Wherever you landed, that's a starting point, not a grade. The rest of this page is what you can do from there.
How we hold each other
Ask first
Before you touch, photograph, or hand someone anything. A yes you had to work for isn't a yes.
Impact over intent
If it landed wrong, listen before you explain.
Look out
Check in on people, including the ones you don't know yet.
Leave it better
The land and the people.
Own your experience
Your experience here is yours to shape, and so is your reputation. Both are built by what you do.
Make it right
When harm happens, we'd rather repair than punish. Owning it is part of the culture.
On the grounds
If something feels wrong, or you're not okay, or someone near you isn't, this is who's there. Medics are on site the whole event.
You
Find a volunteer or a Navigator when you see one. Navigators wear bright blue shirts so they're easy to spot.
A Navigator
They'll help you get the help you need, whether that's our medics, de-escalation, or local law enforcement, by calling it in to Lighthouse. They stay with you while it happens.
Lighthouse
Our radio base. Lighthouse dispatches a medic, emergency services, or the board member on duty, depending on what's needed.
Board member on duty
Trained in de-escalation and on shift the whole event. The bigger calls, like asking someone to leave or bringing in outside help, go through them, and never through one person alone.
Telling us
Sometimes it's hard to know what to do in the moment. We'll always take a report on site. But if something happened that you want to share once you've had time to process it, or you weren't sure whether it needed someone stepping in right then, there's a form for that.
If something sat wrong with you, you can tell us. That's the whole bar. At Revival, at another event, or something you know about a person. The person it happened to, someone who saw it, or someone who was told.
If Something Sat Wrong, Tell Us Here ourrevival.org/reportsOne board member reads it
Nobody else sees it first. If it involves someone on our board, it goes to a different board member and the person named is kept out.
It gets a file and a case number
You hear back with that number at the contact you gave us.
One person stays with you
If you asked us to follow up, the same person, for as long as it takes. You won't be passed around.
Real people look at it, together
A report is information, not a verdict. A few of us read it, talk it through, and work out what, if anything, should happen next. One account is a data point. Several, from different people, is something we can act on.
If a name keeps coming up
We may tell that person early and plainly: your name is coming up, and not in flattering ways. That message comes from Revival, never from an individual.
If the code was broken
The person is told what follows. Often there's a path back, through real work and repair. Sometimes there isn't. Case by case, never automatic. More on that below.
You're done when you want to be
Sending a report doesn't commit you to anything further. You can tell us something and be done.
None of this is ever asked of the person who reported. You're never expected to mediate, forgive, or sit in a room with anyone.
Why we ask for your name
Two reasons. It lets us tell one person's account from several, which is what makes a pattern visible. And it's how we reach you if you asked us to.
We won't share your name or what you wrote with anyone you're reporting.
Restorative justice, in plain words
Most communities wait until someone is already dangerous, then say "you're not welcome here." By then the harm is years old. We'd rather have the hard conversation early, and give people a real way to make it right.
The harm is named
What happened, and what it did to someone, gets said out loud. Not argued down.
The person hears it
Not a letter, not a rumor. They hear what their actions cost, from Revival, early.
They do the work
Owning it, learning, changing something real. This takes time, and we give it.
A way back, earned
Whether and how someone returns is decided case by case. The door isn't locked, and it isn't automatic either.
Restorative justice is an option for anything you report, and it's how we operate as an organization. You might not want a path between you and another person, and that's yours to decide: nobody is asked to mediate, forgive, or sit in a room. But wherever we can, Revival gives people time and a real opportunity to find a way forward, one that shows we care about them and gives them the chance to care for this community in return, safely and at a pace that works. That's how lasting support gets built.
What we promise
We will
- Read every report. Always.
- Give it a file and a case number.
- Keep one person with you if you want that.
- Tell you where the edges are before you find them.
We'll update this page as our policies do.
Run a gathering?
If you run an event, a venue, or a community and you've seen something, the same form has a path for you. If you need what we've built, we'll share it. We believe in collaboration, and in talking across events, venues and organizations. We want a community where you can trust the stranger next to you on the bus.
We're not the police
We're volunteers, not a legal system. We decide who's welcome at our events and in our community, and that's the limit of it. Telling us is not a substitute for telling them. If you're in danger, call 911.
One idea at a time
Every room has people
who hold it together.
Four questions, one honest answer each. No score, no wrong answers. Just a quick look at the small moves that make a room feel good to be in.
Some people notice. Some act. Some build the culture without being asked. Every party has a texture, made by what people notice, what they do about it, and what they let slide. This is a way to see where you fit in that.
Picture a room. A real one: a dance floor, a camp kitchen, a 3am fire. Read each row and pick what sounds most like you.
