Show notes
Milagros Phillips is a keynote speaker, TEDx presenter, four times author, and certified coach. She designs strategic learning programs for organizations seeking to enhance their Diversity Equity & Inclusion initiatives through race literacy. Her programs use history, science, research, and storytelling to create compelling, life-transforming experiences. For more than 35 years Milagros has consulted, designed, and facilitated programs across many industries. She is an artist, a Reiki Master and Teacher, a Sound Therapist, Teacher of A Course in Miracles, and the creator of Race Demystified, a compassionate approach to healing from racial conditioning. Her latest book, CRACKING THE HEALER'S CODE - A Prescription for Healing Racism & Finding Wholeness. Milagros is a recipient of the 2021 NEW THOUGHT WALDEN AWARD for Interfaith/Intercultural Understanding. She serves on the American Ballet Theater (ABT) RISE Advisory Council In This Episode:
- How she got the calling to do “The Werk” at the age of 13, in response to the death of Dr. King.
- How her healing and spiritual journey brought her to do race work.
- How the understanding of frequency helps us tap into the frequency of racism in order to transform through race work.
- The different modalities Milagros uses in her healing and race work.
- On our racial caste systems.
- How racism is the part of our human history that people don’t speak of which is similar to a family secret and why learning about history helps you fill in the missing pieces.
- How the concept of “specialness” has led to White privilege and why it is so challenging for White folks to give up.
- How personal and global belief of supremacy-based expertise makes us feel we can enforce what has worked for us on others.
- How the "cold weather" people see abundance vs the "warm weather" people.
- How White supremacy infantilizes us and perpetuates supremacy.
- How and why humans have shifted into a state of denial in order to make sense of our paradigm.
- How racism follows the same pathology as alcoholism and drug abuse.
- How shame and blame do not lead to healing the world of White supremacy.
- The difference between anti-racism work and healing racism work.
- Milagros Philips Website
- Race Demystified
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