Movement onboarding

Movement onboarding - sustaining the flow is about defining capacity

intros, what brought you here Q0: Scope of the convo, What is the movement? (that this room is bldg, eg away from big tech, but also could do our individual mvmts - onboarding ppl to our specific) A: this room

• alternate hosting (non-corporate), Infrared
• liberation/justice values aligned
• democratic/non-hierarchical structures
• ..

Accessibility/onboarding for this mvmt: (Trade-offs of accessing this space)

• Linguistic
• access to technology--infrastructure, knowledge and security
• awareness- ease of finding information and existance
• community (spaces like this, physical and digital)
• safety - disability/risk, emotional/psychosocial (space for disagreement, capacity/resilience to handle conflicts)
• Resilience -
• economic & freedom of movement (to travel, caretakers, etc)
• Collaborative spirit/energy - Knowledge sharing/alignment, etc. (knowlege appropriateness, the vp of DEI for planned parenthood -- are they appropriate for this room? does their knowledge grow w this knowledge?) shared knowledge growth opportunities
• Capacity for learning

Self-directed/proactive Triage (Considering above, Accommodations requests, Disclaimers, Alternative (spaces/opps))

• Looking more broadly at the movement itself. Seeing barriers as exist and engaging in triage process.
• Who (Considering access conditions) these are people you can meet with
• then Welcoming + entering space (what's the meat of onboarding)
  • ..

what comes with onboarding?

• Participation (verb of participating in this event) - Activities of the movement, to be involved in, is to be-- (Diff ways for people to participate/show up in the space)
  • Knowledge sharing/making
  • Listening
  • Connection-building/Networking
  • Resource sharing/making (documenting)
  • inviting others in/spreading the word
  • Stewardship - The intangibles of community building
  • ..

Onboarding in terms of interpersonal/active practice

• Gaining context (as someone new, eg catching up), planning
• (getting from pre-stage to full participation)

Barriers to entry

• Hierarchies, cultural authorities (eg ballroom, questioning may not be welcome)
• having to participate in tribute/respect, reflect history/values of the mvmt
• Adherence to community guidelines
• People with direct experience at the forefront, but how to plug in those w/o that exp
  • A lot of orgs ask people to donate as their way of bringing ppl in
• ..

Audiences/Roles | Strategy/Goals | Tools/skills | Actions (see below) eg infrared network has a big list but no "what's next"? Diversifying strategies/goals good way to ensure people can adapt participation activities to them tools - strategies may need/use, and we need people developing

How do we actually onboard, get meaningful participation

this room -- what are the actual resources/roles that need to be built for meaningful participation?

Roles:

• role of community technologist
• Stewards/Caretakers
• Facilitators
• Documenters
• Historian
• Translator
• psychosocial (therapists, healers, feelers)
• Advocates
• Creators/imagineers
• Radical Welcomers
• Third Spacers (eg making quiet spaces, happy hours after event, recharge/rest, etc)

things: communication platforms/resources (wiki, etc)

• Where we can be (individually/together)
• Values
• Where we can be
• Known presence

3rd spaces (Being not doing opps)

• escape valve
• quiet space
• recharge
• rest
• recover
• Being (not tied to output/productivity)
• Non-exploitative
• No goals/outputs
• organic (not organized, not forced to be there)

Values (important to have walking into space)

• human-centered

Doing a pre-mortem. Onboarding fails, why?

• Don't have different goals for different audiences (only have one big goal)
• Diff ways for people to participate/show up in the space
• Ways to know people are there