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Here's the guidelines for answering personal questions
that are provided to OWL 7-9 and OWL 10-12 faciltators
during their training:
1. Feel free not to answer personal questions. You and the participants have the right to privacy. Refer to your established ground rules or group contract.
2. Never discuss your own sexual behavior.
3. Use your judgment to answer harmless personal
questions. Remember, sharing about yourself should always
be done for a reason—to model appropriate sharing, to
build group cohesion, to demonstrate empathy. It should
not be done to meet your own needs.
The questions that one needs to ask himself or herself
about any sort of personal sharing as an OWL faciltator
are "why am I sharing? and "whose needs are being met by
the sharing -- my needs or the group's needs?"
I think it's kind of annoying that people blame the UUs
for this woman's behavior. She is doing what they have
explicitly told her not to do.
