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title: Accessibility Supports Available to Participants
collection: Cohort 6
path: Cohort 6/Accessibility Supports Available to Participants
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We build accessibility into every part of how we work. You don't need to justify why you need support, and you don't need to disclose a diagnosis or condition. If something would help you participate more fully, ask us about it.
This page describes what's available and how to access it.
## What's available to everyone
These supports are built into the program by default. You don't need to request them.
* Captions are available for all synchronous sessions through Slack's built-in captioning and your operating system's live caption features (available on both Mac and Windows). If auto-generated captions don't meet your needs, let us know and we can arrange additional captioning support. Every session is also recorded and captioned after the fact, so you can revisit material on your own schedule with subtitles if you miss something or need more time with it.
* Presentations are "dark mode" by default.
* All core program content is available asynchronously. Workshop materials, facilitator guides, and templates are accessible through our shared wiki throughout the program and after it ends.
* The program is remote-first. Weekly workshops and mentorship sessions happen online. You can participate from wherever works for you.
* Mental health support is available to all participants throughout the program. If you need it, reach out to your Peer Support team or the program coordinators.
## What you can request
Some supports are available on a per-participant basis. These are funded and budgeted for, so requesting them is not a burden on the program. Unfortunately, some are region-specific due to our funding constraints at the moment, but we are working on improving this for the future.
### Region-specific supports
* Childcare subsidies are available for **Toronto-based participants** who need coverage during session times or in-person events.
* Technology and internet assistance is available for **Ontario residents** if your current setup creates a barrier to participation. This could mean help with internet costs, hardware access, or software needs. All required software licenses are provided free regardless.
* Travel stipends are available to **Ontario residents** for in-person events (the Kickoff and Wrap-up gatherings in Ontario). These are meant to reduce the cost barrier of attending, especially for participants outside the GTA.
### Other supports
Additional accessibility supports are available for needs not covered above. This is a flexible category. Examples might include ASL interpretation, screen reader-compatible materials, adjusted scheduling, or other accommodations specific to your situation. If you're not sure whether something falls into this category, ask anyway.
## The $5,000 studio bursary
Every participating studio receives a $5,000 bursary. This isn't framed as an accessibility support in the traditional sense, but it exists because we know that building a cooperative studio while navigating financial precarity is hard. The bursary is meant to give your team room to focus on the program without that pressure compounding.
## How to ask
Talk to your Peer Support team, or contact the program coordinators directly (eileen or Jennie).
We'd rather hear from you early than find out after the fact that something wasn't working. Access needs can also change over the course of the program – this is expected! Let us know as things come up.

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title: Cohort 6 Coordinator Tasks
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## Session 0: Kickoff + Onboarding
### Pre-session
- [x] Remind folks we'll be meeting in a Huddle in the cohort channel
- [x] Set up Miro boards for each studio
- [x] Prepare Tag Yourself slides
- [x] Share pre-session welcome message with participants (what to expect, access needs)
**During**
- [x] Attendance
### Post-session
- [x] Add notes
- [x] Add [Miro link](https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVG52SY0M=/) to channel / canvas
- [x] Post reflection questions for asynchronous check-ins:
* Anything you'd like to ask or clarify?
* How did that session go for you?
- [x] Share resources:
* [What is a cooperative?](https://ica.coop/en/cooperatives/what-is-a-cooperative) (ICA)
---
## Session 1: Coop Principles and Power
### Pre-session
**1 hour before session start:**
> Today we will have a brief check-in question for everyone: *Thinking back on the Power Flower reflection you did - what's one thing you noticed about yourself that you hadn't named before? No need to share details unless you're compelled - just notice what came up.*
>
> If you feel like it, share a few words in the chat or verbally.
### During session
**Slide 15, "You already hold cooperative knowledge"**
> Share one cooperative practice from your own experience in the chat. Pay attention to what values are present in the practice you're describing.
