Welfare for KB 19'!
The Welfare DREAM is up. Please - who is planning on joining welfare - give your tokens towards welfare!!!!
https://dreams.kiezburn.org/dreams/49
This thread will serve to plan & discuss Welfare for Kiez Burn 2019. Welfare has won the most popular "area" of Kiez Burn in the past, so it's impossible to imagine Kiez Burn without Welfare! And we need YOU to make it happen again.
What is Welfare?
Welfare (often called "Sanctuary" in other Burns) station is aiming for being available to supply immediate solutions for the well-being of KB participants. Our volunteers hold space and decide together with you how to reduce distressed situations – a cup of tea, a good talk, earplugs, a little rest with a cozy blanket or just being silent together and taking a deep breath
Why is Welfare important?
Because it's OK to ask for help when you are emotionally struggling, and there can be so many reasons for that. Burn events are highly intensified events that can lead to distress, whether you are feeling lonely, sad, confused, sleep deprived, took too much of this/that, struggling with your partner/friends, sleep deprived or simply overwhelmed by everything and need to relax for a bit! Welfare space will provide a safe and sober space for you to return to your center and also integrate your moment of difficulty so hopefully you can grow from it and return to the Playa in a better shape, with more tools for the near and far future.
What are the next steps?
After successfully leading Welfare for KB 17' & 18', @stefanapel cannot take a lead role this year. This means Welfare is looking for a new Lead! It doesn't have to be one person, quite the opposite - 2 co-leads or a core-team crew has proved itself in the past, sharing the workload. Ariel what about your plans?
The starting point is quite good, as the last 2 years were a great success, and there is already a feeling of a Welfare-community of volunteers and "fans". Moreover, some of the "content" is already there (texts, volunteering structure, some equipment, placement, training option) so I would say this is super manageable for a new Lead to take over!
This is what I can think of right now as the first steps/responsibilities that the new Lead/s will need to figure out. I am sure @stefanapel can help/assist/guide:
*** Physical Structure
In the last couple of years Welfare had a really nice, big Yurt tent but that was borrowed/rented from the scouts and is in doubt for this year.
*** Comms with KBorg
The Lead will need to be in touch with KBorg regarding technical things like confirming placement from last year, power needs etc
*** Volunteers
I would suggest starting by reaching out to volunteers from the last 2 years, try to form a more committed crew of "core-team" (someone to be responsible for comms, someone for volunteers, someone for Deco etc), see who's up for it and later reach out to the wider community with some posts on Talk and Facebook, alongside the Newsletter and KB meetings. Welfare is ideally open 24h so the more volunteers, the better.
*** Inventory check
There is quite a lot of Welfare stuff spread around in different places but mostly the KB storage next to Freiland. Someone will need to go there and sort out everything and see what else is missing. Eventually there should be a list of "what we have" VS "what we need" and then perhaps how much will it cost (that can be requested as a Dream).
*** Welfare training
This has been wonderful at the past, especially to give confidence to new volunteers. A date, location and a plan for that would be needed. All the material is basically ready.
budget
The way that it would go, is that you put up a dream on the dreams platform: http://dreams.kiezburn.org And then Kiez Burn organization will fund maximum 400€. If you would need more money, then that can be raised through the dreams platform where ppl will vote for art proposals after they have bought a ticket. The requirement stays however, that you first need to put up a dreams on the dreams platform.
Everyone, feel free to edit the thread to add/ask stuff.
Gabor Fri 22 Mar 2019 7:25PM
good to know these things in advance :D
Steffen Lepa Mon 25 Mar 2019 4:35PM
So Torben's answer is just as I thought... they normally use a cut tree and some random tarp on a string for that, exactly the way we did it. He offered to lend us an extra tarp this year if we want to. Also they could give us a tree trunk of the needed size, however, he warned me that this would NOT fit into a normal sprinter van - which is why they normally prefer to cut a tree trunk on site..
We are talking about a central pole of at least 4,20m height.
Gabor Mon 25 Mar 2019 4:40PM
No need, as long as it's known and I can plan for it.
Steffen Lepa Fri 29 Mar 2019 2:35PM
Hey guys, I do not know if a proper lead for welfare has been found in the meantime, but to my knowledge, welfare will not be part of the main org and is thought to be a camp on its own this year, so there is at least the need of doing some budget planning soon, not to mention camp planning and shift planning / recruiting core team volunteers. Related to core team recruitment, we need to make a plan about number of directed tickets we need since ticket sales start soon. Related to budget, if we want to be sure to get the Yurte tent under the conditions I already negotiated with the boy scouts, we need to give them some outlook about when and how they will receive their money. To cut things short: Given the time left until the event, Welfare should really have an initial meeting soon and somebody (not me) needs to lead the whole thing, put up an agenda. a.s.o. I am more than ready to support that, but somebody else needs to get into action NOW.
Kai Gutzeit Sun 31 Mar 2019 7:19PM
I will set up a meeting soon and am ok with moderating their. Unfortunately @aleks6 is out of town until the 7th of April. So it will happen afterwards. 8-12th of April. are you available on any of these dates? And are you maybe available for the inventory check?
Steffen Lepa Tue 2 Apr 2019 2:13PM
Hey Kai, thank you very much for your initiative! Assuming that the meeting will be in the evening, I would be available on either 8th or 11th (from 19:30h on). The inventory check can generally take place from April 22th on, either at Monday/Thursday evenings (safe) or Saturday/Sunday afternoons (only if i am not cycling).
Philipp Graf Wed 3 Apr 2019 8:43AM
Hey all, me and my flatmate Konsti would def. participate in the welfare : ) not quite sure how and to what extend we can help, but we would join you for the meeting! where would you like to meet? i would prefer the 8th, the 11th i am not in town :/
Daniel Regev Wed 3 Apr 2019 4:56PM
I see that there is a dream for Welfare posted by @jessewheaton . This is good, as it would be great to get a funding - Thanks, Jesse! But, did you include the other people who are interested in Welfare for this, and @stefanapel who was Welfare lead the last 2 years? I'm talking mostly about the budget...
Here is the dream with a link to the budget:
https://dreams.kiezburn.org/dreams/25
I have to wonder about 200 EU for cushions, carpets, chairs, tables... All these should be available already. Also 100 EU might be too much as the "Friso-lights" should be available, and 200EU for tea set & tea might be way too high, I think there is a lot of leftovers supplies from last year, but Steffen has the answers.
Also, would be good to add a minimum of let's say 400 EU, to fund at least the Yurt tent and a tiny bit more.
Regarding a meeting, @kaigutzeit would u be up for organizing a meeting for the 8th?
walto Wed 3 Apr 2019 7:43PM
@jessewheaton I added the guaranteed budget in the thread description (400€), tnx for putting up a dream.
@danielregev would you maybe want to dream guide this project, given that you know a bit more about it? You can sign up here: https://talk.kiezburn.org/d/TjVnE9Ak/dream-guides-manual-dreams-discussion
@jessewheaton please be aware that we will not strike first aid, since it is part of the feuerwehr. So that strike plan is not feasible. If you need help with that, maybe that could be organized through volunteers?
Steffen Lepa · Fri 22 Mar 2019 4:59PM
I am gonna ask! But I know that it is often not included with Yurtes.. since the boy scouts like to cut trees on site for that... And the boxes/bags we received did not contain additional space for a pole. Anyways, I am gonna ask..