PEARL

(Physical vulnerabilities, Emotional vulnerabilities, Arrest/Assault risk, Role, Loose ends if arrested or in hospital)

• Maybe do your last human barometer question on buddies, so you can see where people stand, opinion or experience-wise.
• Tell'em why we dig buddies: (Two heads better than one, not going through anything alone, jail/court support, etc). Tell'em PEARL comes from Atlanta Copwatch (Why would Copwatchers want buddies?)
• Demonstrate PEARL: Tell your buddy your real vulnerabilities: that makes it safe for everybody else to do it in a minute. Emphasize starting with Roles to see if y'all even want to do the same thing (march, make food, make puppets, do media, do jail support, etc).
• Group members turn to neighbor and do PEARL.
• Debrief. Some kind of question like: anybody find a good buddy? A bad buddy? Why? Would you use this with a friend? A stranger?
• PEARL helps you know yourself and your buddy so you can have each others' back. It's like an advance directive: "here's what I'm like, what I want to do, what I need/like, what I don't want in my life, and how to talk to me." We learn this shit through coming back to these questions with a buddy again and again, before and after stressful, boring, and thrilling times.