Event:2015/07/19 Challenging Dominant Culture
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Challenging Dominant Culture Working Group (CDC WG) 19 July 2015
Attendees
- Sarah P, Niki, Dusty, Gwen, Cere, Yar, Matt, Libbie, Julio (notes)
Agenda
- Recurring Potluck +
- More Community Circles +
- Lynice Pinkard talk on burnout (summary?)
- Bottomliner transition (Sarah > Dusty + Julio?) +
- SEEDS mediaion - Julio will pay for it with some people $20 each ++
- Diana (and others that are not too involved) could mediation
- Visioning + Planning Process +
- Mental health de-escalation training
- Welcome Orientation Project
Regular Potlucks
- Sarah: talked with Ziji Collective about hosting a weekly meal (open to Omni members and neighbors), partner with Phat Beets or FNB?
- Niki: maybe having each week with a different activity: RJ circles, theater one monthly large gathering?
- Sarah will talk with Phat Beets and FNB about their involvement
- Sarah will schedule meeting with Ziji (late August)
- Julio: what does Ziji get out of it?
- Libbie/Sarah: They are a sect of Buddhism that is interested in social change, and ressonate with the mission of the Omni
- Matt: schedule a trial "planning" meal? +++ (late August)
Lynice (Burnout) Report Back
- Niki: Lynice is willing to participate in regular community circles
- Libbie: in conjunction with
- Other ideas she had for the CDC could tackle
- Structurelessness creating a lot of confusion; accumulations of power, amorphous
- Suggestion for addressing the lack of structure...
- connection to visioning and planning / welcoming and orientation
- Dusty: disconnect between vision/values and structure; does Lynice actually know or support our values?
- Niki: she isn't proposing a "program", but just sees that our values are not implementable in our current structure
- Matt: RJ practice: paradigm of establishing a circle with a strong intention: show strength (community building) and deal with conflict (harm)?
- Julio: circle for to deal with the core values of RJ?
- Sarah: bringing real solidarity and trust
- Matt: who would you expect to attend?
- Niki: depend on the circle. E.g. orientation discussion on values and expectations
- Matt: so it's a placeholder for addressing a specific issues, that will be predetermined later. Propose a trial run
- Libbie: It is also about creating a culture that manifests our values... Could be part of visioning process, use the form of circle to demonstrate
- Sarah: would attract more people who do not want to do meetings, but can offer up their open heart instead.
- Niki: potential to require people to attend a meeting of this
- Duisty:Shame that so many people who come to the Omni all the time who don't know what the Omni is
- Matt: Support regular space to deal with issues. Concerned with the idea that this idea could lose steam; prep so that doesn't happen. Monthly would be good. I see now that the motivation for an orientation circle.
- Dusty: monthly?
RJC training
- Libbie will follow-up with Amgo about payment for Julie
- Libbie will follow-up with Julie about future involvement
Bottomliner
- Julio willing to do some meetings, not all.
- Libbie can tag team with Julio or whoever
- Dusty will be gone for the first two weeks of August ... then will move Aug 30 (for a year)
- What are the duties?
- Sending out email notification about meetings
- Make sure there the meeting is on the calendar
- Make sure notes are taken and disseminated
- Dusty will own the PP role for next week (July 26)
- Julio/Libbie will update the calendar
Visioning and Planning
- Libbie hoping to tackle visioning and planning
- working with Laura T, who has experience in facilitation and specifically this topic
- Niki: Is it an open meeting?
- Libbie: was inviting people specifically one on one
- Dusty: might be better to be safe than sorry
- Yar: should be able to meet individually or with groups. Important discussions happen all the time informally
- Julio: no real decisions... so only planning the actual class and effort... no need to make it open to everyone
- Niki: We are always going to meet in individual
- Dusty: Agree with everyone; just has a fear of non-transparency
Orientation and Welcoming Project
- Dusty
- Having many informal decisions
- Leaving soon, so don't want to overcommitt and underdeliver
- Maybe Visioning process will drive orientation
- Orientations are very cool.
- Julio to add the orientation to the calendar (2 weeks left)
- Libbie can print Niki's copy
- Niki to share it with the group
Mental health de-escalation training
Libbie did some research
- the Coalition for Alternatives to Mental Health
- east bay community recovery project:
http://www.ebcrp.org/about/agency-history
- Alameda county mental health alliance community orgs:
http://mhaac.org/support/mental-health-resources/community-mental-health-resources.html
- Libbie: What is the ask?
- Niki: need to identify techniques and strategies for handling situations with
- Dusty: Hard to grasp the
- Yar: There's a problem with the framing, and it might affect the execution
- Libbie: Encountering a conflict with people who may not be able to cope with the situation... how to be helpful rather than harmful
- Libbie: also could get
- Niki has a friend whose sister was murdered
Mediation
- SEEDS training
- Ask for a general fund?
- Julio: Talk to SEEDS
- Julio: reimbursement request later
Matt, Libbie, Julio