Hello everyone in the Optimism forum!
In this thread, we’d like to host an open conversation around the planning, implementation, and follow-up of a series of live education and training spaces on trust creation and conflict management, to be facilitated by Gravity DAO, during season 4 of the Optimism Collective.
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Gravity DAO is a project that carries the flag of Alternative Dispute Resolution in decentralized communities. We think that both individuals and organizations can develop competencies to transform conflict into potential energy for self-reflection and evolution, and we focus on practices that support the parties to deal with their issues by engaging in proactive spaces to look for solutions via dialogue.
Having clear processes to deal with multiple sources of conflict is a way to improve the awareness and implementation of social norms, and to care for the well-being of the organization by being able to hear and process the needs that arise.
We are following the implementation of our RFP bid to support the Code of Conduct enforcement process and we would like to propose alternatives to reduce governance overhead caused by conflict scaling into token voting instances without previous management mechanisms.
We want to complement our Free online course, with multiple live sessions (14+), to deliver a meaningful social skills boot camp that aims to:
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Help contributors incorporate conflict management into their everyday life: promoting a healthy environment for the organization.
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Identify a group of enthusiasts who can become Gravitons: agents for deep listening, mental health awareness, emotional support, de-escalation, and dispute administration inside the community.
The live sessions would be 1 hour long and be offered across two different time zones for diverse participation. The sessions will be recorded, and we’ll facilitate documentation of key challenges and learnings in a final report. The sessions can be hosted on multiple platforms and even when the main language used in our content is English, we can prepare some amount of sessions in at least 3 alternative spoken languages (Spanish, Portuguese, and French).
We are still coordinating the details of the schedule and the facilitators of the lessons, but the study plan should be communicated in this same thread soon, hoping to start executing it in the first weeks of August.
We extend the invitation to join these trainings to all members of the Optimism collective, but especially to the Support Nerds. 
The Gravity DAO team will become more visible in the following weeks, having Bianca (@BiancaGadelha ), Nikola (@NikolaCreatrix ), and myself (@juankbell) as the main contact points. We invite you to connect with us here in the forum or via our Discord server for any questions or requests. We will endeavor to respond to inquiries within 1 Labor Day.
Hoping for a fruitful collaboration, this is our initial communication until further updates.
