Advocacy & Justice

Advocacy & Justice Services

Dimensions tools support social justice leaders in deepening effectiveness in community organizing, relationship building, growing partnership and maximizing collective impact in movement and coalition building work.

At Dimensions we understand the work of standing up for justice to be about building and leveraging power in relationships.  Our community building resources deepen leadership capacity for listening to, empowering and making room for the voices of those that remain unheard.  Our resources deepen agency and capacity among targeted communities and provide opportunities for leadership divestment from harmful systems, behaviors and cultures that restrict the experience of collective liberation and wellbeing for all of us. 

Dimensions learning communities create space for connectivity between and across leaders who are committed to the work of social and political transformation. Our tools support activist leaders in developing their resilience and capacity to be resourced and refreshed over long-term social justice work. We create learning environments for our activist leaders that are compassionate, meaningful, and centered within liberatory practice.

Personal
competencies

  • Awareness of self, personal story, purpose, vision, and values
  • Habits of reflection, learning, humility, and integrity
  • Flexibility to create personal and organizational conditions that support and sustain transformational equity

Interpersonal competencies

  • Discipline of deep listening to engage and learn with openness and compassion
  • Ability to cultivate effective relationships with racially diverse people
  • Commitment to supporting diverse leaders in addressing historical inequities in access, power, agency and resources over time

Collective competencies

  • Capacity to work with others to articulate a compelling vision for equity.
  • Skillset to nurture, support and facilitate action in relational, strategic, and results-driven processes
  • Building and growing social and financial capital to support sustained change

Our goals are to:

Define anti-oppression in the context of social justice leadership and familiarize leaders with related terms, principles, and practices that shape leadership commitments to change.

Deepen understanding of systemic issues that contribute to ongoing conditions of oppression in our regional, national, and global communities.

Teach skills and strategies for utilizing an anti-oppression lens to pursue justice and social transformation.

Assist activists in navigating distinctions between personal and institutional work to support justice, equalize power, and enact systemic change.