Active-Allyship: Awareness, Action, Integration
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The Active-Ally Model is a guide to a process. It is not prescriptive. It is not a step list or a how-to guide. It was developed through the experience of becoming. Through questioning ways of being. Through the challenge of living in the gray, the middle, the margins, and the otherwise. The Active-Ally Model offers a way to think differently, to move and be differently. It does not offer a destination. It offers a different lens to do life through.
Awareness
Awareness is both the first phase and the intermittent step for the other two phases. Without Awareness, Actions will often be misguided, and Integration has the potential to be a stopping point. The Active-Ally model asks us to continue; Awareness is the offer of a path.
Action
Action is relying on our awareness to witness and challenge ourselves, the systems, institutions, and individuals who maintain injustice. Asking, “What’s different? Are you thinking differently? Behaving differently? Do you notice yourself making different choices?” In this way, action and awareness are in conversation with each other.
Integration
Integration is what propels us through the cycle and into new ways of being. Integration is what allows us to grow and become in ways we otherwise would not have been able. Integration is a culmination of our Awareness through Action. And it is also a beginning.
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What Happens If We Do Something Different?
06/24/2020
This is an application of The Active-Ally Model in response to the uprisings happening in Minneapolis, across the US, and the protests around the world. The focus is on race, and specifically Black lives. The Active-Ally Model offers a grounding, guiding and holding process to move through our individual and collective resistance to understanding our role in the cycle of complacency of upholding white supremacy – and breaking it – in order to change the system.
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Turning White Privilege Into Change – In Practice
05/27/2020
These questions were asked during our online workshops. This document will continue to grow as more questions come in. The hope is this offers support, guidance, clarity, a reorientation, inspiration, or anything else you might need as you continue this work.
What is The Active-Ally Model?
10/31/2019
The Active-Ally Model is a guide to a process. The Active-Ally Model offers a way to think differently, to move and be differently. It does not offer a destination. It offers a different lens to do life through.
What are the Three Foundational Understandings?
11/10/2019
To step into Active-Allyship, there are three foundational understandings we must embody: understanding privilege, utilizing an intersectional lens, and exposing our implicit biases.
What are The Five Tenets?
11/03/2019
The Five Tenets offer a space to come back to, a space to inhabit, a space to hold. They are a space to set our struggles and confusions, a place in which we can work with others. The Five Tenets offer a hand, a shoulder…
Phase One: Awareness
11/17/2019
Awareness is both the first phase and the intermittent step for the other two phases. Without Awareness, Actions will often be misguided…
An active-ally is someone who witnesses injustice and responds to it in any situation.