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together we are greater

WE:

measure 3 unconscious patterns related to our differences

support you and your organization to integrate the assets of all three

UNLEASHING POWER TO THRIVE WITHIN & TOGETHER

Welcome to the Revolution

(in 5 steps!)

Step 1: GIVE UP

Give up trying to change people, organizations, or the world. It’s exhausting, it’s ego candy, & it doesn’t work very well. I don’t want people to try to change me…just trust, believe in, & support me. Organizations, like individuals, resist people trying to change them.

Step 2: GO INSIDE

This revolution must begin inside each of us. Ask, on a scale from 1-10, “how clear, loving, & powerful is my purpose & path?” This is ALL that you are responsible for. It’s the MOST you can do.

Step 3: ILLUMINATE & IGNITE

Illuminate and ignite your purpose and path by deliberately noticing, focusing on, & following whatever lights up the sparkle in your eyes, the radiance of your heart, & the fire in your belly (all three!)

Step 4: PRACTICE SOLIDARITY WITHIN FIRST

Make “room at the table” within you for ALL of you. Learn to honor excluded parts: your experience of victimization, fear, anger, shame, & grief, as well as what you love, your deepest dream, power, freedom, joy, gratitude, & noble brilliance.

Step 5: BECOME THE CHANGE

These steps aren’t linear. We may repeat them many times a day! That’s okay. We can be gentle with ourselves. But if we make it to step five once, we’ll come here more & stay longer. It’s here we’re given to live more effectively, powerfully, & compassionately from solidarity across the rich tapestry of our differences. It turns out this is home and it’s all we ever wanted. We become the change we want to see in the world. We become a model & a “servant leader” for others, our organizations, & our communities. Ironically, we become the seed for the change we gave up in step one!

Welcome to the Revolution

…in 5 steps!

Step 1: GIVE UP

Give up trying to change people, organizations, or the world. It’s exhausting, it’s ego candy, & it doesn’t work very well. I don’t want people to try to change me…just trust, believe in, & support me. Organizations, like individuals, resist people trying to change them.

Step 2: GO INSIDE

This revolution must begin inside each of us. Ask, on a scale from 1-10, “how clear, loving, & powerful is my purpose & path?” This is ALL that you are responsible for. It’s the MOST you can do.

Step 3: ILLUMINATE & IGNITE

Illuminate and ignite your purpose and path by deliberately noticing, focusing on, & following whatever lights up the sparkle in your eyes, the radiance of your heart, & the fire in your belly.

Step 4: PRACTICE SOLIDARITY WITHIN FIRST

Make “room at the table” within you for ALL of you. Learn to honor excluded parts: your experience of victimization, fear, anger, shame, & grief, as well as what you love, your deepest dream, power, freedom, joy, gratitude, & noble brilliance.

Step 5: BECOME THE CHANGE

The steps aren’t linear. We may repeat them many times a day! That’s okay. But if we make it to step five once, we’ll come here more & stay longer. It’s here we’re given to live more effectively, powerfully, & compassionately from solidarity across the rich tapestry of our differences. It turns out this is home and it’s all we ever wanted. We become the change we want to see in the world. We become a model & a “servant leader” for others, our organizations, & our communities. Ironically, we become the seed for the change we gave up in step one!

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Team with us!

Only 29 more $5 subscriptions will cover one year’s baseline operations!

BUILD WITH US: a thriving & just world where our aliveness, commonality & our differences are honored.

DONATE ANY AMOUNT: one time, monthly, or yearly–choose the programs you want to support.

CHECK OUT OUR PARTNER PAGE HERE

DONATE HERE

1. Model

2. Assessment

3. Support

To catalyze effectiveness across differences so you, your people & organization thrive.

1. MODEL

Discover unconscious patterns related to our differences & how these play out in you & your organization.

The Power of Difference Model (PDM)

2. ASSESSMENT

“The Power of Difference Assessment is an innovative, reliable & valid measure” -North Carolina State University Study

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3. Support

Experiential, skill-based, online and in-person, to BE THE CHANGE.

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~ NAOMI TUTU

The three primary patterns of the Power of Difference Model (PDM)o

Does one sound more like you?

Sensitivity - "Scarecrow"

UNDERSTANDING ~ TRUTH ~BRAIN

Sensitivity - "Scarecrow"

I value differences, intelligence, open-mindedness and understanding. I experience the world and myself primarily through the brain. I treat others the way they would like to be treated. I don’t want to offend so I can feel stuck or confused. I can be patronizing as I try to get others to “get it”, to “understand like me”

Fear response: freeze

Politics: tends liberal

Archetype: Magician

ONENESS - "TINMAN"

UNITY ~ CONNECTION ~ HEART

ONENESS - "TINMAN"

I devalue differences in favor of our common humanity, unity, and collaboration. I experience the world and myself primarily through the heart. I treat others the way I would like to be treated. I can over-value sameness and fail to impact in alignment with my intentions. I avoid conflict and try to build bridges.

Fear response: flight

Politics: tends moderate

Archetype: Lover

STRENGTH - "LION"

COURAGE ~ POWER ~ GUT ~ WARRIOR

STRENGTH - "LION"

I evaluate differences and value courage, loyalty, decisiveness, clarity, protection, self-sacrifice, and winning at all cost. I believe in the “survival of the fittest.” I experience myself and the world primarily through my gut. I seek dominance over others, and can create enemies.

Fear response: fight

Politics: tends conservative

Archetype: Warrior

To take the free Race Pattern Quiz (RPQ) and discover your primary pattern related to Race, your learning edge, and recommendations:

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What People Think…

“This model has totally changed how I do things in my school…especially the way I use power more consciously. For me, it’s so important to do no harm. And while I understand my role as a Latino leader in my school – I am learning from the PDA, the model, and from consultation with The Sum how my power and my privilege across many sociocultural differences can be used with more awareness, effectiveness, and care in my relationships to our school secretary, our custodian, the teachers, parents and, of course, the students.”

Guillermo Medina,
Principal, Columbine Elementary, Boulder Valley School District, Boulder, Colorado

“As a person who is always engaged in inclusion work, whether it be in my job or in my life; sometimes we need to be reminded to take care of ourselves. This survey helped me to refocus on how I give of myself. I don’t have to give myself away. I was able to take a breath for my sake! Still carrying my torch!”

Phyllis Breland
Director of Diversity and Inclusion.
Hamilton College, Clinton, New York

The Team

J. Elliott Butler-Cisneros

Executive Director/Founder

Lucero Castro-Frederick

Board President

Crystal Byrd Farmer

Board Member

Meet the Rest of the Team!