Session Host(s): Luisa Ortiz Perez
Participants:
- Steve Dubb
- Jingyao Yu
- Purva Indulkar
- Emily Bango
- Luisa Ortiz Perez
Defining care awareness:
- Duty of care in the non-profit (legal)
- Do no harm and do more
- Positive notion of care
- Organizational care
- Operate as best you care in the benefit
- Collateral effect
- Prioritize the organization instead of the individual
- Alignment with the collective interest
- It does not always have to be a punitive resolution
- Ex. Human resources, performance improvement plan
- 30 day improvement plan
- Setting up people for success
- Compliant way with HR
- As long as you want to be here
- Diversify the staff and structure
- What resources are out there and practices
- Punitive, fear and retribution
- Weaponization of care
- Power dynamics
Care for the organization vs. care for the individual:
- Community table in an institutional
- Access to peer support systems
- Recognition of illness as another condition of the worker not a failure
- Racial components? Who has status in the organization and why?
- Union vs. idiosyncratic
- Dedicating your life to your work
- Overwork and asking for too much
- Taking advantage of the system AND accountability
- Different forms of contribution
- Qualitative and quantitative productivity – give value to impact; revenue and funding
- Quality impact that generates change
Tensions:
- How do you set up so everyone have equal access to the structural support to be set up for success
- Additional emotional labor, tapping out.
- Confusing boundaries between person and professional
- Two dimensions: the organizational culture vs. the legal benefits
- Emotional Gaslighting…..support and unhappy performance, lack of honest feedback
- Compliment sandwich
- Binary understanding bad capitalism vs. good doers
- Women of color and mothering that is weaponized
- Inequitable workplace relations…
Disposing of:
- Not shaming people when they need a break
- ‘Expected to be available and online, even if they are in a mountain or camping
- Social media and cancel culture leads to self culture
- Nobody is born woke
- Toxic positivity
- Conclusions
- Structured worker representation
- Empathic budgeting – budgeting for care
- Let’s be ok with discomfort
- Communities of practice where different conversations and power conversations