Elizabeth Barrette (ysabetwordsmith) wrote,
Elizabeth Barrette
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Reasonable Accommodations

shadesong has a great post about reasonable accommodations for people's needs. 

Here at Fieldhaven, you can ask for whatever you need, and we'll do our best to work with that.  It's a lot easier to accommodate things in advance than at the door -- we'll cook differently if there are dietary issues, or write a ritual differently if someone needs a chair throughout.  The idea is that people compensate for each other's strengths and weaknesses.  Smokers stay downwind of me, and I deal with all pest-control issues.  It works.
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ysabetwordsmith

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ysabetwordsmith

March 20 2014, 21:52:36 UTC 7 years ago

We've done that too. One of our code phrases for it is "all peopled out." There are back rooms here, and space upstairs, so that folks can sift out into smaller groups if there's a crowd, or get away from social space altogether. That makes it possible for people to come, who wouldn't otherwise.

Me, I'm willing to go to a lot of things for 20 minutes that I don't really have more range for, and then people whine because I'm not staying for hours. It's made me inclined to refuse outright, which is simpler.
mdlbear

mdlbear

March 21 2014, 03:25:01 UTC 7 years ago

That's a really good post. We do similar things here at Rainbow's End; Colleen really enjoys planning meals for people with allergies and other food requirements. Comes in handy, since we have two kids keeping kosher, me being gluten-free, and Naomi with some odd preferences.

And that's not even counting the non-food accommodations. We like people to feel welcome.
thnidu

thnidu

March 21 2014, 05:20:47 UTC 7 years ago

That's all good. :-)