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community accountability
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Accountability is not simple. It is often messy and hard, and it is also a deeply necessary component of any healthy community. We work with individuals who have experienced harm to co-create accountability processes within their community. This looks different for every person and every situation, but a truth that never changes is that it cannot be done alone.
Restorative practices prioritize the person or people who have been harmed in the process of addressing or repairing that harm. They work with us to design the process around their needs, at their own pace. They decide whether they want to sit in circle with the person or people who harmed them, and having that kind of agency can help them regain a sense of power & control in a situation that may have left them feeling powerless.
Accountability process can include:
- One on one sessions with a facilitator around accountability and changed behavior
- Talking circles to work toward shared understanding of impact, needs, & repair
- Community accountability processes in which a facilitator works with support teams for both the person who was harmed and the person who caused harm to navigate asks & needs for safety and repair
MEDIATION
encouraging dialogue
As facilitators of the mediation process, a primary goal is to encourage dialogue between participants that feels respectful and generative for everyone involved.
building an agenda
Part of our role as mediator is to help identify the root of the conflict at hand and to pull out parts of the narratives that connect to those roots. The agenda will loosely guide the mediation process.
Agreements and Follow-up
Conflict does not disappear when agreements are reached. Often participants find it helpful to schedule a follow-up session as an added measure of accountability to follow any agreements reached in the mediation process.
sharing narratives
It is essential that each person has the opportunity to speak their truths, wants, and needs in relation to the conflict at hand. In this step of the mediation process, participants will be asked to hold the community norm of respecting multiple truths, as our identities, relationships, and experiences shape our view of what constitutes truth.
solutions & reality testing
When participants in a mediation process approach a potential solution, we will engage with each of them individually to help ensure that the solution on the table is viable and that they are able to follow through with it before agreements are made.
COACHING
1:1 Coaching
We challenge those we coach to identify their values, strengths, and areas of growth in the process of co-creating goals and a plan for our work together. Our most successful individual coaching relationships are those that include honest conversations on the ways the client's power and privilege (both positional and in terms of their identities) impact their work and working relationships.
team coaching
We help teams identify and move toward their common goals through utilizing aspects of community accountability processes, restorative and transformative justice practices, and consensus-building. We specialize in helping organizations and teams plan and integrate restorative practices into their spaces.