MANDATE FOR CONFLICT SUPPORT COMMITTEE

Current members: Linda Reed, Laura DeBacker, Eliza Perkins, and Laraine Miner

The purpose of our committee is to support healthy, collaborative resolutions to conflicts in our WaCoHo community by accomplishing the following:

1. We will develop a suggested basic process for reconciling conflicts at
   WaCoHo.
   
2. We will post documents, models and resources on the Wiki that provide
   ideas and suggested skills for successfully resolving conflict. We also will
   provide brief presentations in ACM, and present workshops for practicing
   conflict resolution skills.
3. We encourage those involved in a conflict to meet face-to-face with each
   other to resolve the problem since email is never a way to solve a conflict.
   We support the current established email policy
4. We are available individually as a neutral helper to meet one-on-one with
   anyone involved in a conflict, for the purpose of clarifying their concept of
   the problem. We encourage the individual involved in the conflict to choose
   a helper with whom they feel the most trust. Our role is not one to solve the
   interpersonal problem, but to support the process. In our role as helper we
   commit to strict confidentiality.
   
5. We encourage all members of the community to develop trust with each
   other through in-person participation, working, playing, sharing meals with
   each other etc.
   
6. We have means to obtain outside mediation if a conflict is not resolved after
   sincere efforts to do so have not succeeded, and the conflict is negatively
   affecting our community.
   
7. Lastly, we maintain that conflict is inevitable, and, if embraced, it can
   become a prime motivator for positive change and growth in ourselves and
   in our relationships.
   

Revision #5
9/13/23