Our Perspective
Our perspective is that all people should be enabled to create change, shape the future, and improve their own and their communities’ quality of life.
Our Aspirations:
As Nova Scotians we better understand our opportunities, advantages, and the hurdles in front of us.
More Nova Scotians are stepping up to improve our quality of life and economic conditions.
We are more collaborative, inclusive, and adaptive to change.
Grounding Principles:
How we do things is as important as what we do
Create just enough structure to support our activities while staying, lean, nimble, and transparent.
Foster relationships that move at the pace of trust. Trust is the medium through which good things happen.
Believe that everyone deserves the right to live in dignity and is capable of treating others with respect.
Appreciate and create generous room for different worldviews, abilities, experiences, and personal operating styles in everything we do.
Call each other into compassionate, thoughtful, and courageous conversations that spark new ways of moving forward together.
Operate in a collaborative and open space with partners from the private, public, and non-profit sectors, academia, and local communities.
Decenter our own perspectives by challenging our fixed beliefs and staying open to having our minds changed and hearts softened.
Engage the wisdom of Nova Scotians to inform the work - from across cultures, abilities, demographics, perspectives, and all corners of the province.
Justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion practices:
Towards a better Nova Scotia for all of us
To belong here is to be you.
The vision for a more vibrant, inclusive, equitable, and resilient Nova Scotia takes all of us.
We are committed to including every Nova Scotian as their whole self; across gender, race, age, ability, sexual orientation, religion, cultures, communities, identities, and perspectives.
We recognize the paradigms of prejudice, racism, colonialism, ableism, and oppression built into our society. We actively look to address ongoing harm and inequities through (un)learning and action that dismantles those paradigms and the structures that uphold and reinforce them.