In their beautiful piece, “The Call of Leadership Now: BIPOC Leaders in a Syndemic Era,” authors and long-time organizers Neha Mahajan and Felicia Griffin name the current context that so many…
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Uncolonizing the workplace using Indigenous Kinship building practices
As the late evening sun continued to shine on the mountains, our plane landed on the homelands of the Kwanlin Dün First Nation and the Ta’an Kwäch’än Council, known very…
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What is Liberatory Learning?
Learning has become synonymous with formal education, which is often entangled in flawed systems that perpetuate injustice. This has resulted in a distorted perception of the true power of learning….
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Five Calls-to Action from the 2022 Facing Race Conference
What happens when thousands of racial justice leaders and practitioners come together after a pandemic? So much power and knowledge-sharing – and plenty of dancing and hugs, and even a…
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Creative Freedom for True Equity
Equity is often discussed, but rarely understood in a context that speaks to the core challenges of people who are under-represented in race, religion, gender, socio economic status or who…
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6 Reasons Why Liberatory Leaders Need to Take Play Seriously
When was the last time you played, did something just because it was fun and felt good? Did you finish feeling enlivened, relaxed, energized, or something similar? Leadership Learning Community…
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Liberatory Governance… and belonging
How do we organize ourselves… in a world where everyone belongs?Of the many barriers to living into a world where everyone belongs, this question feels fundamental: how do we organize…
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Being in the humanity of governance, with all its messiness and joy
Reflections from the WeGovern Learning CommunityHow do we build ways of being that uplift the collective dignity, wholeness, and thriving of one another and the lands we inhabit?How do we…
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Reclaiming Care Beyond Roe v. Wade
When the state cannot guarantee our safety, we turn to community as our ancestors didOn June 24, Roe v. Wade was overturned by the Supreme Court after nearly 50 years…
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What do we mean by “community”?
Since the inception of Building Belonging, we’ve wrestled internally with this question: what are we? On our homepage we say we are: A home for people committed to building a world where…
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