Knowing
What does this capacity mean or involve?
Being
What sensibilities, characteristics, and priorities are cultivated?
Doing
What actions are called for? What would this look like in practice?
Embracing one's capacity and responsibility to work with others to advance communal goals.
Actively supporting people's full participation in the decisions, systems, and processes that impact their lives and communities.
Recognizing the impact of one's choices on others.
Concern for the common/public good
Willingness to confront injustice, inequity, lack of access, and racism
Careful attention to the perspectives and feelings of others
Collaboration
Interconnection
Social responsibility
Courage
Being involved in community/communities
Contributing to community efforts through, for example, volunteering, activism, and community organizing
Being truthful and authentic
Leveraging one's privilege to effect positive change
Standing and organizing with BIPOC people and movements
Resources
Equity and Inclusion Resource Guide (Bates)
Harward Center: How to Get Engaged (Bates)
Brene Brown: The Call to Courage (movie)
How to Be Your Authentic Self: Brene Brown's Practices
Community-Engaged Work Increases Sense of Belong of Low-Income students to their University (study)
Operationalizing Antiracism in Higher Education Community Engagement (study)
Whose Culture Has Capital? A Critical Race Theory Discussion of Community Cultural Wealth (study)
The Best Things First (book)
Stir It Up : Lessons in Community Organizing and Advocacy
Change!: A Guide of Teaching Social Action
Helpful Quotes
The learning process isn't finished when you acquire knowledge. It's complete when you consistently apply that knowledge.
Many people accumulate information. Far fewer use it to evolve and improve. The ultimate test of growth is closing the gap between awareness and action.
Adam Grant