjugated positions related to day-to-day racially abusive interactions (aka – Micro and Macro aggression) experienced in the community\, workplace\, and social situations. \nWe are dismantling Institutional Racism and structural Racism while Increasing the volume of the “Voiceless” (subjugated) and increasing risk-taking in our Allies (privileged). \nThe goal is to move from being Racially Oblivious to Racially Aware to Racially Sensitive and ultimately Racially Responsible. \nWe all start from somewhere in Dismantling White Supremacy/Whiteness and restoring humanity wherever and whenever possible. \n 
URL:https://www.cavahelps.com/event/racial-awareness-and-sensitivity-support-group-multi-racial-charlottesville-va-3-2020-12-15-2022-02-15-2025-07-01/2026-12-01/
LOCATION:Platform: CAVA Zoom\, VA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community Racial Healing Work,Virtual Event
GEO:37.4315734;-78.6568942
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261215T181500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261215T194500
DTSTAMP:20260809T001133
CREATED:20200708T055824Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260224T205247Z
UID:9300-1797358500-1797363900@www.cavahelps.com
SUMMARY:Racial Awareness and Sensitivity Support Group- Multi-Racial - Charlottesville\, VA
DESCRIPTION:CAVA will lead group sessions for the community to encourage cross-racial conversations and dialogue about how RACE matters in a therapeutic way that fosters cross-racial relationships. Stressing the importance of being comfortable with being uncomfortable\, the group will create space to practice the necessary muscles to foster deeper connections across racial lines.   \nThe six crucial muscles to build and engage in cross-racial relationships and conversations are: \n\nIntensity\nIntimacy\ntransparency\nauthenticity\ncongruency\ncomplexity\n\n It understands the importance of managing one’s privileged and subjugated positions related to day-to-day racially abusive interactions (aka – Micro and Macro aggression) experienced in the community\, workplace\, and social situations. \nWe are dismantling Institutional Racism and structural Racism while Increasing the volume of the “Voiceless” (subjugated) and increasing risk-taking in our Allies (privileged). \nThe goal is to move from being Racially Oblivious to Racially Aware to Racially Sensitive and ultimately Racially Responsible. \nWe all start from somewhere in Dismantling White Supremacy/Whiteness and restoring humanity wherever and whenever possible. \n 
URL:https://www.cavahelps.com/event/racial-awareness-and-sensitivity-support-group-multi-racial-charlottesville-va-3-2020-12-15-2022-02-15-2025-07-01/2026-12-15/
LOCATION:Platform: CAVA Zoom\, VA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community Racial Healing Work,Virtual Event
GEO:37.4315734;-78.6568942
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261216T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261216T193000
DTSTAMP:20260809T001133
CREATED:20240424T221017Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260224T204808Z
UID:9228-1797444000-1797449400@www.cavahelps.com
SUMMARY:The Breathing Room - Understanding and Re-channeling our Rage\, Sadness\, and Hopelessness due to white domination and on-going Dehumanization\, Devaluation and Oppression!!
