Date last edited: 8/12/26
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Agreements for the
🌅🌳 First Breath Ecosystem (FBE)
We meet each other where we are at.
We are all in this together 🩵
No one is better than anyone else 🐞
🔐 Privacy
We ask that people not be individually named or publicly identified on social media in connection with this work without explicit consent and strong boundaries around the content 📱
This is private work.
It is not meant to be publicly consumed by everyone.
🙊 Confidentiality
We ask that what people share and experience within the ecosystem remain within the ecosystem 🌅🌳
Please do not share what happens inside these spaces with people who are not part of them, or share information about another person without their consent.
These practice spaces help us build discernment, care, and trust 🤲
🛡️ Safety
Many of us have learned to live without deep safety—with ourselves or with one another.
We cannot wait for someone else to create safe spaces for us.
We create them together—gently & with lots of jokes 🤣
Safety is an ongoing practice of embodiment, relational awareness, discernment, accountability, and trust-building.
🌼 Relationship & Reciprocity
We come together to explore relationships with a spirit of reciprocity, curiosity, consent, and care.
We welcome and honor differences.
We practice deep listening and inquiry.
This is a space for mutual learning, expansion, and new culture creation ☀️
We acknowledge that building community, capacity, and knowledge together takes time.
We counter a culture of urgency and embrace humility 🐢
We understand there will be discomfort in growth and change.
There will also be laughter, evolution, co-creation, connection, and a deepening understanding of who we truly are.
We let things flow, like water 🌊
💜 Presence & Self-Awareness
We practice listening and speaking from the heart.
We check our assumptions and question our delusions.
We notice our internal judgments, shame, and reactions, and practice taking responsibility for what belongs to us.
When discomfort or strong reactions arise, we practice noticing the charge with curiosity 🤔
We recognize that unresolved pain and trauma can shape how we experience ourselves, one another, and the world.
🌅🌳 FBE spaces offer opportunities to notice, metabolize, and integrate what emerges over time 🌀
We are learning to grow together in love, care, and integrity 🩷
🐚 Accountability & Repair
We practice repair when harm occurs 💛
Repair can feel scary when we have been hurt.
We practice listening to one another’s perspectives, taking accountability for our impact, and working toward deeper understanding 🤲
Each of us is responsible for noticing and taking accountability for the harm we have inherited, so we can learn to move it through our bodies rather than continuing to pass it on to one another 🛑
These spaces will be messy
We will not always get it right, and that’s okay!