Propose what comes next
Members can name a problem, suggest a change, compare options and ask for a recorded decision. Disagreement should have a legitimate place.
THE COMMUNITYA voice.
A voice.
A stake. A shared future.
MRA is an invitation to build together. Your ideas, disagreements, skills and experiences should help shape it from the beginning.
COMMUNITY OWNERSHIP, MADE PRACTICALMore than an audience.
More than an audience.
Part of the decisions.
The founding proposal gives shared responsibility a concrete structure. These are powers for members to discuss, test and adopt—not claims that an organization is already in place.
Choose accountable stewards
The proposed model uses elected roles, limited terms, recall and conflict-of-interest rules. Founding the group does not create permanent authority.
See decisions and spending
Publish understandable decision records and any approved spending. Access to support and voting must never depend on a purchase or donation.
Keep the community independent
MRA needs its own identity, accountable control of its tools, and a continuity plan. Members choose the long-term home and who is responsible for it.
The proposal puts the founder on the same terms as other members and keeps support conversations out of books, documentaries, music, marketing and research. These protections are part of the draft for community review.
A BOUNDED BEGINNINGBuild carefully.
Build carefully.
Learn together.
A proposed first 90 days. Timing follows readiness: volunteers, privacy arrangements, reporting routes and independent review come before sensitive peer-support activity.
Prepare
Identify interim stewards, clarify permissions, publish the draft and choose reporting routes.
Shape
Hold founding discussions. Test an accessible welcome process and agree on the conditions for a pilot.
Try
When ready, test up to one weekly meeting for four weeks. Listen to feedback and prepare a non-founder host.
Decide
Review what happened. Amend or ratify the charter, elect stewards and decide the community’s long-term home.
This is a proposed sequence, not an announced calendar or a promise of active services. Read the full operating handbook in the founding package.
HELP SHAPE MRABring something.
Bring something.
You decide what.
You can read, listen, question a principle, check a resource or offer a bounded task. No personal story required. You do not owe the community unpaid work to belong.
The Trap House Discord is the proposed starting place for founding discussions. If you are already a member, ask about the MRA founding conversation. Otherwise, ask the person who shared MRA with you for the current invitation.
The existing server is proposed as the interim headquarters. Its technical ownership and access need to be clear; members will decide independent administration and the long-term home.
I’ve read the MRA proposal. One question I’d like us to work through together is:
One thing that would make MRA a community I’d want to return to is:
I’d like to help build MRA. A skill or a small task I could offer is:
BELONGING WITH CAREClear boundaries
Clear boundaries
are part of the welcome.
Privacy has limits.
Online confidentiality cannot be guaranteed. Others may copy messages, and people with platform permissions may have access. Those limits must be explained before sensitive sharing. Joining is never consent to publicity.
Care is not control.
Hosts and stewards have responsibilities, not entitlement to anyone’s story, money, intimacy or loyalty. The proposal prohibits predatory behavior and retaliation, with independent reporting and appeal routes.
Peers have a scope.
The first pilot is proposed for adults 18+; this is a draft scope decision for members to review. It is not therapy, detoxification or a monitored emergency service. Peers do not diagnose, prescribe or recommend medication changes. Personal treatment decisions stay with qualified care.
The founding space is for co-design. Actual moderators, response hours, reporting contacts and independent reviewers must be in place before a support pilot opens.