Who We Are
Values
Tripod’s values are qualities we seek to embody as we work towards our purpose. Living our values is an on-going process not a zero sum game.
TripodTripod: Training for Creative Social Action
TripodTripod’s values are qualities we seek to embody as we work towards our purpose. Living our values is an on-going process not a zero sum game.
In our work we prioritise those most impacted by injustice fighting on issues that affect them and for a safe and thriving natural world. We are part of the solidarity economy, working with and supporting other co-operatives and collectives to build redistributive infrastructure that is outwith corporate system and aligned with climate and environmental justice.
We work in horizontal ways that support trust and enable a good balance between autonomy, accountability and collective responsibility. We prioritise collaboration over comfort and aim to be generous accomplices to a wide range of partners within the movement ecology. We know collaborating with integrity requires honest communication and growing through differences, tensions and conflict.
We centre care in our relationships by creating intentional space for celebration, connection and rest. We take account of different needs and provide flexible support in the ways we work, so that we can create a culture where individuals can thrive while moving towards our collective purpose. We challenge cultures of overwork by planning realistically, knowing our boundaries and making choices that are within capacity.
As a learning organisation, we take time to reflect, respond to feedback and integrate learning with/from one another and the groups we work with. We seek to practise and model different ways of working, leading and organising. We share lessons and practices between groups and movements and across time. We are transparent about our lineages and approaches, and recognise we’re simultaneously learners and educators.
Collective liberation means valuing and celebrating ourselves and one another in all our wholeness. It means creating diverse pathways for contribution and participation, in our workplace and learning spaces. We constantly and actively work to unlearn and subvert the ways systems of oppression show up at all levels: in ourselves, our relationships, practices, structures and systems. We acknowledge and mourn the gap between where we are and want to be, and build transparency and accountability into the way we work together.
