Collective Liberation
We envision a world in which everyone is connected to their inherent goodness, known and loved in communities of care, and bountifully giving their gifts toward justice, beauty, healing, and wholeness. And yet we participate in interlocking systems of oppression that prevent us from living in that world. Sacred Design Lab commits to doing our part to name and dismantle these systems and, in their place, to co-create powerful systems of collective liberation.
We do this through discipline, by meeting regularly to revisit and apply our collective liberation commitments; through reflection, by sharing with each other where we have made progress and fallen short; through public witness, by acknowledging white supremacy and anti-Blackness; and through policy, by offering reparational pay.
When we or others fall short, we acknowledge it while never resorting to shame as a strategy. When we or others make progress, we celebrate it while knowing the work is never done. In these ways, we strive to connect our work to the dreams of the ancestors, the work of our colleagues, and a future in which all are free.