Coaching Connection
If you landed here, it means we are working together! My Grounding Philosophy in the work that I do as an Equity Coach is rooted in Audre Lorde's essay The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action.
In it she says: "We can learn to work and speak when we are afraid in the same way we have learned to work and speak when we are tired. For we have been socialized to respect fear more than our own needs for language and definition, and while we wait in silence for that final luxury of fearlessness, the weight of that silence will choke us. The fact that we are here and that I speak these words is an attempt to break that silence and bridge some of those differences between us, for it is not difference which immobilizes us, but silence. And there are so many silences to be broken." It is that desire to hold space for those individual and collective silences to be broken in the service of empowerment, healing, and equity. I look forward to our work together.
In it she says: "We can learn to work and speak when we are afraid in the same way we have learned to work and speak when we are tired. For we have been socialized to respect fear more than our own needs for language and definition, and while we wait in silence for that final luxury of fearlessness, the weight of that silence will choke us. The fact that we are here and that I speak these words is an attempt to break that silence and bridge some of those differences between us, for it is not difference which immobilizes us, but silence. And there are so many silences to be broken." It is that desire to hold space for those individual and collective silences to be broken in the service of empowerment, healing, and equity. I look forward to our work together.