Gentle justice

Our manifesto

A praxis of centring joy, peace and connection in our approach to social justice. Praxis means to learn through doing. This means that our manifesto continuously evolves, the more we learn about people, communities and society. In 2025, we updated our manifesto to include four new points:




Gentle justice is about:

  • Recognising and accepting difference whilst establishing collaborative working partnerships that identify commonality and enable social change. It seeks to build bridges, not burn them. 

  • An acknowledgement of what has been and what is, and a striving towards better…

  • It’s about striving for a protopian: a world that is better today, than it was yesterday. We appreciate the gentle progress we make every day with our work and in our lives;

  • A world that is more equitable and fairer each day means being actively anti-oppressive.

  • “Learning from the past to build for the future”: A Ghanaian proverb that teaches us to acknowledge the teachings of the past (from our ancestors to the movements before us), to build a future that is better. This also means accepting lessons that may not feel good but that help us to be better.

  • “A closed mouth is gold”: A Somali proverb that teaches us that we must listen more than we speak. As leaders we must be graceful and show humility if we are to mobilise with people to make change. 

  • Centring feminine leadership; being intuitive and empathetic, whilst being open, honest and authentic. Expressing ourselves with creativity and nature as an anchor.

And doing these things gently for our own wellbeing and for communities…. 

  • Having grace on ourselves and others in our strive for social justice: we will always seek to take care and move slowly when our mind, body and soul need to. We do this with the knowledge that we will rise again and knowing that our community has our back and we have theirs. We will remember this state of being in ourselves and others.

  • Showing gratitude and celebrating ourselves and each other.

  • Accepting that we will make mistakes, but we will always strive to learn from them.

  • Living Golden Sankofa is a joyful and connecting retrospective but also forward-thinking practice that enables an equitable future.

  • It’s laughing, crying, dancing, and singing together to release and remember that there is light, always.