PASSIONATE AGREEMENTS THAT ENCOURAGE UNITY

This morning I sat down and began to write about a common vision for community. My sense of community is focused around inner growth and developing unity.

This draft has omitted the important financial and labor contribution components.

So, below is a very early rough draft.

I am wondering if anyone else has any visions they would be willing to share? If so, please send these to howard@mcq.com.

**** COMMUNITY ****

We affirm, through our conscious intent, to build and sustain relationships that encourage co-operation and foster trust and respect.

As individuals, we hold ourselves responsible for developing a depth of understanding of our own unresolved and un-integrated feelings, emotions and fears.

We as individuals are also motivated to combine into co-operative relationships (partnerships, families, pods in a community, communities, etc.). While participating in these relationships and working to accomplish and realize shared goals, friction and conflict is inevitable. A core belief we hold is that conflict arises first and foremost as an internal energetic disturbance/imbalance. In addressing and working to resolve this inner conflict, we agree that the primary emphasis is to address the triggered inner conflict, not the external stimulus that serves to trigger the conflict. We agree to try out, test and, when appropriate, adopt various tools and modalities and become trained in facilitating inner growth.

Some examples of this lifestyle include:

Encouraging each other see the behavior patterns that short-circuit unity and lead to feelings of separation.

Encouraging each other to open-up and re-examine the stories and underlying beliefs that empower our shadowy fears.

Encouraging an ongoing adeptness in knowing when to be gentle and when to be direct and fierce to awaken ourselves and another.

Bringing forward our authentic voice and willingness to dialog, to encourage our individual and collective needs to coalesce into a shared vision, and into joyous activities where we can express and exchange our passions and appreciations.