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The HOPE "GoldBook"
We set the context of a HOPE Group meeting by reading the contents of what we call the GoldBook, line by line, which contains the following four elements, which we present here for your own use:

(To download a complementary copy of the GoldBook as a .pdf file that you can laminate and use in group meetings, click here.)

The HOPE Group Opening:
(consisting of the four questions that lie behind the successful life of every seeker:

  1. Who are you?

  2. Why are you here?

  3. How are you going to get what you came for?

  4. What are you going to do with it when you have it?)

In other words, we name ourselves, set our primary intention, describe how we are to realize it, and set the results of attaining it. In this way, we can bring meaning, value, and purpose to every life.)

We are a HOPE group.
We come together to find wellness.
Wellness comes with the discovery of peace of mind.
We find peace of mind through understanding and letting go of guilt and fear.
In this way, we learn to live in each moment.
In this moment, we can choose to focus on the whole of life rather than its fragments.
We seek the power that makes this choice possible.
We come to realize that this power lies within each one of us.
This power, as we understand it, is love.
With love's power we come to realize the promise of hope.


The Principles of Attitudinal Healing                       (Top)
(healing affirmations that can get us out of the kind of trouble that the ego can get us into with its paranoid convictions. They assure that what we are going to do with what we came for will be used for the highest good!

They come to HOPE from Dr. Jerry Jampolsky, the founder of the first Center for Attitudinal Healing then located in Tiburon, California. HOPE has chosen to replace "help" in the twelfth principle with "love".)

  1. The essence of our being is love.
  2. Health is inner peace. Healing is letting go of fear.
  3. Giving and receiving are the same.
  4. We can let go of the past and of the future.
  5. Now is the only time there is and each instant is for giving.
  6. We can learn to love ourselves and others by forgiving rather than judging.
  7. We can become love finders rather than fault finders.
  8. We can choose and direct ourselves to be peaceful inside regardless of what is happening outside.
  9. We are students and teachers to each other.
  10. We can focus on the whole of life rather than the fragments.
  11. Since love is eternal, death need not be viewed as fearful.
  12. We can always perceive others as either extending love or giving a call for love.


HOPE Group Guidelines                                             (Top)
(more gifts from the Centers for Attitudinal Healing that we tweaked to fit the GoldBook... verbal agreements which assure that we nurture each other according to the twelve principles.)

We agree to...

  1. Help the group focus on attitudinal healing by letting go of fear and conflict, and seeing life in a peaceful and loving way.
  2. Work on our own healing processes, offer mutual support and practice non-judgmental listening.
  3. Recognize the importance of each person's process, and in this way we can create a safe atmosphere for the whole group.
  4. Support each other’s inner guidance, and to trust in that process.
  5. Share what has worked for us in our own lives without expectation of it working for others. There are no "shoulds".
  6. Risk and expose our own emotional states. Thus we share our common experience.
  7. Use our time together with mutual care, consideration and respect.
  8. Be students and teachers to each other… interchangeably.
  9. Maintain a loving focus on each speaker, and refrain from cross-talk or walking on another's talk.
  10. Keep all personal information that is shared in a HOPE group meeting strictly confidential.


A Prayer for Serenity                                                       (Top)

(Three powerful states of mind that empower the process, and in which the word, "Love," in some HOPE groups, replaces the word, "God")

God, grant me the serenity
To accept the things I can not change,
The courage to change the things I can,
And the wisdom to know the difference.

To download a complimentary copy of the GoldBook as either an MS Word 97 text file, the Publisher 2000 file that we laminate and use in the group meetings, or a PDF copy of it, click here.

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(Last edited 11/15/2007)

 

 

 

 

 
 
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