Borrowed from EBMC’s Agreements for Multicultural Interaction, SF POC Insight Sangha will use the following Agreements for Wise Speech:
Practice Self-Focus - Attend to and speak about your own experiences and responses rather than what others have shared
Move Up/Move Back - Take note of who is speaking and who is not
Practice Mindful Listening - Try to avoid planning what you’ll say as you listen to others
Our Sangha meets from 6:00pm - 7:30pm weekly on Zoom.
The teachings are offered freely, otherwise they would not be the teachings - and both our core teachers and guest teachers view their work as a labor of love. As such, no one will ever be turned away if they cannot pay dana.
However, transparently as the caretakers council we have a $105 fundraising goal for each week to ensure we keep the sangha going and that reason is two fold:
Compensating our guest teachers for their truly amazing work with us each week. As people of color our work is always a labor of love and we are often undervalued and under compensated. As such, the council has decided that each guest teacher should receive a minimum of $60 for their time with us.