Calibrating Connection: A Dialogic Interactive on Black Motherhood
March 6, 2026
6:00 p.m.–8:00 p.m.
In Collaboration With
California African American Musem
To celebrate the closing of its current exhibition, Giving You The Best That I Got, we are hosting an evening of interactive, breakout group dialogs on the topic of Black motherhood, incorporating the multitude of themes that inform the works on view with those that emerged throughout its public programs. Utilizing the exhibition space as an inspirational platform for deep reflection, this event will be facilitated by Calibrate, a local nonprofit organization that fosters dynamic and experiential, intergenerational community-centered engagement. Through the practice of Connections, a data-driven, trauma-informed mental health, and wellness activity that promotes resiliency skills, healing, unity, and community, Calibrate’s professionally trained team will demonstrate the power of speaking and listening from the heart, holding space for the uniqueness of Black motherhood, and honoring the collective wisdom of Black women’s voices.
Speakers
The nonprofit Calibrate has been operating since August 2019, but their foundational program Connections has been used across all industries and sectors since first implemented in 1984 at Crossroads School in Los Angeles. Connections is a data-driven, trauma-informed practice that promotes resiliency skills, healing, and community-building, by bringing people together in a circle and structured process to share experiences and listen from the heart. Led by alumni and their teachers who experienced Connections in South LA schools, Calibrate is a community reinvestment model whereby Connections alumni are trained and paid to run Calibrate’s operations. Calibrate currently serves 2,000 people per year, kindergarten through adult, at 19 locations in under-resourced communities. Calibrate’s program partners include the Los Angeles County Youth Commission (systems-impacted youth), College Corps, Good Shepherd Shelter, local schools, colleges, and nonprofits. As community and relational builders, Calibrate’s team brings relevant stakeholders into the Connections experience so that all participants, regardless of disparate levels of power, prestige, and access, are invited to cultivate a common language and experience that can serve as a bridge to overcome division. Learn more about Calibrate on the web and Instagram @calibrate.earth.