Directional value statements: Collaborative Family Healthcare Association's refined values

In my column in last year's December issue (George, 2023), I asked you to engage with us to ask bold, uncomfortable questions informed by the ecocycle framework (Liberating Structures: Including and Unleashing Everyone, 1991). At the same time last year, the Collaborative Family Healthcare Association (CFHA) board of directors began our strategic planning. While all parts of the strategic plan are important, this article will present our work to update CFHA's values. These values represent directional statements and offer a framework to chart our future growth. The term "directional statements" signifies that the values presented here inform us where we need to look or what to look for. They help us locate ourselves and direct us on how to be in a community and in relation to each other and the world. They have already been informative in critical conversations this past year. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).