DESCRIPTION:Black/African American Affinity Support Group \nThis group allows African American/Black people to authentically and freely “let their hair down” and talk as if one was at home with their family without judgment. Truly decenter the privileged and without the compulsion or need to take care of white or other people. Create a space to talk and process the most recent traumas. Understand racially abusive transactions (aka – micro and macro aggressions) that African American and Black people endure daily due to whiteness\, white superiority\, white terror\, white supremacy\, denial\, projection\, and repression.\nThe facilitator will create and manage a safe\, comfortable\, and brave space to assist with rechanneling one’s rage and anger\, acknowledging and validating one’s experience with systemic and institutional racism while practicing exhaling\, encouraging the need to breathe\, and unlocking learned voicelessness due to 500 years of subjugation/oppression/repression/white supremacy. \n 
URL:https://www.cavahelps.com/event/the-breathing-room-understanding-and-managing-our-rage-sadness-and-hopelessness-due-to-white-supremacy-and-generations-of-suffrage-and-oppression-morning-session-15-2025-07-02/2026-12-16/
LOCATION:Platform: CAVA Zoom\, VA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community Racial Healing Work,Virtual Event
ORGANIZER;CN="Counseling%20Alliance%20of%20Virginia":MAILTO:callcava@cavahelps.com
GEO:37.4315734;-78.6568942
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20270105T181500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20270105T194500
DTSTAMP:20260809T001133
CREATED:20200708T055824Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260224T205247Z
UID:9277-1799172900-1799178300@www.cavahelps.com
SUMMARY:Racial Awareness and Sensitivity Support Group- Multi-Racial - Charlottesville\, VA
DESCRIPTION:CAVA will lead group sessions for the community to encourage cross-racial conversations and dialogue about how RACE matters in a therapeutic way that fosters cross-racial relationships. Stressing the importance of being comfortable with being uncomfortable\, the group will create space to practice the necessary muscles to foster deeper connections across racial lines.   \nThe six crucial muscles to build and engage in cross-racial relationships and conversations are: \n\nIntensity\nIntimacy\ntransparency\nauthenticity\ncongruency\ncomplexity\n\n It understands the importance of managing one’s privileged and subjugated positions related to day-to-day racially abusive interactions (aka – Micro and Macro aggression) experienced in the community\, workplace\, and social situations. \nWe are dismantling Institutional Racism and structural Racism while Increasing the volume of the “Voiceless” (subjugated) and increasing risk-taking in our Allies (privileged). \nThe goal is to move from being Racially Oblivious to Racially Aware to Racially Sensitive and ultimately Racially Responsible. \nWe all start from somewhere in Dismantling White Supremacy/Whiteness and restoring humanity wherever and whenever possible. \n 
URL:https://www.cavahelps.com/event/racial-awareness-and-sensitivity-support-group-multi-racial-charlottesville-va-3-2020-12-15-2022-02-15-2025-07-01/2027-01-05/
LOCATION:Platform: CAVA Zoom\, VA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community Racial Healing Work,Virtual Event
GEO:37.4315734;-78.6568942
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20270119T181500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20270119T194500
DTSTAMP:20260809T001133
CREATED:20200708T055824Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260224T205247Z
UID:9301-1800382500-1800387900@www.cavahelps.com
SUMMARY:Racial Awareness and Sensitivity Support Group- Multi-Racial - Charlottesville\, VA
DESCRIPTION:CAVA will lead group sessions for the community to encourage cross-racial conversations and dialogue about how RACE matters in a therapeutic way that fosters cross-racial relationships. Stressing the importance of being comfortable with being uncomfortable\, the group will create space to practice the necessary muscles to foster deeper connections across racial lines.   \nThe six crucial muscles to build and engage in cross-racial relationships and conversations are: \n\nIntensity\nIntimacy\ntransparency\nauthenticity\ncongruency\ncomplexity\n\n It understands the importance of managing one’s privileged and subjugated positions related to day-to-day racially abusive interactions (aka – Micro and Macro aggression) experienced in the community\, workplace\, and social situations. \nWe are dismantling Institutional Racism and structural Racism while Increasing the volume of the “Voiceless” (subjugated) and increasing risk-taking in our Allies (privileged). \nThe goal is to move from being Racially Oblivious to Racially Aware to Racially Sensitive and ultimately Racially Responsible. \nWe all start from somewhere in Dismantling White Supremacy/Whiteness and restoring humanity wherever and whenever possible. \n 
URL:https://www.cavahelps.com/event/racial-awareness-and-sensitivity-support-group-multi-racial-charlottesville-va-3-2020-12-15-2022-02-15-2025-07-01/2027-01-19/
LOCATION:Platform: CAVA Zoom\, VA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community Racial Healing Work,Virtual Event
GEO:37.4315734;-78.6568942
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20270120T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20270120T193000
DTSTAMP:20260809T001133
CREATED:20240424T221017Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260224T204808Z
UID:9229-1800468000-1800473400@www.cavahelps.com
SUMMARY:The Breathing Room - Understanding and Re-channeling our Rage\, Sadness\, and Hopelessness due to white domination and on-going Dehumanization\, Devaluation and Oppression!!
