The Cooperative Association INCLUSIVE LEADERSHIP CO-OPERATIVE was successfully dissolved on October 23, 2023 at 3:31 pm Pacific time. The Cooperative Association has been struck from the register and dissolved, and ceased to be an incorporated cooperative association under the Cooperative Association Act.

When I think about our Inclusive Leadership Co-operative, I think about how we did so much good work together from 2012 on. I am remembering back to our ten year celebratory weekend in August 2012 which became my retirement party. The day after the party, a group of us met and used the way of council process facilitated by Lori Austein to chart a way forward for Inclusive Leadership. One of the immediate outcomes of that meeting was that we worked out an agreement with Cowichan Intercultural Society so we could bring the words “Inclusive Leadership” to form a new organization that was focused on helping our community be an inclusive and welcoming environment based on respect for diversity.

For me, the highlights of continuing to develop Inclusive Leadership education within the Inclusive Leadership Co-operative, were for sure the facilitator training weekends, the gatherings and the Inclusive Leadership Adventures. Our 2019 ILA was simply wonderful. I am so appreciative too of the work Raj and I and so many others did to develop and make use of our Inclusive Leadership online course. The interconnections we developed with over 500 emerging Inclusive Leaders around the world – especially in Africa – have been so rich and were supported so well by the monthly Heart to Heart Cafes. I am also remembering our year of exploring how to raise a new generation of people who can make it easy and enjoyable to guide others in Inclusive and welcoming directions.

As I look to the future of Inclusive Leadership education, I know that each one of us who have been involved in Inclusive Leadership will continue to change our selves and our world one relationship at a time by applying whatever we integrated into our lives from our experiences with Inclusive Leadership. We will all continue to help all our relationships in our families, schools, workplaces and wider communities be safe, respectful, equal, enjoyable and enriched by the magnificent diversity of our incredible planet and universe.

Much love to you and everyone in our Inclusive Leadership community.

Linda Hill, co-founder

Bridging Schools to Community Through Inclusive Leadership

This video was created by Linda Hill, Gillian Berry and Lindsay Beal for a workshop, Bridging Schools to Community through Inclusive Leadership, presented at the World Federation of Associations of Teacher Education in July 2023. It is a beautiful description of the early days of the Inclusive Leadership Co-operative, the students who propelled its development and the impact of bridging schools and communities in this way.

Inclusive Leadership has been researched, developed and cultivated within the traditional territories of Cowichan Tribes, on Vancouver Island, BC since 2002. Cowichan Intercultural Society hosted the development of Inclusive Leadership from 2002 to 2012 through a decade of highly successful, inter-generational and intercultural community-building projects. In 2013, Inclusive Leadership Co-operative (ILC) was established.

ILC’s experiential, intercultural, inter-generational curricula have been developed through ongoing Participatory Action Research, applying the Inclusive Leadership Building Bridges steps of networking, gathering, building (relationships, community, skills, and awareness), action planning and follow up. Our Core Inclusive Leadership Skills are: Skills for connecting with differences, Skills for communicating with compassion, and Anti-Discrimination Skills for standing up for inclusion and diversity.

From 2013 – 2023, ILC offered diversity education workshops with such groups as: Cowichan Intercultural Society, Cowichan Tribes and House of Friendship, local municipal government, local school districts, Canadian Mental Health, Organizing Against Racism and Hate Network on Vancouver Island, Leadership Vancouver Island, BC Brian Injury Association and others.