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​We are colleagues who met through Ei Ei, the founder of BRAVE New US. Some of us became friends and community. All of us walk our talk in our self-work and partnership with each other.

 

BRAVE stands for belonging, resilience, agility, vision, and empathy. It takes all of that and more, to do the work of internally reckoning with the problematic, often invisible, social contracts.

 

The work can tear people apart. We have experienced this ourselves in the decades of working in the social change sector and we see it in our clients’ organizations. We see the triggered traumas, the factions, the bitter accusations, the outbursts and the withdrawals, the exits, the health declines, and most commonly, the stuckness, the burnout, and the grief.​

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It can be quite despairing to learn of ways power is written into the DNA of a group or organization you devote your life force every day. It can be even tougher to digest the ways we ourselves hold problems in place, either unintentionally by not designing change, or intentionally by holding on to beneficial byproducts like ease and efficiency.

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 The work we do together is to look unflinchingly at the expressions of outdated social contracts and increase the degrees of cultural freedom and individual agency to heal them whenever, wherever, and with whomever you can.

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