Hosting with kindness and care 

• Welcoming folks warmly and intentionally extending generosity.

• Supporting and normalising different ways of being, knowing, understanding and doing.

• Moving gently, and at a speed appropriate to the context to create encouraging and supportive environments.

• Valuing people’s time and experiences – we are not interested in box-ticking.

• Valuing and respecting lived and living experiences.

• Sitting down and being quiet – we believe in opening our ears and hearing what’s being shared.

• Generously sharing what is ours to share – knowledge, learnings and opportunities. 

• Communicating clearly – for us, clear is kind.

Being respectfully curious

• Working to always be a learner.

• Asking thoughtful, considered questions to build grounded and holistic understandings. 

• Valuing many perspectives and diverse knowledge systems.

• Seeking out gaps in our own and collective understandings. 

• Being curious about ourselves to understand our biases and how they show up in our work.

Creating courageously

• Taking personal and collective responsibility to see and challenge inequitable power structures and processes. 

• Doing what’s right over what’s fast and easy – even if the outcomes are unknown.

• Talking with people, not about them – designing with, not for.

• Advocating for and responding to community-identified priorities.

• Checking our egos – we are not the experts in all situations.