THE WAY

 

We Practice Building Community Crafted with Love Light & Liberation in Mind

Our Engagement Framework

  • CRITICAL RACE PEDEGOGY

    We engage a teaching philosophy that invites participants to critique structures of power and cycles of oppression. Through journeying this struggle for ownership and accountability participants demystify authority and power as a means to re-examine and re-construct in solidarity with the purpose of developing equity for Black, Indigenous and Peoples of Color (Giroux, 2013; Freire, 1970; Kincheloe, 2011).

  • TRANSFORMATIVE ORGANIZING

    We engage in organizing that begins with self-awareness and requires new ways of being and envisioning. Due to the historical misuse of power nurturing a veiling misperception of being contained solely by the institutional systems which have suppressed Black, Indigenous and People of Color both structures and ourselves must be engaged for required ideological, strategic, and mass-based organizing.

  • LIBERATORY LEADERSHIP

    We engage by being present as a means to creatively ask, who’s liberation are we cultivating and why? Participants and Leadership are encouraged to have an emergent and imaginative analysis of how current struggles in the process of liberation are a reflection of the needs to replace toxic oppressive constructs resistant to cultivating systems that regard our humanity and our sovereignty.

Our Engagement Practice

WHY WE WORK

We do this work because there are people out here putting it all on the table. They are willing to grow and be uncomfortable to be transformative and connect. This work is about nurturing that space. We want provide a baseline support system in the transition towards healing and liberatory decision making. A community can dream through our process of acknowledging needs and areas of growth with authentic analysis and reflection. We facilitate co-curating action and building EQUITY.

HOW WE WORK

We invite participants learning with THR to move themselves from empathy to action in order to build relationships that thrive on justice, equity (“everyone gets what they need”) and love as a form of resistance to harmful ideology ingrained in our environments and behaviors. We invite participants to experience understanding the necessary interruption of oppressive and racialized systems of wealth, power, and privilege as a means to dream new and alternative ways the grow the communities we work and learn in.

LIBERATORY LEADERSHIP

“Whomever proclaims devotion to the cause of liberation yet is unable to enter into communion with the people, whom he or she continues to regard as totally ignorant, is grievously self-deceived. The convert who approaches the people but feels alarm at each step they take, each doubt they express, and each suggestion they offer, and attempts to impose his "status," remains nostalgic towards his origins.”

― Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

TRANSFORMATIVE ORGANIZING

“Freedom is acquired by conquest, not by gift. It must be pursued constantly and responsibly. Freedom is not an ideal located outside of man; nor is it an idea which becomes myth. It is rather the indispensable condition for the quest for human completion.”

― Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed