From Charity:   I have been invited to write my own completion letter to accompany the formal completion letter written by Kamela Love, our accountability supervisor. I want to begin this letter by expressing profound gratitude to anyone reading it, however you came by the link. For anyone who has been harmed by myself or Cliff, I hope that this letter affirms choosing to be authentic about our pain can open doors to healing. If anyone reading this has been invited into an accountability process, I hope this letter supports you in delving deeply into that journey and provides hope that walking the path of accountability can result in the new-found zest for life that can come from courageously looking at your shadows and facing those you have harmed, regardless of how the initial call for accountability unfolded.  I have deep gratitude to all who have followed this journey in part or in full, whether you are a survivor, former community member, friend, lover, student, fellow ex...

To Those Impacted by Empowered Pleasure’s Accountability Process, This letter is to confirm that Cliff Rees and Charity Joy from Empowered Pleasure, LLC have fully participated in and completed a formal accountability process and participated in a community restorative justice process concurrently. The accountability process was initiated in February 2023 under the coaching and supervision of Miles Hurwitz. I, Kamela Love, joined as an Accountability Supervisor and Mediator in April 2024.  After two and a half years of earnest inner growth work and outer relationship repair work related to the complaints received and the incidents reported, Cliff and Charity have arrived at the stage of re-integrating with their local Portland, Oregon community at sex-positive and sacred sexuality events, first as participants only . Additionally, Cliff and Charity plan to begin re-integrating as facilitators of non-touch sex-positive and/or sacred sexuality events in the upcoming months .  Cl...

  Throughout our journey of accountability, one of the clearest learnings has been that being in service as teachers and facilitators carries with it a much higher degree of responsibility and power than we previously realized. Not only do we have power related to our roles as teachers and facilitators, we have power based on systems outside of ourselves that convey unearned privilege. Our whiteness, economic status, education, gender, health, and many other elements of our being add to our power and privilege.  In our studies with the Right Use of Power Institute , we enhanced our learnings about how power and privilege actually change our brains, making us less empathic and increasing our belief that we are right. Because of this new understanding, we now examine our own “sense” of the right use of power more carefully from moment to moment; we are now aware how our minds play tricks on us resulting in both a sense of entitlement and confirmation bias, believing that because...