
The Compear Digital Resource Library is a curated collection of tools, strategies, and insights designed to support equity-centered, human-first approaches in global education. This evolving space offers professionals the opportunity to explore a wide range of topics, from creating caring community agreements to fostering culturally responsive learning and elevating underrepresented perspectives in international contexts.
We invite contributors to share their expertise and resources. If you have tools, research, or ideas to add, please contact us at info[at]compear.org. Together, we’re cultivating a community committed to brave leadership, practice, and transformative global engagement.
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Toward an Agenda for Disrupting Apathy:An Application of Respectful Disruption Leadership (RDL)
This article by Dr. Chris reframes apathy as a systemic by-product rather than a personal flaw, offering a five-part Respectful Disruption Leadership (RDL) praxis to counter it. Grounded in research on identity, efficacy, and emotion, it provides actionable strategies to reawaken purpose, build micro-power, interrupt harmful patterns, apply systemic pressure, and foster shared accountability—turning apathy into a catalyst for change.
Article 5: What If Your Legacy Isn’t Measured in Metrics?
Legacy isn’t about the mark you leave—it’s about the motion you start. So what are you setting in motion?
Article 4: What If Compassion Is a Core Leadership Skill?
Real leadership isn’t just about getting results, it’s about making people feel safe to follow. What if compassion is the skill that makes all others possible?
Article 3: What If Leadership Looks More Like Listening?
Leadership isn’t always about speaking up, sometimes it’s about making room. Dr. Chris explores what happens when we lead not with declarations, but with deep, courageous listening. In a noisy world, the most revolutionary thing a leader can do is… pause.
Article 2: What If Rest Is a Leadership Strategy?
We’ve praised hustle as leadership for too long. In this reflection, Dr. Chris invites us to rethink rest, not as retreat, but as a radical, visionary act. What if the leaders who pause are the ones creating the most space for others to rise?
Article 1: What If Leadership Isn’t What We’ve Been Taught to Chase?
We’ve been taught to chase leadership like it’s a title, a spotlight, or a seat at the table. But what if real leadership is quieter, more human, and far more disruptive? In this reflection, Dr. Chris invites us to reimagine leadership as a practice of presence, not performance.
“The Power of a Community Pact" Part 2
In "The Power of a Community Pact" Part 2, Christina Thompson and Kory Saunders discuss their approach to creating a community pact for diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging workshops. Key principles include sharing lived experiences, creating a Brave Space for courageous sharing, maintaining confidentiality and encouraging learning, balancing participation with the mantra "make space, take space", engaging in constructive conversations ("calling in" not "calling out"), disregarding titles and hierarchy, and inviting personal growth ("come as you are, but don't leave as you came").
Respectful Disruption: An Unapologetic Approach
Compear.org was founded in response to an evident disparity in global education. We observed a world where certain narratives were favored, where the rich tapestry of global histories and marginalized voices was too often silenced. This led us to realize that to achieve authentic diversity, equity, and inclusion, it wasn't enough to merely adjust the system in place. We needed to revolutionize it. That was when we embraced the approach we now call 'respectful disruption.' This approach is also the basis of my doctoral research and framework that we use for our educational programming and coaching.