Guidelines for encounter and dialogue

1 RELEASE your personal agenda and expectations

  • Be open and examine your motives for wanting to say something
  • In case you have any personal interests, make them known to the group
  • Examine your opinions, do not hang on to them, look for reasons to give them up

2 Be here and in the NOW

  • Be happy with what you are today. Not what you did yesterday or where you want to be tomorrow

3 First LISTEN, then be silent

  • Respect everyone who speaks authentically, respect does not mean accept
  • Endeavour to sense the deepest meaning, the essence of what someone is trying to say. Do not speak until you have succeeded in this
  • Listen as a human being to another human being, not as members of different groups or organizations

4 Speak your deepest knowing from your HEART

  • Always allow a brief silence before a reaction
  • Speak only your deepest knowing, not your first thought
  • Share why you say what you say, share your underlying motivation
  • Be succinct and focused, speak softly and slowly
  • Do not repeat yourself, trust that people will have listened

5 TRUST result will come

  • Enjoy the sharing and the encounters
  • Focus on understanding and learning not on results
  • Be prepared to receive something more beautiful than ever thought of