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