Knowing ourselves, digging up our roots, is the first step in building strong diverse, inclusive and equitable communities of practice.

Diversity, equity and inclusion policies and practices only work when all parties fully invest, trust the process and do their inner work first. We cannot expect our community to fully value its diversity, solve inequities and truly be inclusive if we are not willing to look at our own strengths, weaknesses and the roots of bias and privilege which we all have.

From this ground work comes the knowledge needed to build strong, resilient, multicultural, multiracial teams, organizations, and communities - the sturdy trunk. It is there where we branch out to include others, always working towards the establishment of a just society. Roots, trunk, branches.

By seeking authentic relationships through conversations, consultations, circles, classes and conferences, we learn the history of injustice in this country, how injustice is maintained through individuals, culture, and institutions, and the strategies, skills and tools to disrupt this. To educate, empower and uplift individuals and communities, one root at a time.

Diversity, equity & inclusion work is more than a few trainings that come with a checklist of superficial inequities to be swapped out; it's deeply rooted in our identities and relationships with one another.

Strong relationships with strong roots builds strong communities.

We can't wait to dig up your roots with you!

Knowing ourselves, digging up our roots, is the first step in building strong diverse, inclusive and equitable communities of practice.

Diversity, equity and inclusion policies and practices only work when all parties fully invest, trust the process and do their inner work first. We cannot expect our community to fully value its diversity, solve inequities and truly be inclusive if we are not willing to look at our own strengths, weaknesses and the roots of bias and privilege which we all have.

From this ground work comes the knowledge needed to build strong, resilient, multicultural, multiracial teams, organizations, and communities - the sturdy trunk. It is there where we branch out to include others, always working towards the establishment of a just society. Roots, trunk, branches.

By seeking authentic relationships through conversations, consultations, circles, classes and conferences, we learn the history of injustice in this country, how injustice is maintained through individuals, culture, and institutions, and the strategies, skills and tools to disrupt this. To educate, empower and uplift individuals and communities, one root at a time.

Diversity, equity & inclusion work is more than a few trainings that come with a checklist of superficial inequities to be swapped out; it's deeply rooted in our identities and relationships with one another.

Strong relationships with strong roots builds strong communities.

We can't wait to dig up your roots with you!

― Anthony Liccione

The very root of our strength is our uniqueness and difference. Our collective wisdom and healing medicine that we bring to each other has been ”white washed” away by our learned indifference to our differences.

Yet we ARE the diversity we need for our individual and collective healing.

cause more harm and trauma.

 Everyone wants to be visible, validated and valued every day and to experience access, engagement and opportunity.

But inclusion without full acceptance is too high a price to pay for the mere optics of acceptance.  In the end authentic inclusion is experienced as genuine belonging.

"Who are you?"

For different reasons, we are curious about each other. Our assessment of others can be riddled with ignorance, historical

inaccuracies, limiting stereotypes, prejudice and bigotry. We owe it to each other and ourselves to learn about one another in a context of trust, mutual respect, openness and most of all safety.  Knowing that our identities begin forming in the womb, are shaped by nature and nurture, and acted upon by other aspects of our social identities (culture, ethnicity, race, gender, etc), it is incumbent on each of us to uncover our roots and be responsible for defining who we are. To deny any one the root of who they are is to deny their humanity.

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