Participant Guidelines

Create and protect a “Safe Space” for participants to share. This includes anonymity, confidentiality, and no blaming or shaming. What is shared in the group stays in the group. 

Respect each other’s time and personal journey. Everyone will have an opportunity to share but, to keep everything in order, share one person at a time. 

Limit your sharing to 3 to 5 minutes. No one person should dominate the discussion. 

Focus your sharing on your own issue, thoughts and feelings and not about others. “There is healing in the revealing”. Use “I” statements. We are not here to “fix” one another. We don’t give advice or solve someone’s problem in our time of sharing. 

Participants are asked to use positive and affirming words to support each other. Please refrain from using offensive language. Cursing will not be permitted. 

We don’t judge other participants behaviors or condemn their lifestyle. Empathy is a critical part of understanding others and helping them to grow and heal. We accept people regardless of their own personal challenges. That doesn’t mean we approve of behaviors that are contrary to the bible. It means we are called to love others. Let the Holy Spirit work in people’s lives to transform them into the image of Jesus Christ.