Event:2015/03/15 CDC

Attendees

 * yar, Diana, Julio, Amgo, Mark

==Agenda
 * Check-in
 * Appreciation
 * Burnout discussion: capacity to engage / self-care
 * Oakland Power Projects report
 * Interaction with other radical groups

Check-in / Appreciation

 * Amgo: close to overwhelemed, yet appreciative, empathy broadened
 * Mark: full from eating pizza with teenagers at a fundraiser
 * Diana: thinking about own role
 * Julio: cooking, excited about the Oakland Power Projects
 * yar: worried about compromises that the Omni makes to survive - recuperation, extend/embrace/extinguish. staying away out of burnout but still engaging in this conversation. makes me feel guilty & vulnerable to participate that way since i'm not doing a lot of the work anymore

Appreciation

 * Amgo: L has been putting a lot of energy, time, and skills into survey for visioning meeting; two men attacked the proccess, etc. multiple people were bummed out
 * Bring in conversation with Syurvey analysis incident into Conflict meeting
 * Julio: thanks Rachel, Jenny, and Niki helped set me up on bookings and commons work... we need to find more people to do this work (going to a meeting on Saturday could be a deterrent)

Burn-out

 * Regenerative experiences to alleviate burnout
 * Need to disperse information and sharing of responsibility
 * Radical act of self-care, people should be able to take a sebatical
 * Work of the Omni should be to radicalize those are not yet radical
 * People need to be healthy
 * Visioning needs to happen
 * We need to make sure there is a radical ideological anchor

Previous discussion from March 8

 * Expectations for this project not sustainable. drives people away.
 * Feels guilt...need to be real about capacities for handling conflict. Overcommitment is destructive.
 * Receiving lots of aggression given this subject and space - unhealthy.
 * how much urgency is really required? BE very realistic and define capacities to engage / reasonable timeframe.
 * emotional labor very feminized. Lots of the guilt tied into that.
 * Potential monthly appreciative meeting.
 * Also active outreach to expand network during delegates meeting.
 * Ways to harness funding from academic research perspective
 * ACTION: Talk about burn out first next time - share appreciations first thing next meeting. Start with a check-in.
 * NOTE: Next week no discussion on Conflict - that is a separate meeting.