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- Strive to have an open mind, heart, and spirit
- Be present, aware, and awake
- Be intentional and authentic
- Be curious, imaginative, and creative
- Actively listen with empathy
- Be transparent about your mission and role(s)
- Seed, encourage, and express trust, generosity, hospitality, and cooperation
- Everyone is a teacher and learner
- Everyone contains within them the seeds to make change
- Everyone is sacred, divine, and holy, just as they are
- Connect to people where they are
- Work together in solidarity – really be with each other
- All experiences are teachers, particularly obstacles and difficult people
- Be cognizant of power, race, class, etc. issues, dynamics, and influences
- Strive for being culturally appropriate and responsible
- Uplift stories and examples of love, hospitality, solidarity, hope, healing, and restorative justice
- Call out and disrupt injustice, hatred, greed, exploitation, and violence
- Focus on what affirms and strengthens empowerment, resilience, creativity, wholeness, joy, vitality, flourishing, thriving, community, compassion, liberation, and what’s meaningful
- Everything changes