DESCRIPTION:Black/African American Affinity Support Group \nThis group allows African American/Black people to authentically and freely “let their hair down” and talk as if one was at home with their family without judgment. Truly decenter the privileged and without the compulsion or need to take care of white or other people. Create a space to talk and process the most recent traumas. Understand racially abusive transactions (aka – micro and macro aggressions) that African American and Black people endure daily due to whiteness\, white superiority\, white terror\, white supremacy\, denial\, projection\, and repression.\nThe facilitator will create and manage a safe\, comfortable\, and brave space to assist with rechanneling one’s rage and anger\, acknowledging and validating one’s experience with systemic and institutional racism while practicing exhaling\, encouraging the need to breathe\, and unlocking learned voicelessness due to 500 years of subjugation/oppression/repression/white supremacy. \n 
URL:https://www.cavahelps.com/event/the-breathing-room-understanding-and-managing-our-rage-sadness-and-hopelessness-due-to-white-supremacy-and-generations-of-suffrage-and-oppression-morning-session-15-2025-07-02/2027-01-20/
LOCATION:Platform: CAVA Zoom\, VA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community Racial Healing Work,Virtual Event
ORGANIZER;CN="Counseling%20Alliance%20of%20Virginia":MAILTO:callcava@cavahelps.com
GEO:37.4315734;-78.6568942
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20270202T181500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20270202T194500
DTSTAMP:20260809T001133
CREATED:20200708T055824Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260224T205247Z
UID:9278-1801592100-1801597500@www.cavahelps.com
SUMMARY:Racial Awareness and Sensitivity Support Group- Multi-Racial - Charlottesville\, VA
DESCRIPTION:CAVA will lead group sessions for the community to encourage cross-racial conversations and dialogue about how RACE matters in a therapeutic way that fosters cross-racial relationships. Stressing the importance of being comfortable with being uncomfortable\, the group will create space to practice the necessary muscles to foster deeper connections across racial lines.   \nThe six crucial muscles to build and engage in cross-racial relationships and conversations are: \n\nIntensity\nIntimacy\ntransparency\nauthenticity\ncongruency\ncomplexity\n\n It understands the importance of managing one’s privileged and subjugated positions related to day-to-day racially abusive interactions (aka – Micro and Macro aggression) experienced in the community\, workplace\, and social situations. \nWe are dismantling Institutional Racism and structural Racism while Increasing the volume of the “Voiceless” (subjugated) and increasing risk-taking in our Allies (privileged). \nThe goal is to move from being Racially Oblivious to Racially Aware to Racially Sensitive and ultimately Racially Responsible. \nWe all start from somewhere in Dismantling White Supremacy/Whiteness and restoring humanity wherever and whenever possible. \n 
URL:https://www.cavahelps.com/event/racial-awareness-and-sensitivity-support-group-multi-racial-charlottesville-va-3-2020-12-15-2022-02-15-2025-07-01/2027-02-02/
LOCATION:Platform: CAVA Zoom\, VA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community Racial Healing Work,Virtual Event
GEO:37.4315734;-78.6568942
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20270216T181500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20270216T194500
DTSTAMP:20260809T001133
CREATED:20200708T055824Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260224T205247Z
UID:9302-1802801700-1802807100@www.cavahelps.com
SUMMARY:Racial Awareness and Sensitivity Support Group- Multi-Racial - Charlottesville\, VA
DESCRIPTION:CAVA will lead group sessions for the community to encourage cross-racial conversations and dialogue about how RACE matters in a therapeutic way that fosters cross-racial relationships. Stressing the importance of being comfortable with being uncomfortable\, the group will create space to practice the necessary muscles to foster deeper connections across racial lines.   \nThe six crucial muscles to build and engage in cross-racial relationships and conversations are: \n\nIntensity\nIntimacy\ntransparency\nauthenticity\ncongruency\ncomplexity\n\n It understands the importance of managing one’s privileged and subjugated positions related to day-to-day racially abusive interactions (aka – Micro and Macro aggression) experienced in the community\, workplace\, and social situations. \nWe are dismantling Institutional Racism and structural Racism while Increasing the volume of the “Voiceless” (subjugated) and increasing risk-taking in our Allies (privileged). \nThe goal is to move from being Racially Oblivious to Racially Aware to Racially Sensitive and ultimately Racially Responsible. \nWe all start from somewhere in Dismantling White Supremacy/Whiteness and restoring humanity wherever and whenever possible. \n 
URL:https://www.cavahelps.com/event/racial-awareness-and-sensitivity-support-group-multi-racial-charlottesville-va-3-2020-12-15-2022-02-15-2025-07-01/2027-02-16/
LOCATION:Platform: CAVA Zoom\, VA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community Racial Healing Work,Virtual Event
GEO:37.4315734;-78.6568942
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20270217T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20270217T193000
DTSTAMP:20260809T001133
CREATED:20240424T221017Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260224T204808Z
UID:9230-1802887200-1802892600@www.cavahelps.com
SUMMARY:The Breathing Room - Understanding and Re-channeling our Rage\, Sadness\, and Hopelessness due to white domination and on-going Dehumanization\, Devaluation and Oppression!!
