A Personal Inquiry into Solidarity: Enhancing Relational Accountability in Healthcare Leadership

Guided by a first‑person action research methodology, this inquiry unfolded as a study of leadership and a personal journey. As participant and researcher, I engaged in reflective journals and embodied practices such as baking and kitchen table conversations. Antiracist practice, antioppressive inquiry, and storytelling fostered spaces of collective healing. Confronting complicity and relinquishing perfectionism opened pathways to humility, healing, and love. Findings revealed solidarity is imperfect and evolving, requiring accountability, vulnerability, and growth; letting go of control created space for joy, plurality, and deeper connection; and sustaining practice depends on daily relational choices rooted in values rather than certainty. This inquiry became not only a study of leadership but also a process of finding my voice, shaped by listening, reciprocity, and relational accountability, and committed to ethical, antioppressive healthcare leadership. Recommendations emphasize a texture of learning and healing through story, shared space, embodied practice, daily acts, values, and intergenerational leadership.

Author dc:creator

• Dimmer-Drew, Karla

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Etmanski, Catherine

• School of leadership studies

Language dc:language.iso

en_US

Identifier URI

https://doi.org/10.25316/IR-20952

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:null:10613/29423