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Respectful Communication Guidelines
R - Accept RESPONSIBILITY for what you say and feel without blaming others.
E - Listen with an ENERGIZED heart.
S - Be SENSITIVE to differences in communication styles.
P - PONDER on what you hear and feel before you speak.
E - EXAMINE your own assumptions and perceptions.
C - Keep CONFIDENTIALITY.
T - TRUST ambiguity because we are not here to debate who is right or wrong.
Adapted from the Respectful Communication Guidelines, Kaleidoscope Institute
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Mutual Invitation
We use Mutual Invitation as a way to allow everyone who would like to share the opportunity to speak. We intentionally avoid sharing in a circular or "round robin" format to keep ourselves listening, present, and open.
Mutual Invitation proceeds in the following way:
The leader or designated person will share first. After that person has spoken, he or she then invites another to share, saying, "I invite (name)." Who you invite should ideally not be the person next to you. After the next person has spoken, that person is given the privilege to invite another to share. If you don't want to say anything, simply say "pass" and proceed to invite another to share. If you would like more time to consider if you'd like to share, please say "pass for now" and proceed to invite another to share. (You will then be invited once more to share if you choose by another group member.) We do this until everyone has been invited to share.
Adapted from Mutual Invitation, first printed in The Wolf Shall Dwell with the Lamb by Eric H. F. Law.
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