Community Agreements

*Adapted from EBMC’s Multiracial Deep Refuge Sangha, Visions Inc “Guidelines for Productive Work Sessions,” and We Will Dance With Mountains Community Guidelines

This gathering is a space to share what is on our hearts and to space hold. It is likely that this gathering, although centered around grief, will hold many differences in types of grief, life experiences, political viewpoints, cosmologies, cultural backgrounds, and so on. Tensions due to our differences may arise. Although much care and consideration is given to creating a place of safety by the facilitators, please adhere to these community agreements to prioritize our collective safety together, and hold the tensions that may arise as potential places of growth…

The following guidelines are offered in hopes of supporting a positive experience: