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Welcome to the Rapha Journey Community Forum. We believe this discussion forum will help you and other members share experiences and offer mutual support in your journey to greater wholeness.

This forum is moderated by Dr. Peter Holmes & Dr. Susan Williams, and it is supported by members of the Rapha Journey Forum team, who have been pursuing their Rapha Journey over a number of years. We believe in a model of “experts by experience”, meaning that others’ experiences are vital and valuable to us as we walk our journeys.

We have a few guidelines for this forum that will help to honour everyone and create a place of safety. These are similar to the principles we use in our Rapha groups and have been created over many years of experience.

Mutual support

• The most important guideline is that every post is written in a spirit of support, whether seeking support or offering support. We want Love to prevail and for everyone to feel honoured.
• Don’t give advice. None of us know enough about each other’s experience to do that. Ideas and suggestions can be offered, especially if they are based on your own experience. But none of us would claim to be qualified to ‘advise’.
• If someone makes a suggestion in response to one of your questions, please consider it carefully and decide whether it feels helpful to you. There are a wide variety of ways of finding greater wholeness, and its fine to disagree or have a different perspective.
• Everyone is welcome to this forum, whether you have a Christian faith, or not. We are not seeking to ‘convert’ or evangelise. We respect each person’s experience and choice of faith. But please note that this forum actively supports a journey of Christian discipleship and one part of the forum is specifically to support that journey of deepening relationship with Christ. If you are offering support to someone else, note whether they are expressing their journey in relationship with God, and respect their choice.
• There should be no offensive language on the forum, no mocking or undermining of someone else’s journey or views.
• And finally - note that this forum is not suitable for urgent questions. Please contact us directly if you have a question that needs a more timely and specific response.

We do have the facility to end someone’s membership of the Rapha Community if these guidelines are not followed. We want to keep the forum feeling as safe and supportive for everyone as possible.

Practically

• Please post your question in whichever forum grouping feels most appropriate.
• Have a good look through the forum yourself. You will discover that many of us struggle with similar issues, so there’s a lot to learn there.
• If you can make the title of the question as specific as possible, that will help ensure you get good responses.
• Avoid titles like:
  • Help, I’m stuck
  • Rapha Journey Question
• Choose something like:
  • Struggling with self-hate
  • How do I forgive?

Thank you for joining our Rapha Journey Community. We hope that it will support you in your journeying into greater wholeness and, if you choose, deepening relationship with Christ.