Community Group Guidelines
Welcome to the community!
Like-hearted community can play an important supporting role in your growth and wellbeing. We learn from each other. We encourage each other and we hold a deep listening space for hearing and witnessing other’s experiences.
These guidelines form the foundation for creating a culture of sharing, care, support, safety, and respect.
They apply to group classes, programs, and online forums hosted by Stephanie Ross. When using third party platforms such as Facebook and Thinkific, the community guidelines for those platforms will also apply.
The basic guidelines are:
Kindness and Respect
We all have different backgrounds and experiences. Please check in with your heart before, speaking, posting, or responding. Are your words coming from a place of respect and understanding?
Confidentiality
You are welcome to share your experiences. Please respect other’s privacy and do not share their names and stories outside of the group.
Remember that people may join the group at a later date. Anything you post will be visible to them.
When relating your own experiences involving others try using phrases such as “someone close to me” to help protect the identity of others.
Listening
Live wisdom circles and classes will have established norms for listening that will often involve pausing and reflecting before responding. In some cases, only non-verbal responses will be used.
For all forums, it’s intended that communications are open, non-judgemental, and supportive. We all have different perspectives, personal backgrounds, beliefs, and patterns.
Do your best to remain open and curious.
If triggered, please go inward and query why you may be feeling that way before choosing to respond to another or not. This applies to written posts and comments too.
Inspiration, Wisdom, Curiosity
Please do share your celebrations, learning, inspirations, and questions.
We welcome relevant images, short videos, poetry, and other forms of expression.
Inclusivity
This community welcomes and celebrates the diversity that makes us human.
We welcome the beauty of the body you are in: all shapes, sizes, ages, colors, and abilities.
We welcome your ethnic, religious, cultural, educational, and economic backgrounds.
We welcome your neurodiversity and your unique ways of being.
We welcome your gender and sexual orientation.
The Legal Stuff
Participants are fully and wholly responsible for assessing the benefits and risks of sharing personal information, contact information, pursuing connections beyond the scope of this community; for the content they post, for their opinions expressed orally, in writing and other forms.
Stephanie Ross and persons acting on her behalf:
• take no responsibility for the content or opinions posted by individual participants.
• reserve the right to review participant activities and respond using their discretion. Responses could include, but are not limited to, temporarily or permanently removing members from the platform, class, or forum;
• are under no obligation to review all material posted in the forums;
• reserve the right to remove posts and to intervene in interactions during classes, events and activities for actions or speech that includes, but is not limited to: off-subject; contain personal attacks; obscenity; vulgarity; profanity; impersonations; advertising; hateful language; personal information such as phone numbers, addresses; names, images or information of persons in this community; illegal activity; information that violates copyright law; computer code, file or program designed to interrupt, overload, collapse, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software, hardware or telecommunications; or that violate the Community Guidelines, Privacy Policy, and Terms and Conditions; and
• reserve the right to deny or ban posts and comments that breach the posting/commenting rules or breach the Community Guidelines.
If you have questions about these Community Group Guidelines, please contact us at: stephanie@stephanierossauthor.com