One
Individual’s role in and responsibility to advancing culture's of fairness, justice and where others feel welcomed and liberated to be their best selves.
Self-awareness and personal responsibility are critical to being an effective change agent…
Eight
Balance of power, or in another word, justice.
In its relationship to “one”, the meaning of “eight” also represents the concept of collective abundance, or the opposite of the attitude of scarcity…
Why partner with One Eight CREATE?
Organizational culture is all that we believe, value and express within the context of a group of people we work or serve with. OEC understands that the energy and power to co-create your ideal culture is ignited and sustained by reckoning with the gap between where you want to be and where you are in reality–in other words, leveraging the tension between your aspiration and the status quo.
Change
Change the Conversation. Change the Assumptions. Change the Behaviors. Change the System.
Readiness
Knowing a culture needs to change and having the capacity to change it are two very different sides of the same coin. But it’s the latter one that we often neglect to cultivate—our readiness to lead the intra-personal and interpersonal change necessary for advancing the structural changes needed in our institutions and communities.
Explanation
Words matter. Their impact matters more. But coming to a mutual understanding about how the system works matters the most when building people’s capacity to facilitate culture change together.
Accountability
It takes humility, vulnerability and transparency—both from individual participants and as an organization—to ensure a successful culture change effort. Throughout the culture in question, a critical mass of people—including the highest level of power holders—must openly recognize, own and reckon with their relationship to unjust and oppressive cultures of power in order to enable accountability and the ability to track your culture change more inclusively and precisely over time.
Truth
The suppression of the truth–whether knowingly or not–leads to the oppression of true equity. So co-creating where you want to be as a culture isn’t possible without understanding the total reality—both historical and contemporary—of where you are as a culture. In other words, both seeking the truth and telling the truth are essential to optimizing a truly equitable approach to culture change.
Empathy
If your aim is to build a culture where everyone feels respected, welcomed and empowered, then you have to earnestly attempt—but not necessarily completely achieve—meaningful engagement from everyone involved in the change process. And that takes the ability to understand another person’s feelings, or, at least their emotional reactions to the complexities of change. Intentionally committing to an empathic approach to the culture change process helps ensure not only that everyone feels their voice is heard and valued, it helps unleash everyone’s full potential because they feel comfortable and supported in bringing their whole self to the process.
How OEC Co-Creates Change with Our Partners
CREATE | verb | krēˈāt | to cause something to happen as a result of one’s actions
OEC delivers culturally responsive, adaptive experiences designed to build your individual and interpersonal capacity to co-create cultures that actively dismantle inequitable structures while fostering belonging, authentic connections, and collective healing.
To achieve this, OEC provides the following customizable programs and services.
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Share your story. Ask us how we can serve you and your community. Tell us what you think we should know. In any case, let’s just connect in a way to get the conversation going and start to co-create something amazing.