The shared values for  facilitators and participants include:

• Integrity

  • Doing what I say, saying what I mean and cleaning up if I didn’t
  • Honesty with self, willingness to receive feedback

• Equanimity

  • Treating all equally; loving all equally (even those the “hardest” to love

• Transparency

  • Honesty in word and deed

• Radical Acceptance

  • As challenges arise, learning in real time, learning together — viewing together.

• Interdependent/Co-Arising

  • Understanding the interdependence of everything

• Compassion/Understanding

  • Recognizing and helping to reduce the universal pains of living

• Loving Kindness

  • Being gentle in our interactions

• Shared Joy

  • Sharing the joys of others rather than being competitive in “winning”

• Community as Kin

  • Opening our heart and mind to the wider society

• Gratitude

  • Feeling and expressing thankfulness in simple pleasures