Values

Courage: Facing fears that keep us stuck. Raising your hand for help. Breaking the cycle of shame. Fighting a stigma that feels like a giant. Getting help for the first time. Asking a difficult question. Helping, not fixing.

Curiosity: Wanting to learn more. Not just seeking answers, but better questions. Choosing discovery instead of boredom. Turns our limitations into a challenge - into a mystery (to be solved). Exploring the way things work.

Sincerity: Saying what you mean, meaning what you say. Doing what you say. Not overestimating our abilities. Not detaching emotions from the work we do. Listening, not just to respond.

Sensitivity: Understanding our ability to hurt others. Understanding what it feels like to be hurt. Familiar with the ways people are often hurt. Willingness to try not to hurt them.

Solidarity: Standing beside causes that are like minded. Standing beside human dignity regardless of where we find it or what it is labeled.

Holistic: We see problems as interconnected - issues are not isolated. Treating the whole of a person. We don't compartmentalize our lives - we seek to integrate what we believe with how we live.

Help: Proven ways that lives can change - things can get better. Responsibility to respond in light of what we know.

Community: Life lived together. Sharing the whole of who we are. Working, playing, eating, learning. People who really know you - to know and be known. To care for others and allow them to care for you.

Hospitality: Inviting outsiders to the inside. Treating strangers like friends. Expanding our idea of home to include spaces far beyond the structures we inhabit. Going beyond a need to meet a desire.

Cultivation: The art of growing something. Patience to nurture. Attention to detail. Belief in potential.

Confession: Sharing the way things really are. Honest conversation. Having someone to trust - a confidant. Being someone to trust.

Humility: Not pretending to be something more (or less) than what you are. Patience with imperfection. Admitting you may be wrong - knowing you are not perfect.

Hope: Believing you are not alone. Believing your story matters and is not over. Believing the world can change.

Love: Not leaving others all alone. Believing other stories matter. Hope for others. Hope for change.

Intentionality: Not leaving things to chance. Planning. Purposeful. Rooted in what we value most.

Encouragement: Build courage in others. The exchange of hope, an act of love. Mindful of what others need.

Dream: Imagination. Vision. Seeing things before they're built. Daring to believe your hopes. Permission to follow a hopeful suspicion.