PoSA Circle Guidelines

 

  1. We admitted we were harming ourselves and allowing others to dishonor us—operating from a one-down, exploited place in relationship to the SAC.
  2. Came to value ourselves and found the inner power to relate to others from a place of true equality.
  3. Enhanced and expanded our spirituality and values—establishing appropriate boundaries—however that may play out in our lives.
  4. Realized that we hurt all persons in our lives—most of all ourselves—when we allow ourselves to be devalued and disrespected by anyone.
  5. Sought to create ethical equality in all our relationships, thereby healing relational trauma, with the help of others and spiritual resources.
  6. Explored our specific trauma patterns and boundary absences/violations and the ways those play out in our lives.
  7. Asked for a transformational rebirth in our own lives to change those trauma patterns to life-enhancing vigor.
  8. Became willing to restore our own lives first—others thereafter—establishing appropriate boundaries according to our values.
  9. Sought for ourselves amends for the ways that we hurt and endangered ourselves—as long as doing so would not violate our dignity or cause us long-term harm. Made direct amends to those we have harmed by neglecting ourselves and them as long as doing so did not create a greater harm.
  10. Continued to re-assess our values and our boundaries.
  11. Sought deepened spirituality and the strength to live into our values and to establish appropriate boundaries.
  12. Having had a spiritual deepening and regained self-respect, our lives vibrantly reflect these changes and we practice these values in all areas of our lives.
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