Loaded Bow is an intergenerational community of scientists, artists, educators, policy makers, athletes, and futurists from around the world. Our time together is an exploration of ideas, culture, power, and future imaginaries. Concepts of narrative, pleasure, exchange, and lineage have grounded dialogue on risk, adventure, faith, and grief.
Since our inception in 2010, we have focused on intimate in-person events to guide difficult conversations and facilitate knowledge exchange, relationship building and generative collaboration.
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COMMUNITY VALUES
01 We are community. We stand in horseshoes instead of circles to leave space to welcome others’ voices, stories, and bodies.
02 We value critical connections over critical mass. We believe in intimacy over crowds.
03 We move at the speed of trust. It is not always fast, but it is together.
04 We value progress over perfection. We make mistakes and we learn from them. We keep going.
05 We value curiosity, active learning, and deep listening. With humility, we invite critique.
06 We reckon with the past to build the future. We acknowledge the histories, injustices, and sacrifices of place and people that have brought us to where we are. We value and practice anti-racism and anti-colonialism.
07 We celebrate and amplify joy.
AGREEMENTS
01 We maintain confidentiality. What is said here stays, what is learned here leaves here.
02 What we permit, we promote. Discriminatory and harmful behaviour will not be tolerated.
03 We prioritize the safety of folks of Indigenous and racialized communities through protocol, program design, language, and centering of voices and power.
04 Our diversity includes expansive experiences of gender. We mind our pronouns and avoid assumptions.
05 We choose to make room for conversations that can be difficult and we expect it to be messy at times. We recognize that this is not a neutral space, that the risks and wounds we carry with us are not equal.
06 We remember that conversation is the natural way that humans think together.
08 We stay curious and acknowledge that curiosity nor understanding should be conflated with agreement.
09 We give ourselves permission to change our minds.
Original Artwork by Zoë Pawlak