DESCRIPTION:Black/African American Affinity Support Group \nThis group allows African American/Black people to authentically and freely “let their hair down” and talk as if one was at home with their family without judgment. Truly decenter the privileged and without the compulsion or need to take care of white or other people. Create a space to talk and process the most recent traumas. Understand racially abusive transactions (aka – micro and macro aggressions) that African American and Black people endure daily due to whiteness\, white superiority\, white terror\, white supremacy\, denial\, projection\, and repression.\nThe facilitator will create and manage a safe\, comfortable\, and brave space to assist with rechanneling one’s rage and anger\, acknowledging and validating one’s experience with systemic and institutional racism while practicing exhaling\, encouraging the need to breathe\, and unlocking learned voicelessness due to 500 years of subjugation/oppression/repression/white supremacy. \n 
URL:https://www.cavahelps.com/event/the-breathing-room-understanding-and-managing-our-rage-sadness-and-hopelessness-due-to-white-supremacy-and-generations-of-suffrage-and-oppression-morning-session-15-2025-07-02/2027-02-17/
LOCATION:Platform: CAVA Zoom\, VA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community Racial Healing Work,Virtual Event
ORGANIZER;CN="Counseling%20Alliance%20of%20Virginia":MAILTO:callcava@cavahelps.com
GEO:37.4315734;-78.6568942
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20270302T181500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20270302T194500
DTSTAMP:20260809T001133
CREATED:20200708T055824Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260224T205247Z
UID:9279-1804011300-1804016700@www.cavahelps.com
SUMMARY:Racial Awareness and Sensitivity Support Group- Multi-Racial - Charlottesville\, VA
DESCRIPTION:CAVA will lead group sessions for the community to encourage cross-racial conversations and dialogue about how RACE matters in a therapeutic way that fosters cross-racial relationships. Stressing the importance of being comfortable with being uncomfortable\, the group will create space to practice the necessary muscles to foster deeper connections across racial lines.   \nThe six crucial muscles to build and engage in cross-racial relationships and conversations are: \n\nIntensity\nIntimacy\ntransparency\nauthenticity\ncongruency\ncomplexity\n\n It understands the importance of managing one’s privileged and subjugated positions related to day-to-day racially abusive interactions (aka – Micro and Macro aggression) experienced in the community\, workplace\, and social situations. \nWe are dismantling Institutional Racism and structural Racism while Increasing the volume of the “Voiceless” (subjugated) and increasing risk-taking in our Allies (privileged). \nThe goal is to move from being Racially Oblivious to Racially Aware to Racially Sensitive and ultimately Racially Responsible. \nWe all start from somewhere in Dismantling White Supremacy/Whiteness and restoring humanity wherever and whenever possible. \n 
URL:https://www.cavahelps.com/event/racial-awareness-and-sensitivity-support-group-multi-racial-charlottesville-va-3-2020-12-15-2022-02-15-2025-07-01/2027-03-02/
LOCATION:Platform: CAVA Zoom\, VA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community Racial Healing Work,Virtual Event
GEO:37.4315734;-78.6568942
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20270316T181500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20270316T194500
DTSTAMP:20260809T001133
CREATED:20200708T055824Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260224T205248Z
UID:9303-1805220900-1805226300@www.cavahelps.com
SUMMARY:Racial Awareness and Sensitivity Support Group- Multi-Racial - Charlottesville\, VA
