Posts tagged #healing
Grief and trauma
Grief and trauma

I'm still in a space where I am thinking a lot about grief and trauma, and not just thinking about it but feeling it myself at a variety of different levels

Maybe the grief of the pandemic is making all the other grief feel closer to the surface and easier to access, but I'm seeing so many layers to my own grief and to the grief of others. In many ways, the work of diversity, equity, and inclusion is the work of holding space for the hurt and harm of white supremacy and other systems of oppression while also figuring out how to create space for healing, recovery, and growth.

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Dismantling oppressionAlethea Fitzpatrick#grief, #trauma, #whitesupremacyculture, #DEIinapandemic, #healing, #burnout
What happens after radical truth telling and acknowledgement?
What happens after radical truth telling and acknowledgement?

One of the things that often happens when you open up the space for difficult conversations about racism and other form of systemic oppression that might be underlying the challenges and harm experienced by the most impacted in a community or organization is that it gets messy. It feels uncomfortable. It is often intensely painful.

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Co-creating inclusionAlethea Fitzpatrick#radicaltruthtelling, #inclusion, #inclusiveleadership, #DEIforthelonghaul, #discomfort, #healing
Creating space for our own humanity
Creating space for our own humanity

One of the things I've been thinking about is how we can create space to show up in our full humanity.

Sometimes what this means is being able to take off our hat as whatever role we are playing - professional or personal - and allow more of ourselves and our humanness in.

In other words, letting ourselves, and each other, just BE can actually be quite revolutionary.

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Inclusive LeadershipAlethea Fitzpatrick#inclusion, #inclusiveleadership, #truth, #healing, #humanity