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%HEALTHY COMMUNITIES PEOPLE BALANCED GIFTS CONSIDER+971218                                                                
%OPEN HONEST DIALOGUE COPE NEW SITUATIONS CHALLENGE 971218                                                                  
                                                                                                                               
     Healthy  communities  and people are healthy  because                          
they give each other:                                                               
                                                                                                                               
     1.  Balanced   opportunities  to  be   heard   before                                                                     
decisions are made.                                                                                                            
                                                                                                                               
     2.  The  security of knowing that they will  continue                                                                     
to be  members   of   the  community  without  threats  of                                                                
excommunication or exclusion from dialogue.                       
                                                                                                                               
     3.  Gifts    of   honest   descriptions   of    their                                                                  
experiences, perspectives, impressions,  beliefs, desires,          
needs, attitudes and emotions.                 
                                                                                                                               
     4.  The  benefits  of  their  creative  imaginations,                         
visions, dreams and aspirations.                                                                                               
                                                                                                                               
     5.  Timely   descriptions   of  recognized   changes,                                                                     
challenges and opportunities to which they need to respond                 
openly and  honestly --- to  maintain  their  personal and                                                                 
communal integrity and health.                                                                
                                                                                                                               
     6.  Respect and trust where they  are prudent --- and                                      
descriptions  of why respect and trust are  withheld  when                                      
they are not prudent.                                                                                                          
                                                                                                                               
     7.  Descriptions  of what they have  learned  through                                
experiences---whether or not they  they  have been costly,                                   
embarrassing and/or painful.                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                               
     8.  The opportunities to participate in relationships                           
in which they grow together in mutually  satisfying  ways,      
rather than suffering in those which grow stagnant through                                
alienation and exclusivity.                       
                                                                                                                               
     9.  Support     within    mutually     interdependent                      
relationships --- rather than make demands upon each other                                                              
within addictive/codependent relationships.                             
                                                                                                                               
     10. The truth about themselves,  each other and their    
relationships; rather than false impression of themselves,    
each other and their relationships.                                                              
                                                                                                                               
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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