Posts tagged #agency
Creating psychological safety for ourselves
Creating psychological safety for ourselves

At Co-Creating Inclusion, one of the questions we constantly ask ourselves, each other, and our clients is - do you have what you need to do your best work?

Psychological safety is a key factor.

This doesn’t mean we can’t do really great work without it - let’s face it, workplaces are typically not psychologically safe for most.

But the cost of doing work without psychological safety is significant, both to employees and the organizations they work for. I often think of the lost untapped potential that impacts us all.

But what can folks do if they identify that they are lacking in psychological safety?

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Co-creating inclusionAlethea Fitzpatrick#psychologicalsafety, #agency, #personalsafetyplan
Infusing trauma and equity awareness into decision making and planning
Infusing trauma and equity awareness into decision making and planning

As you may know if you've read recent posts on grief and trauma and focusing on needs, trauma has been very much on my mind and in my heart lately. As this tremendously difficult school year starts to come to a close (or has already closed in some parts of the country), as vaccination roll-out starts to include our tweens and teens, and as pandemic restrictions start to lift and companies and organizations are in various stages of considering their reopening plans, you would think that this would be a time of joy and celebration... and it is for some, to varying degrees, but it is also a time where many of us are still processing and coming to terms with what we just went through, and the trauma of it all.

Not to mention that, as I have said before, the fact that DEI work is the work of dismantling the systems that cause oppression and trauma, as well as facilitating healing at an internal, interpersonal, organizational and systemic level has never been more clear to me.

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Inclusive LeadershipAlethea Fitzpatrick#trauma, #traumainformed, #equity, #venet, #education, #flexibility, #predictability, #connection, #agency
Do not give up your power by depending on others changing
Do not give up your power by depending on others changing

What has helped me to shift out of self-pity and despair has been to focus on the ways in which I can meet my needs, rather than all of the ways that other people or the current circumstances are failing to meet my needs.

It has reminded me of how we give up our power when we depend on others changing.

It doesn’t mean that we don’t need to hold people accountable, but that we can do so while still staying connected to our agency.

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Inclusive LeadershipAlethea Fitzpatrick#pandemiclife, #agency, #acknowledgethehurt