Code of Conduct Community Agreement

The School does not tolerate harassment of Participants in any form including:

• bullying
• provoking
  
• taking advantage of, or
• taking any intellectual property from others.

We also have very strong terms in our Terms and Conditions Policy to protect Participants and our School.

Anyone who violates this code of conduct may be sanctioned or expelled permanently from these spaces or the School at the discretion of the administrators, with or without warning. Warnings of permanent expulsion and therefore, enrolment cancellation, may or may not be given. Refer to the Enrolment and Refund Policy.

 

Applicability and Scope

This code of conduct applies to the School as a whole, and each of the School’s spaces, including:

• public channels
• private channels
• threads
• direct messages
• video rooms
• comment sections, and
• live events

including within Mighty Networks, YouTube and Zoom, and off.

Within Mighty Networks, these spaces include:

• the cohorts’ classrooms
• the Enterprise Eggs
• the Project Prods
• the Creatopia Village Collab
• our co-working room
• our studios
• the fire pit
• the ceremony garden
• the market, and
• all chat threads and posts and messaging.

 

A Welcoming and Safe Co-Creative Culture

The School of Creatology’s co-creative culture is called Creatopia.

Creatopia operates very much like a village.

It is an online, co-creative space that holds all our school’s learnings, classes, meetings, projects, studios, market, and relationships.

Our culture is co-creative for lots of reasons including:

• we need relationships to grow with, work with, and learn from others,
• we need practice living and working in co-creative cultures for our collective future to be more successful, and
• we need an ecos to be creative-sympathetic, because Creatives tend to hold our unique and valuable natures and skills back when we sense there may be a negative consequence for it.

We work towards ensuring an environment in which diverse individuals can collaborate and interact in a positive and affirming way.

Examples of behaviour that contributes to creating this sort of environment include:

• using welcoming and inclusive language
• being respectful of differing viewpoints and experiences
• gracefully accepting constructive criticism
• focusing on what is best for the overall community, and
• showing empathy towards other community members.

When people offer their creativity, including insights, ideas, problem-solving etc, to a community to which they all belong, a thriving and dynamic, healing and empowering community can be co-created.

 

Anti-harassment and Anti-taking Statement 

This community will not tolerate harassment and / or taking of any kind. As Creatives, we have all had work taken, or even been bullied out of our projects.

Examples of harassment and taking include (in no order):

• Taking of others’ ideas including stealing work, plagiarising, no or inappropriate or inadequate referencing
• Bullying and harrassing others for any reason, including to bully them out of or to turn away from their intellectual property including their ideas, work, projects
• Sharing, reproducing, republishing, or representing another Participant’s messages, posts, project-logs, projects, or any other contribution of Intellectual Property a Participant or the School makes
• Offensive comments related to gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, mental illness, neuro(a)typicality, physical appearance, pregnancy status, veteran status, political affiliation, marital status, body size, age, race, national origin, ethnic origin, nationality, immigration status, language, religion or lack thereof, or other identity marker. This includes anti-Indigenous/Nativeness and anti-Blackness
• Unwelcome and uninvited comments regarding a person’s lifestyle choices and practices, including those related to food, health, parenting, relationships, drugs, and employment
• Unwelcome and uninvited comments regarding a person’s creative projects and businesses
• Not stopping behaviour when asked
• Deliberate misgendering, using inappropriate pronouns, or use of “dead” or rejected names
• Gratuitous or off-topic sexual images or behaviour in spaces within the School
• Simulated physical contact without consent or after a request to stop
• Threats of violence
• Incitement of violence towards any individual or group, including encouraging a person to commit suicide or to engage in self-harm
• Deliberate intimidation
• Stalking or following – online or in the physical world
• Harassing photography, screenshotting, recording, or the logging online activity for harassment purposes
• Sustained disruption of discussion
• Putting down of others in any of the classes and spaces of the school including to other Participants
• Unwelcome sexual attention
• Patterns of inappropriate social contact, such as requesting/assuming inappropriate levels of intimacy with others
• Continued one-on-one communication after requests to cease
• Deliberate “outing” of any aspect of a person’s identity without their consent except as necessary to protect vulnerable people from intentional abuse
• Publication of non-harassing private communication
• Jokes that resemble the above, such as “hipster racism”, still count as harassment even if delivered satirically or ironically.

