2024-25 Faith Land Discernment Cohort Covenant

As facilitators and conveners of the Faith Land Discernment Cohort, we will honor these commitments:

• Share tools, resources, and materials to further the collective growth of this cohort and its members. 

• Faithfully accompany you within your context - through listening to your experiences, reflections, and intuitions. We will hold sacred our relationships created through vulnerability, generative agitation, leaning into our growing edges, and striving to incorporate the learnings we glean from our time together.

As members of this cohort, we invite you all to honor the following commitments:

• Attending monthly gatherings

• Completing homework assignments between sessions

• Sharing this information with your larger faith communities, facilitating conversations in your faith community and neighborhood context, and taking action in your faith community towards the fulfillment of your discernment process.

Together, we - as facilitators and cohort members - will honor these commitments:

• Living out the principles of the organizing spiral: listening, learning, acting, reflecting, and celebrating, in all cohort and direct accompaniment meetings.

• Offering our prayers, presence, gifts, service, witness, and actions with open minds and hearts in all cohort and direct accompaniment meetings.

• Continuing to develop our own awareness of anti-racism, especially as it pertains to the specific focus of this cohort.  

• Actively participate in an equitable and faithful discernment process with your faith community, with the goal of seeing the process to completion.