Our intention is to promote a full humanism, one that is connected to the head (reason), heart (compassion), and hands (social and personal change). Human worth: the idea that every human being has infinite and inherent worth (separate from whatever "value" others find in them), and is deserving of dignity and basic human rights. Human connection: we do not and cannot exist as completely individua
lized beings, we are social beings and our human connections shape us even as we have choice in shaping our human connections. We are also inherently interconnected with the all of life, and those connections also shape us even as we have choice in how we shape the connections. Human responsibility: humanism is not just ideas, it is work. It is taking responsibility for solving problems facing or created by humans. This includes dismantling systems of oppression (including recognizing where we are still part of them), restoring a sustainable relationship with the rest of the natural world, and building interpersonal lives of respect and peace.
