Meetings
Agenda
Introduction
Part 1 - Knowledge Circle
Part 2 - The Three Questions
Group Conversation
Goodbye
Introduction
The Conveners welcome participants and give a sketch of the meeting flow. The Conveners lead a short grounding exercise to help the group focus on the upcoming meeting.
Part 1 - Knowledge Circle
Each participant shares a recent personal experience which confirms their knowledge that collapse is real. This is a brief check-in, about 2 minutes per person. We want to hear a personal experience from your daily life — what happened, what did it feel like, what thoughts arose? This helps us toward a common reality and gives us a context for our sharing in the next part.
Part 2 - The Three Questions
The meeting divides into groups of 5-7 people. The Conveners open breakout rooms as needed. Each breakout room includes a Convener or an experienced participant to help guide the process.
Each participant has five to seven minutes to share their reflections about collapse, by answering any or all of the Three Questions. Each person speaks without interruption. The rest of the group listens and attends.
This sharing is the core of the meeting. We believe it is fundamentally helpful to express our feelings. "To share your experience is healing. To hear others' experience is encouraging."
Group Conversation
If time remains, the whole group may engage in general conversation.
Goodbye
The Conveners thank the participants, provide information about future sessions, and wish everyone goodbye.
Conception, a painting by Susan Porter.
Guidelines
Everything said in a meeting is confidential.
Politeness and respect are required at all times, even in difficult conversations.
Please listen and attend while others are speaking. No interruptions, please, and please don't create side conversations in the chat.
Please share your lived experience. We are not discussing theories, politics, or the latest news. We are interested in you personally, because it is from your personal lived experience that all thinking and action emerge. Please share from your life.
"Your meeting really touched on what is missing in the usual conversations, and what is needed the most: How are we living our daily lives with our Acceptance and how is Collapse showing up for us. What does it look like, feel like, and what specifically are we each doing...all in practical terms, not in abstractions...and not in what we wish the whole world was doing, or imagining some fairytale global responses. You really brought the focus to the ground level, to look at ourselves in the mirror, and speak our own truths uniquely. That is HUGE!" --Karen Perry
Safety and Responsibility
The Conveners will rigorously enforce standards of politeness and respect, but you are responsible for your own emotional safety in this group. Please share and interact only in ways that you are comfortable with.
This group is not appropriate for people in a state of acute emotional instability or psychological crisis.
This group may not be appropriate for people in a state of acute bereavement from a recent loss.
If you are having trouble coping with your feelings or thoughts, please consult this list of emotional support resources (external): https://collapsesurvivalsite.com/emotional-support/
If you feel you have been treated with disrespect in this group, or you are uncomfortable about any aspect of the group process, please bring it to the Conveners' attention:
You can send a message to a Convener in the meeting chat.
You can stay on the call after the official ending time to speak with the Conveners.
You can send the Conveners an email: welcome@collapseclub.com.