GOAL AREA: REFLECTION
You’re focused on Reflection in your REDI work. Based on your readiness and focus area, here are the tools most likely to support you. Each tool below shows the readiness levels (where you are in your journey) and focus areas it fits best — choose the one that aligns with where you are:

Othering & Belonging Design Principles

Best Suited for: Early, Developing
Goal Areas: Reflection, Culture
Developed by: Othering & Belonging Institute (UC Berkeley)

Purpose:
Provides a conceptual framework for understanding belonging as a condition where people are valued, respected, and able to participate fully in systems that shape their lives.

Context:
The Othering & Belonging Institute at UC Berkeley is a leading research institute focused on equity, inclusion, and structural inequality. Their work is widely cited in policy, academic, and nonprofit sectors.

Notable Features:
– Frames belonging as both relational and structural
– Connects belonging to power, participation, and systems change
– Moves beyond representation to focus on influence and voice
– Useful for grounding reflection in shared values and definitions

Organizational Equity Reflection Tool
Best Suited for: Early, Developing, Advancing
Goal Areas: Reflection, Culture
Developed by: Equity Learning Lab

Purpose:
Supports organizations in reflecting on their progress across key dimensions of equity work, including leadership, culture, programs, and systems.

Context:
Equity Learning Lab is a consulting and facilitation organization that works with nonprofits and public agencies on advancing equity practices. Tools like this are commonly used in organizational development and equity capacity-building settings.

Notable Features:
– Uses a continuum model (Curiosity, Commitment, Practice, Embedded) to reflect stages of growth
– Covers multiple organizational domains (e.g., leadership, communication, evaluation)
– Designed for team-based reflection and dialogue, not scoring
– Encourages identifying both current state and future goals