GROUND RULES
February 2004 – based on Ground Rules from Laird Schaub at January 2003 LAEV Retreat
- Emotions OK; aggression not OK
- Silence = assent
- If confused, ask.
- I’ll try to be everyone’s ally.
- I’ll be agreement-prejudiced.
- If there’s no clear preference about what to do next; I’ll decide.
- I’ll call on people in the order in which they raise their hands, but reserve the right to interrupt that order to preferentially call on those who have spoken less, and to follow a thread.
(Note as pf June 2007 - We frequently use these rules, approving them by consensus at the beginning of meetings, but we have not consensed upon these as any kind of formal LAEV Policy.)