DESCRIPTION:CAVA will lead group sessions for the community to encourage cross-racial conversations and dialogue about how RACE matters in a therapeutic way that fosters cross-racial relationships. Stressing the importance of being comfortable with being uncomfortable\, the group will create space to practice the necessary muscles to foster deeper connections across racial lines.   \nThe six crucial muscles to build and engage in cross-racial relationships and conversations are: \n\nIntensity\nIntimacy\ntransparency\nauthenticity\ncongruency\ncomplexity\n\n It understands the importance of managing one’s privileged and subjugated positions related to day-to-day racially abusive interactions (aka – Micro and Macro aggression) experienced in the community\, workplace\, and social situations. \nWe are dismantling Institutional Racism and structural Racism while Increasing the volume of the “Voiceless” (subjugated) and increasing risk-taking in our Allies (privileged). \nThe goal is to move from being Racially Oblivious to Racially Aware to Racially Sensitive and ultimately Racially Responsible. \nWe all start from somewhere in Dismantling White Supremacy/Whiteness and restoring humanity wherever and whenever possible. \n 
URL:https://www.cavahelps.com/event/racial-awareness-and-sensitivity-support-group-multi-racial-charlottesville-va-3-2020-12-15-2022-02-15-2025-07-01/2027-03-16/
LOCATION:Platform: CAVA Zoom\, VA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community Racial Healing Work,Virtual Event
GEO:37.4315734;-78.6568942
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20270317T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20270317T193000
DTSTAMP:20260809T001133
CREATED:20240424T221017Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260224T204808Z
UID:9231-1805306400-1805311800@www.cavahelps.com
SUMMARY:The Breathing Room - Understanding and Re-channeling our Rage\, Sadness\, and Hopelessness due to white domination and on-going Dehumanization\, Devaluation and Oppression!!
DESCRIPTION:Black/African American Affinity Support Group \nThis group allows African American/Black people to authentically and freely “let their hair down” and talk as if one was at home with their family without judgment. Truly decenter the privileged and without the compulsion or need to take care of white or other people. Create a space to talk and process the most recent traumas. Understand racially abusive transactions (aka – micro and macro aggressions) that African American and Black people endure daily due to whiteness\, white superiority\, white terror\, white supremacy\, denial\, projection\, and repression.\nThe facilitator will create and manage a safe\, comfortable\, and brave space to assist with rechanneling one’s rage and anger\, acknowledging and validating one’s experience with systemic and institutional racism while practicing exhaling\, encouraging the need to breathe\, and unlocking learned voicelessness due to 500 years of subjugation/oppression/repression/white supremacy. \n 
URL:https://www.cavahelps.com/event/the-breathing-room-understanding-and-managing-our-rage-sadness-and-hopelessness-due-to-white-supremacy-and-generations-of-suffrage-and-oppression-morning-session-15-2025-07-02/2027-03-17/
LOCATION:Platform: CAVA Zoom\, VA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community Racial Healing Work,Virtual Event
ORGANIZER;CN="Counseling%20Alliance%20of%20Virginia":MAILTO:callcava@cavahelps.com
GEO:37.4315734;-78.6568942
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20270406T181500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20270406T194500
DTSTAMP:20260809T001133
CREATED:20200708T055824Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260224T205248Z
UID:9280-1807035300-1807040700@www.cavahelps.com
SUMMARY:Racial Awareness and Sensitivity Support Group- Multi-Racial - Charlottesville\, VA
