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Welcome, GlobeMedder!
Welcome, GlobeMedder!
All of us at GlobeMed HQ are so excited for you to participate in this year's GROW experience! Our objective is to provide you and your GROW team with in-depth support, training, and resources so that you can make the most of your GROW internship this summer. Take a look at the 2022 GROW Handbook for an outline of all GROW training requirements and programs.
These GROW modules, which are designed to be done weekly with your GROW team, will help you build on your vast global health equity and partnership knowledge and begin to put it into practice as you prepare to fulfill the three goals of GROW:
1. To build strong relationships in order to strengthen all aspects of the partnership
Relationships are at the heart of the GROW experience. During GROW, friendships and mutual understanding are fostered which inspires students and partners’ commitment to global health equity and deepens the partnership for future collaboration.
2. To engage in mutual learning through the collaboration on community-centered projects
Students work with partner organization staff to gain an understanding of how grassroots work and how their partner organization is addressing the barriers that their community faces. As experts of their community and organizational needs, partners collaboratively work with students on projects focused on existing organizational work and/or new supplementary projects.
3. To collectively reflect on the strengths and areas of growth from the previous year of partnership and set goals for the upcoming year through the development of a new Annual Action Framework
GlobeMed students and partners work together to reflect on the past year’s successes, challenges, and accomplishments by assessing the data collected, stories told, progression of projects, and goals achieved. This process ensures mutual accountability, learning, continued growth, and sustainability on both sides. By the end of the GROW experience, students and partners complete a draft of the next year’s Annual Action Framework.
The following modules are grounded in GlobeMed's Learning Pedagogy, or theory of how we learn, which consists of four practices: Explore, Discern, Act, and Reflect. Keep in mind that this process is cyclical, meaning as build our understanding through these practices, our experiences will always ignite new reflections ripe for further exploration.
All of our work at GlobeMed is rooted in our shared Principles, which guide us to put our values into action. As GlobeMedders, we commit to actively counteract systems of oppression and domination as they show up in ourselves, our interactions with others, and in our collective spaces. We understand that how we work together is just as important as what we accomplish.
We recognize our place in the global health equity movement, and do our part with excellence. We seek out community experts who are already working to solve health and equity problems to work alongside and in partnership when invited.
We know that the health equity movement is strengthened when everyone feels they have a place to bring their unique and beautiful insights and contributions. This means that we must actively break down the systems of oppression and domination that prevent everyone’s participation.
We understand that connection and solidarity are integral to our collective liberation. No one person or organization can do it all and we aren’t free until everyone is free.
We expect to make mistakes and we will work to repair the harm caused by those mistakes. We are open about our learning processes and moments with our community.
We approach unfamiliar situations with questions and curiosity, centering the experiences of those who are most impacted. We know that when we make assumptions, those are informed by white supremacy culture, and we work to overcome them.
We care for ourselves and our community, pacing ourselves and resting so that we may commit for the long-term. We listen to our bodies to guide us in our care.
We do the next right thing, even—especially—when it is difficult. We ask for help to figure out what the next right thing is when we don’t know.
We celebrate the wholeness of each individual and seek to use each person’s talents to build the world we want to live in.
Now that you have an understanding of our GROW Goals, Learning Pedagogy, and guiding Principles, click to the next page to read through Module Instructions.
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