Relationships, Community & Collective Care

Objectives

• D02.S1.12.01 Sustain intimate, trusting relationships through honest communication, repair, and mutual respect.
• D02.S1.12.02 Reflect on their own communication and relationship habits and commit to growing as a listener and partner.
• D02.S2.12.01 Integrate empathy and perspective-taking into ethical reasoning about complex social problems.
• D02.S2.12.02 Act on empathy to reduce suffering and promote dignity for others, including the more-than-human world.
• D02.S3.12.01 Articulate their own place within nested communities, from family to the global community of all life.
• D02.S3.12.02 Weigh belonging, solidarity, and collective responsibility in deciding how to act for the common good.
• D02.S4.12.01 Articulate a personal ethic of care, cooperation, and mutual aid for a just and thriving world.
• D02.S4.12.02 Act on collective responsibility for people and the Earth, connecting local action to global solidarity.

Essential questions

• How do I sustain intimate, trusting relationships through honest communication, repair, and mutual respect, and grow as a listener and partner?
• How do I integrate empathy into ethical reasoning about complex social problems and act on it — for people and for the more-than-human world?
• How do I weigh belonging, solidarity, and collective responsibility, and act on a personal ethic of care and mutual aid from local action to global solidarity?

Big ideas

• Intimate, trusting relationships are sustained through honest communication, repair, and mutual respect, and growing as a listener and partner is a lifelong commitment.
• Empathy can be integrated into ethical reasoning and enacted for others — including the more-than-human world — to reduce suffering and promote dignity.
• I live within nested communities from family to the global community of all life; weighing belonging, solidarity, and collective responsibility is how care becomes a shared future.

Lessons

1. 1 What Trust Is Made Of 55 minutes
2. 2 The Hard Conversation 55 minutes
3. 3 Repair: Listen, Own It, Make It Right 55 minutes
4. 4 The Listener I Want to Become 55 minutes
5. 5 Empathy as Evidence 55 minutes
6. 6 Many Views, One Problem 55 minutes
7. 7 Dignity for the More-Than-Human 55 minutes
8. 8 My Place in the Nest 55 minutes
9. 9 Who's In, Who's Out, and Why 55 minutes
10. 10 Weighing Solidarity 55 minutes
11. 11 A Personal Ethic of Care 55 minutes
12. 12 Mutual Aid, Not Just Charity 55 minutes
13. 13 Local Action, Global Solidarity 55 minutes
14. 14 The Ethic I Carry Forward 55 minutes

Assessment plan

Intimate-relationship and listener-growth reflections; an empathy-into-ethical- reasoning analysis of a complex social problem; a dignity-for-the-more-than-human- world action; a nested-communities map from family to the global community of all life; a belonging-solidarity-responsibility weighing; a personal ethic of care and mutual aid; and a local-to-global solidarity action, gathered as capstone portfolio artifacts.