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💞 Community Agreements

Our culture is built on compassion, consent, and community care. These agreements reflect how we show up for each other and ourselves.

🧠 Neurodivergence Embrace

Honor and appreciate the unique perspectives of neurodivergent individuals. Celebrate the richness that diverse cognitive styles bring.

💡 Validation of Ideas

All ideas are welcome. We value diverse thought and encourage collective creativity.

🌬️ Space Holding

Acknowledge emotional triggers and hold compassionate space for those in distress. We foster empathy through gentle, honest presence.

🌊 Applauding Visionary Fluidity

Vision evolves. We honor both clarity and ambiguity, trusting the process of emergence.

💗 Practicing Community Compassion

Let compassion guide all actions. We center empathy, kindness, and mutual care in our relationships.

🧘 Encouragement of Calm Communication

We speak slowly, kindly, and with patience. All voices matter and deserve to be heard without urgency.

🌱 Kindness in Effort

We celebrate every step toward kindness—especially the small, often invisible ones.

🌿 Recognition of Recovery

We recognize the strength it takes to heal. We support each other's recovery journeys with dignity and grace.

⚖️ Equality in Unity

We are all equals here. Power is shared, not hoarded. Background, belief, and ability do not determine worth.

🌼 Purposeful Connection for Peace

We connect through what brings us peace—plants, pets, prayer, people. All are valid.

🗣️ Non-Aggressive Communication

Disagreements happen. We commit to addressing them with curiosity and care, not aggression.

🤲 Respectful Exchange

All interactions are grounded in mutual respect, consent, and a belief in each other’s goodness.

✋ Non-Violence Principle

We reject physical, emotional, and systemic harm. We co-create safety through words and actions.

🔍 Honesty and Transparency

We value vulnerability, truthfulness, and clarity. We speak with integrity—even when it's hard.

⚖️ Fairness, Justice, and Integrity

We aim for justice in every choice. We honor accountability and strive for equitable outcomes.

🫂 Compassionate Assistance

If someone is struggling, we show up with help—not advice unless asked. Compassion, always.

🌍 Environmental Care

We respect our planet as kin. We act with ecological stewardship and interdependence in mind.

🛠️ Accountability & Restorative Justice

When harm happens, we seek repair, not punishment. We are responsible to each other and the whole.

🌈 Tolerance & Inclusivity

We embrace difference. Our community is strengthened by multiple perspectives, backgrounds, and lived truths.

🤝 Cooperation & Consent

We collaborate with consent. Power is shared through mutual respect and relational trust.

🌻 Personal Growth Commitment

Growth is lifelong. We support each other in becoming fuller, freer versions of ourselves.

🪙 Equitable Exchange

We believe in fairness. Everyone gives and receives according to capacity, not hierarchy.

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These shared agreements are not static—they are living, breathing reflections of our collective. As we grow, we revise. As we listen, we learn. As we heal, we transform.

Together, we are practicing the future we long for.

— The Compassion Collective