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Mary Ann Clements

What capacities might we, as white people in international development, need to build in ourselves…

A letter to white people like me, about the capacities I think we need to think about building in ourselves, to enable us to play a part…

Jul 23, 2020

What capacities might we, as white people in international development, need to build in ourselves…

Jul 23, 2020

How can we transform toxic culture in the international development sector?

What’s going on in the ‘international development’ sector when charities are found to have toxic cultures? And organisations which claim…

Mar 20, 2019

How can we transform toxic culture in the international development sector?

Mar 20, 2019

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What Role Can Privileged White People Play In International Development?

I believe our sector replicates the same injustices we claim to tackle. Here’s how we can do better.

Oct 24, 2018

What Role Can Privileged White People Play In International Development?

Oct 24, 2018

Bringing our whole selves to our work in International Development

What would it look like if we brought our whole selves to our work in international development? To the pursuit of global justice?

Aug 29, 2018

Aug 29, 2018

Are you ‘sleeping with your laptop’?

This article was inspired by an Insta post made a few weeks ago by the awesome Leyla Hussein. Do check out her work at…

May 18, 2018

Are you ‘sleeping with your laptop’?

May 18, 2018

Resisting the commoditisation of self-care & building our capacity for collective care

I see some of what is happening, in particular online, around ‘self-care’ as a commodification and the development of a kind of ‘self-care’…

Apr 26, 2018

Resisting the commoditisation of self-care & building our capacity for collective care

Apr 26, 2018

Thousands of passionate people and a few ‘bad eggs’?

The recent story about Oxfam’s handling of abuse that happened in Chad and Haiti feels like the #MeToo moment for the charity sector which…

Feb 13, 2018

Thousands of passionate people and a few ‘bad eggs’?

Feb 13, 2018

Do you ever think you don’t have time to get help?

Do you ever think you don’t have time to get help? It’s easier to do it yourself? You’re only one that can do it?

May 18, 2017

Do you ever think you don’t have time to get help?

May 18, 2017

Why manifesting abundance will not lead us to a more equitable world (and why that matters)

It’s no particular secret that I’ve had to cure myself from a tendency to give away too much. Yep I’m the kind of person who finds herself…

Apr 18, 2017

Why manifesting abundance will not lead us to a more equitable world (and why that matters)

Apr 18, 2017

12 signs that busyness has become burnout despite our desire to make a difference

My personal experience of ‘burning out’ some years ago as the Director of a small international charity started me asking questions about…

Mar 2, 2017

12 signs that busyness has become burnout despite our desire to make a difference

Mar 2, 2017

Mary Ann Clements

Mary Ann Clements

Initiator of healingsolidarity.org where you will find resources on anti-racism & wellbeing in INGOs. Also building cultures of care @maryannmhina.

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