Blog #16 - Tree House Available for Event Rental

We (Cliff and Charity) remain on a conscious pause from teaching and facilitation until the completion of our formal accountability process. We have decided to open the Tree House, our home, for rental to other local, national, and international facilitators who are committed to power-conscious and trauma-informed leadership and facilitation practices. Our intention is to offer our home for a minimal fee during these challenging times to support gatherings of individuals committed to expanding love and consciousness in our world.

We will offer a reduced rate to organizations with BIPOC leadership, non-profit status, or events focusing on supporting LGBTQIA+ communities.

During our pause from teaching, we continue to focus on completing our formal accountability process. Meanwhile, we are offering our space to other teachers and facilitators of sacred sexuality, meditation, and other conscious community events. Please note that we will not be leading, facilitating, or holding space at any of these events; instead, we will support other organizations and leaders. 

To be extra clear, these will not be Empowered Pleasure events.

We have been taking courses from the Right Use of Power Institute and are committed to power-conscious leadership practices and will be asking anyone utilizing our space to adhere to the following:

o   Event professionals (facilitators, hosts, assistants, and any other paid or unpaid support staff) will refrain from erotic or sexual connections with participants during or immediately after the event and for at least one month following the event unless there is a pre-existing relationship. The only exception is that assistants may participate in event structures. As hosts of this event space, this also applies to us; however, based on our accountability process, we extend our time frame to a waiting period of a minimum of one year following an event.

o   All events will be sober.

o   We strongly encourage the use of trained emotional support people at all events, provided and trained by the facilitators of the event.

o   The facilitator(s) much have written organizational policies addressing how complaints, conflicts, and consent violations are addressed.

o   The facilitators must practice accountability by having a clear and easily accessible feedback protocol.

 In addition, we request that facilitators and organizers disclose to participants that we are in an accountability process and provide links to our public Accountability Page to any participants who wish to understand our journey further.

If anyone has feedback, questions, or concerns, please contact us or Kamela Love, our Accountability Supervisor, through the use of this form.

 

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