Community care: We are nurturing and rebuilding ecologies. This takes times, is relational, needs all of us at different points, incrementally positioning and repositioning ourselves toward just, generative and thriving communities/ecosystems. What could happen in our spaces together can impact and ripple across many spaces, consider who and what you can impact.
Positionality (privilege/power): If you’re in a dominant identity please consider how you are making space for others in the space /if you are in a marginalised identity consider practicing taking up space with us.
Confidentiality: We share each other’s stories with consent and consciousness. What is said in here stays in here, what is learnt in here grows from here.
Uplift & Honour labour: “Citation is feminist memory” – Sara Ahmed.
Compassion: We are hard on ideas, soft on people.
Comfort and transformation: Comfort and transformation/vulnerability do not live in the same house, how can you come into preparedness to hold and sit with some discomfort or vulnerability?
Process: Be comfortable questioning, moving at the speed of trust and deepening in practice rather than seeking perfection.
Lived experience and trauma: These are not just conversations; they are visceral, tangible, material. It impacts us on many levels. Listen to what your body needs, opt in/out, take time to hydrate and rest where possible.
Equity: Equity is the opposite of extraction. How can our learning travel to invest in and uplift the most vulnerable and marginalised?
Capacity to grow: These are ongoing conversations, not everything will feel resolved or resonate. We commit to growing and creating spaces to do so with curiosity and creativity. Making space for non-performative learning.
Aftercare: If things come up you can check-in with our core team (info@healingjusticeldn.org). Please also utilise our aftercare menu.
