Guidelines for non-participants
The Brassica Collective welcomes involvement by non-participants in a wide range of ways.
Examples include:
- welcoming guests to attend specific events
- inviting contributions from Collaborators
- engaging values-aligned organisations for additional skills, labour, products, and services
- seeking advice and building relationships with individuals and organisations involved in broader movements for justice.
These guidelines are emerging as we develop a shared understanding of when and how we want to invite non-participants into different aspects of our collective practices.
Attending Assemblies and Workshops
These guidelines were put together by PAS Crew based on discussion with Brassica Collective participants:
We are willing to try having non-participant attendees at assemblies and participant-workshops.
We think any extra facilitation labour is outweighed by the value of having non-participant attendees.
The criteria for who we invite to attend is “people who are interested in participating in and/or have experience of participating in housing related collective projects.”
Non-participants will be encouraged to take part in decision making and their input will be collected and recorded separately to input from participants.
If the same individual attends 5 times in a calendar year Brassicas will discuss the impact of serial non-participant attendance and other options for participation.
If a participant has invited a non-participant who is confirmed to be intending to attend they will please notify other participants in the Brassica Project channel (so we know what to expect).
We will roughly limit non-participant attendance to 1 out of 4 of the total number of assemblies and participant-workshops.
Context
These guidelines were developed through discussion between the Brassica Collective participants which occurred in person (at an assembly) and online (on Loomio) as well as via a 1:1 interview process for one participant whose thoughts might otherwise have been missed out on.
These guidelines, like most of our documentation, can be changed to reflect our current collective practices.