The BATJC orients all of our work from the shared values and practices listed below.

VALUES

  • Interdependence
  • Trust
  • Compassion
  • Humility and courage
  • Responsibility and accountability
  • Honesty
  • Healing
  • Transformation and growth
  • Liberation and possibility
  • Imagination
  • Abundance

PRACTICES

  • Sharing in service of sustainability
  • Moving from our values
  • Encouraging decentralized growth
  • Taking collective action and practicing collective stewardship
  • Building through relationship and trust
  • Prioritizing relationships with ourselves and each other over action or goals
  • Proactively taking accountability
  • Holding the humanity and dignity of everyone
  • Holding contradictions and complexity
  • Practicing transparency while holding confidentiality
  • Challenging oppressive dynamics in the service of connection and trust
  • Giving and receiving feedback with care and compassion
  • Prioritizing both individual and collective reflection and adaptation
  • Expressing gratitude and appreciation
  • Building relationships in service of liberation
  • Engaging in personal growth and healing
  • Organizing toward personal and systemic transformation