How we Storydwelling…
- Respect: we treat one another always in I-thou relationships, or subject-subject relationships, never objectifying
- Listening to stories: our own, one another’s, and ancient ones
- Breath and contemplation
- Beauty!
- Permission to stop, slow and rest
- We practice grace, repentance and repair
- Play and joy
- Discernment: we engage our spiritual lives to know what are our yeses and what are our no’s
- We are all leaders, responsible for the health of this ecosystem
- We practice consistency in gathering, over time, to build trust
- When we take public action, it is because it is deeply felt and arises out of the personal hopes and pressures of at least three leaders
- Lament and grief
- Singing and music together
- Spaciousness
- Honesty
- Curiosity
- Celebration!
- Willingness to be known and seen
- Vulnerability and open-heartedness
- We practice community discussion and conversation; we are not consumers of this experience!
- Laughter
- Flexibility and adaptiveness
- Decentralizing any one person or any one gathering, including Sundays
- Deconstructing theologies, especially harmful ones
- Inviting feedback and reflection, always
- When we communicate, we do so generously and preferably in-person
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