Every year, the UE Leadership team (Executive Directors, Directors, Assistant Directors, and Supervisors) engages in a series of professional learning sessions that integrate the lens of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. For the 2024-2025 school year, our sessions have been guided by the book, Four Pivots: Reimagining Justice, Reimagining Ourselves, by Dr. Shawn Ginwright.
Dr. Shawn Ginwright is the creator of the Healing Centered Framework, which many UE programs and teams integrate into their work. His latest book (Four Pivots) argues that the “most critical mainspring of social change is healing: deep, whole, and systemic, inside and out.”
He proposes four pivots to support social justice movements and collective leadership:
If you’d like to learn more about this aspect of Dr. Ginwright’s work, I highly recommend you read the book or watch this video where he discusses each pivot with his colleague Dr. Farima Pour-Khorshid!
Dr. Shawn Ginwright is the creator of the Healing Centered Framework, which many UE programs and teams integrate into their work. His latest book (Four Pivots) argues that the “most critical mainspring of social change is healing: deep, whole, and systemic, inside and out.”
He proposes four pivots to support social justice movements and collective leadership:
- Awareness: Pivot from “lens” to “mirror” and shift from an external focus that limits our perception to one of honest self-reflection
- Connection: Pivot from transactional to transformative relationships - build connections that leverage our shared humanity for collective care and compassion
- Vision: Reimagining how we think and act by shifting from “problem fixing” to “possibility creating.”
- Presence: Move from hustle to flow - divest from an addiction to frenzy rooted in extractive capitalism to find a calmer, gentler, and more productive flow state
If you’d like to learn more about this aspect of Dr. Ginwright’s work, I highly recommend you read the book or watch this video where he discusses each pivot with his colleague Dr. Farima Pour-Khorshid!
Blog By: Jenny Ventura, Senior Director of Education Innovation
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