LGBTQIA+

Today's Intention:

Co-create a Safe Container
Visibility
Holding Space
Envision Connection

CHAT INTROS

• Name/s & Pronouns (if you choose)
• Prominent Identities
• Location
• What drew you to Spiritual Companionship (the short answer)?
• Where is there joy or delight in your life?

Shared Agreements

• We agree to confidentiality
• We respect our differences and promote solidarity
• We recognize that we are all affected by the dominant culture
• We invite loving connection and we responsible for our judgments
• We each commit to respecting one another’s boundaries in all areas

What have been some of the gifts & challenges of this past year?
How have your gender identities and sexual orientations impacted your spiritual life in this year of pandemic and political upheaval, and/or visa versa?

In what ways would you like support as LGBTQIA+ spiritual director?

How might you imagine SDI making a difference in this kind of support?

excerpts from
Belonging
by Maya Angelou

To be who and how you are
To astonish a mean world with your kindness
Continue

To allow humor to lighten the burden
of your tender heart
Continue

To remind people that
Each is as good as the other
And that no one is beneath
Nor above you

Continue

And by doing so
You and your work
Will be able to continue
Eternally

Let us dedicate today's gathering
to our own wellbeing,
the wellbeing of those we love,
to all those who gathered with us at this conference,
to all living things and to the universe in its mystery.