Moving Rasa Community Agreements

These agreements gain their power from our investment into them. We invite you to feel and move into each one to discern what works and what does not for you. What stories and possibilities for being emerge from you when you consider each one? What kind of modifications might need to be made to any of them or other agreements added to support you to show up more freely here?

1. This is a BIPOC-centered anti-racist 

2. Names stay, lessons can leave

3. Speak for our own experience. Please use I statements rather than We or You. You can make observations but ultimately the meaning making and truth for any given person is their truth as your truth and story is solely your truth and story. Avoid should, could would.

4. Organizing around somatics; we make space for our bodies’ wisdom across abilities

5. Honoring silence, vulnerability. To have an unshaming heart.  Respecting multiple truths that we are each connected to uniquely and can feel collectively. 

6. Embrace disruption, share impacts and collective repair  - Ouch/Oops

7. Make space, Take space, Hold space.  Develop awareness of how much space you are taking up or practice systems of equity.

8. Participation is self-determined  - If you do not agree with anything being offered, please modify it, disrupt to call in - take responsibility for impact. A. reflection of impact 

9. The main intention of this space is for consensual group exploration. 

10. If you are limping you can lean on me, but I cannot carry you…capacity for self and co-regulation. If someone’s need to regulate is too much for the group then we lean on outside support.

11.  Acceptance to show up however we are: anger, mourning, joy, and in our pajamas, in our varied gender expressions and pronouns.?

12. Intend to do no harm, seek to repair harm you may have done.

13. Bhineka Tunggal Ika: Unity in Diversity

14. Embrace possibilities/tangents regardless of preconceived ideas, merits, systems and cultures. Queer the space.

15. Don’t assign merits to experiences/ acknowledge contexts and systems

*The seed for these Community Agreements were created by the core collective of the virtual weekly Breathe Again. Special Thanks to Yvonne, Lesley, Rene, Kensing, Saad, Karin and Andrew for creating and refining them together. Further elaborations were made by the October Emergent Retreat 2023 with Nhu, Khalil, Manuel, Luka, Lily May, and Andrew.