Boundaries at Work: Boundary Work™ for NGO Communities [Webinar Replay] ($49)
“The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house. They may allow us to temporarily beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us to bring about genuine change.”
– Audre Lorde
Let’s be honest. We treat workplace communities like we treat romantic relationships we’re trying to control. We make a decision about long-term compatibility based on a few interviews and then we enter into the organization with an expectation that it is our responsibility to make it functional; to make it last forever. We enter into that organization believing that we must sacrifice ourselves for the collective comfort of the organization. We give up on our boundaries in the name of philanthropy, respectability, and the annual report. It’s time we changed that dynamic for good.
Here are my questions to you:
Who told you that working at a non-profit meant that you had to accept being treated like you didn’t matter?
Who told you that working with marginalized communities outside the organization meant having to pretend to be boundaryless within it?
Who told you that it was your responsibility to stay in communities refusing to confront their institutional harm?
Just like we have relationships with people, we have relationships with institutions. Boundary Work for NGO Communities is a 75 minute online intensive designed to help you define a framework for getting to the root of building nonprofit community founded in liberatory relationships, reparative based action, and community care.
We’ll cover:
Address conflict through a lens of anti-oppression and repair.
Build communities founded in collective liberation and individual accountability.
Identify strategies for articulating institutional harm.
Create frameworks for conflict resolution and community care.
Develop plans of action and strategies for exit (because not all relationships last forever and that’s okay).
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Bios, Missions, and Values: How to Reflect on Organizational Values through a Lens of Equity and Anti-Oppression [Webinar Replay] ($49)
“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.”
-Alice Walker
One of the biggest mistakes we make is the assumption that people who share rooms with us think as we do, seek to reduce harm as we do, look to challenge injustice as we do. The fact is that because we are all impacted by patriarchy and racism in different ways; we need to collaborate with another to define what we believe, why, and how those principles are manifested in what we say and do. Bios, Missions, and Values: How to Reflect on Organization Values through a Lens of Anti-Oppression and Equality is a 75 minute online intensive that will help you compose bios, missions, and values that speak to your commitment to social justice work. We’ll cover writing brave space agreements, mission statements, and services descriptions which speak to who you are, who you choose to be, and why that matters.
We’ll cover:
Writing and editing your copy through a lens of equity and anti-oppression.
Strategies for writing inclusively about historically marginalized communities.
Exploring harm reductive approaches to articulating your values.