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C Ground Rules /Group Agreements 1. Limit Electronic Device Use — to retreat agenda items. Focus on interacting with each other rather than text, emails or social media. 2. Speak Your Truth— Speak from the "I" position, rather than detaching from your perspective ( "you ") or universalizing your perspective ( "we "). 3. Accept other's truth — Which doesn't require your agreement but acknowledges the fact that for people their perception is 100% of reality. 4. Lean into Discomfort and Lean into Each Other - By design, authentic dialogue challenges participants. Discomfort signals that you are being challenged and perhaps even growing from the experience. Support each other to participate fully. Step up and practice asserting if you tend to be reserved or quiet. Step back and practice listening if you tend to be talkative. 5. Expect and Be Willing to Accept Non closure - Embrace the process as the task. While this process might be designed to resolve an immediate question, it will raise far more questions than answers about the larger issues uncovered through the dialogue. Engaging in the dialogue and process of working together will reap far greater rewards than simply making a decision about what "to do." 6. Speak one at a time /Listen for Understanding 7. Leave your Ego at the Door — Ego That part of us that continues to worry, live in doubt, is afraid, judges people, is afraid to trust, needs proof, believes only when it is convenient, fails to follow -up, refuses to practice what it preaches, needs to be rescued, wants to be a victim, beats up on "self', needs to be right all the time and continues to hold on to what does not work. Taken from the Introduction of "One Day My Soul Just Opened Up: 40 Days & 40 Nights Towards Spiritual Strength & Personal Growth " by Iyanla