The social change ecosystem framework is a tool to clarify values, identify roles, and support organizations, campaigns, and networks committed to solidarity, justice, and equity.

Guides

We teach, counsel, and advise, using our gifts of well-earned discernment and wisdom.

Storytellers

We craft and share our community stories, cultures, experiences, histories, and possibilities through art, music, media, and movement

Healers

We recognize and tend to the generational and current traumas caused by oppressive systema, Institutions, policies, and practices

Disrupters

We take uncomfortable and risky actions to shake up the status quo to raise awareness and to build power.

Visionaries

We imagine and generate our boldest possibilities, hopes, and dreams and remind us of our direction.

Caregivers

We nurture and nourish the people around us by creating and sustaining a community of care, joy, and connection.

Builders

We develop, organize, and implement ideas, practices, people, and resources in service to a collective vision.

Weavers

We see the through-lines of connectivity between people, places, organizations, ideas, and movements

Experimenters

We Innovate, pioneer, and invent. We take risks and course correct as needed.

Frontline Responders

We address community crises by assembling and organizing resources, networks, and messages.