Women’s Social Trust Movement
In 2020 with a belief that building trust was a critical factor for lessening the racial divide, especially among Black and White women, we facilitated 29 Listening Circles on social trust with almost 350 women across the United States. The Listening Circles demonstrated that many women shared our widely ambitious goal of achieving racial equity by enhancing gender solidarity. The Social Trust Project was born!
The project was supported by voluntold family members, close friends, and a circle of trusted women colleagues as advisors who shared this vision. As a result, the Social Trust Project quickly became a movement and then the non-profit organization, Getting To We, incorporated in June 2021. Today with over 2,500 members, countless supporters, and hundreds of donors, the Women’s Social Trust Movement remains a signature initiative of Getting To We and continues with the Bridging & Bonding Experiences described below.
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About Bridging & Bonding Conversations
We believe that gender solidarity is key to addressing the inclusion and equity challenges of our time and that many of you share our widely ambitious goal of eradicating racism and gender inequities. Bridging and Bonding Conversations are strategic dialogue sessions designed to heighten awareness about racial equity issues that matter while strengthening gender solidarity. They are powerful conversations where women engage in candid discussions about race, trust, accountability, and action. They reveal the complexities of building trust and understanding across racial lines, as well as the shared responsibility to dismantle systemic racism and gender inequality.
Interested in having a Bridging & Bonding Conversation facilitated in your organization or community? Contact info@gettingtowe.org
About Bridging & Bonding Women’s Social Trust Retreats
Bridging & Bonding Women’s Social Trust Retreats are dedicated time for women, particularly Black and White women, to come together in gender solidarity to explore innovative strategies for living within the duality of race and gender. During the weekend retreat, women work to enhance social trust and develop the necessary competencies for the individual and collective work that needs to be done to achieve racial equity.
These experiences are open to women of all ages from across the United States who are invested in working toward racial equity. The curriculum for the retreat is derived from history, research, and frameworks based on racial dynamics between Black and White women, the top and bottom of “America’s hidden caste system” (refer to Isabel Wilkerson’s Caste) with application to all Women of Color groups. We focus on relating to each other in our core identity as humans and, especially as women, fostering human connectivity.
The retreat agenda includes short learning burst sessions and experiential exercises designed to understand historical and present-day barriers to achieving social trust, defining social trust, how social trust operates in our everyday lives, bridging and bonding self-care and action planning. It is also designed for community building in a psychologically safe environment where everyone is encouraged to bring their full and authentic self to the weekend. Getting To We’s work is about turning us and them into we by being better humans for other humans.
About Bridging, Bonding & Building Retreats
This retreat is an experiential, competency-building experience for women who want to work together to make substantial change in achieving racial equity.
The curriculum for the Bridging, Bonding, & Building Retreat is designed to be more experiential, focusing on collectively exploring the work necessary to build social trust and enhance gender solidarity to achieve racial equity. The agenda is different from the Bridging & Bonding retreat (less learning burst sessions and more facilitated discussion) and is especially beneficial for women who have done previous gender solidarity and racial equity work or for those who want to begin the process in a psychologically safe and enriching environment.
About Bridging & Bonding Leadership Retreats
We know that workplace competition further fosters racial division and women particularly end up vying for executive and leadership roles held by men. Thus, the work of gender solidarity to achieve racial equity places significant challenges on women as senior leaders in organizations. This retreat brings together women senior leaders across corporations, organizations, educational institutions, nonprofits, faith-based institutions, and government agencies to work on specific strategies to accelerate the work of gender solidarity and racial equity.
Interested in bringing a Bridging & Bonding Leadership Retreat to your organization or community? Contactinfo@gettingtowe.org
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