ECO Conferences

We create conditions that support healing as foundational to justice—not as an afterthought. 

We attend to one another’s humanity and wellbeing as essential to meaningful participation and transformation.

We recognize that each of us occupies different positions within intersecting systems of power and privilege. These positions shape how we see the world, how the world sees us, and how we are able to move through it. 

We engage with awareness of these dynamics, practicing reflexivity about how our experiences, identities, and access shape our participation and the space we hold. 

We seek to build reciprocal, genuine, and accountable relationships that honor difference as a source of collective insight and strength.

The conference is a space for mutual learning, where all voices are valued. 
We do not presume to hold all the answers—our goal is to learn and grow together. 

We affirm that knowledge emerges in community, through dialogue, relationships, and shared experience. 
We remain open to surprise, evolution, and growth, recognizing that change happens in unexpected ways. 

We honor all forms of knowledge—academic, community, embodied, and experiential—as equally vital to collective understanding.

Our personal and community healing are bound together. Liberation for one requires liberation for all. No one is free until everyone is free. 

We practice solidarity by showing up for one another with humility, openness, and shared purpose. 

We are committed to moving beyond study and dialogue to foster tangible change and collective action. 
We uphold research, practices, and policies that shift power, redistribute resources, and promote equity. 
We root our work in clear values and intentionality, guided by a vision of justice. 

We acknowledge that our work must actively confront systemic racism and systems of harm. 

We pursue transformation at multiple levels of change—individual, community, institutional, and structural.

We recognize that our values of justice, equity, and liberation are in conflict with dominant systems that perpetuate harm, and we act with this awareness. 

We commit to supporting and protecting one another’s safety, understanding that community care is a necessary response to systemic violence. 

We hold safety and care as shared responsibilities, rooted in trust, solidarity, and mutual accountability. 

We honor that creating safety means designing spaces, practices, and relationships that resist harm and affirm our collective right to thrive.