How to Join

Standard Events:

When it's time for the event you want to join, launch Zoom with the button below.

By joining an event, you commit to: 

Show Up Prepared 

• Show up in a quiet distraction-free environment, fully present and available to experience the event  
• Show up with a device that has full video and audio capability  
• Have your video turned on for the majority of the event once it begins. (It's okay to turn your video off temporarily if a background visual distraction occurs)  
• Do not join an event while in transit (walking, driving, on the bus, etc.).  Do not join an event while multi-tasking (cooking, working, watching television, etc.)

Honor Ourselves 

• Take care of your own physical and emotional needs throughout the duration of this event. You are at choice in each moment during this event, especially around how and what you share
• Request confidentiality as desired

Own Our Experience  

• When you’re owning your experience, you communicate your thoughts, feelings, perspectives and opinions in a manner that is unarguably true. 
• Use “I” statements when relevant to do so. 
• Do not using violent or diagnostic language towards other individuals on the platform
• For instance, if you don't like someone's behavior, you could say "I'm frustrated and I want you to stop that," rather than "You're a very frustrating person and you shouldn't do such things"

Hear Others Out  

• We begin with the presumption that we do not know everything. That, in fact, we do not know most things about others, and sometimes even about ourselves
• When we are given feedback or hear a new view, we attempt to respond with curiosity about what we don’t know, rather than reaffirming what we do

We also agree to do our best to NOT offer advice, teach, fix, problem solve, heal, coach or therapize each other.  

Although the Authentic Relating and Circling practices we do here may be therapeutic, this is not a space to seek or conduct therapy. To be accepted without being diagnosed is the medicine many of us need most.

We ask that all who attend our events agree to do their best to show up in alignment with these agreements.

THE FINE PRINT: ReConnect reserves the right to cancel a member’s membership at any time.  If a member is in breach of the heart and soul of these agreements or in any way creating or threatening physical or emotional harm to themself or another member, they may be asked to leave the event.  They may also be asked to meet with an ReConnect administrator to collaboratively determine if this community is a good fit for them and their needs.

Note:  The primary text from this document as well as the Calendar below is borrowed from Sarah Ness's original Authentic Revolution Connect Platform.  It is provided as a placeholder mockup text to give a sense of what a landing page for ReConnect might look like on this platform.
 
If the community wishes to carry forward with a transition to this platform, the text will be appropriately adapted and modified. 

Warmly, 

Albert Wong