institutional betrayal

This institutional betrayal terrain map is for practitioners, leaders, and care workers who want to understand institutional betrayal beyond individual experience — including concept origins, how colonial logics drive it in mission-driven systems, and what it looks like when institutions choose protect themselves rather than the people they're meant to serve. This terrain map includes:

• an overview of institutional betrayal and how Roots in the Clouds extends Jennifer Freyd's framework into the wider polycrisis
• a brief history of the concept and how it operates across workplaces, governments, nonprofits, and other institutions that ask for trust
• an examination of how colonial logics continue to drive institutional betrayal in mission-driven settings today
• five pathways for decolonizing how we understand and respond to institutional betrayal

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