Community Agreement

• Uphold our community values for care, context, and curiosity.
• Maintain confidentiality of stories, self-disclosure, and other details shared within our meetings or asynchronous communication. But share the lessons and ideas we discuss far and wide.
• Take up space. Everyone’s voice is important—including yours. 
• Make space. Create the opportunity for others to share or ask questions.
• Show up and take care. Our meetings are open to a variety of forms of participation: verbal, visual, written, etc. Cameras and microphones are always optional.
• Ask questions. Whether they come up during our meetings or in between, ask. Your question benefits everyone.
• Speak from your own experience. Stick to first-person language whenever possible. Make distinctions between what you’ve experienced directly and what you’ve observed in those you work with.
• Question “normal.” Use this space to rethink your assumptions and practice taking others’ perspectives.
• Welcome multiple ways of knowing. Empiricism and rational thinking are dominant forms of knowing in supremacy culture. But other forms of knowing and experience are valid, too.
• Accept the challenge. You may confront uncomfortable ideas, hear about perspectives that are vastly different from your own, and feel a bit confused from time to time. Sit with it, ask for support, and get curious.