One Future Post #13: Growing with your team 🪴
Contents
Hello From the CEO 💌
Key Story ✍🏽
What’s New? 🗞️
Coming Soon! 🔜
OFC Spotlight 💡
Art x Social Justice 🎨
From the Toolbox 🧰
Get Involved ⚙️
Hello From the CEO 💌
As a small, young organisation, it is truly thrilling to see our team and community grow and become for others - and ourselves - what we’ve always needed, but never had before. Over the past month, for the first time, we were able to resource our team’s presence at the 6th UN Responsible Business and Human Rights Forum, 2024 (where we facilitated a pre-forum session). We also launched our Facilitators’ Community under the One Future Festival. These developments indicate something truly exciting - we are growing, fast! As we find ourselves able to provide our team and communities with new opportunities to learn, act, and advocate, I invite you to join us on this incredible journey. Welcome to Volume 13 of One Future Post.
Love,
Vandita Morarka
Founder and CEO, One Future Collective
Key Story ✍🏽
September was full of new experiences, partnerships and growth opportunities, with two major highlights!
On September 24, Arshiya Kochar and Anvita Walia from our team facilitated a pre-forum session on feminist justice responses to sexual harassment at work at the United Nations Responsible Business and Human Rights Forum 2024. This was an incredible achievement for us at One Future Collective, because it was the first space of its kind where we were able to resource the team’s presence.
In our session, we shared our findings from a research study undertaken by Vandita Morarka, which examined the implementation and effectiveness of the Prevention of Sexual Harassment (PoSH) Act in formal workplaces in India and presented our proposed conceptual framework, 'Tapestry of Feminist Justice' that is power-critical, intersectional, trauma-informed, survivor-centric, and focused on dismantling systemic power structures. We also held space for questions and recommendations. Over the next two days, we hosted an interactive booth where we connected with participants across the globe and engaged in insightful conversations.
We attended Forum sessions and panel discussions by speakers with expertise and experience in various themes, including effective remediation and sustained compliance, the pathway to just transitions, the struggle for accountability, the evolving legal landscape, etc.
Couldn’t attend our session? Here’s a bit of the Forum we brought back to you. Solve this Wordle game that we developed for attendees at our stall.
Towards the end of the month, we launched our Facilitators’ Community, as part of the One Future Festival, where 25 members from the One Future Collective community have been trained and onboarded into a facilitator's community to be able to deliver social justice education workshops in collaboration with One Future Collective to help us achieve our goal of affecting social justice change in 100 institutions across the country. Read on to learn about some of the spaces this community has helped us facilitate.
Our (re)learnings through this month of growth and new opportunities were:
As we are able to do more as a team, we must occupy new, ‘important’ global spaces more intentionally and critically. We must constantly ask questions and try to hold them and ourselves - which people, communities, needs, tensions and contexts are present and accounted for? What does it take for us to be here, and what do we take away? Read more reflections from Arshiya here.
A crucial part of our work is to enable our communities to take charge and expand the scope of what we can achieve together. With a large, diverse network of facilitators, we are now able to reach more people and organisations, speak more languages, explore new themes, and create broader, deeper impact.
We are excited to continue putting these learnings into action and see where we go!
What’s New? 🗞️
As part of our partnership, we supported Porticus in the development of the fully online and asynchronous module on Collaborative And Inclusive Philanthropy, hosted by the University of Geneva. Led by Uttanshi Agarwal, we worked on three key sections of this module - (1) History of Inequalities in Philanthropy (2) Inclusive Practices in Philanthropy and (3) Importance of Language in Philanthropy.
Want to explore a similar knowledge content building partnership with your organisation? Reach out to us at info@onefuturecollective.org.
On behalf of One Future Collective, Vaishali Singha attended a film screening of Systems of Waste by The George Institute for Global Health India and Sutapa Deb Films on September 20.
On September 23, Arshiya and Vibhuti Kapila from the team conducted a 4 hour team building workshop for members of the team at SAATHII, where we delved into effective communication, conflict resolution & management, and collaborative ways of working. We engaged in activities, discussions, and best practices which focus on how we can promote strong and effective teams who are able to deliver successfully.
Members of One Future Collective’s Indian Urban Feminist Civil Society Network had an eventful month, launching and participating in conferences, resources, fellowships, and continuing research work. Learn more here.
We held the following spaces under the One Future Festival in September, with support from Sachin Phatak, Tanisha J. and Darshana from the Facilitators’ Community.
Navigating Burnout and Compassion Fatigue for Reap Benefit on September 15.
Gender in Popular Media for Whistling Woods on September 17.
Feminist Leadership and Values for Nazaria Arts Collective on September 24.
Understanding Power and Oppression for Thoughtworks on September 25.
What more would you like to see from us? Tell us in the comments below!
Coming Soon 🔜
We will be hosting an in-person event for the Labourdesk on October 7, from 4:00 PM to 8:00 PM, in Mumbai (Churchgate station) and Delhi (Uptown Square, Noida Sector 142 [Nearest Metro: Noida Sector 142, Aqua Line]). For more information, follow us on Instagram or LinkedIn.
In October, which is Mental Health Awareness Month, we will be exploring in depth the subject of wellness in civil society work - stay tuned on our socials to learn more and find opportunities to get involved!
Under the One Future Festival, we will be facilitating workshops on themes like Understanding Power, Privilege and Oppression with Quantum Consumer Solutions.
Want to host a similar workshop on themes of social justice, feminist leadership, etc. in your organisation or educational institution? Reach out to us at info@onefuturecollective.org.
OFC Spotlight 💡
As part of our digital community spotlight, we highlight a few stories of impact and contribution from the One Future Community. This month under the spotlight, we have:
Gulal Salil, a visual anthropologist and graphic storyteller from the One Future Collective community, whose illustrations featured in a story series on Rohingya Muslims in India and their access to healthcare, reported by Shreehari Paliath for IndiaSpend. This series was a finalist at the Human Rights and Religious Freedom Journalism Awards. You can read the story here.
Follow us on Instagram and LinkedIn to catch upcoming OFC Spotlights and more and learn about the communities that drive our work!
Art x Social Justice 🎨
This month, our recommendations are based on themes of oppressive social structures shaping lived experiences and collective growth. Click on the image to learn more.
From the Toolbox 🧰
Feminist Peer Support
This is an introductory course on feminist peer support models of mental health that address uneven access, power dynamics and healthcare outcomes for different people.
We would recommend this course to those looking to start learning about feminist peer support as a practice in community mental healthcare.
Get Involved ⚙️
Contribute this Daan Utsav 2024 - help us activate South Asian women and queer folks’ feminist leadership by making a donation for the One Future Fellowship today.
Are you part of a feminist civil society organisation based in urban or peri-urban India and eager to join One Future Collective’s Indian Urban Feminist Civil Society Network? Write to us at info@onefuturecollective.org to join or ask questions!
Access our digital community centre, where you will find free peer listening support. To access affordable labour rights advisory through the Labourdesk, book a consultation today.
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