Coffee Talk "A Million Little Pieces" 4/1/09

Last weeks coffee talk was an interactive exercise that explored the diversity & density of human composition. In a room full of values posted on the various walls, such as religion, sexual orientation, immigration status etc., participants had to honestly affiliate themselves to values that best described them. After such questions as " What value(s) do you take pride in?", "What identity do you think is portrayed positively in the media?", & "What identity do others instantly associate to you?", the group would discuss the substance behind our choices or leanings. The conversation flowed between various concerns like racial inequality, body image, & the internalization of discrimination and kept probing the deeper construction of everyones individuality. Although the conversations were brief the exercises allowed everyone to show and observe the "million little pieces" that we acknowledge, consider, resent, & honor in our day to day lives.


Lets discuss it further:

What aspect of your identity most affects you in a negative way? Why? (Make a comment)


Contributed by: Cesar Romero, an active Village Core Group and our Coffee Talk Brewer.