Shared Community Commitments

Don't Clock Out - Shared Community Commitments

These commitments are meant to offer anyone engaging with our work, (including co-facilitators, volunteers, support group attendees, guests, board members, community partners + collaborators, ) a sense of shared responsibility and accountability to one another. Written by Sarita Warren for Don't Clock Out.

• Peer Support

  • Disrupt lateral violence and isolation through vulnerability

  • Deepen human connection through shared experiences

  • Build interdisciplinary community beyond institutions

• Mutuality

  • Reaffirm our inter-connectedness and responsibility to one other

  • Move away from hierarchies towards shared power

• Dignity

  • Use "I" statements + Everyone's preferred pronouns

  • Respond to vulnerability and emotion with sensitivity and care

  • Maintain confidentiality; Including unauthorized use of AI note taking, audio/visual recording etc

• Trauma Awareness + Sensitivity

  • Acknowledge and hold space for individual and collective impacts of trauma

  • Avoid describing traumatic experiences in detail

  • Avoid minimizing experiences or comparisons

• Justice

  • Acknowledge harm of structural violence on historically marginalized and racialized communities

  • Commit to challenging and disrupting status quo of supremacy culture

  • Naming systems of oppression even when uncomfortable

• Curiosity + Imagination

  • Be careful with "either/or," move towards "both/and"***

  • Engage with curiosity and openness

  • Trust in our ability to dream of alternative care realities