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UNITED & UNLEASHED

YOU'RE A VOICE FOR JUSTICE...

IS YOUR VOICE HEARD?

You

LOVE THE RICH TAPESTRY OF OUR DIFFERENCES…

What do you do when these differences are not honored?

YOU

Stand for solidarity…

What happens in you when you look on a world without justice?

What do you do with grief, rage & power?

The Sum brings you innovative & experiential assessment, coaching, & workshops…

You leave with 4 outcomes:

1. YOU ARE POWERED-UP

2. YOUR MISSION IS ON FIRE

3. YOU STAND EFFECTIVELY IN SOLIDARITY ACROSS

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4. YOU BECOME & INSPIRE THE CHANGE YOU WANT TO SEE IN YOUR WORLD

“These offerings are, without a doubt, the finest I’ve experienced in my years of doing this work.” ~ NAOMI TUTU

The next evolution of DEI is a revolution that begins inside you...

Step 1: GIVING UP

Equity and Inclusion in the world, like “tolerance” a generation ago, represent an exhausting and un-winnable fight. Whatever we fight we give more power. It’s time to give up trying to change other people, organizations, and the world. After all, I don’t want others to try to change me…just hear, trust, believe in, and support me. The harder I try to change people or organizations, the more they resist.

Step 2: GOING INSIDE

Trying to change the world can be a way I avoid going inside. Inside I have to come to terms with my excluded parts and my unconscious patterns. These can drive me without my awareness. I will not, cannot, inspire a world of solidarity if I’m hiding an apartheid inside me!

Step 3: LET NO ONE STAND ALONE

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Honoring differences within me is a necessary prerequisite to honoring differences in the world. As I learn to make room at my “inner table” for all my disowned parts…what I love, my deepest dreams, power, freedom, joy, gratitude, and noble brilliance begin to rise.

Step 4: ILLUMINATION & IGNITION

On a scale from 1-10: “How clear, loving, and powerful is my purpose and path?” As I accomplish my “inside process” I am ready and able to deliberately notice, focus on, and follow what lights up the sparkle in my eyes, the radiance of my heart, and the fire in my belly!

Step 5: BECOMING THE CHANGE

These steps aren’t linear. I may repeat them many times a day! But I come here to step 5 more & easier & stay longer. It’s here I’m given to live more effectively, powerfully, & compassionately from solidarity across the rich tapestry of our differences. I become the change I want to see in the world. I become a model, a spark for others. Ironically, I become the seed for the change I gave up in step one!

The evolution of DEI is a revolution that begins within each of us

the power of our differences

UNITED & UNLEASHED

4 Outcomes that will inspire transformation in your organization & world:

GO INSIDE

POWER-UP

SET YOUR MISSION ON FIRE

& BECOME THE CHANGE

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“These offerings are, without a doubt, the finest I’ve experienced in my years of doing this work.”

~NONTOMBI NAOMI TUTU

The evolution of DEI (diversity, equity, & inclusion) is a revolution that begins within each of us.

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The Power of Difference 5-Step Revolution

Step 1: GIVING UP

Equity and Inclusion in the world, like “tolerance” a generation ago, represents an exhausting and un-winnable fight. Whatever we fight we give more power. It’s time to give up trying to change other people, organizations, and the world. After all, I don’t want others to try to change me…just hear, trust, believe in, and support me. The harder I try to change people or organizations, the more they resist.

Step 2: GOING INSIDE

Trying to change the world can be a way I avoid going inside. Inside I have to come to terms with my excluded parts and my unconscious patterns. These can drive me without my awareness. I will not, cannot, inspire a world of solidarity if I’m hiding an apartheid inside me!

Step 3: PRACTICING SOLIDARITY WITHIN

Honoring differences within me is a necessary prerequisite to honoring differences in the world. As I learn to make room at my “inner table” for all my disowned parts, what I love, my deepest dreams, power, freedom, joy, gratitude, and noble brilliance begin to rise.

Step 4: ILLUMINATE & IGNITE

On a scale from 1-10: “How clear, loving, and powerful is my purpose and path?” As I accomplish my “inside process” I am ready and able to deliberately notice, focus on, and follow what lights up the sparkle in my eyes, the radiance of my heart, and the fire in my belly (ALL THREE!)

Step 5: BECOMING THE CHANGE

These steps aren’t linear. I may repeat them many times a day! But I come her to step 5 more, & easier, & stay longer. It’s here I’m given to live more effectively, powerfully, & compassionately from solidarity across the rich tapestry of our differences. I become the change I want to see in the world and I find myself at the same time! I become a model, a spark for others. Ironically, I become the seed for the change I gave up in step one!

The Power of Difference Assessment (PDA) measures 3 unconscious patterns related to our differences and creates a map of your, and your team’s, assets and learning edges.

Experiential Learning Proven outcomes for you/your team to explore inside in a non-judgmental, high feedback environment, right where you need it.

“These offerings are, without a doubt, the finest I’ve experienced in my years of doing this work.”

~ NAOMI TUTU

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Take the Power of Difference Assessment (PDA) FREE for DEI/HR/KEY DECISION MAKERS:

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Team with us!

