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• The Readers participate in the MESSAGES part of the service

 

• Readers ASK if the person would like a message. 

  • A reader must be invited and not force themselves

  • “No means no” – for that reader.  It may be the person does not feel a particular affinity for you, but is waiting for another reader.

 

• Do not touch the person for whom you are reading – keep a respectful distance.

 

• Deliver messages that are constructive and / or helpful.  Even messages about difficult situations can be framed as “challenges”.  In those cases, try to also present solutions that you may have received, not your own ideas

 

The reader should avoid topics that are:

• exclusive    identifies the only way to believe / behave

• divisive       sets one group or class of people against another

• political       nothing about current or past politics

• sexual         no explicit or suggestive sexual material or comments

• frightening  no predictions of death, disease, disaster, misfortune

• personal     Sometimes a reader receives an extremely personal message for 

                          individual In those cases, the reader should request to speak with the                              person after service; delivering the message privately while in full                                    view of others.