Belonging Design Principles

Design Principles for Building Belonging Across our planet, people are looking for effective ways to build just, equitable, and inclusive institutions that serve and support everyone. Even more challenging, we’re looking for ways to do so without...

Towards Housing Justice

A focus on resistance and organizing work is absolutely key for understanding people's agency and maintaining hope within the oppressive housing landscape. This powerpoint features a compilation of organizing work towards housing justice, including...

Glossary of Key Terms - Race & Housing

This glossary contains key terms related to race & housing and is a great document to start with and keep referring back to as you teach about race & housing. Terms featured include: othering, individual racism, institutional racism, structural...

Housing Justice: Visioning and Policy Tools for Transformative Change

How do we go from a vision to action? This presentation hones in on housing justice and policy solutions for the Bay Area's housing crisis. It examines the concept of belonging which would entail having the opportunity to participate in the design of...

Place & Identity Unit

How does place shape identity? How do social systems shape us? What impact can we have on social systems? This unit invites students to make connections between various aspects of their identity, origins, and culture. They are asked to build upon...

Redefining Who Belongs

Recent acute instances of failed political leadership—particularly around the pandemic and an ongoing lack of action to protect Black lives—have shone a bright light on questions essential to our future as a country: Who are we? Who are we becoming? Who must we become if we are to create a different world where everyone belongs?

A New Year of Engagement and Purpose

Dear friends, On this first day of 2017, I recognize that many of us may be ambivalently moving into this new year, as there is much uncertainty about our future. There are doubts not just about the upcoming change in our political leadership, but...

This is Who We Are: Post Election 2016 Statement

When the Haas Institute came into being four years ago, our vision stated that we would “work on society’s most pressing and pivotal issues related to structural inclusion and marginalization," that we would do work that was big-picture and game...

Psychotherapy and Social Justice: A Dialogue on Othering and Belonging

Note: The location will now be at: First Congregational Church of Oakland, 2501 Harrison St., Oakland, CA 94612 For Immediate Release Psychotherapy and Social Justice: A Dialogue on Othering and Belonging Berkeley, CA./On Saturday, October 29, The...