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