Grounded in Equity and Collective Imagination: Practice designing from the margins, using healing-centered engagement and compassionate systems thinking to imagine new pathways for collaboration and systemic transformation. Our approach to this process is rooted in the following:

• Equity
• Healing-centered engagement
• Community-rooted knowledge
• Collaboration across sectors
• Transparency

Inspired by the Participatory Systems Change Framework and EquityxDesign Frameworks.

Ecosystem Advisory Team – Community Agreements

Center Youth and the Margins

Always ask: Who is not in the room? How are we centering youth voice and those furthest from justice?

Move at the Speed of Trust

Relationship before the task. Build with intention, not urgency. 

Practice Generosity and Reciprocity

Share wisdom freely and receive with humility. Assume good intentions and seek shared growth.

Hold Space for Abundance and Possibility

Resist scarcity. Make room for emergence, joy, and hope in our systems work.

Honor Different Ways of  Knowing and Being

Welcome storytelling, intuition, cultural knowledge, and lived experience as equal to data and research.

Tend to the Collective and the Individual

Care for yourself and each other. A strong container holds both vulnerability and strength.

Progress over Perfection

Let go of perfectionism. Show up as your whole self, and build from where you are.

Stay Open to Being Changed

Let this space shift us. Be willing to evolve, unlearn, and expand your practice.

Shared Power and Co-Creation 

We commit to collaboration and co-design, recognizing that knowledge and solutions live within all of us.