Alternative Breaks Program Values

  • Welcoming Environment: as a program we want to provide a space where everyone is treated with respect, appreciate each other, fairness, and where every person feels like they belong.
  • Empathy: we aim to support our communities and peers by validating their experiences and fostering a welcoming environment, seeking to provide spaces of understanding, care, and compassion.Some ways we want to show empathy:
    a) Actively listening
    b) Culture of understanding: seeking to see where someone is coming from for their experience and perspective without judgement. We want to give benefit of doubt and assume good intent.
    c) Show care for each other and challenges each person face
    d) Seeking to understand someone else’s situation and experience
  • Growth : Creating and maintaining a mindset that is constantly geared toward learning. Growing continuously as members of the community by embracing feedback, new experiences, and a range of perspectives.