Culture of Care w/Adaku Utah

The Rad Ops Podcast is one component of a dialogue-based tool that supports organizations assessing and discussing the possibilities and limitations of putting liberatory values into practice. Each guest will share their Rad Ops lineages, their expertise on today’s pressing operations questions and leave listeners with resources and discussion questions to take back to your teams.

In this episode we talk about Culture of Care with our guest, Adaku Utah, Director of Movement Building Programs at the Building Movement Project. 

Resources from this episode:

• Solidarity Lessons from a Year of Crisis and Change
• How to Build Solidarity Infrastructure for the Long Haul by Adaku Utah and Deepa Iyer
• Solidarity Is This podcast 
• Social Change Ecosystem Map - Building Movement 
• Stories for Power Podcast: Durham | creative interventions 
• Communities of Care article by Yashna Maya Padamsee
• Transforming Our Organizations, Transforming Ourselves article by Sha Grogan-Brown
• Book: The Future is Collective: Effective Workplace Strategies for Building a Culture of Care by Niloufar Khonsari
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Discussion questions to take to your team:

• How is your organization defining and directing care?
• Where do you see a gap between what your organization values and cares about publicly and how things actually function internally in your organization, and what would it take to close that gap in practice? 
• What boundaries would make care more durable for you and others ?
• What contradictions around care are most alive in your work right now? What does it reveal about where your organization needs to grow? 
• What season is your organization in? (Summer, Spring, Autumn or Winter) 

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Produced by Josh Elstro with Convergence magazine. Design support from Kimmie David. Music by Tigercat, Sha’s amazing 10-year-old, with polish by Josh.