Only 29 more $5 subscriptions will cover one year’s baseline operations!

BUILD WITH US: a thriving & just world where our aliveness, commonality & our differences are honored.

DONATE ANY AMOUNT: one time, monthly, or yearly–choose the programs you want to support.

CHECK OUT OUR PARTNER PAGE HERE

DONATE HERE

“THIS IS THE MOST IMPACTFUL LEARNING I’VE EVER EXPERIENCED IN MY LIFE. IT HAS TOTALLY CHANGE ME AND MY WORK“

~ LAURIE YAUSSI Teacher, Thompson Valley School District

What’s the Power of Difference Model (PDM)?

At it’s core the PDM identifies 3 primary, typically unconscious, patterns of behavior, thought, feeling, and worldview related to race, sexual orientation, gender, socioeconomic class, religion, disability, and culture.

Does one sound more like you?

Sensitivity/Scarecrow

UNDERSTANDING

TRUTH

BRAIN

I value differences, intelligence, open-mindedness and understanding. I experience the world and myself primarily through the brain. I treat others the way they would like to be treated.

Limitations: I don’t want to offend so I can feel stuck or confused. I can be patronizing as I try to get others to “get it”, to “understand like me.” I can also get exhausted as this struggle seems hopeless.

Fear response: freeze

Politics: tends liberal

Archetype: Magician

ONENESS/TINMAN

UNITY

CONNECTION

HEART

I devalue differences in favor of our common humanity, unity, and collaboration. I experience the world and myself primarily through the heart. I treat others the way I would like to be treated. I see myself as a bridge builder.

Limitations: I can over-value sameness and fail to impact in alignment with my intentions. I tend to avoid conflict.

Fear response: flight

Politics: tends moderate

Archetype: Lover

STRENGTH/LION

COURAGE

POWER

GUT

I evaluate differences and value courage, loyalty, decisiveness, clarity, protection, self-sacrifice, and winning at all cost. I believe in the “survival of the fittest.” I experience myself and the world primarily through my gut.

Limitations: I seek dominance over others, and can create enemies. I can be overly combative.

Fear response: fight

Politics: tends conservative

Archetype: Warrior

Integration/Leveraging/Glinda the Good Witch

The more we come to know our primary pattern (its assets and liabilities) and how to integrate or leverage the assets of the all three patterns, the more we unleash our effectiveness: always within us first. From here, we increasingly become a catalyst for solidarity and meaningful change across differences in our family, organization, community, and world.

Location: The crown of the head

Archetype: The Sovereign

Sensitivity "Scarecrow"

UNDERSTANDING

TRUTH

BRAIN

I value differences, intelligence, open-mindedness and understanding. I experience the world and myself primarily through the brain. I treat others the way they would like to be treated.

LIMITATIONS: I don’t want to offend so I can feel stuck or confused. I can be patronizing as I try to get others to “get it”, to “understand like me.” I can feel exhausted and hopeless with what seems like an endless struggle.

Fear response: freeze

Politics: tends liberal

Archetype: Magician

ONENESS/ "TINMAN"

UNITY CONNECTION HEART

I devalue differences in favor of our common humanity, unity, and collaboration. I experience the world and myself primarily through the heart. I treat others the way I would like to be treated.I think of myself as a bridge-builder.

LIMITATIONS: I can over-value sameness and fail to impact in alignment with my intentions. I tend to avoid conflict.

Fear response: flight

Politics: tends moderate

Archetype: Lover

STRENGTH "LION"

COURAGE

POWER

GUT

I evaluate differences & value courage, loyalty, decisiveness, clarity, protection, self-sacrifice, a& winning. I believe in the “survival of the fittest.” I experience myself & the world primarily through my gut.

LIMITATIONS: I seek dominance over others & can create enemies. I can be combative.

Fear response: fight

Politics: tends conservative

Archetype: Warrior

Integration/ Leveraging/ "Glinda the Good Witch"

Archetype: The Sovereign

Location: Crown of the Head

The more we come to know our primary pattern (its assets and liabilities) & how to integrate or leverage the assets of the all three patterns, the more we unleash our effectiveness: always within us first. From here, we increasingly become a catalyst for solidarity & meaningful change across differences in our family, organization, community, & world.

What People Think…

“This model has totally changed how I do things in my school…especially the way I use power more consciously. For me, it’s so important to do no harm. And while I understand my role as a Latino leader in my school – I am learning from the PDA, the model, and from consultation with The Sum how my power and my privilege across many sociocultural differences can be used with more awareness, effectiveness, and care in my relationships to our school secretary, our custodian, the teachers, parents and, of course, the students.”

Guillermo Medina,
Principal, Columbine Elementary, Boulder Valley School District, Boulder, Colorado

“As a person who is always engaged in inclusion work, whether it be in my job or in my life; sometimes we need to be reminded to take care of ourselves. This survey helped me to refocus on how I give of myself. I don’t have to give myself away. I was able to take a breath for my sake! Still carrying my torch!”

Phyllis Breland
Director of Diversity and Inclusion.
Hamilton College, Clinton, New York