CripCreate is a community-led Disability Justice space. Our facilitators are volunteers and community members, not professional mediators, therapists, technical assistants, or security workers. You do not need formal training to help hold this space.

As a CripCreate facilitator, you have the right to:

Trust your judgment.

If something feels harmful, unsafe, disruptive, or inconsistent with our Community Guidelines, you can respond. You do not need to be 100% certain before pausing or interrupting.

Interrupt and redirect.

You can interrupt harmful behavior, remind someone of our Community Guidelines, redirect a conversation, move a heavy topic to a breakout room, or say, “I want to pause us here.”

Impact matters alongside intent.

Use moderation tools.

You can mute someone, stop screen sharing, remove inappropriate material, move someone to another room, or remove someone from the current gathering.

You do not need to wait until a situation becomes a crisis.

Ask someone to pause their participation.

If someone’s behavior is causing harm or the group needs time to understand what happened, you can ask that person to leave the current gathering and pause their participation in CripCreate until the community has had time to discuss it.

A facilitator does not make the decision to permanently remove someone from CripCreate.

Give the community time to decide what happens next.

We organize CripCreate inside CripCreate. We do not expect volunteer facilitators or community members to create additional unpaid meetings or labor outside our regular gathering.

When a larger decision is needed, we can use time during the following CripCreate gathering to discuss what happened and determine next steps. The participant whose participation has been paused will be informed afterward about the community’s decision.

Choose immediate safety over immediate process.

You do not have to resolve a conflict, determine exactly what happened, or conduct a transformative justice process in the middle of a session. Stabilize the space first. Process can come later.

Ask for backup.

You can ask another facilitator or community member to step in, monitor chat, send a private message, help with a breakout room, or help you think. Asking for help is good facilitation.

Protect your own access.

Facilitators are Disabled community members too. You can turn your camera off, facilitate from bed, take a break, use chat, ask someone else to speak, or say you do not have capacity for something. This is freedom of movement.

Learning through Experience

You will not always know the perfect response. You may miss something, misunderstand something, or make a decision we later reconsider. We practice accountability without demanding perfection. The final decision is made by the organizing group.

When something happens

A simple path is:

Notice → Interrupt → Name the boundary → Redirect → Pause participation if necessary → Bring it back to the community.

Serious situations may require skipping directly to removing someone from the current gathering.

You are responsible for helping hold the space. You are not responsible for solving everything.

• We trust facilitators to act.
• We make larger decisions together.
• We organize CripCreate inside CripCreate.
• We protect one another without requiring perfection.