Vision and Mission
VISION
We envision women’s local and Indigenous knowledges as fostering equitable power relations and inspiring vibrant communities and sustainable environments.
MISSION
Our mission is to inspire equitable relations of power in engaged vibrant communities and sustainable environments by reclaiming and reframing suppressed women’s local and Indigenous knowledge systems and producing accessible transformative stories that ripple out into homes, schools, workplaces, and neighbourhoods.
Our Core Values
The Siinqee Institute is a prefigurative space of emergence where our diverse group is held together by our shared commitments to the core values of relationality, solidarity, equity, and justice.
Relationality signifies the fundamental truth that all beings in the entire cosmos are equal, interconnected, and interdependent, and that all these beings are woven together by intricate checks and balances of harmonious relations to safeguard equity and justice. By relationality we understand the assumptions and beliefs from which all our praxes follow.
Solidarity signifies the struggle to restore the checks and balances in the harmonious relations of equity and justice when the fundamental truth of relationality is disrupted by forms of injustice, oppression, or discrimination. By solidarity, we understand both the joint calling out of societal structures of injustice out there, and the calling into ourselves on our own embodied injustice.
Equity signifies the fair distribution of power and resources among all beings of the cosmos. It is the goal of solidarity struggles imbued with mutual empathy and care, including reciprocity with the natural environment.
Justice signifies the restorative power of healing ruptured relationality. It is the goal of mending and repairing the ruptured egalitarian relations, harmony, and balance of the fundamental truth. Justice focuses on restorative processes of healing the whole in lieu of punishing the few.
In these core values of the Siinqee Institute, we have a complete wholistic process encapsulating relationality (the premise of our praxes), solidarity (our praxes), and equity and justice (the goals of our praxes).