Values in Practice

For participants & facilitators
Generosity of spirit
When we talk about a positive generous spirit, we mean welcoming
hearing other peoples’ ideas, welcoming other people sharing their
creativity, contributing our ideas and creativity, giving each other the
benefit of the doubt. A generous spirit encourages leaving judgement and
preconceptions at the door and being open to learning new things about
people that we don’t know, or learning new things about people we do
know. We want to create the right environment for people to surprise
themselves with the ideas, creativity and reflections they get to.
Lived experience
People will have a range of lived experiences, which could be about their
identity, their circumstances, or their experiences of different systems.
Sometimes in the creative process, people will share their lived
experiences. Sometimes peoples’ lived experiences will directly inform
their creative practice. People’s lived experiences will probably indirectly
inform their creative practices. We openly believe people. We commit to
not judging or questioning whether their lived experience is true, because
it’s not our place and because we haven’t lived their lives. We may have a
perception of how a particular lived experience may affect the way a
person behaves or carries themselves. We remind ourselves that’s a form
of judgement and we are basing that on something that we have not
experienced ourselves.
Pronouns
Pronouns stand in for a name such as she/her, he/him, they/them.
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