[VIRTUAL] Black Love Parenting (BLP) Series | Roots SRFS

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The B’s of Blackness view the Black child as a divine gift born with a unique purpose inside them. It is both a prevention and intervention tool for Black caregivers to use in the critical task of assisting young African American children in the acquisition of a healthy self and group identity. The B’s of Blackness was conceived as not just a protective approach for optimizing young Black children’s development but also as an inculcation against the risk of growing and developing in an anti-Black environment.

1st B is Big – Global Majority | Friday March 22, 2024

2nd B is Black – Neuromelanin | Friday, April 26, 2024

3rd B is Being – Spiritness | Friday, May 24, 2024

4th B is Balancing – Purposeful Living | Friday, May 31, 2024

5th B is Beauty-n-Brillance - Beauty (Vibration) -n-Brilliance (Rhythm) | Friday, June 14, 2024

Workshops:

BIG – Young Black children in the USA may feel small because they are described as a minority. The truth is they are ancestors of the original humans and ALL people in the world came from Africa. They are not a minority but a Global Majority. This is a BIG secret that you and your child should know, you and your child are the G.O.A.T, greatest of all times, because you are the 1st people on earth.

BLACK - All people have the type of melanin found in your skin and brain, Black people have more of both types. Neuromelanin, the type in your brain, is a dark brown color that looks black. Black people have MORE of both so we are melanin RICH! Science tells us it can be used as a natural superpower if you learn how to feed your child’s melanin.

BEING – It is no secret that Black people more than others view themselves as Spiritual, but do you really understand that we are SPIRITS living in a human body? Science calls it matter or energy, everything on earth is made of matter/energy. How we know ourselves allows us to easily connect to everything, people, animals, nature, etc. Teaching your child about the SPIRIT power born within them gives them a special tool that no one can take from them.

BALANCING - The high energy level born in Black people is often not understood by others so teachers often try to control/destroy Black students energy. In addition to possessing high energy, we also have energy that comes from the basic elements of FIRE, WATER, EARTH, and AIR. Identifying and nurturing the elemental energy of your child helps you and your child discover their UNIQUE PURPOSE and know that they matter to others and themselves.

BEAUTY-n-BRILLANCE – Real beauty is not on the outside, it is what came from the inside and is displayed on the outside. As a melanin dominant people, we can use both sides of our brain to uniquely express ourselves, they call this “Soul”. Our soulfulness is the BLACK EXPRESSIVENESS that happens when we use our mind to imagine something and then use our body to show it. We can teach our children how to be BRILLIANTLY BEAUTIFUL from the inside out.

BLP Series is ​presented by the Bay Area Chapter of the Association of Black Psychologists (BAABPsi), in conjunction with Roots Community Health Center. ​