VWC Agreements
Our vision is to transform trauma and separation into
embodied wisdom and deep connection.
At Vision Walkers Collective, we understand that the ways we choose to relate with each other will infuse the quality of our work. We believe a commitment to ongoing personal and interpersonal growth is essential to our collective success.
The following agreements are an ongoing work in progress as we grow and evolve as an organization.
Our intention is to practice these agreements and the values they represent in all of our work. We invite our partners to actively engage in these practices to co-create a culture where we celebrate our successes and compassionately hold each other accountable, in mutual respect, towards our collective growth and development.
Communication
Mindful Presence
Mutual Care and Respect
Self-Reflection
Evolving Leadership
Community, Collaboration & Play
Feedback
Conflict as Emergence
Earth/Spirit/Unity
Right Action
Communication
We practice communication with transparency, vulnerability, respect, and authenticity, as individuals and as a collective. We continue to build our skills in listening, reflecting, and responding from a state of mindful presence.
Mindful Presence
We understand “Mindful Presence” as the ability to hold awareness of our internal state of being in real time. We believe that practices (such as meditation) that support mindful presence are gateways to our growing wisdom, both as individuals and as a collective, and allow us to be more fully receptive when listening to others. We invite and share qualities of mindful presence of our bodies, hearts, and minds as a regular practice as we work together.
Mutual Care and Respect
We practice mutual care for each other in accomplishing our work, celebrating our individual and collective successes. We strive to skillfully use the power we hold to avoid any harm. We cultivate respect for the process of each individual and group we work with, leading with curiosity and refraining from judgment.
Self-Reflection
We are committed to the ongoing use of tools and practices that support our own self-reflection and insight. Understanding our own patterns and blind spots is a never-ending process, and we may share relevant insights to those who have been impacted by them.
Evolving Leadership
We strive for leadership that promotes originality, creativity, and individual gifts to emerge. We allow decision making to be divided in accordance to skills, work flow, responsibility, and investment. As we evolve our leadership model - which is currently a hybrid of shared and hierarchical power - decision makers make a practice to solicit input from those who are directly impacted by the choices they make.
Community, Collaboration & Play
We build partnerships of care and support so that we may all rise together. Community allows us to grow stronger, celebrate together, be playful and to hold each other accountable to shared values.
Feedback
As in all living systems, feedback is a requirement for continued evolution, as individuals and as an organization. We receive feedback with respect and receptivity. We give feedback with the intention of bringing us closer together where otherwise we may have felt separated.
Conflict as Emergence
We trust that respectful exploration of our differences allows for the emergence of more wisdom, personally and collectively. We are committed to using our shared communication practices towards discovery and reconciliation, refraining from making assumptions, striving to not take a conflict personally, and trusting that everyone is doing their best. If conflict cannot be reconciled between individuals, an agreed upon mediator will be invited in to support the process.
Earth/Spirit/Unity
A relationship with something bigger than our human form connects us to a greater wisdom and the unity and interconnectedness of all things. We respect and support each person’s unique spiritual path.
Right Action
We continually strive to match our actions with our values so they may take hold in our bodies and become part of the work we do in the world.
While many of these values are shared among cultures across the world, we want to recognize the influence of the Hakomi Institute, Liberatory Leadership, Inward Bound, and the work of Mukara Meredith on Groups as Living Systems in the development of our VWC agreements.