7 Principles of CES

What is SELF-LOVE?

• Build and be in community by accessing and sharing in our cultural wealth.

• Honor Indigenous, Black and communities of color by providing space to share stories of their struggle and resistance, along with their intellectual and cultural wealth.

• Reflect on your worth and accept your own inherent value. 

  Develop an understanding of who you are and where you are from as a key to your personal growth and self-acceptance.

• Actively question, challenge, and expose the world’s systems and operations in order to recognize and analyze systems of inequality.

What is HONOR?

• Build and be in community by accessing and sharing in our cultural wealth.

• Showing respect for Indigenous, Black and communities of color by providing space to share stories of their struggle and resistance, along with their intellectual and cultural wealth.

• Reflect on your worth and accept your own inherent value. 

  Develop an understanding of who you are and where you are from as a key to your personal growth and self-acceptance.

• Actively question, challenge, and expose the world’s systems and operations in order to recognize and analyze systems of inequality.

What is COMMUNITY?

• Build and be in group that share common heritage, language, and culture by accessing and sharing in our cultural wealth.

• Showing respect for Indigenous, Black and communities of color by providing space to share stories of their struggle and resistance, along with their intellectual and cultural wealth.

• Reflect on your worth and accept your own inherent value. 

  Develop an understanding of who you are and where you are from as a key to your personal growth and self-acceptance.

• Actively question, challenge, and expose the world’s systems and operations in order to recognize and analyze systems of inequality.

What is CRITICAL CONSCIOUSNESS?

• Build and be in group that share common heritage, language, and culture by accessing and sharing in our cultural wealth.

• Showing respect for Indigenous, Black and communities of color by providing space to share stories of their struggle and resistance, along with their intellectual and cultural wealth.

• Reflect on your worth and accept your own inherent value. 

  Develop an understanding of who you are and where you are from as a key to your personal growth and self-acceptance.

• Actively question, challenge, and expose the world’s systems and operations in order to recognize and analyze systems of inequality.

What is RESISTANCE?

• Build and be in group that share common heritage, language, and culture by accessing and sharing in our cultural wealth.

• Showing respect for Indigenous, Black and communities of color by providing space to share stories of their struggle and resistance, along with their intellectual and cultural wealth.

• Working together to say “no” to systems that are unequal.

• Actively question, challenge, and expose the world’s systems and operations in order to recognize and analyze systems of inequality.

What is HOPE?

• Build and be in group that share common heritage, language, and culture by accessing and sharing in our cultural wealth.

• Always believing that things can change or get better. Never giving up, being persistent

• Working together to say “no” to systems that are unequal.

• Actively question, challenge, and expose the world’s systems and operations in order to recognize and analyze systems of inequality.

What is VISUALIZATION?

• Seeing a future that is more equal to all communities.

• Always believing that things can change or get better. Never giving up, being persistent

• Working together to say “no” to systems that are unequal.

• Actively question, challenge, and expose the world’s systems and operations in order to recognize and analyze systems of inequality.