These Community Agreements help us identify concrete ways to create that culture and to talk about and through conflict, with an emphasis on repair and restoration. Using these practices and tools we can challenge ourselves and each other while still recognizing we’re all coming from different places of knowing and transforming.

By engaging in Indivisible online, via text, and in-person, you are agreeing to abide by these agreements. Please be mindful of your own actions, be open to observations of your behavior, and be open to sharing feedback with others regarding their actions.

Community Agreements inspired by NorthEast Sustainable Agriculture Working Group, (NESAWG)

• Be Curious, Open, and Respectful - Call in, not out. Throw sunshine, not shade. Calling in includes addressing someone via DM or privately instead of in groups or member chats.

• No one knows everything - Together we know a lot

• We can’t be articulate all the time - Give the benefit of the doubt, assume good intention, and ask questions

• We take care of ourselves - stretch, eat, drink, take breaks, rest, etc .

• Confidentiality - don’t speak for others without explicit permission, don’t share something communicated in a private or safe space.

• Share intentionally - What is your intent for sharing? What are you hoping to achieve by sharing? How could this impact others? 

• One mic - one voice at a time

• Take Space/Make Space - if you are usually quiet challenge yourself to take more space, and if you usually talk a lot be mindful to leave room for quieter voices

• Avoid Jargon, Acronyms, and Industry language - use inclusive language that is accessible for people with varying inside knowledge

• Be aware of time - enough let’s move on (ELMO)  means if what you wanted to say has already been said, don’t say it

• Speak from your own experience - Use I statements rather than generalizations

• Challenge assumptions