Guidelines for Attitudinal Healing Groups

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The Group Guidelines serve as the foundation for an Attitudinal Healing support group. They are shared agreements that help create a safe, respectful, and trusting space—encouraging honest self-reflection, authentic expression, and meaningful connection.

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Guidelines of Attitudinal Healing

Discover how the Group Guidelines of Attitudinal Healing create safe, non-judgmental spaces for deep listening, connection, and inner healing.

The Group Guidelines of Attitudinal Healing are the foundation of AH support groups. Created by Dr. Jerry Jampolsky, they establish a safe, respectful, and nonjudgmental space where people can share openly, listen deeply, and connect with compassion.

The guidelines reflect AH’s core philosophy: that love is the most powerful force for healing. Instead of advice or fixing, healing comes through presence, trust, and a shift in attitude.

By setting simple agreements - like confidentiality, no judgment, and seeing each person as whole, the guidelines create the conditions for honest self-awareness, authentic communication, and heartfelt connection.

Discussion videos about each of the 10 AH Guidelines:

Guideline 1:

The intention of the group is to use the Principles of Attitudinal Healing as tools for learning and personal transformation.

Guideline 2:

In the groups, we recognize that love is listening, and we agree to listen with an open heart, to give mutual support and to practice non-judgmental listening and sharing.

Guideline 3:

We are here to heal ourselves. We are not here to give advice or to change anyone’s beliefs or behavior. Being accepted as we are makes it easier for us to accept others.

Guideline 4:

We share from our own experience. By risking and exposing our own emotional state, we find common experience that allows for joining.

Guideline 5:

We respect ourselves and each other as unique; we recognize that each person’s process is important, not our judgment of it.

Guideline 6:

We support each other's inner guidance and assist one another in finding our own best answers.

Guideline 7:

The roles of student and teacher are interchangeable. They fluctuate from one to the other regardless of age or experience.

Guideline 8:

We practice being present with others, seeing each person as whole; and not defining them by their appearance, mood, behavior or circumstance.

Guideline 9:

We agree to keep in mind that we always have a choice between peace and conflict, between love and fear.

Guideline 10:

We respect the confidentiality of what we share in group, recognizing its importance for maintaining the group as a place of safety and trust.

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