Create room for complexity, nuance, and diversity (aka, practicing feeling the difference between someone being different than us, and/or there being conflict vs. someone being truly unsafe and oppressive)

Create room for healthy conflict, if needed, in order to expand our capacity for a process of rupture and repair if unintentional harm happens

Know that there is zero tolerance for any power-over or abusive behavior

Keep this space safe and inclusive for all ethnicities, genders, sexual orientation, cultures, and varied levels of ability

Not talk about a member if they’re not present in the group

Abide by the rules of confidentiality, even though Read Like a Witch is not therapy or coaching. To keep our space safe, members will not disclose information about any other member to anyone outside of the container.

Members will raise our hand when we’d like to speak, and we will give space to the person speaking. *Group members agree that text chatting during discussion is allowed

Group members will signal when they are finished speaking by saying, “complete,” “done,” “thank you,” or the like.

*Group facilitator will abide by the same agreements when participating in active discussion, departing only when they shift into actively containing the group structure (opening and closing the group, intervening, providing somatic methods)

*Group facilitator will ask the group if any agreements should be added and/or amended at the beginning of each session