Event:2015/02/01 CDC Meeting
Attendees
- Yar, Amgo, Julio, Jenny, Ryan (deilann), Ryan R, Sarah P, Rachel
Agenda
- 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 and Kwe
Conflict Resolution
- 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
Names
- Challenging Power
- Dismantling Oppression
- Challenging oppression
- Creating Compassion
- Cultivating Care
Burnout
- 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
Conflict w/ Pigeon and Senti
- 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?