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Mary Ann Clements

Mary Ann Clements

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Jul 23, 2020

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…

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

Mary Ann Clements

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Mar 20, 2019

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…

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

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BRIGHT Magazine

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Mary Ann Clements

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Oct 24, 2018

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.

What Role Can Privileged White People Play In International Development?

Mary Ann Clements

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Aug 29, 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?

Mary Ann Clements

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May 18, 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…

Are you ‘sleeping with your laptop’?

Mary Ann Clements

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Apr 26, 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’…

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

Mary Ann Clements

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Feb 13, 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…

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

Mary Ann Clements

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May 18, 2017

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?

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

Mary Ann Clements

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Apr 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…

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

Mary Ann Clements

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Mar 2, 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…

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

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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