The values we live by shape the stories we tell and the outcomes we see in the world. This means that we seek to realise our values through our practice.
- Participation: Participants bring knowledge and expertise, steering our programme’s direction through shared decision-making and peer-to-peer learning. We consult a User Design Group composed of leaders with lived experience of marginalisation, ensuring accountability to the communities we serve. We also consult with colleagues across movements.
- Liberation: We prioritise skills and knowledge typically minimised or invisibilised by Global North value systems, and centre co-created practices. We acknowledge the dangers of burnout for those who work in the field, and so build grief spaces, long breaks and wellbeing support alongside our curriculum, encouraging radical approaches to rest and experience joy. Our bursary programme supports people from migrant and diaspora communities to participate without financial stressors.
- Connection: This drives our intersectional approach, building solidarity and collaboration across communities and movements. This is essential to resist the siloed working that is the norm within the charity sector, and allows those working on migrant and refugee justice to harmonise their work with that combating other axes of oppression and their dominant narratives.
- Creativity: We encourage and centre creative expression, consider diverse learning styles and create spaces that challenge dominant narratives about how change happens.
