{"id":435,"date":"2025-03-27T20:11:23","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T20:11:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gainesvillefamilyinstitute.com\/?page_id=435"},"modified":"2025-04-04T13:53:00","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T13:53:00","slug":"philosophy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/gainesvillefamilyinstitute.com\/?page_id=435","title":{"rendered":"Philosophy"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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About the Gainesville Family Institute<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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Although each provider has their own unique practice, there are certain underlying theoretical principles that unite everyone at the Gainesville Family Institute. It is important to openly articulate these principles, especially in a climate where historically oppressed voices continue to be threatened. These include:<\/p>\n

Systemic Practice – Whether providing services to individuals, couples or families, we conceptualize and practice from a systemic framework. In doing so, we are interested in the context in which people live. Biological systems, familial systems, social systems, belief and meaning systems all influence our lives. People often think individually but we live relationally. <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Oppression Sensitive Practice – When understanding people\u2019s life and the possibility for change, we are interested in forces that affect personal power and choice. Examples of these domains are (but are not limited to) : race, gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity, socio-economic status, age, health\/ability, religion\/spirituality, culture, and environment\/ecology. Although most people report to believe in equality, we are not all equal in power and choice.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Accountable Practice –  Issues of accountability are central to our thinking. This is true both personally and interpersonally.  Although we all hold accountability to one another, when interpersonal systems are hierarchical or when power is unequal, those with more power hold a greater responsibility, ethically and morally, to be accountable to those with less.   <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Developmental Practice -. The qualities of stability\/homeostasis, change\/growth and adaptation are common to all living things. This can be seen in the life of individuals, in relationships and in social systems. These qualities can also be considered from an intergenerational\/historical perspective. We must all negotiate the change\/no change dilemma.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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As a practice, we continue to be deeply troubled and outraged by the erasure of certain words from public-facing websites, training documents, curricula, and from research funding initiatives. To learn more about this list and the process of erasure, read more here\u00a0<\/a>via the New York Times.\u00a0<\/p>

We believe that words hold power, and while we cannot control the places where these words are being eliminated, we want these words to live on in our work and on our webpage.\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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  • accessible<\/li>
  • activism<\/li>
  • activists<\/li>
  • advocacy<\/li>
  • advocate<\/li>
  • advocates<\/li>
  • affirming care<\/li>
  • all-inclusive<\/li>
  • allyship<\/li>
  • anti-racism<\/li>
  • antiracist<\/li>
  • assigned at birth<\/li>
  • assigned female at birth<\/li>
  • assigned male at birth<\/li>
  • at risk<\/li>
  • barrier<\/li>
  • barriers<\/li>
  • belong<\/li>
  • bias<\/li>
  • biased<\/li>
  • biased toward<\/li>
  • biases<\/li>
  • biases towards<\/li>
  • biologically female<\/li>
  • biologically male<\/li>
  • BIPOC<\/li>
  • Black<\/li>
  • breastfeed + people<\/li>
  • breastfeed + person<\/li>
  • chestfeed + people<\/li>
  • chestfeed + person<\/li>
  • clean energy<\/li>
  • climate crisis<\/li>
  • climate science<\/li>
  • commercial sex worker<\/li>
  • community diversity<\/li>
  • community equity<\/li>
  • confirmation bias<\/li>
  • cultural competence<\/li>
