Equitable Systems Consultants, LLC., will develop the next generation of systems thinkers through servant leadership and the five C’s of Critical Care (Rolon-Dow, 2005), Critical Faith (Lee & Givens, 2015), Critical Hope (Andrade, 2009), Critical Love (Sealey-Ruiz, 2020) and Critical Reflection (Howard, 2003).
Critical Care (2005): Humanizing the communities we serve by treating them with full-inherent human dignity (Irby & Liston, 2017) while also recognizing the ways whiteness and systemic oppression make this standard of care an anomaly.
Critical Faith (2015): Embodying Christ-like behavior (Hirsch, 2010) through compassion, competence and commitment (Lee, 2007) by centering dialogue, contextualization and praxis (Freire, 1970), respectively.
Critical Hope (2009): Centering dialogue, contextualization and praxis (1970) that goes beyond aesthetic to authentic (Valenzuela, 1999) and critical care (2005), while acknowledging the ways the cocoon of whiteness prevents the caterpillar from actualizing its transformation into a butterfly (Lamar, 2015).
Critical Love (2020): Strong, moral disposition to authentically (1999) and critically care (2005) for the communities we serve by humanizing and overriding erasure (Brooks, 2017) to implement the demands of justice (King, 1967).
Critical Reflection (2003): Critical Reflection: The ability to engage in cognitive dissonance of one’s beliefs and socialization processes while demonstrating critical consciousness (Ladson-Billings, 1995) of the ways cultural hegemony (Gramsci, 1992) leads to myopic understanding rooted in color-blindness, deficit-thinking and poverty disciplining (Fergus, 2017).
Through servant leadership and the five C's, we believe our next generation of systems thinkers will have the competencies and skill-sets needed to create healthy, thriving ecosystems rooted in evidence-based practices and informed-decision making.