Announcing RadHR's Forum animation conversations (Feb 2026)

Good morning all!

I promised to share some of the background to my threads. This post introduces what I was thinking about when I mentioned the ethical framework earlier.

One of the first things we did was a values check. These are RadHR’s. These are Roxanne’s. We agreed politically-aligned working principles for this project.

  • Non-extractive: This is an analysis of participation patterns and structures
  • Non-evaluative: Every response is a contribution to shared meaning-making, not a quotable illustrative “data point”.
  • Non-managerial: Any facilitation to follow social pedagogies
  • Non-hierarchical: Low barriers to entry, conversation led

The deficit language makes me uncomfortable and also seems important to create distance from regular surveys, consultations, workshops, and so on. I could rephrase more positively but I think that would undermine the ‘anti’ positioning.