DESCRIPTION:CAVA will lead group sessions for the community to encourage cross-racial conversations and dialogue about how RACE matters in a therapeutic way that fosters cross-racial relationships. Stressing the importance of being comfortable with being uncomfortable\, the group will create space to practice the necessary muscles to foster deeper connections across racial lines.   \nThe six crucial muscles to build and engage in cross-racial relationships and conversations are: \n\nIntensity\nIntimacy\ntransparency\nauthenticity\ncongruency\ncomplexity\n\n It understands the importance of managing one’s privileged and subjugated positions related to day-to-day racially abusive interactions (aka – Micro and Macro aggression) experienced in the community\, workplace\, and social situations. \nWe are dismantling Institutional Racism and structural Racism while Increasing the volume of the “Voiceless” (subjugated) and increasing risk-taking in our Allies (privileged). \nThe goal is to move from being Racially Oblivious to Racially Aware to Racially Sensitive and ultimately Racially Responsible. \nWe all start from somewhere in Dismantling White Supremacy/Whiteness and restoring humanity wherever and whenever possible. \n 
URL:https://www.cavahelps.com/event/racial-awareness-and-sensitivity-support-group-multi-racial-charlottesville-va-3-2020-12-15-2022-02-15-2025-07-01/2027-04-06/
LOCATION:Platform: CAVA Zoom\, VA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community Racial Healing Work,Virtual Event
GEO:37.4315734;-78.6568942
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20270420T181500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20270420T194500
DTSTAMP:20260809T001133
CREATED:20200708T055824Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260224T205249Z
UID:9304-1808244900-1808250300@www.cavahelps.com
SUMMARY:Racial Awareness and Sensitivity Support Group- Multi-Racial - Charlottesville\, VA
DESCRIPTION:CAVA will lead group sessions for the community to encourage cross-racial conversations and dialogue about how RACE matters in a therapeutic way that fosters cross-racial relationships. Stressing the importance of being comfortable with being uncomfortable\, the group will create space to practice the necessary muscles to foster deeper connections across racial lines.   \nThe six crucial muscles to build and engage in cross-racial relationships and conversations are: \n\nIntensity\nIntimacy\ntransparency\nauthenticity\ncongruency\ncomplexity\n\n It understands the importance of managing one’s privileged and subjugated positions related to day-to-day racially abusive interactions (aka – Micro and Macro aggression) experienced in the community\, workplace\, and social situations. \nWe are dismantling Institutional Racism and structural Racism while Increasing the volume of the “Voiceless” (subjugated) and increasing risk-taking in our Allies (privileged). \nThe goal is to move from being Racially Oblivious to Racially Aware to Racially Sensitive and ultimately Racially Responsible. \nWe all start from somewhere in Dismantling White Supremacy/Whiteness and restoring humanity wherever and whenever possible. \n 
URL:https://www.cavahelps.com/event/racial-awareness-and-sensitivity-support-group-multi-racial-charlottesville-va-3-2020-12-15-2022-02-15-2025-07-01/2027-04-20/
LOCATION:Platform: CAVA Zoom\, VA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community Racial Healing Work,Virtual Event
GEO:37.4315734;-78.6568942
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20270421T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20270421T193000
DTSTAMP:20260809T001133
CREATED:20240424T221017Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260224T204808Z
UID:9232-1808330400-1808335800@www.cavahelps.com
SUMMARY:The Breathing Room - Understanding and Re-channeling our Rage\, Sadness\, and Hopelessness due to white domination and on-going Dehumanization\, Devaluation and Oppression!!
