We hold the value of relationship building because partnership means we can respect our individual perspectives and beliefs as we work together with shared values toward a shared purpose. We strive to understand others the way they wish to be understood so that all of us can feel seen, heard, and supported.

To build relationships in support of partnership and connection, we commit to:

• Leading with vulnerability by sharing what we need and how we feel.
• Extending deep regard and compassion for ourselves and each other as we take risks, practice, make mistakes, and celebrate our growth.
• Setting and communicating boundaries that allow us to meet others where we can do our best work.
• Practicing the inner agility of being aware of our emotions and making intentional decisions about how we navigate the conflicts and tensions that naturally arise when we encounter difference.
• Exercising our agency and holding accountability for the impact of our decisions.

We hold the value of collaboration as foundational to how we define partnership. Because our differences are not a problem to be solved, collaboration means we grapple together to create a way forward together.

To collaborate as partners and in connection, we commit to:

• The ongoing practice of perseverance, which supports leaning into tension, discomfort, uncertainty, and conflict with the desire to strengthen our relationships.
• Open and responsive communication, deep listening, and discussions that aim for illumination rather than resolution.
• Disrupting urgency and giving our work the necessary time, space, and flexibility.
• Exhibiting curiosity to interrogate the assumptions, biases, or judgments that difference may surface.

We value co-creation because it requires equity in relationships, multiple perspectives, and the willingness to imagine without constraints. Co-creating a path forward that does not yet exist, into a future that does not yet exist, asks us to value the process alongside the outcome.

In co-creating the future of equitable work, we commit to:

• Upholding the integrity of our work with high standards for behaving in alignment with our values.
• Demonstrating trust in the process of transformation through relationship, collaboration, and partnership.
• Inviting the risk-taking necessary to shape a new path.
• Our shared purpose of building nurturing and supportive structures that allow us to thrive and be whole.
• The imagination and hope to build what’s never been built before.
• Caring for ourselves by asking for and taking the rest we need to restore, connect with ourselves, and do our work sustainably.