The Sanctuary is a place to share and teach, to associate, extend love, inspire and be inspired. We invite everyone to participate in our Sanctuary and in our Online Discussion Forum with reverence, respect, kindness and discernment. Awakening Together has developed etiquette guidelines for participation in the Sanctuary and the Forum to promote the spirit of our intention. Consistent adherence to the rules helps to maintain an environment that encourages people to share openly. The Sanctuary and Forum etiquette guidelines are:
- Allow speakers and other participants to share without offering advice or “help.”
- Allowing everyone to walk their own path to inner seeing is the gift of our Assembly. Trusting that everyone is having exactly the experience they have chosen is living our values. By allowing speakers and participants to share without interference, advice, or help, we honor everyone’s path and trust the inherent truth within each of us.
- Listen and respond to the current Sanctuary speaker with respect and kindness.
- Respect includes regard for one’s feelings and for one’s spiritual point of view. Respect does not necessarily mean agreement, since everyone is asked to use discernment that comes from one’s own heart. However, honor the speaker’s freedom to share as he/she feels to share without interfering.
- Kindness is the quality of being friendly, generous and considerate. Kindness includes supporting each other on different paths of awakening and allowing each one to be where he/she is in his/her current spiritual understanding and practice.
- If the Sanctuary speaker invites participation, raise your hand. When the speaker turns the microphone over to you, share openly, with consideration and respect in accordance with Awakening Together’s core values.
- Use your device’s video only if you are able to focus your full attention on the current program. Do not engage in activities while attending a sanctuary program that may be distracting to other participants. Remember that respect and kindness are conveyed through visual cues as well as through verbal and written words and act in a respectful and kind manner to the speaker and other participants.
- When typing on the Sanctuary chat board or speaking, direct your comments to the current speaker and be sure your comments are related to the topic currently being discussed by the speaker.
- When typing or speaking, never indicate that someone else is wrong. You may share your experience and understanding, but your sharing should never negate the sharing of another.
- Do not use the Sanctuary’s chat board to have unrelated discussion with other participants.
- Gossip is never permitted in the Sanctuary or in the Forum under any circumstances.
- When sending a private message to someone in the Sanctuary, be respectful by asking if it is a good time for a private message. (They may want to listen without being disturbed.)
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