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Right Livelihood, the Buddhist term that connotes making a living in a way that serves the world, guides us in using our gifts to work in, with and for our communities. Transformative Language Arts is deeply rooted in Right Livelihood, melding our experience as artists of the language arts with the needs in our home communities. Making and sustaining opportunities for many peoples to express themselves through the arts also means personally and economically sustaining ourselves. Stroll these pages to learn more, and consider how you can help us sustain and grow right livelihood resources.

By working in an ethical way that take sinto account the effect of our actions on the world while cultivating work that brings us meaning and purpose, we need to be mindful of these five areas.  

1. Ethics in Action
2. Engaging Diversity
3. The Art of Self-Care
4. The Art of Facilitation
5. Sustainable Business Practices

Each of these areas spills into the other, and yet all are necessary to pay attention to, continually learn about, question, and through questioning, to quote, Rainer Maria Rilke, "Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers."