- Grassroots social change by creating local, community driven collaborations in order to foster social change from the top down, as well as from the bottom up.
- Non-violence in terms of active resistance requiring one to act when faced with injustice. Leadership at COHI is supporting women to lead, to be forces for change in communities healing from conflict and disaster, and in organizational movements to support women in leadership roles.
- Volunteerism through the giving of time, money, knowledge, and general support with the goal of easing the suffering of others.
- Activism in individual responses to inequity and injustice.
- Pro-choice through supporting a woman in her right to make her own decisions in all aspects of her health care and methods of service provision, while protecting access to the resources required to honor her choices.
Tibetan midwife