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It will be helpful for intended participants in a workshop on Mitigating Our-Own-Alienative-Conflicts - - - to
participate in the editing of a draft covenant statement about how they agree to help to Mitigate any Alienative-
Conflicts between/among  participants in the workshop; and then all who wish to participate in the workshop in 
keeping with the edited covenant statement; sign the statement.

The following is a suggested initial draft of such a covenant statement; available for editing.

We the undersigned agree to participate with each other in a workshop on Mitigating Our-Own Alienative-Conflicts 
- - - with the initial understanding that we will all-have-the-duty to call-each-other back-to-our-intended-foci - - -
of learning How-to-Mitigate-Our-Own-Alienative-Conflicts; should any of us:

1. Behave in any way which shows a lack-of-respect for:
   
   a. Others as unique-persons with guaranteed-rights to engage in open-and-honest-civil-communications about-our-
      own-and-each-other's: perspectives, perceptions, experiences, most-basic-needs, communications, behaviors,
      ideals, values, principles, aspirations, hopes, intentions, Alienative-Conflicts, etc. - - - as members of The 
      Crew of God's Astronomically-Tiny-and-Isolated Space-Ship-Earth where Sustainability must be a major concern in 
      the Long-Term.

   b. Our need to cooperate among ourselves - - - to mitigate our-own Alienative-Conflicts with each other - - - 
      to be Sustainable within Space-Ship-Earth - - - as Our-Village-Earth.

   c. Honest, accurate and reliable descriptions of our-own objective-and-reflexive realities - - - as personally 
      experienced and discerned together through Systems-Analyses - - - to the best of our collective abilities.

   d. Diverse Coherent-Clusters of Mutually-Complementary: Ideals, Values, Principles, Rituals, Hopes, Aspirations,
      and other Mutually-Supportive-Reflexive-Realities - - - that are Essential-Foundations  FOR  Civility-and-Civilization.

   e. Balanced ways of Equally-Sharing-Time-And-Attention - - -  in making personal presentations to each other in 
      both small and large groups.

   f. The need to behave in gracious ways that demonstrate: Sensitivity, Empathy and Sympathy toward the: challenges,
      difficulties, tensions, fears  and vulnerabilities of each other - - -  in all of the above processes.

   h. Tolerance, Creativity, Colaboration, Cooperation, Diplomacy, Reconciliation, Adaptability and Accommodations.

2. Threaten the overall-integrity of the efforts-of-participants who are working graciously on learning how to help
   each other to Mitigate-Our-Own-Alienative-conflicts through: Colaboration, Cooperation, Communication, Civility, 

3. Act in ways which shift other's attentions toward:

   a. Winning-Alienative-Conflicts.
   
   b. Defeating-Other's-Efforts.

   c. Controlling-Other's:  Perceptions, Perspectives, Relationships, Communications, Understandings, etc.

   d. The Life-Styles and Preoccupations of Domineering-Bullies and/or Mobbing-Mobsters.

   e. Concentrations-Of and Concentrating: Wealth, Power, Influence, Possessions, Luxuries, Controls, Technologies, etc.

   f. Distractions that Undermine-the-Mitigation of Our-Own-Alienative-Conflicts and the Meeting All-of-Our-Basic-Needs.

   g. US as special-people who Have-Special: Rights, Entitlements, Privileges and ways of being Superior above all others!