Our Approach

We Cultivate

• Life-giving spaces of joy, creativity and healing

• Collective power by leaning into community assets and relationships

• The fullness that the ancestors wanted for us

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We Center

• Building relationships and trust

• Voices and narratives of people most impacted

• Philosophies and tools of collaboration, co-creation and sharing power

• Experiential learning, storytelling and reflection

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We Invite

• People to be authentic and vulnerable as we move towards courageous transformation

• Communities to bring their whole selves, drawing on their minds, hearts and spirits

• Our partners to begin with themselves, building self-awareness as they develop new skills and capacities

 

We Explicitly Name

• Complexity and bridge across differences

• Power dynamics, surfacing patterns and questioning assumptions

• Destructive narratives, oppressive systems and practices, and white supremacy culture

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