
Broadening scope of understanding across cultural identities
Approach
Leveraging films, storytelling, and interactive forums our work broadens the scope of understanding and realization across cultural identities related to it's various facets, including but not limited to race, religion, gender, socio-economic status, politics, addiction, genocide, homelessness, prison reform, extremism, and other areas where cultural tensions emerge.
How can we articulate more honest reflections?
What does it mean to shift the blame frame?
What is it like to owning one’s own experience?
How can we relate with self/other through mirrored approach and bringing invisible prejudices into the light?
Goals
Films serve as conversation starters and permissioning pathways, launching self-realization as orienting focus
Films serve as exemplified leadership models, illuminating entangled relationship between freedom & responsibility
Global community convenes into expanded awareness of pioneering ways to deal with social issues
Participation demonstrates interdependence of our societal narratives as well as collective pathways to truth & reconciliation
Organizing interactivity to see how we are reflections of each other, shattering the hero/villain split through being willing to engage with complexity
Learning community to source and grapple with trauma, building empathy through restorative justice approaches
Contexts
Workshops in post-conflict resolution areas
Corporate and other organizational cultural evolution programs
Educational and/or academic forums and dialogues
Physical and virtual participatory theater experiences
Customized trauma response workshops
Private and/or public community building & engagement events
What kind of difference are we making?
Change Dynamics
Our films serve as participatory reflection tools in community. Through this, we elevate interpersonal understanding through collective vulnerability.
PERSPECTIVE shifts to empathetic centered relating (from one of trauma, blame, and/or avoidance) and from dualism to complexity
BELIEFS show a faith in the capacity to live with self-realizing orientations and how we can be the active agent in our own liberation
BEHAVIORS exemplify the process of sourcing change from within, where each action embodies the values desired within it's very medium and community building centered around embodiment of values
WILLINGNESS of each participant to take responsibility for role in conflict/s
We elevate opportunities by offering platforms and film stories for unheard voices and messages to be deeply considered in reflective dialogue.
Our films serve as participatory reflection tools in community.
Impact Indicators
In addition to our Impact Series, we are working now to build out how we assess impact through data sets and pattern recognition.
Components will include:
feedback forms/surveys
testimonials
filmed content from events
quantity of film screenings
geography of film screenings
diversity of screening contexts
quantity of events
complexity index
Statistical analysis of key focuses to iterate towards continued alignment of impact with goals
We elevate interpersonal understanding through collective vulnerability.
