How we want to be with each other - Loomio Participation Guidelines
Jackie PublicSeen by 59Let's use this space to align around some Participation Guidelines. Original text of discussion to be found on http://natgat2014.titanpad.com/57.
Have separated the discussion Create Loomio Group Participation Guidelines, Usage and Decision Making Processes out into 3. Please use this page for discussing and proposing How we want to be with each other - Participation Guidelines
the 3 discussions:
How we want to be with each other - Loomio Pariticpation Guidelines
https://www.loomio.org/d/CFlnIK31/create-loomio-group-participation-guidelines-usage-and-decision-making-processes
How we use loomio - Loomio Usage
https://www.loomio.org/d/tDwgb6L4/how-we-use-loomio-loomio-usage
How we make decisions - Loomio Decision Making
https://www.loomio.org/d/z4RIg1tK/how-we-make-decisions-loomio-decision-making
# Loomio Processes
Members
Removal
x complaints by one or more members of group
warning
in person or tele convo
bring to group
vote on loomio
Participation Guidelines: (these are from IO, for the calls; add others, your own or amend these) (The original call participation guildes can be found at: http://interoccupy.net/about/participation-guidelines/
GUIDELINES FOR PARTICIPATION + COMMUNICATION
- Be Curious and Open to Learning: Listen to and be open to hearing all points of view. Maintain a attitude of exploration and learning.
- Balance Advocacy and Inquiry: Seek to learn and understand as much as you might want to persuade. Conversations are as much about listening as it is about talking.
- Show Respect and Suspend Judgment: Setting judgments aside will enable you to learn from others and contribute to others experiencing being respected and appreciated.
- Seek Alignment rather than Agreement: Alignment is shared intention, whereas agreement is having a shared belief or opinion.
- Be Purposeful and to the Point: Notice if what you are conveying is or is not “on purpose” to the question at hand. Notice if you are making the same point more than once. Do your best to make your point quickly with honesty and depth.
- Own and Guide the Conversation or Process: Take responsibility for the quality of your participation and the quality of the work conversations by noticing what’s happening and actively support getting yourself and others back “on purpose” when needed.
- Be Excellent to Each other: Share what’s important to you. Speak authentically; from your personal and heart felt experience. Be considerate to others who are doing the same.
- Respect the subject threads: Since there's a lot of traffic here, keep the threads intact. Don't post something that mixes one thread with another. Better to refer to people, "I just posted about abc in the xyz conversation."
Good to analyze what we have done, what has worked and what hasn’t, and present this developing tool to a larger group.
I disagree.
If you read the proposal it defines what the block is in this situation.
Folks either want to support the effort or not. There is not an option of stopping others from stepping up to do the work. #nicetry
@NatGat2014: The most important thing is to remember the most important thing.
We Are The 99%!
Don't take the "bait" of inflammatory or distracting statements by others; keep coming back to the main point; we can deal with those other issues later - if ever. Obviously, be open to discovering that there is something even more important to talk about than what we first thought. But let's always be clear what our priorities are, even if they change.
Mostly agreed, Tricia, but in most Occupy groups if one took a poll he/she would find that we are but a segment of the 99%—large parts of the 99 are uninvolved, distrustful of Occupy, etc. I think we should be open to hearing from those folks how we can be more inclusive—but I completely agree about the need for real focus on our priorities and letting distractions go by.
Obviously the whole gathering is the priority and the dates are July 31 to Aug 3. However does that have to mean that July 30 isn't a priority?
No, once we have the go-ahead from Delphine, we will promote the heck out of it !
I'm not saying that you have resisted promoting it.
But do I take from your above comment that what I have been saying about the training, isn't sufficient to get action? The on the ground and camping arrangements have been made by me. You know the name of the trainers, which Delphine supplied. Tricia asked me to provide food for and I said yes.
Is there a credibility gap?
We are taking instructions from Delphine, who we thought was bottom-lining. We are including the fact of the training almost everywhere—hmm, will check the flyer I made; cannot remember—and only recently got the name of the organization doing the training. Please talk to Delphine and e-mail what to say in a newswire post or press release to natgat2014@interoccupy.net and we will take it from there. If someone can add a few sample Tweets to our titanpad for samples (which is http://natgat2014.titanpad.com/40) or send them to the same e-mail address, that would help, too.
Sea, I had no idea that on the ground and camping arrangements have been made. Delphine didn't know there was a venue and asked we look at the Capitol for Thurs. as well.
One way to promote things is to start getting concrete info out. have you seen the In Sac map? It has each of our locations (needing update for Sat and Sun. If you would like to add those Wed. locations, send me an e.
Jackie, yes, I'll give you the locations. Where are the maps so I can look at them?
look on front page of hub and of website.
http://interoccupy.net/natgat2014/
after the schedule discussions/decision, I'll be able to do more updates.
we can put all sorts of stuff on the In Sac map - like favorite coffee shops or spots for internet, food,etc. alternative meeting spots.
Would love to have a section on the FAQ for Occupy friendly zones, businesses, etc. Support movement/activist friendly establishments.
Satellite/Solidarity spaces. Occupy, movement friendly zones.
https://natgat2014.titanpad.com/22
other Sac questions there if Sacramentoans want to take a stab.
On the subject of Blocking, I agree that it is important to work to really understand the reasoning of the person who is Blocking and hopefully this will be easier to do with the help of the conflict resolution people who have been asked to come.