Honoring Stories and Integrating Curriculum®: How to Build and Sustain Communities
Episode 5, Part 2: Charles Barnes, Director of Community Outreach

Conflict Resolution, Racial Reconciliation and Healing through Collaboration
•Charles explains FFSC teachings around conflict resolution, starting with inner conflicts with ourselves and how to proact before facing triggering situations
•Charles describes the mindsets and principles FFSC teaches for navigating unjust situations
•These mindsets and principles are so powerful, they have the capacity to transform our region
•Charles describes the cultures of commitment and collaboration (internal, city, regional, state, national) that lead FFSC to tremendous community impact and life-changing outcomes
•Charles describes how many obstacles people are facing without the presence and support of every sector and how FFSC’s wholistic approach through commitment and collaboration is helping restore that village, helping coordinate sectors for collective impact
•Charles explains the ways this village just keeps growing through the ongoing opportunities to get involved with the work of FFSC

Honoring Stories and Integrating Curriculum®: How to Build and Sustain Communities
Honoring Stories and Integrating Curriculum® methods this podcast features
•Supporting people in hearing their stories, finding their paths, recognizing their journeys
•Supporting people in hearing other people’s stories, finding their paths and recognizing their journeys
•Helping people root themselves in a stream of life so deep and wide, they tap into spiritual truths that carry and empower them
•Replenishing the village of sectors working together for the good of all of our youth and families
•Supporting youth and families in finding personal agency and developing the life skills to use communication to build healthy relationships while learning new sectors
•Learning how to put ourselves in people’s shoes in ways that support communication and relationship-building within and across our differences, our departments, our sectors, and our fields
•Supporting every person in an organization and creating mentorship and cross-departmental training that helps all employees advance their careers
•The central importance of employment and of employers who help create talent pipelines and inclusive work environments