If you have questions or concerns about these examples, or if you’d like more added to this list, please email us or ask for an opportunity to explore the issue within a whole-village meeting.

 

Copyright Rights of Participants and the School

Please remember that all Participant-created and School-created materials, such as those published within the School, are copyrighted by the owner of the material and must not be reproduced or repurposed in anyway without the written consent of the owner.

This includes not sharing, reproducing, republishing, or representing another Participant’s or the School’s messages, comments, questions, posts, project-logs, projects, or any other contribution of Intellectual Property a Participant or the School makes.

Refer to the Terms and Conditions Policy for the complete policy on Copyright.

References to work can be made with correct referencing principles, with the express permission of the owner, in writing where possible.

This clause of this policy may be acted upon without warning.

 

Making a General Gomplaint

What do Participants do if they have a complaint

There are 3 ways to solve complaints:

1. Message Jane within the school about needing a call, and have the call with Jane, or

2. Write Jane an email about the complaint and to arrange a call, and have the call with Jane, and

3. Raise the complaint in a live, whole-school meeting, so others can learn about the complaint and get behind it to solve the problem.

For complaints about the behaviour of participants of the School, Participants can refer to the “Reporting” and “Enforcement Process” below.

Reporting Behaviour 

If you are being harassed by a Participant of our community, notice that someone else is being harassed, or have any other concerns, please contact Jane Macdonald. If the person who is harassing you is an employee of the School, they will not be involved in handling or resolving the incident.

The School will respond to a complaint or report as promptly as possible. The first intention will be to arrange and have a call with you. If you do not get a timely response, put your personal safety and well-being first, and consider logging out and again writing directly to Jane.

This code of conduct applies to our School and the School’s spaces, but if you are being harassed by a participant of our community outside our spaces, we still want to know about it. This includes harassment that took place at any point in time. The School reserves the right to expel Participants from the School based on their past behaviour, including behaviour outside of our spaces and behaviour towards people who are not in this School.

The School will take all good-faith reports of harassment by our Participants, including employees, seriously. To protect the School from abuse and burnout, we reserve the right to reject any report we believe to have been made in bad faith. Reports intended to silence legitimate criticism may be deleted without response.

Enforcement Process

Every code of conduct violation report will be treated with seriousness and care.

If a Participant’s immediate safety and security is threatened, the School will take any action that they deem appropriate, up to and including temporarily or permanently expelling the offender from School spaces, or the School as a whole and cancelling their enrolment, with our without notice.

The School may be bound legally to give evidence of the bullying and harassment if called for.

In less urgent situations, the School will discuss the offense with the reporter and after this discussion, arrive at a suitable response, which will be discussed with you first, and if agreed upon, shared with the offender privately. Whatever the resolution that is decided upon, the decision of the violation case will be considered final and that decision recorded in the enrolment notes of the offender.

The School will respect confidentiality for the purpose of protecting victims of abuse. At our discretion, we may publicly name a person about whom we’ve received harassment complaints, or privately warn third parties about them, if we believe that doing so will increase the safety of our Participants or the general public. We will not name victims without their express consent.

 

Consequences

Participants asked to stop any harassing behaviour are expected to comply immediately.

If a Participant engages in harassing behaviour, the School will take any action it deems appropriate, up to and including expulsion from the School’s spaces or the School as a whole with enrolment cancellation, with or without notice, and identification of the Participant as a harasser to other members if we believe that doing so will increase the safety of our Participants or the general public.

At the discretion of the School, or by request, one or more of the parties involved may request to discuss the violation and how to avoid similar situations in the future.

A participant’s enrolment may be cancelled due to:

• the non-payment of fees, or
• as a result of non-compliance of this Code of Conduct Community Agreement (warnings of permanent expulsion and therefore, enrolment cancellation, may or may not be given).

 

Changes

We reserve the right, at our sole discretion, to modify or replace this Code of Conduct Community Agreement at any time. If a revision is material we will try to provide at least 7 days notice prior to any new requirements taking effect. What constitutes a material change will be determined at our sole discretion.

By continuing to access or use the School and its Service after those revisions become effective, you agree to be bound by the revised terms.

If you do not agree to the new terms, please email us to cancel your enrolment and stop using the Service.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this policy, please contact us.