Condensed Meeting Safety Guidelines

Google doc links to beta versions of short form, long form guidelines

Inclusivity:

• We practise respecting diversity.

• We expect excluding or aggressive language to be courageously interrupted.

Avoiding Triggering Language:

• We practise sharing responsibly.

• We recommend speaking for a part thinking about suiciding as “my part who wants to stop my pain”.

• We don’t share abuse details.

• We expect extreme sharing to be compassionately interrupted.

Being Self-led:

• We commit to the intention to speak for our parts not from them.

• We express feelings using phrases like "I notice a part of me feels..."

Confidentiality:

• We keep all meeting discussions confidential.

No Cross-talk:

• We refrain from verbal cross-talk, especially naming other participants, and giving advice.

• Instead, we use language like "I really related when someone shared earlier about… "

Self-Care in Meetings:

• We take responsibility for internally acknowledging and caring for any of our parts activated by the meeting.

• We take breaks if needed, using mute, or stepping out for self-care.

• We seek appropriate support after the meeting if necessary.

Conclusion:

• We all share responsibility for meeting safety.

• We all may courageously interrupt with safety concerns ourselves, or we can use a private Chat message to a meeting host to raise safety concerns and request a safety pause.

• Meeting hosts have renamed themselves with two asterisks to help with this.

• Safety pauses will be for 30 seconds followed by re-reading these guidelines.