**When breakouts are announced:**
> Breakout activity - 15 minutes, 3 questions:
>
>
> 1. Share your cooperative lineage story
> 2. What values were present in that experience?
> 3. As a group, identify 3-5 values you heard across your stories
==Jennie will be testing out a breakout room and timer script. Mixed groups will be randomly created and assigned/invited to channels. The announcement above will be posted to the #bg-cohort-6 channel and the breakouts. Timers will post reminders to each channel til time is up.== ==Someone needs to keep the #bg-cohort-6 huddle going.==
**End of session:**
> Homework for this week:
>
>
> 1. Journal about your values - what guides your work or collective efforts? Notice what already matters to you (what holds your attention, what generates strong emotional responses, when you've felt most fulfilled)
> 2. Do the team values map with your Peer Supports. Use your PS session to do the values mapping exercise as a team
> 3. Prep individually for "The Talk" (Session 2) - write your answers down before we meet, about 5 min per section: financial reality, time and availability, skills and contributions, decision-making styles. Full prompts are in the wiki.
>
> These are for you first. You'll share with your team in Session 2.
### Post-session
* Share the values map and session notes in Slack
* Post follow-up reflection prompts:
* Think about a time your values and actions didn't align under pressure. What made it hard to act according to your values? What support might have helped?
* Share "The Talk" prep questions with clear instructions
* Share resources:
* International Cooperative Alliance Principles: [ICA](https://ica.coop)
* Seeds for Change: Values and Visioning Tools
* *Collective Courage* by Jessica Gordon Nembhard
* "What's In a Value?" by adrienne maree brown
---
## Session 2: Shared Purpose and Alignment
### Post-session
* Post reflection prompts in Slack:
* What's one conversation you now realize you need to have?
* What does "sustainable" mean for your studio?
* Remind teams they will be Continuing "The Talk" in Peer Support sessions \[WIKILINK-03: needs link\]
* Check in with Peer Supports about how the in-session activity went — any teams that need extra support?
* Share resources:
* Obvious Agency's original "The Talk" framework (with attribution) \[WIKILINK-04: needs link to Solidarity Economy Bosses V3_The Talk_2023_CS.pdf\]
---
## Session 3: Actionable Values and Impact
### Pre-session
* Add Why/What/How Miro template to studio boards
* Add [Layers of Effect Miro template](https://miro.com/templates/layers-effect-template/) to studio boards
### Post-session
* Post reflection prompts in Slack:
* What's one value your team *says* it has but doesn't consistently practice?
* Where do you notice a gap between your intentions and your effects?
* Check in with Peer Supports:
* How did the teams receive the WWH exercise?
* Share resources:
* Sociocracy 3.0: [Agree on Values](https://patterns.sociocracy30.org/agree-on-values.html)
---
## Session 4: Decision-Making in Practice
### Post-session
* Post reflection prompts in Slack:
* What decision-making patterns did you notice in the facilitation rotation activity?
* Where do decisions actually happen in your studio right now?
* Check in with PSs about which frameworks studios are trying this week
* Share resources:
* Informal Hierarchy Check-In questions (for studios to use)
* Seeds for Change: [Consensus Decision Making](https://www.seedsforchange.org.uk/consensus)
* Sociocracy 3.0: [Consent Decision Making](https://patterns.sociocracy30.org/consent-decision-making.html)
* Meeting agenda template
* Worker Cooperative Toolbox: Effective Meetings
[Worker Cooperative Toolbox - Appendix D.pdf 49472](/api/attachments.redirect?id=17d8f5aa-ae55-4c88-b291-6bfd07b39215)
---
## Session 5: Coop Structures and Governance
### Pre-session
* Create the Gamma Space Community Rule example on communityrule.info
### Post-session
* Share governance model resources to Slack:
* "Handling Proposals and Objections"
* [Seeds for Change meeting facilitation guides](https://www.seedsforchange.org.uk/facilitationmeeting) — UK grassroots co-op guides
* Anti-Racist Facilitation Guide excerpts
* Governance model resources
* [DisCO Manifesto](https://manifesto.disco.coop)
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## Session 6: Equitable Economics
### Pre-session
* Create sample financial summary template to show
### Post-session
* Share to Slack:
* [Seeds for Change finance resources](https://www.seedsforchange.org.uk/finance)
* Sample financial summary templates
* Reflection prompt: *What would change if you knew exactly what everyone in your workplace earned?*
* Tools mentioned:
* [CoBudget](https://cobudget.com/)
* [OpenCollective](https://opencollective.com/)
---
## Session 7: Conflict Resolution and Collective Care
### Pre-session
* Pick an example of conflict to discuss in the activity section — something related to money, workload, deferring to a single person, etc.
