PIMC EAR Council

PIMC has established a Code of Ethics for Teachers and Community Leaders and a Code of Conduct to help create a safe community. Nonetheless, we acknowledge that ethical concerns and conflict will inevitably arise within the Portland Insight Meditation Center community. The health of our Sangha is not measured by the presence or absence of conflict, but rather by our willingness to find effective, responsible, and compassionate resolutions of interpersonal tensions when they arise.

Because the process of reaching such a resolution is often difficult, the PIMC board, teachers and community members have created an independent Ethics and Reconciliation (EAR) Council to help guide us.

 

Recently, several EAR Council members informed the board they needed to step away from the group to attend to other matters in their lives. The Council will be temporarily paused as the community finds replacement members and works to relaunch the process. 

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In the interim, please contact the PIMC Board with any concerns by talking with a Board member or emailing the full Board at BoardPIMC AT PortlandInsight.org. You may also contact Mel Sheets, Operations and Communications Manager, at Office AT PortlandInsight.org.