Principles of Practice

“Move at the speed of trust.”

adrienne maree brown

“Notice what you noticed and notice why you noticed it.”

Leadership Skills for Equity and Inclusion

“The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper name.”

Confucius

“Turn judgment into curiosity; conflict into shared exploration, defensiveness into self-reflection; assumptions into questions.”

Human Systems Dynamics, Simple Rules: Stand in Inquiry

“Strong com­mu­ni­ties are born out of indi­vid­u­als being their best selves.”

Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

“Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love.”

Martin Luther King Jr.

“Without new visions, we don’t know what to build, only what to knock down. We not only end up confused, rudderless, and cynical, but we forget that making a revolution is not a series of clever maneuvers and tactics, but a process that can and must transform us.”

Robin D.G. Kelley, Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination

And a few more…

  • Follow the leadership, direction and feedback of Indigenous, Black and People of Color.
  • Work on all levels of systemic oppression: structural, institutional, interpersonal and individual.
  • Nuance, complexity, and discomfort is part of the work.
  • Move money to move power.
  • Go slow to go fast.
  • Balance.