emergent strategy group agreements

these agreements come from adrienne maree brown’s emergent strategy, published in 2017.

• Listen from the inside out, or listen from the bottom up (a feeling in your gut matters!);
• Engage Tension, Don’t Indulge Drama;
• W.A.I.T.—Why Am I Talking?
• Make Space, Take Space—a post-ableist adaptation of step up, step back - to help balance the verbose and the reticent
• Confidentiality—take the lessons, leave the details;
• Be open to learning;
• Be open to someone else speaking your truth;
• Building, not selling—when you speak, converse, don’t pitch;
• Yes/and, both/and;
• Value the process as much as, if not more than, you value the outcomes;
• Assume best intent; attend to impact;
• Self care and community care—pay attention to your bladder, pay attention to your neighbors