  • cultural differences<\/li>
  • cultural heritage<\/li>
  • cultural sensitivity<\/li>
  • culturally appropriate<\/li>
  • culturally responsive<\/li>
  • DEI<\/li>
  • DEIA<\/li>
  • DEIAB<\/li>
  • DEIJ<\/li>
  • disabilities<\/li>
  • disability<\/li><\/ul>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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    • discriminated<\/li>
    • discrimination<\/li>
    • discriminatory<\/li>
    • disparity<\/li>
    • diverse<\/li>
    • diverse backgrounds<\/li>
    • diverse communities<\/li>
    • diverse community<\/li>
    • diverse group<\/li>
    • diverse groups<\/li>
    • diversified<\/li>
    • diversify<\/li>
    • diversifying<\/li>
    • diversity<\/li>
    • enhance the diversity<\/li>
    • enhancing diversity<\/li>
    • environmental quality<\/li>
    • equal opportunity<\/li>
    • equality<\/li>
    • equitable<\/li>
    • equitableness<\/li>
    • equity<\/li>
    • ethnicity<\/li>
    • excluded<\/li>
    • exclusion<\/li>
    • expression<\/li>
    • female<\/li>
    • females<\/li>
    • feminism<\/li>
    • fostering inclusivity<\/li>
    • GBV<\/li>
    • gender<\/li>
    • gender based<\/li>
    • gender based violence<\/li>
    • gender diversity<\/li>
    • gender identity<\/li>
    • gender ideology<\/li>
    • gender-affirming care<\/li>
    • genders<\/li>
    • Gulf of Mexico<\/li>
    • hate speech<\/li>
    • health disparity<\/li>
    • health equity<\/li>
    • hispanic minority<\/li>
    • historically<\/li>
    • identity<\/li>
    • immigrants<\/li>
    • implicit bias<\/li>
    • implicit biases<\/li>
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      • inclusive leadership<\/li>
      • inclusiveness<\/li>
      • inclusivity<\/li>
      • increase diversity<\/li>
      • increase the diversity<\/li>
      • indigenous community<\/li>
      • inequalities<\/li>
      • inequality<\/li>
      • inequitable<\/li>
      • inequities<\/li>
      • inequity<\/li>
      • injustice<\/li>
      • institutional<\/li>
      • intersectional<\/li>
      • intersectionality<\/li>
      • key groups<\/li>
      • key people<\/li>
      • key populations<\/li>
      • Latinx<\/li>
      • LGBT<\/li>
      • LGBTQ<\/li>
      • marginalize<\/li>
      • marginalized<\/li>
      • men who have sex with men<\/li>
      • mental health<\/li>
      • minorities<\/li>
      • minority<\/li>
      • most risk<\/li>
      • MSM<\/li>
      • multicultural<\/li>
      • Mx<\/li>
      • Native American<\/li>
      • non-binary<\/li>
      • nonbinary<\/li>
      • oppression<\/li>
      • oppressive<\/li>
      • orientation<\/li>
      • people + uterus<\/li>
      • people-centered care<\/li>
      • person-centered<\/li>
      • person-centered care<\/li>
      • polarization<\/li>
      • political<\/li>
      • pollution<\/li>
      • pregnant people<\/li>
      • pregnant person<\/li>
      • pregnant persons<\/li>
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        • privileges<\/li>
        • promote diversity<\/li>
        • promoting diversity<\/li>
        • pronoun<\/li>
        • pronouns<\/li>
        • prostitute<\/li>
        • race<\/li>
        • race and ethnicity<\/li>
        • racial<\/li>
        • racial diversity<\/li>
        • racial identity<\/li>
        • racial inequality<\/li>
        • racial justice<\/li>
        • racially<\/li>
        • racism<\/li>
        • segregation<\/li>
        • sense of belonging<\/li>
        • sex<\/li>
        • sexual preferences<\/li>
        • sexuality<\/li>
        • social justice<\/li>
        • sociocultural<\/li>
        • socioeconomic<\/li>
        • status<\/li>
        • stereotype<\/li>
        • stereotypes<\/li>
        • systemic<\/li>
        • systemically<\/li>
        • they\/them<\/li>
        • trans<\/li>
        • transgender<\/li>
        • transsexual<\/li>
        • trauma<\/li>
        • traumatic<\/li>
        • tribal<\/li>
        • unconscious bias<\/li>
        • underappreciated<\/li>
        • underprivileged<\/li>
        • underrepresentation<\/li>
        • underrepresented<\/li>
        • underserved<\/li>
        • undervalued<\/li>
        • victim<\/li>
        • victims<\/li>
        • vulnerable populations<\/li>
        • women<\/li>
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