Everyday Equity is both a realization of and a path from power, love, and justice. In leadership practice, we consciously and unknowingly embed and enact principles and practices that embody and resist community well-being. This mindfulness-based webinar offers leaders perspectives and practices for compassionately awakening power, love, and justice. This webinar includes practicing tools, applying concepts, and reminding us of our loveliness – allowing us to contribute to community well-being by understanding and healing from harmful conditions toward transformative change. Dr. Renato P. Almanzor is a transformation catalyst, whose experience emerges from over 25 years developing leaders committed to equitable communities, multicultural organizations, and social justice. As a leadership expert, he has delivered leadership development programs, keynote addresses, workshops and seminars on issues related to leadership for equity, cultural diversity, and social change. Much of his work has been dedicated to supporting community leaders working with and in low-income communities and communities of color. He has a PhD and MA in organizational psychology, an MS in counseling, and BA in psychology, as well as certifications in coaching and Zumba Instruction. He is a proud alum of the first Practices in Transformative Action, a mindfulness-based program for social justice activists through the East Bay Meditation Center in Oakland, California, where he also served as an apprentice the following year.

1. EVERYDA
Y EQUITY:
Practices,
Principles and
Perspectives
Renato P. Almanzor, PhD
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2. We will… So that we…
Explore “What Matters” for us; Nurture our nurture mindfulness
and equanimity.
Examine “What’s Difficult” to
Everyday Equity;
Accept what’s glorious and
wretched with kindness and
compassion.
Cultivate “What’s Possible”
toward awakening power, love,
and justice;
Enact our accountability.

3. What Matters
For whom and what do
you have LOVE and
GRATITUDE?
To what extent do those
people and things
demonstrate what
matters to you?
For whom and what do
you have COMPASSION
and COMMITMENT?
I invite you to dedicate
your work in this webinar.
To whom or what might
you dedicate your
participation?

4. Accountability
The intention and obligation of an
individual or organization to:
• account for its activities,
• accept responsibility for its activities,
and
• disclose the results/impact in a
transparent manner.

5. Adapted from Interaction
Process/Practice
how will the work get done?
who is included and not included, especially deciding?
how the work is monitored and evaluated?
Relationships
how do people experience each other?
how are similarities/differences leveraged?
how does engagement enhance belonging?
Justice Love
Power
Intentions/Results
what will we achieve by when?
what is the quality of our impact?
what’s the distribution of benefit/burden?
Awakening: Dimensions of
Everyday Equity

6. Aware of the
world around us
and looking into
our heart; the
balance of
mindfulness
rooted in insight.
Acceptanc
e
Physical
Awareness
Context
Awareness
Mind Awareness
Actio
n
Our capacity to address our toughest social
challenges depends on our willingness to
admit we are part of, rather than apart from,
the woundedness of our world.
- Adam Kahane
Equanimity

7. …is influenced
by context
SELF OTHER
IDEAS
FEELINGS
ACTIONS
Ubuntu

8. What’s Difficult: Context
Structure of Oppression is…
A System of Advantage, Entitlements, and Benefits
based on …
Group Membership…
that allows for the Systematic Mistreatment of
Others
Adapted from David
Wellman

9. Culture of Scarcity and
Cycle of Oppression
Adapted from Roberta
Harro, Cycle of Oppression;
Culture of Scarcity, Brene
BORN
SOCIALIZED
STATUS BECOMES
SOCIALLY
SANCTIONED
STATUS JUSTIFIED
TREATMENT
CONSCIOUS AND
UNCONSCIOUS
ACCEPTANCE
Cultivating
Shame
Comparison
Disengagement

10. Reflect on an experience on how you
may have been harmed by a culture of
scarcity and oppression, and how that
experience still impacts you today.
Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as
difficult as spending our lives running from it.
Embracing our vulnerabilities is risky but not nearly
as dangerous as giving up on love and belonging
and joy -- the experiences that make us the most
vulnerable. Only when we are brave enough to
explore the darkness will we discover the infinite
power of our light.
Brené Brown

11. Adapted from Doing Psychology
Critically
The capability and
opportunity to
fulfill or obstruct
the satisfaction of
personal, relational
and collective
needs.
Power and
Its Uses

12. Characteristics of Our
Organizations
Perfectioni
sm
Sense of
Urgency
Defensiveness
Quantity overQuality
Worship of the Written
Word
P
a
t
e
r
n
a
l
i
s
m
Either/OrThinking
PowerHoarding
Individualis
m
Objectivi
ty
Progress is Bigger,
MoreRight toComfort
Fear of Open
Conflict

13. Levels of
Power
Structural Power:
Authority
Access/Opportunity
Social Power:
Relational
Intra-group/Inter-group
Personal Power:
Agency
Ability/Volition
Adapted from Doing Psychology
Critically
by Isaac Prilleltensky & Geoff Nelson

14. The system is perfectly designed to produce the
results it is now producing.
Adapted from john
“Inequitable
racialized
outcomes do
not require
racist actors.”
john a. powell
Systems Thinking

15. Perspectives:
An Equity Lens/Framework
National Equity
Project

16. What’s Next
■ What is your calling? What pulls you into
ACTION?
■ What is at your core? Who are you at your most
essential level?
■ What are your power? What abilities do you
perform with grace and mastery?

17. My Mission is to…
, , and
(what are your POWERS or CRAFT?)
(Your CORE or VIRTUES?)
For, with and/or to
(Your CALLING or What MATTERS)

18. Renato: My Mission is
to…Facilitate, Integrate , and Cultivate
(what are your POWERS or CRAFT?)
a Love-based Social Justice Agenda
(your core or virtues?)
For, with and/or to
Community Well-being
(your CALLING or What MATTERS)

19. What Now
Accountability
The intention and obligation of an
individual or organization to:
• account for its activities,
• accept responsibility for its
activities, and
• disclose the results/impact in a
transparent manner.
Reflect on your participation
Share your learning with your “dedication”
Share your mission statement with another
Extra Credit – invite their support as an accountability partner

20. Purpose