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With an intention to create a safe space for our time together, we will discuss the agreements below. Your input and presence is a valued part of this conversation, and we would like to emphasize that no one can do this perfectly. This is a collective effort to use kindness, understanding, and appropriate restraint in our speech and actions with each other.
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Autonomy |
- right to control the direction of your learning
- some flexibility within the course
- speak with self-honesty and self-regulation, with an intention to foster understanding between us
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Respect |
- treating different kinds of experience and each other with care and respect
- putting aside our roles as teachers, not giving advice, and restraining our inclination to help
- acknowledge that there will be differences of opinion about what is ethical misconduct
- holding what we hear and observe, with care and confidentiality
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Fidelity |
- self honesty, being truthful with yourself
- keeping your commitments to yourself and to your development
- being open to what is offered in these modules
- acknowledge there may be resistance to this work, that difficult states may arise for us
- having and maintaining a relationship(s) with respected other(s) to whom you can bring problems, questions, issues, and with whom you can share self-doubts and shortcomings.
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Contributions |
- your presence matters, that you show up and participate the best you can matters
- we offer the teaching with a suggested donation basis to support our sangha and the teachings
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