We address conflict and aim to repair/heal relationships when possible.

A commitment to community is an investment in sustaining relationships, which means addressing conflicts and harm when they occur and putting in work towards mutual healing and repair when possible. We believe in leaning into conflict and tension because it can be generative, so we encourage addressing an issue when one comes up. Our intent is to cultivate restorative justice-informed spaces and partnerships so that we can show up authentically and communicate through conflict, all while centering care for one another.

If there is conflict or an instant that causes harm, we encourage speaking to each other directly about problems you may have with one another (if you feel safe and comfortable doing so). If you're looking for additional guidance, please refer to our Conflict Resolution Process here.

We welcome constructive feedback.

We acknowledge that we may not always get it right, and we're committed to doing better when we know better. We deeply appreciate sharing and receiving feedback in this space that we co-create. If you feel comfortable discussing this with us directly, you can always fill out our Feedback Form here and we will go over it internally.

We encourage vulnerabilty and uphold confidentiality.

​​​​​​​As we heal, grow, and work towards our collective vision of liberation, we encourage folks to become vulnerable about their stories and experiences. Embracing vulnerability has the ability to foster connections and create strength within our relationships. We acknowedge that there is power in vulnerability, and it is a tool for resisting systems that wish to erase our humanness. Of course, nobody will ever be pressured to share intimate details that they do not wish to share. What we learn from shared stories informs the work we do, however the details of the stories themselves will never be shared outside of the space. 

We committ to deconstructing whiteness, policing, and other harmful and dangerous systems internally as well as externally.

We acknowedge that whiteness, policing, etc are systems that have plagued our communities. These systems and institutions certianly manifest in public, wide-spread ways, but they also influence our internal processes and relationships with one another. We will be committed to managing relationships and conflict with restorative practices, rather than through policing and punishment of our peers and community.  

We are willing to learn and be open to new frameworks. 

We are open and willing to learn about processes, frameworks, events, etc that might inform our abolitionist organizing. The movement towards abolition weaves together many topics and other movements, creating an environment that will often be collaboartive and should be intersectional. As we organize for a future without prisons, cops, etc, we will move and flow with the ever-growing abolitionist movement, and be open to cross-movement lessons. 

We value and lean into transparency.  

We aspire to be transparent as a collective. When we raise funds, we are explicit about where our collected funds go. The Healing Underground will be transparent in its processes around conflict especially in local movement spaces.