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

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?