### Post-session
* Share conflict resolution policy template link in Slack
* Post reflection prompts for studios:
* What conflict are you avoiding?
* Is it interpersonal, structural, or both?
* What's one brave/kind/honest/humble step you could take?
* Share the following content with teams (from Session 7 deep-dive material):
#### Shame gets in the way
When someone is told they've caused harm, a common response is shame. It's a physiological response: you go inward, you lose the relational connection needed to actually hear the other person, and shut down. A performance of accountability - "I'm so sorry, I'm the worst, I'll do whatever you want" - is still centered on the person who caused harm, rather than attending to the impact on the other person.
When your body is in a shut-down shame state, you can't really take accountability. This is because it requires you to be grounded enough to *move toward* the person you've hurt: To listen, sit with discomfort, and take agency in changing your behaviour.
Centering someone else changes how you give and receive feedback. If your response to "hey, that thing you did in the meeting hurt me" is to collapse into "I'm a terrible person," you've just made the other person take care of *your* feelings about *their* pain.
A practical tip: Name the shame when you see it (in yourself or others). "I think I'm shame-spiralling right now" is an okay thing to say. It doesn't get you off the hook, but it allows your teammates to give you a beat so that you can actually ground yourself and focus on the conversation.
> Adapted from *Building Accountable Communities*, a video series by Dean Spade, Mariame Kaba, and the Barnard Center for Research on Women (BCRW). [Building Accountable Communities](https://bcrw.barnard.edu/building-accountable-communities/)
**Note from Advisory Board Member Sarah Nolan**
If you have a hard time realizing what you're feeling and how to communicate it (as can happen to marginalized folks because we are taught to disconnect from our feelings):
* Practice before a conflict to take stock of any new body signals you might be feeling at any given time. Pause when it comes up. It can include hunger or related signals too. These are all important.
* Now during a conflict where you feel something more intense, pause and listen to where these bodily signals are coming from. Is your head a certain type of way? (Hot, cold, pulsing, heavy, tingling, etc) Is your breath held? Is your stomach a certain way? (churning, tense, tingling, heavy, etc)
* Feel free to write down which body parts felt a certain way and record them somewhere in a journal if you wish. Don't forget to write down what happened right before these signals came up. This way you can keep track of it if you aren't used to listening to your body.
Once you get a little more used to doing this, you can start thinking about what the associated emotion is to these body signals. You may refer to an emotion wheel to start out. I did too.
![Wheel of emotion](/api/attachments.redirect?id=ea46605f-3031-446d-b2e4-052283f58377 " =1024x1024")
Finally, with the knowledge of: Event/behaviour happening → Leading to body signals → Leading to emotion all together, you can start finding patterns and understanding what usually comes up when certain situations happen.
With continuous practice, you can start communicating how certain behaviors made you feel during conflicts.
Note: This is going to be SO difficult when you first start if you aren't used to it. The more you do it, the easier it becomes. Leaning into uncomfortable feelings is how I've personally gotten to a better place in terms of love for myself and others.
