Attendees

Agenda

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

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?