Racial Healing & Reconciliation

Transform the Way You Engage in Racial Healing and Reconciliation

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 

April 29-30, 2026

  • 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.


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.

Who is Arrabon?

Arrabon equips Christ-followers to pursue healing and reconciliation in their communities, reflecting God’s love and fostering true belonging. We believe that as we live out this calling, the Holy Spirit will renew our families, neighborhoods, and world as a sign of the kingdom to come.

Learn more

Satrina Reid, CICW Program Manager

Part A Training Registration

PART B: EQUIP

Fall 2026

  • 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.


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

Attendees should attend both Part A and Part B as Part B builds upon material covered in Part A.

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