Revolutionary Agreements

Commit to the Mission: Our mission is to liberate ourselves and all humanity to realize our full potential. I agree to use this mission as a guide to my actions.
Communicate with Integrity: I agree to tell my truth, with compassion for myself and others.
Listen with Your Heart: I agree to listen respectfully to the communication of others and attune to their deepest meaning.
Honor Each Person's Process: I agree to honor each person's process, acknowledging that everyone, including myself, is making the best possible choice or decision we are capable of at that moment of choice or decision.
Appreciate Your Contributions: I agree to take responsibility for acknowledging myself and receiving acknowledgment from others.
Express Appreciation for Others' Contributions: I agree to acknowledge others.
Honor Our Differences: I agree to come from a sense of cooperation and caring in my interactions with others, and from an understanding that goals are often the same even though methods for achieving them may differ.
Use Grievances as Opportunities to Evolve Self: I agree to look for the unresolved issue within me that creates a disproportionate reaction to an other's behavior.
Maintain Harmony: I agree to take the time to establish rapport and then to reconnect with anyone with whom I feel out of harmony as soon as it's appropriate.
Resolve Problems Constructively: I agree to take problems, complaints and upsets to the person(s) with whom I can resolve them at the earliest opportunity. I agree not to criticize or complain to someone who cannot do something about my complaint, and I will redirect others to do the same.
Go for Excellence! I agree to support others and to be supported in participating at the highest levels of excellence.
Learn from Experience: I agree to look for opportunities to learn from my experience, to continue doing what works and discontinue doing what does not work.
Be a revolutionary Leader: I agree to take responsibility for getting the job done.
Re-evaluate Your Commitment: I agree to choose and rechoose to participate in this revolution. It's my choice.
Lighten Up! I agree to create joy in my relationships, my work, and my life.

Revolutionary Agreements were authored by Marian Head and Barbara Marx Hubbard, who give permission to anyone to freely copy them and share widely. A parchment version (I I " x 17") is available for $5 from:

New World Design Center, Box 4488, Boulder, CO 80306.