AttuneApp - Beta Taste: Instructions Page
Thank you for being a beta tester for the AttuneApp! This page has everything you need to complete the session. Your facilitator will guide you through each step. Feel free to follow along below.
Before the Session
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Gather a group of 3 to 12 people, including yourself and any co-facilitators for your Beta Taste Session.
Before your session, send each person a link to this webpage — it will serve as their one-stop hub for everything they need for the Taste Session, including instructions, scripts, and links to the AttuneApp and feedback survey.
1. Welcome & Orientation (~15 min)
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The guidance and example facilitator scripts below are suggestions only. Facilitators are encouraged to improv with any and all of it to best serve their group.
Welcome and brief check in:
“Welcome, everyone. It’s so good to be together. As we begin, we invite you to turn off notifications on your device so you can be fully present. Then take a couple of deep breaths and settle in.
Now - to check in with ourselves, take a moment and see if you can notice & name how you’re feeling as we begin our time together. {Pause]
For those that are comfortable sharing, in a couple of words or phrases, describe your best sense of how you’re feeling.”
Purpose:
“Today we’re helping to beta test the new AttuneApp — an experience designed to strengthen our ability to attune to God and to one another. As we use it, we’re also exploring what it looks like to share in the leadership of cultivating communities of spiritual growth and transformation. Our desire is that through this time together, you’ll taste and see how attuning to God and to one another can bring renewed hope, courage, and wisdom for all the things we’re facing right now.”
Share the plan for this session:
Welcome & Orientation
Individual Attunement via the AttuneApp
Sharing and Listening in Small Breakouts
Large Group Debrief
Feedback & Closing
“You should have received the link to the AttuneApp – Beta Taste: Instructions Page. This will be your home base for the session — the place to access the App, follow the agenda, and find everything you’ll need. Go ahead and pull it up whenever you’re ready.”
Ask for a volunteer to open the group up in a brief prayer
Ask for a volunteer to read through the Guidance for Group Dynamics below, inviting the rest of the group to read long with you
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We encourage all parties to gently stretch toward wise vulnerability.
Each person is encouraged to discern for themselves:
What exercises to engage in, if any
What to share, if anything
During our interactions, we aim to actively practice the following:
We communicate with our words and body language that we are present, we accept each other, we seek each other’s good and we are in this together.
We are not here to judge, fix, convict, give advice or provide answers – even to ourselves, but to help each other listen to God and gain new perspective.
We act as a loving, curious presence - noticing emotions, asking questions and identifying deeper patterns and opportunities to move these patterns toward God’s intent.
We keep everything shared regarding potentially sensitive personal information completely confidential.
2. Individual Attunement via the AttuneApp (~30 min, 45 min total )
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“We’re now going to spend some time individually with God using the AttuneApp. This next portion is a space for personal reflection and listening, to help you discern more of God’s presence and guidance around a current situation that you want God’s help with.
The AttuneApp is a simple web app — there’s nothing to download. It includes an AI powered digital guide designed to facilitate a structured conversation between you and the Holy Spirit around your situation. We invite you to focus your attention on a dialogue with God, rather than with the guide itself. It may feel awkward to connect with God through a device—our phones often cue us to speed up or get distracted. That’s expected. With practice and a bit of intentional slowing, your mind will begin to associate this space with quiet, presence, and attunement to God.
Please note: your conversations remain private unless you choose to share them. They’re processed securely through trusted technology providers to enable your experience, and are never retained, sold, or used to train external systems.
When you’re ready, click ‘Access the AttuneApp,’ create your account, and begin the exercise. We’ll regroup at [time]. If you finish early, take a few minutes to read through the Facilitator Instructions, Guidance for Sharing & Listening, and Why This Guidance Matters portions of Section 3, on this Instructions Page.”
3. Breakouts for Sharing & Listening (~25 min, 70 min total)
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“We’ll now move into breakout groups of three (with a group of four or five as needed to ensure at least three people per group), giving people space to voice, clarify, claim & act on their best sense of God’s guidance. These spaces are where we:
Practice attuning to one another — listening deeply, speaking honestly, and noticing what the Spirit might be revealing through each story.
They’re also where we practice holding transformative space, which begins with offering a loving, grounding, and spacious environment that encourages each person to discern for themselves what to engage in or share, if anything.
Timing: We have about 20 minutes total.
For groups of three, plan for ~7 minutes per person.
The person sharing might speak for 3–5 minutes, followed by a few minutes for listeners to respond.
For groups of four or five, aim for at least three people to self-select into sharing.”
Facilitators, you can assign or allow groups to form freely, just make sure everyone has a place.
Once in groups, ask someone from each group to volunteer to read the Guidance for Sharing and Listening aloud to center your time together, and let people know when to regroup.
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The purpose of these breakouts is to help each person deepen their own discernment of God’s guidance. This is not a time to problem-solve or give advice, but to create space where each person can listen for what resonates as they speak things out loud. When we practice this kind of attunement together, we not only grow in discernment but also in connection and trust with one another.
