Rules Review

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Coming Alive

Rules Review

Respect the Talking Stick-one person speaking at a time, no interruptions, comments, questions etc. during check-in and first round of sharing on topic

Make I statements whenever possible

Use Active Listening

Respect confidentiality of shared information

Avoid giving advice

May ask clarifying questions during second round
Speaker may ask for advice which will be shared later

Share time so everyone who wishes to may speak

Anyone may pass at any time

Encourage holding silences

Our open chair

Group Expectations

attend regularly, six months
notify a member of the group if you must miss a session
arrive on time, close on time
be clear with each other about the quality of each member’s participation
participate in group decisions concerning format, shared meal, discussion topics, service activities
participate in service activities planned by the group

Check-in: Briefly let us know what you are bringing with you to today’s group.

Opening Words-

" Don’t ask yourself what the world needs: ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive." Harold Whitman

Questions:

What makes you come alive? How have you incorporated it into your life?

What aspects of your coming alive could contribute to your spiritual growth?

Is the world a better place when people "come alive"?

Check-out

What new discoveries about yourself or the group have you made during today’s Covenant Group?

Closing Words

When I am An Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple

by Jenny Joseph

When I am an old woman I shall wear purple

With a red hat which doesn’t go, and doesn’t suit me.

And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves

And satin sandals and say we’ve no money for butter.

I shall sit down on the pavement when I’m tired

And gobble up samples in shops and press alarm bells

And run my stick along the public railings

And make up for the sobriety of my youth.

I shall go out in my slippers in the rain

And pick the flowers in other people’s gardens

And learn to spit.
You can wear terrible shirts and grow more fat

And eat three pounds of sausages at a go

Or only bread and pickles for a week.

And hoard pens and pencils and beer mats and things in

boxes.

But now we must have clothes that keep us dry

And pay our rent and not swear in the street

And set a good example for the children.

We must have friends to dinner and read the papers.

But maybe I ought to practice a little now?

So people who know me are not too shocked and surprised

When suddenly I am old, and start to wear purple.

Business:

Next Meeting: Nov. 17

Location of next meeting: Shirley Paul’s

241 Monte Vista Ave.

Dinner Menu

Drinks

Vegetarian Main Dish

Grain

Other

Bread

Salad

Dessert

Concerns?