Everyone who joins the community has the opportunity to receive the following:
- emails that members share with the community, including writings by Miki
- an empathy buddy (a peer relationship of mutual support)
- a mentor (usually someone with more experience to support one’s journey with the commitments)
- a platform for making requests for empathy, support with projects, or other forms of support
- responses from Miki to questions about living and applying the commitments
- NVC materials created by Miki and her sister Inbal that can support one's intention to live in alignment with the commitments.
The above are the tangible elements that you receive. For many members the experience of being in the community extends beyond the tangible to include a sense of companionship and community related to how they want to live in the world.
How You Can Participate in the Community
Everyone who joins the community can participate in the following ways:
- Join conference calls, which include weekly calls facilitated by Miki (different times and topics each week), and calls initiated and scheduled by others on a variety of topics related to the commitments.
- Submit any questions to Miki related to living and applying the commitments. (Responses will be shared with the community at large.)
- Engage in various discussions and blogs on Groupsite, the website used by the CTC community as a form of interaction and support.
- Attend in-person meetings (currently scheduled only in the Bay Area).
- Attend CTC retreats when those are scheduled. (NOTE: No retreats have been scheduled so far; a January or February 2011 retreat is tentatively being considered. If a CTC-only retreat is scheduled, the community will figure out together how to make it work financially for all those who want to come while supporting sustainability for whoever leads the retreat.)