
“What ETHOS reminds us of is our commitment to personal responsibility and our commitment to one another in this process. ”
ETHOS: Core Team Capacity Building Session: June 11, 2020
Purpose + Outcomes
Review + Sensemaking: To review and make sense of learning from ETHOS to date.
Capacity Building: Leading differently as a participatory leader.
Action Planning: Identification of areas of activity in which to personally take this work forward (if you have capacity!).
BLOG POST: More voices, more equity: NYC’s new practice
David Nish and Cheryl Beamon of New York City’s Administration for Children’s Services Workforce Institute tell the story of how they’re designing a work environment to bring more voices forward. How can people-centred organizations shift their culture, focusing on the innate strengths and compassion of their people in new ways? If advocates connect with each other more, might they be able to work in a way that would bring true equity and social change?
PODCAST EPISODE: ADVENTURES IN THE SEEKING OF EQUITY
In episode five of season two, Tim and Tuesday venture into the heart of their change work: equity. How do we distribute power and wealth? How do we relate across lines of race, class, and gender, and how do we keep these considerations on the table in all of our work and in our working relationships?
BLOG POST: How to draw more people into good change
Cherika Wilson shares her reflections in the midst of a multi-organization change drive to make child welfare training more fair and equitable—an effort that began with a special focus on sensing interviews. When we seek systems change with heart, how can we begin in a way that draws more people in?
BLOG POST: THE BIG BANG OF EQUITY + SYSTEMS CHANGE
“Practicing equity is a non-gravitational circus act of establishing order and beauty after the bang—making new formations, new spectacles of colour and light. Trying and falling apart and trying again.
In high-tension times, fostering good ideas and helpful analysis is important— but this is not what’s (r)evolutionary. We’ve had consciousness for decades. In 2018, an entirely new process of inquiry and set of practices adds up to not only (r)evolutionary intentions, but (r)evolutionary change…”
PODCAST EPISODE: ETHOS: On Matching Our Rhetoric With Our Action
Tim and Tuesday host a conversation with members of the NYC Administration for Children Services Operations Team where they reflect on the work so far, their learnings and their advice for those helping to lead large-scale change across a system.
Core Team Chaordic Journey - Spoken Word by Jermaine Henry, The Outside