DESCRIPTION:Black/African American Affinity Support Group \nThis group allows African American/Black people to authentically and freely “let their hair down” and talk as if one was at home with their family without judgment. Truly decenter the privileged and without the compulsion or need to take care of white or other people. Create a space to talk and process the most recent traumas. Understand racially abusive transactions (aka – micro and macro aggressions) that African American and Black people endure daily due to whiteness\, white superiority\, white terror\, white supremacy\, denial\, projection\, and repression.\nThe facilitator will create and manage a safe\, comfortable\, and brave space to assist with rechanneling one’s rage and anger\, acknowledging and validating one’s experience with systemic and institutional racism while practicing exhaling\, encouraging the need to breathe\, and unlocking learned voicelessness due to 500 years of subjugation/oppression/repression/white supremacy. \n 
URL:https://www.cavahelps.com/event/the-breathing-room-understanding-and-managing-our-rage-sadness-and-hopelessness-due-to-white-supremacy-and-generations-of-suffrage-and-oppression-morning-session-15-2025-07-02/2027-04-21/
LOCATION:Platform: CAVA Zoom\, VA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community Racial Healing Work,Virtual Event
ORGANIZER;CN="Counseling%20Alliance%20of%20Virginia":MAILTO:callcava@cavahelps.com
GEO:37.4315734;-78.6568942
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20270504T181500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20270504T194500
DTSTAMP:20260809T001133
CREATED:20200708T055824Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260224T205249Z
UID:9281-1809454500-1809459900@www.cavahelps.com
SUMMARY:Racial Awareness and Sensitivity Support Group- Multi-Racial - Charlottesville\, VA
DESCRIPTION:CAVA will lead group sessions for the community to encourage cross-racial conversations and dialogue about how RACE matters in a therapeutic way that fosters cross-racial relationships. Stressing the importance of being comfortable with being uncomfortable\, the group will create space to practice the necessary muscles to foster deeper connections across racial lines.   \nThe six crucial muscles to build and engage in cross-racial relationships and conversations are: \n\nIntensity\nIntimacy\ntransparency\nauthenticity\ncongruency\ncomplexity\n\n It understands the importance of managing one’s privileged and subjugated positions related to day-to-day racially abusive interactions (aka – Micro and Macro aggression) experienced in the community\, workplace\, and social situations. \nWe are dismantling Institutional Racism and structural Racism while Increasing the volume of the “Voiceless” (subjugated) and increasing risk-taking in our Allies (privileged). \nThe goal is to move from being Racially Oblivious to Racially Aware to Racially Sensitive and ultimately Racially Responsible. \nWe all start from somewhere in Dismantling White Supremacy/Whiteness and restoring humanity wherever and whenever possible. \n 
URL:https://www.cavahelps.com/event/racial-awareness-and-sensitivity-support-group-multi-racial-charlottesville-va-3-2020-12-15-2022-02-15-2025-07-01/2027-05-04/
LOCATION:Platform: CAVA Zoom\, VA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community Racial Healing Work,Virtual Event
GEO:37.4315734;-78.6568942
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20270518T181500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20270518T194500
DTSTAMP:20260809T001133
CREATED:20200708T055824Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260224T205249Z
UID:9305-1810664100-1810669500@www.cavahelps.com
SUMMARY:Racial Awareness and Sensitivity Support Group- Multi-Racial - Charlottesville\, VA
DESCRIPTION:CAVA will lead group sessions for the community to encourage cross-racial conversations and dialogue about how RACE matters in a therapeutic way that fosters cross-racial relationships. Stressing the importance of being comfortable with being uncomfortable\, the group will create space to practice the necessary muscles to foster deeper connections across racial lines.   \nThe six crucial muscles to build and engage in cross-racial relationships and conversations are: \n\nIntensity\nIntimacy\ntransparency\nauthenticity\ncongruency\ncomplexity\n\n It understands the importance of managing one’s privileged and subjugated positions related to day-to-day racially abusive interactions (aka – Micro and Macro aggression) experienced in the community\, workplace\, and social situations. \nWe are dismantling Institutional Racism and structural Racism while Increasing the volume of the “Voiceless” (subjugated) and increasing risk-taking in our Allies (privileged). \nThe goal is to move from being Racially Oblivious to Racially Aware to Racially Sensitive and ultimately Racially Responsible. \nWe all start from somewhere in Dismantling White Supremacy/Whiteness and restoring humanity wherever and whenever possible. \n 
URL:https://www.cavahelps.com/event/racial-awareness-and-sensitivity-support-group-multi-racial-charlottesville-va-3-2020-12-15-2022-02-15-2025-07-01/2027-05-18/
LOCATION:Platform: CAVA Zoom\, VA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community Racial Healing Work,Virtual Event
GEO:37.4315734;-78.6568942
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR