Cultivate Values

At Cultivate, we firmly believe in the importance of living out our values. This influences how we run our program, so that it can benefit our participants to the fullest. We have organized our values into three main categories: Healing, Personal & Cultural Truths and Community & Trust. Within these categories, we uphold that a big part of the leadership journey of women of color MUST include a safe and open environment for healing and re-charging. Too often women of color are tasked with more than their fair share of the work, and at Cultivate we encourage women to take a step back and acknowledge where healing and recharging need to occur, so as to strengthen their leadership.

Secondly, we firmly believe that women of color ALREADY have within their beings, innate leadership abilities that are shaped by each of their lived experiences, culture and environment. We do not try to fit the women into an old, outdated leadership mold - that for too long has only served to alienate, discredit them and keep them from leadership positions of high impact. We celebrate all walks of life of women of color, and seek to provide a spark to reignite the strengths and skills they already possess.

Lastly, we believe in co-creation and design. Cultive is unique in that we welcome women from the place they find themselves when they arrive. We encourage them to have that assist them in co-creating their own leadership program and topics. We provide a safe and brave space for women so that they can bring their full selves and at all of the intersections of their lives, not only for transparency but for friendship and sisterhood. In collaboration with the foundation leaders of Cultivate (who are also women of color), our program seeks to reinvigorate and influence our society to change the status quo that has not served women of color and our communities for generations.