Care is a consensual exchange that brings all parties towards mindfulness, empathy, and understanding; inspiration and action; strength and connection; purpose and insight; safety, rejuvenation and healing; and joy, peace, and agency.

Care requires trust and consent.

Care is a consensual exchange.
Care requires ongoing trust and consent throughout the exchange.

Care considers context.

Care is exploring and learning.
Care is paying attention.
Care is seeking out and listening to silenced voices.
Care is taking responsibility.
Care is not naive.
Care may require patience, perseverance, and resilience.
Care brings all parties towards mindfulness, empathy, and understanding of each other.
Care counters unjust imbalances of power.

Care creates and cultivates.

Care is action.
Care is not inaction in the face of injustice.
Care is vision, design, direction, testing, and adaptation.
Care is not dormancy, stagnation, or anti-progress.
Care is sustaining.

Care is connection.

Care is collective strength.
Care is not weak.
Care prioritizes people above goals.
Care is stronger than domination, brutality, or fear.

Care leads to transcendent insight.

Care is a revolutionary response to a world overwhelmed by shock.
Care finds mutually beneficial outcomes.
Care envisions and examines new and ambitious futures.

Care promotes healing.

Care welcomes all parties towards safety, rejuvenation, and healing.
Care nurtures and restores.

Care leads to agency.

Care is freedom and profound joy.
Care is a celebration.
Care is an expression of our humanity.
Care is utopia.