City Club Membership Operating/Participating Principles

Operation Principles

• Create a community of conscious citizens within our region, generating awareness of our individual and collective impact
  
• Stimulate civic-mindedness and a will to pursue the greater community good
  
• Forge new cooperative relationships within the Central Oregon community|
  
• Create dialog on subjects of importance to our region and our communities
  
• Bring forth constructive dialog while honoring diverse perspectives
  
• Focus with other organizations on building a community by design
  
• Arouse appreciation for the obligations of citizenship
  
• Stimulate informed community decision making and constructive action

"Creating Purposeful Community through Dialog"

Participation Priciples

• Member Code of Inquiry
  
• We are a product of our community and it of us.
  
• We are strong in our collective strength and believe that knowledge creates wisdom.
  
• We welcome the free expression of ideas of interest to our region.
  
• We reserve the right of every member to create their own convictions and to retain responsibility for them.
  
• Discussion Code of Behavior
  
• Act with respect for the dignity of every individual
  
• Create an impartial forum of free expression
  
• Seek to understand, drawing on the wisdom of all
  
• Honor each other’s perspective and the spirit in which it is expressed
  
• Stand in the place of a learner, with a bias toward inquiry
  
• Govern our own interactions by what builds community bonds
  
• Seek common ground and common understanding
  
• Create a community that works for all

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