When You’re Sharing (If You Choose to Share):
Offer whatever feels helpful for you to voice, clarify, claim, or act on your own sense of God’s guidance — and only to the extent that feels right for you, not what you imagine others hope to hear. Wise vulnerability doesn’t always mean saying more; it means offering what is true and helpful in this moment.
You can always say “pass.” If you say “pass,” the group simply moves on with no pressure or explanation needed.
When You’re Listening:
Be a loving, attentive presence. Listen to understand, without judging, fixing, or adding your own story.
Let your body language say: I see you, I accept you, I’m with you.
For now, limit your responses to simple affirmations, such as:
“Thank you for sharing.”
“That sounds really [hard/encouraging/etc.].”
“I hear [courage/wisdom/etc.] in that.”
This way of listening may feel unfamiliar or even frustrating — that’s normal. Try it and notice how this kind of presence can support growth and transformation.
Remember: you are helping hold transformative space that honors each person’s discernment.
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The way we listen profoundly shapes whether someone opens up or closes down.
When we judge, advise, or try to “fix,” even with good intentions, the speaker’s system often moves into self-protection — closing the very space where God may be at work.
In contrast, loving, grounded, spacious presence helps a person stay open to God’s gentle work in their heart.
In interpersonal neurobiology, this is called co-regulation: when one nervous system’s steady presence helps another feel safe enough to explore, reflect, and receive.
Our goal is not to direct or diagnose, but to hold open the space — creating an environment where the Spirit can do what only the Spirit can do.
4. Large Group Debrief (~5 min, 75 min total)
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“As we come back together, let’s take a moment to check in with ourselves again. After this time of attuning to God and to one another, what do you notice? How are you feeling now — has anything shifted since we began?
Shifts can feel positive, negative, or somewhere in between — all of that is welcome. Naming what’s real helps us deepen our reflection and growth.
For those who are willing, please share a few words or short phrases that capture what’s shifted in how you’re feeling or what you’re sensing in this moment.”
5. Attunement Circles & Feedback (~10 min, 85 min total)
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“As we wrap up, I want to give you a glimpse of where this could go. What we’ve experienced today is a taste — a single experience of attuning to God and to one another. But what if we continued?
We’re exploring the idea of forming Attunement Circles — small groups that gather regularly (for at least four sessions) to keep practicing this rhythm together. Our hope is that through repetition, we’ll strengthen three sets of muscles:
Muscles of attuning to God, learning to notice and respond to his presence in daily life.
Muscles of attuning to one another, growing in empathy, honesty, and holy curiosity.
Muscles of shared leadership, where each person begins to see themselves as an essential part of what God is doing — empowered to help create spaces of belonging, transformation, and flourishing for others.
As people continue in these Circles, we’re hopeful that these practices will lead to a deeper sense of closeness with God and genuine connection with one another — the kind of transformation that quietly reshapes our everyday lives.
While we’re tentatively planning to beta test Attunement Circles in the March through May timeframe, at this stage we’re simply gauging interest and gathering feedback based on today’s experience. Please take some time now to complete the feedback survey, which should take you about five or seven minutes using the link provided. Once everyone’s finished, we’ll gather back together for a brief closing and prayer.”
6. Close (~5 min, 90 min total)
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“Thank you all for being part of this Beta Taste session. It’s been a gift to attune to God and to one another together today. Whether this felt familiar or brand new, our hope is that something from this experience stays with you — maybe a word, a feeling, or a new awareness of God’s presence.”
At this point, share any relevant announcements or next steps for your group (for example, upcoming gatherings, opportunities to stay connected, or ways to learn more about Attunement Circles).
“To close our time, I’d love to invite someone to pray for us — a brief prayer of gratitude and sending as we go.”
(Pause for a volunteer. If no one offers, the facilitator may pray.)
“God, thank you for meeting us here. Thank you for the ways you’ve helped us sense your presence and guidance, drawing us closer to you and to one another. As we go, help us to carry this posture of attunement into our everyday lives. Amen.”
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We’re at the beginning of what we sense will be a long-term, Spirit-led journey of continued wayfinding and development of the AttuneApp — helping people grow in their ability to attune to God, to one another, and to cultivate transformative communities where all can flourish.
Attune is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit and has already invested significantly in developing this tool. To bring the next iteration to life, we rely on the generosity of donors who share our vision.
When you give, please add a note indicating that your donation is for the AttuneApp, and if you’d like, share where you sense it would be most fruitful to focus the next stage of development :
Individual Experience: Enhancing personal reflection tools (e.g., adding voice capability)
Group Experience: Strengthening the ability for circles to connect and communicate (e.g., in-app messaging)
Organizational Experience: Building a dashboard for teams and organizations to track collective growth
All gifts will be used to further the ongoing development of the AttuneApp as a whole, though your feedback helps us prayerfully discern where to focus next.
Your generosity helps us equip more people to listen well, discern wisely, and respond faithfully — creating a ripple effect of attunement across individuals, communities, and organizations.