Transform Your Approach to Race and Reconciliation with Arrabon’s Antiracism Training

What if your church could become a place where racial healing actually happens?

Join this powerful two-part training designed exclusively for Olympia Presbytery

leaders. You’ll gain practical skills and proven practices to:

• Navigate difficult conversations with grace and compassion

• Create brave spaces where honest dialogue can flourish

• Move beyond good intentions to meaningful reconciliation

• Lead lasting change in your congregation and community

Who Should Attend: Ministers of Word and Sacrament and Ruling Elders

Bring Your Team: Ministers serving congregations, we encourage you to bring up to 3 elders or

church leaders. Building reconciling communities requires shared vision—come ready to learn

and lead together.

PART A: PREP – Two-Day Experiential Learning with Foundation of a Reconciling

Community Workshop

• 2-day intensive in the Puyallup/Tacoma area moving back and forth between spiritual

• formation engagement and experiential learning working across divides of race, ethnicity, class, and culture.

• Guided facilitation through Arrabon’s Foundation of a Reconciling Community workshop where participants will learn how to interact well with the emotions of fear, anger, shame, and grief.

• Journeys through facilitated experiential learning where participants will explore a locally contextualized history of race and its impact.

• Access to an app-based Spiritual Formation guide that facilitates space to pray, meditate, reflect, and engage with helpful spiritual formation practices.

Dates: April 29-30, 2026

Cost: $80 for first attendee; $40/person for each additional attendee (up to 3) from the same

congregation

• Due to space limitations, we are limiting attendance to 4 people per congregation.

• Those who wish to stay in a hotel near the training site on Apr 29 may request hotel recommendations and assistance with cost when registering

PART B: EQUIP – Workshop Series on Pillars of a Reconciling Community

• Combination of online and in-person workshops that equips pastors and church leaders with context and tools for cultivating racial healing and reconciliation

• Anchored in a biblical vision of reconciliation, and including an exploration of race in America and its impact on our society

• Provides shared knowledge needed to understand the role of a reconciling community, and the shared language to compassionately and effectively talk about the issues involved.

Dates: TBD (more info coming soon)

Cost: $40 for first attendee; $20/person for each additional attendee (up to 3) from the

same congregation

• All attendees should attend both Part A and Part B as Part B builds upon material covered in Part A.