*"Respond to discomfort with curiosity: Moments of discomfort can be an important part of growth and transformation. Rather than run away from it, we commit to welcoming these experiences with curiosity and tenderness. However, use your agency to choose how much you're engaging with pain and discomfort in an activity/conflict."* - [Yejin Lee](https://www.jeongllc.com/aboutyejin), talking about community guidelines as taught by [Rebecca KellyG](https://www.rebeccakellyg.com/), a healing artist, facilitator and consultant.
This is just the first step to getting out of this disconnected place with your body. If you would like to get more support, feel free to chat with me on slack (@Sarah Nolan).
Some accessible grounding tips to help with pausing and listening to your body:
* Running water on your hands at the sink
* Putting water on your forehead/scalp
* Slow big breaths (the slowest exhales you can do)
* Use a cold compress (or use ice, an icepack, etc)
#### Reflection before conversation
Before you raise an issue, get clear on:
1. What specific behaviour did I observe? (not feelings or interpretations)
2. What "no"s are coming up for me?
3. What's my part in this?
4. What do I actually need?
* Share post-session reading:
* Window of Transformation model (Kai Cheng Thom)
* AORTA Collective: [Conflict is a Place](https://aorta.coop/conflict-handout) – a short zine on navigating conflict in movement organizations
* Dean Spade: [Practicing New Social Relations, Even in Conflict](https://francesslee.medium.com/practicing-new-social-relations-even-in-conflict-dean-spade-54d4a60fcfed)
* [Building Accountable Communities](https://bcrw.barnard.edu/building-accountable-communities/) – video series on transformative justice, accountability, and non-punitive responses to harm. Dean Spade, Mariame Kaba, and the Barnard Center for Research on Women.
* Soul Fire Farm's [Real Talk](https://agriculturaljusticeproject.org/toolkit/resources/relations/soulfire-real-talk/) process
---
## Session 8: Self-Evaluation and Pathways
### Pre-session
* Updates dates in the session content for Studio self-assessment deadline
### Post-session
* Share personal assessment form (tell folks to make a copy – don't edit the original!)
* Studio assessment is already in your Miro board
### After 1 week
* Respond to their group self-assessments with ideas, encouragement, and workshop opportunities

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title: Travel Supports for In-Person Events
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Cooperative Foundations Cohort 6 includes two in-person events in Toronto: the kickoff and the wrap-up. We know that getting to Toronto costs money, especially if you're coming from outside the GTA. We have a travel fund to help with that!
### Who can request travel support
Any Ontario-based Cohort 6 participant who has travel costs to attend an in-person event in Toronto. This is individual-level—if your studio has multiple members who each need to travel, each person can submit their own request.
You don't need to be outside the city to qualify. If transit costs are a barrier for you, we can cover those.
### What's covered
* Transit fares (GO, VIA, local transit)
* Gas if you're driving (we use the CRA mileage rate, which is $0.73/km for 2026)
* Parking
* Rideshare if transit isn't accessible or practical for you
* Food and drinks along the way—coffee on the road, lunch before or after the event, whatever you need to make the trip work
* Accommodation if you need an overnight stay to attend (talk to us first so we can help sort it out)
Basically, if it's a reasonable cost of getting yourself to Toronto and back, it's covered.
### How much
Up to $200 per person per event. Our total travel fund for Cohort 6 is $2,000 across both events. If your actual costs are less than $200, we reimburse what you spent. If your costs come in higher, let us know - we may be able to increase the cap depending on overall demand.
### How to request it
After the event, send an email to [hello@babyghosts.org](mailto:hello@babyghosts.org) within 30 days with:
* Your name and studio name
* Which event you attended
* What you spent and a quick note on how you travelled
* Receipts if you have them, or a screenshot/photo of your transit fare, or a note of your round-trip distance if driving
### How you'll be reimbursed
E-transfer, sent within two weeks of receiving your request. We'll confirm the amount with you before sending.
### A few other things
You don't need to justify your request beyond the basics above. We won't ask why you can't cover it yourself. If you're not sure whether your situation qualifies, just ask. We'd rather you come to the event and sort out the details after than skip it because you weren't sure.