If we care about connection and belonging, we have to care about leaving and endings.
a simple question:
What would communities be like if how institutions leave mattered as much as how they begin and grow?
a simple goal:
To build norms, language, and standards of responsibility and care for institutional leaving that are as robust as the ones we bring to building and joining.
Our goal isn’t to make leaving more common; it’s to make leaving more accountable to community.
a simple structure:
When it fully launches, the WellLeaving Project will be a five-year philanthropically funded initiative — not an organization that needs to be around for the long-term. Read more about it here.
We’re planning to end from the moment we start, leaving a legacy of momentum and impact.
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“The WellLeaving Project” is a placeholder title. To reduce confusion with the concept we espouse and to signal that wellLeaving is a word and an idea that needs to belong to all of us, not one project or group, we are workshopping alternatives and will set a project name prior to full launch.