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Sustaining multiracial npdev community

Kinds of diversity that are most relevant to NPDev community:

* Race/ethnicity

* Language

* Location

* Country of origin

* Neurodiversity

* Health/body diversity (e.g., physical disabilities/chronic illness/heath and safety needs)


Needs:

* Physical space (question: is the current space big enough/accessible enough??)

* Overt facilitation support

* A way to contribute without bravery (without being in the panic zone, see below)

* Different ways of participating

* Clairfication of our communinty's definition of technology

* Empowerment/collective ownership of community*   


General ideas:

* Outreach programs

* Demystifying what really happens/More info about content ahead of time

* New name that is more accurate/more clear/more inviting to non-technical people

* A little more clarity about structure themes

* More advance design of themes (kinda like AMC tracks)

* More time to think/not be on the spot with the mic

* Ways to contribute requests/ideas without the mic or a conversation with Gunner (aka a busy person they may have never met)

* Name that it's scary/antiety-provoking to be on the mic in the circle

* Translation/interpretation 

* Orientation/onboarding re format

* Pre-session virtual

* 1:1s held by recent first-timers with new first-timers

* Pre-plan multilingual sessions

* Partnerships with community orgs to send staff and hold space

* Host committee 

* More different circle keepers

* Bring your mentee

* More invitation and support for inviting others in your community

* Ask all attendees who shouldbe here and what support do you need to bring people? (Note this already happens in the follow-up form)

* Balance of making it people's own responsibility vs Aspiration's responsibility

* Accept messiness ambiguity of shared power

* Be explicit about leaning into imperfection


Elements of clarifying community norms/demystifying what really happens

* Do you need to be an expert? NO!!!

* What does "holding space" mean?

* Be in your stretch zone, not your comfort zone or panic zone (https://www.crowe-associates.co.uk/coaching-tools/comfort-stretch-panic-coaching-tool/ one of many available simple explanations of what this means)

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