Guiding Principles
We believe systems change begins with the personal transformation of its members.
We create the container for learning, change, and transformation to happen.
We are guided by the question:
What is the good that wants to emerge?
How might we see it, recognize it, and support it?
Key Principles of Our Work
Action Inspired by Vision
We are motivated to make a collective vision for our world a reality. This is our practice.
Illuminating Systems Dynamics
We surface and explore the value orientations, power dynamics, and relationships that influence our current reality to uncover opportunities for transformation.
Rooted in Relationships and Trust
Exploration of Identity and Values
Co-Creation
Deep partnership with our clients is integral to our work, whether you engage with a single consultant or we assemble a bespoke team to meet your unique needs.
Our Equity Practice & Intentions
Our practices and intentions have been influenced and informed by Change Elemental, the World Health Organization and the Equitable Evaluation Initiative.
We practice…
- Modeling “dignity, justice, and love” through our presence, mindset, decisions, actions, relationships, and structures.
- Recognizing ”the social construction of identity, power, and privilege over time.”
- Understanding and addressing the “structural, institutional, interpersonal, and individual causes” of injustice. (See Change Elemental’s definition of equity)
We are working towards…
- Conditions (systems, structures, policies, and relationships) that support the flourishing of all humans.
- An “absence of avoidable or remediable differences among groups of people, whether those groups are defined socially, economically, demographically, geographically” or otherwise. (see the World Health Organization’s definition of equity)
What Informs Our Work
We work at the intersection of the multiplicity of our humanity and the complexity of our systems. Here is a sampling of resources that inform, ground, and underpin our work!