{"id":606,"date":"2020-02-13T10:42:35","date_gmt":"2020-02-13T09:42:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lifepurposegroup.org\/?page_id=606"},"modified":"2023-10-19T14:28:04","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T12:28:04","slug":"participation-guidelines","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.lifepurposegroup.org\/?page_id=606","title":{"rendered":"Participation Agreement*"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I agree:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li><strong>To participate in everybody&#8217;s personal exploration sessions and always show up on time.<\/strong><br>&#8211; We postpone meetings if everybody cannot be present.<br>&#8211; Over time, we may reduce meeting frequency.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>To be a humble and responsible co-creator of our group experience.<\/strong><br>&#8211; We are on our own, assembled to explore the gifts that we can offer each other and the world.<br>&#8211; We are exploring a monumental leap of our evolution, beyond humanity&#8217;s separated state for which there is no full model yet.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>To be fully present, friendly, and transparent about my feelings, my strengths and my shadows.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>To speak my truth in ways that respect other people&#8217;s truth.*<\/strong><br>&#8211; Our views of reality may differ, but speaking one&#8217;s truth in our small, intimate circle does not allow for correcting or debating what others say.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>To turn to wonder when the going gets rough<\/strong><br>&#8211; If I feel judgmental or defensive, I ask myself &#8220;I wonder what brought them to this belief?&#8221; &#8220;I wonder what my reaction teaches me about myself?&#8221; <br>&#8211; I set aside judgement to listen deeply to others &#8211; and to myself.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>To use this opportunity to observe my own reactions, and learn from insightful impulses offered by my higher self.<\/strong><br>&#8211; I remember that whenever I feel frustrated, annoyed, disappointed, offended, stressed, or contracted I am in my small, conditioned self.<br>&#8211; First: I congratulate myself for noticing it.<br>&#8211; Second: I take a deep breath, feel my body, relax, become soft and open my heart. I invite myself to notice the difference.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>To trust and learn from silence.<\/strong><br>&#8211; I recognize that silence is a gift in our noisy world, and a way of knowing in itself.<br>&#8211; I treat silence as a member of the group.<br>&#8211; After someone has spoken, I take time to reflect without immediately filling the space with words.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>To maintain confidentiality about personal or sensitive sharing in the group.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>To voice any displeasure about the process to the group and work to find a way so that everybody benefits from our time together.<\/strong><br>&#8211; I accept that our group experience is like a laboratory, and may involve unexpected challenges (= opportunities to learn and grow).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>To create a conscious space to co-evolve any traumas or wounds that may be triggered, authentically and compassionately.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>*  With some inspiration from Circle of Trust Touchstones, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/couragerenewal.org\/wpccr\/touchstones\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.couragerenewal.org<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I agree: * With some inspiration from Circle of Trust Touchstones, www.couragerenewal.org &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifepurposegroup.org\/?page_id=606\" class=\"exp-read-more exp-read-more-underlined\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":431,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lifepurposegroup.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/606"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lifepurposegroup.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lifepurposegroup.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lifepurposegroup.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lifepurposegroup.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=606"}],"version-history":[{"count":50,"href":"http:\/\/www.lifepurposegroup.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1797,"href":"http:\/\/www.lifepurposegroup.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/606\/revisions\/1797"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lifepurposegroup.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lifepurposegroup.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}