LOCATION NASHVILLE. Whether you are planning a visit or have already visited our church, we pray you feel so welcomed and loved. We want our firm to be a workplace that supports all of our people so that every person has the same opportunities to grow their careers to their fullest potential. Start adding content to your list by clicking on the star icon included in each card, Tim Ryan Restoring relationships and community is central to restoring well-being. This spring, the country watched the killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and others, all while the coronavirus disproportionately ravaged Black, Latinx, and underserved communities. Here’s the core insight, expounding his Kingian philosophy of nonviolence: The goal is always reconciliation and steps toward beloved community. Currently, our US employee workforce is 48% female, 20% Asian, 5% Black or African American and 8% Latinx. Based on the National Center for Education Statistics, the post-secondary enrollment demographic will continue to shift. Our D&I journey is one of the most difficult challenges for an organization to take on, but like most things that are important, it is simply the right thing to do. • You can mail a check to The Belonging Co, P.O. It is happening right now, all around us, in the middle of unimaginable hardship. This level of transparency is rare for a private firm, but as we aim to be a leader on D&I, we feel it is the right thing to do. We are also continuing to focus on the way we handle deployment around client engagements so that all of our people -- with a particular emphasis on our women, Black, and Latinx employees -- are experiencing a variety of challenging assignments, which our data tells us lead to greater opportunities.

Layla Saad put it this way, in an interview with Glennon Doyle: Where we often grow from the most is where we have experienced the most pain. WELCOME TO CHURCH!

To engage further or leave comments, click here. This is what crystallized for me when I first heard the quote from Nadia Bolz-Weber that leads this post (initially shared with me in a conversation with Ben Katt): Yes. This building is a stake in the ground for our city and our church. But it won’t come easily: the trauma of separation runs deep, and reweaving our connections (to ourselves, each other, and the planet) requires vulnerability and courage. Learn how to run the play . Allow Facebook friends to see your upcoming events?

When I became US Chair and Senior Partner just over four years ago, I told my fellow partners and leaders that if all I achieve is growth of PwC’s financial success, then I will have failed at my job. EMAIL SIGN UP. For the past 15 years, I have mentored several professionals of color at PwC, and most recently watched with pride as two longtime Black, female mentees became partners in the last two years. … Our prayer is that you would encounter Jesus in a tangible way. We are living through a moment of collective reckoning, a refusal by many to be gaslit any longer into believing that this is the only way to live. You can view our first-ever D&I Transparency Report here. Please see www.pwc.com/structure for further details. Someone said to me recently that we are heading toward either global solidarity or global extinction… I’ll choose solidarity, thank you very much. Box 349 Franklin, TN 37065.

Lastly, we are at pay equity across our US firm. 201 Great Circle Road Nashville, TN 37228, About Worship Church College Conference TV Store GiveUpdates, Jesus Co Groups Baptism Encounter DNA Serve, TBCO Kids Youth CoCompany Women Company Men Outreach. The Belonging Co is a church movement based in Nashville, TN.

As Bruce Perry noted in discussing “the physiology of belonging,” describing the core lessons emerging from indigenous medicinal practices: All of the healing processes involve reconnecting with the rhythms of nature, reconnecting with the people that you belong with. • You can give cash or check in person at any TBCO weekly service.

Log in or sign up for Eventbrite to save events you're interested in. If we are not able to find ways to bring communities together, we will always have separation, violence and injustice. Angie Valencia. Bo captured it beautifully here. One thought left on the cutting room floor that I want to develop more fully in a future piece: something about the transformative power of being tended to.

Please, James Gilligan’s foundational work on shame, guilt, and violence.

To build a sense of belonging requires active effort and practice.

THE BELONGING CO CONFERENCE // SEPTEMBER 16-18, 2021. We have the wherewithal, the know-it-all to feed everybody, clothe everybody, and give every human on Earth a chance. It’s about healing the world that touches you, that’s around you. First of all, no one is fine: even the president of the United States can’t escape this pandemic. This is as true at a societal level as it is at an individual level: reconciliation must always include a commitment first to truth, to an honest reckoning with our past.

Holy (Song Of The Ages) [Live]feat. As Chelsea Robinson put it: You are able to shift culture in micro moments. Lately my kids (3 & 5) have been into Billy Joel’s We Didn’t Start the Fire (as we fled omnipresent wildfire smoke here in southern Oregon). This continues to feel so right, and what feels good to me about the notion that we should center those most marginalized. As Brene Brown notes: It is easier to cause pain than feel pain. BOX 349 Franklin, TN 37065 USA . Your email will only be seen by the event organizer. We are focused on continuing to increase our work with diverse suppliers, who currently make up 22% of our reportable spend. Our aspiration is to align our recruiting efforts to the expected college enrollment for Black and Latinx individuals. Brene reached this conclusion through her research, but James Baldwin got there first, musing in The Fire Next Time: I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain. This is the beauty of emergence, of the concept of the fractal (the notion that the microcosm IS the macrocosm, that small is large). By closing this banner or by continuing to use Eventbrite, you agree. One more thread to draw out here.

The goal is always to build and strengthen relationships and to bring people and communities together, not separate them. Rachel Naomi Remen reminds us that this vision need not be grandiose: It’s not about healing the world by making a huge difference. Henry + Alex Seeley Lead Pastors. Juan Castañon. This heading comes from Father Richard Rohr, who adds: Hurt does not just go away on its own; it needs to be spoken and heard. Increasingly we can see, can feel, can no longer escape the reality that something is desperately wrong with how our systems operate. These relationships have expanded my understanding of the importance of fostering diversity and inclusion at the organizational level. Kazu’s new book on this is just stunning.

CONTACT. This is why I organize my work around the frame of “belonging”: it offers a path to reconnection at every level.

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But more importantly, we are reinforcing our commitment to accelerating our progress as we continue to strengthen a culture of belonging. For the first time, we are publicly releasing our diversity data and strategy.

Building a greater sense of belonging at the team level is the other half of the equation. angel Kyodo williams, Kazu Haga, and Tada Hozumi. Learn from some of today’s most prolific songwriters, worship leaders, pastors, professionals and creative minds. ), and increasingly evidence suggests that our bodies carry intergenerational trauma that is transferred epigenetically (and certainly via our caregivers’ behavior). A repeated theme for me in these posts, and a learning edge for me in my personal practice, is the centrality of embodiment: of moving beyond the limits of cognitive learning (the “rational” brain) to integrate our feelings (emotions) and most importantly our bodily sensations. Send a quick message – contact@thebelonging.co. I’m interested in building the new.

As our people grow their careers here, part of how they know they are valued is knowing that they will be paid equitably, and as a firm we regularly review a number of factors to maintain pay equity for all.