Welcome to the BTB Academy
The Be the Bridge Academy is the online learning platform that inspires, equips, and partners with people and organizations through training, programs, webinars, and courses using Be the Bridge content and resources from reputable thought leaders and institutions.
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racial healing, equity and reconciliation.
FOUNDER & CEO
Latasha Morrison
Latasha is a speaker, author, reconciler, bridge-builder and leader, committed to educate people on cultural intelligence and racial literacy.
With empathy and grace, Latasha guides leaders and organizations to cultural competency through dynamic presentations, conscious-raising workshops and one-on-one coaching.
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A Note to White Bridge Builders
As you navigate the Academy, you will find courses and content that serves people of every background at every stage of their journey. What may come as a surprise is the resources created for BIPOC (Black Indigenous People of Color) as most of those resources are outside the Black/White binary. As you engage this content, our hope is that you increasingly experience afresh our incredibly diverse and complex world.
A Note to BIPOC Bridge Builders
Video Courses
Life is busy and schedules are often full or unpredictable. Even so, you know the work of bridge-building and personal growth doesn’t stop. We offer a range of courses that are pre-recorded in order for you to get what you need at times that work for you. These courses have not only a video lesson to watch, but guided reading material as well as reflection and journal prompts to help you process on your own.
Webinar/Live Sessions
In so many ways, the work of racial bridge-building can be isolating, intense, or overwhelming. Sometimes what you need is not just information, but community and others to process alongside. We offer a variety of courses with live instruction, small group discussion, and online engagement in order to be sure your needs are met in your current phase of growth and development.
Community Guides
This is not a sprint, it’s a marathon. It’s not about how quickly a group can get off the ground but about making intentional decisions that move you and those in your circle of influence toward racial justice and reconciliation.
Discussion guides are designed to be used by a group of 6-12 individuals. Find those with a heart for racial reconciliation to start a new group.
Free BTB Material
This sections needs some text. It is not a sprint, it’s a marathon. It’s not about how quickly a group can get off the ground but about making intentional decisions that move you and those in your circle of influence toward racial justice and reconciliation.
Discussion guides are designed to be used by a group of 6-12 individuals. Find those with a heart for racial reconciliation to start a new group.
FREE RESOURCES FROM
Be the Bridge
Be the Bridge has free resources to cultivate conversations that will hopefully lead to real change for individuals and groups pursuing racial reconciliation and healing.
Critical Race Theory
We are aware of the criticism CRT. We find it an unfortunate distraction away from the real work of engaging in racial justice and dismantling structures of white supremacy. Latasha wanted you to have a resource around CRT and our posture at BTB. We hope you find this helpful.
Conversation Tips: White Bridge-Builders
When it comes to racial bridge-building for white people, while listening and engaging with people of color is important, there are some actions to be aware of while you pursue racial literacy. We have listed out some of the most common missteps we see our white sisters and brothers take. We hope these conversation tips help you as you interact with BIPOC.
Be the Bridge Podcast
Host Latasha Morrison is a bridge-builder, reconciler, speaker and a compelling voice in the fight for racial justice.
The Be the Bridge podcast is an additional resource to cultivate conversations that will hopefully lead to real change for individuals and groups pursuing racial reconciliation.
SELF-GUIDED & COMMUNITY GROUP
RACIAL LITERACY GUIDES
This is not a sprint, it’s a marathon. It’s not about how quickly a group can get off the ground but about making intentional decisions that move you and those in your circle of influence toward racial justice and reconciliation.
Transracial Adoption
This guide is a tool to help white adoptive parents a way forward in order to be a healthy parent who is equipped to raise a child of color in a complex, racialized world.
Building Bridges
This Discussion Guide is designed to lead a multi-racial group of 6-12 people through a 10-session study on the key steps in the racial reconciliation process.
BIPOC: We Need to Talk
This BTB guide was created by people of color for people of color to engage in transformative and healing conversations.
Youth: Say Something
This Be the Bridge youth guide empowers middle and high school students, educators, and parents to have conversations about race.
BE THE BRIDGE ACADEMY DISCLAIMER
Information contained within the Be the Bridge Academy is copyrighted and for educational and informational purposes only. The material within the Academy is not intended for redistribution, copy, leading or training with Be the Bridge material, without prior consent from Be the Bridge.