Event:2015/02/01 CDC Meeting

=Attendees= =Agenda= =Conflict Resolution= =Names= =Burnout= =Conflict w/ Pigeon and Senti=
 * Yar, Amgo, Julio, Jenny, Ryan (deilann), Ryan R, Sarah P, Rachel
 * Conflict mediation between Pigeon and Senti
 * Something about trust, resilience and sensitivity
 * Statement of Solidarity / blog post against harassment in community spaces
 * Burnout
 * Conflict mediation w/ Kwic
 * Good to have people outside of the Omni to help with mediation
 * Separate working group or collective for conflict mediation?
 * Lots of people would like to get training
 * Maybe a mutual aid mediation agreement / trade with another community space
 * Sarah: I think CDC should have money to spend
 * on "emotional infrastructure"
 * Amgo: I signed up for mediation training in April - student rate of $400 - I think they do group rates
 * Challenging Power
 * Dismantling Oppression
 * Challenging oppression
 * Creating Compassion
 * Cultivating Care
 * Role of CDC in examining the dominant culture of burnout and exhaustion
 * Amgo: Cultivating the kind of culture where someone else puts an arm up to hold the house up when someone else puts their arm down
 * Ryan: Or really, just so many people that you can simply let go.
 * Unsettling sense of urgency and pace
 * Response to violence often looks weird
 * What is the role of Omni mediating conflicts happening outside of the space? Might we explore a mutual aid mediator exchange with another community space?
 * Request a statement of safety from both parties
 * Pigeon brought another issue up with sudo back in December
 * What constitutes abuse? Or abuse of the easy-to-ban aspect of our policies?
 * What are their needs? Need to assert power... be heard..
 * With the Zach situation, we didn't have a process in place to bring him back into the community
 * We should make a statement that we do not ban people for not acting
 * How to respond to people acting out of pain?