Relationship building is at the heart of both power building and creating community. It allows us to better understand one another’s self-interests and to work together to achieve mutually-beneficial goals. But structural forces like oppression, cultural trauma, racial capitalism and patriarchy interfere with our ability to relate deeply to one another and to build the kind of community power that we need to create structural change. This 3-hour training aims to develop participants’ awareness of, and to increase their ability to engage and share space with diverse groups of people. By exploring the connection between implicit bias and trauma, and the connection between implicit bias and dominant narratives in society, participants will begin to recognize cultural competence as a pathway to healing individual and cultural trauma, and will develop communication skills and healing practices to achieve both aims.