Questions to Guide Our Group Discussion
* In our relationships, we can either be connected and extending our energy, or be separate and withdrawing our energy. When you withdraw your energy from the relationship, what direct effect does that have on the other person? Do they feel safe? Are they likely to be acting from their center?
*What happens in relationship when we consciously extend our energy? What direct effect does that have on other people?
* Your beliefs are simply strategies to protect or explain yourself. They are not who you really are. If this is true, who are you?
* We are to ask ourselves “What does my center want to do in this situation?” How does this question allow you to discover authentic action?
* In the midst of conflict, we can sense fear and insecurity welling up and dominating our attention. How do you “transcend” those fears and insecurities?
* Simmons says that peacemaking “is dynamic neutrality in the face of competing tensions or mutually exclusive positions.” Yet it is neither passive or aggressive. Explore this paradox.
* How do you create dynamic neutrality? What does that look like? What does that mean to you?
* What connections can you see between being a Peacemaker and the Season For Nonviolence?
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