Diversity, Equity,
& Inclusion Commitment
Fostering a diverse, equitable, and inclusive team and community
As an organization, we recognize the critical need for us to cultivate a diverse, equitable, and inclusive team and company to accomplish our mission.
We are deeply committed to fostering a diverse, equitable, and inclusive team and community, and strive to create a culture in which diverse educators, leaders, and team members thrive. We know that integrating diversity, equity, and inclusion into every level of our organization requires ongoing commitment and effort. We take seriously our responsibility to mitigate any injustices, and approach this work earnestly and humbly.
How We Ensure Equity at Breathe For Change
The following four areas highlight the actions Breathe For Change is taking to realize our vision for wellness, inspiration, and community for every educator and student.
1. Accessible Wellness Experiences
Free Healing Resources: Breathe For Change offers free toolkits, webinars, and inclusive strategies for our community. These resources are designed to provide all educators and community leaders access to healing wellness practices.
Financial Assistance Program: We make our life-changing programs more accessible to educators and community leaders who cannot afford our tuition.
2. Transformative Pedagogy
Inclusive Curriculum: The Breathe For Change curriculum strives to be trauma-informed, equitable, accessible, community-based, and healing-centered. We seek to create brave spaces where all participants feel their identities are honored and respected.
Diverse Training Team: We are committed to ensuring that our trainers hold diverse backgrounds and identities, and bring a wide range of relevant experiences to the communities we serve.
Cultural Appreciation: Breathe For Change seeks to teach holistic and historically-grounded practices that enhance collective well-being. We acknowledge the many people, cultures, and practitioners who have shaped the practices we integrate into our teachings.
3. Inclusive Team Culture
Collaborative Team Meetings: Breathe For Change strives to include all team members’ voices in relevant key decisions. Team meeting agendas are co-created and team members are invited to share feedback to help us fulfill our mission.
Focus on Belonging: Breathe For Change recognizes that having a diverse core team is a critical aspect of accomplishing our mission. We respect the diverse worldviews, beliefs, and experiences of our team members, and strive to help every member of our team feel included, valued, and appreciated.
4. Equitable Hiring
Anti-Bias Hiring Approach: We work to mitigate the influence of bias on any hiring, firing, promotional, or other HR decisions. Our intentionally-designed hiring process strives to reduce bias in our job descriptions, interview processes, and performance tasks to provide all candidates an equal opportunity to succeed.
Diverse Candidate Pool: We practice legal, non-discriminatory hiring procedures and recruit a diverse set of applicants for job positions before beginning the interview process. Our goal is to identify candidates that represent a wide range of identities across race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, ability, age, and body type.
Just Human Resources Approach: We do not make hiring, firing, promotional, or other HR decisions based upon any dimension of diversity, regardless of the impact it has on our diversity markers.