Facilitators & Emotional Support Team Agreements Tantric Joy Festival Amsterdam
Our aim is to provide the participants of festival a container for physical & psychological safety. We all know that in a festival there is not a way to guarantee for 100% that everybody will feel safe. We can’t control the behaviors of others and we also can’t prevent that traumas are being triggered. What we can do is to establish agreements from our side which support an open and save environment.
By being a facilitator or emotional support team member, of the Tantric Joy Festival Amsterdam you automatically agree to the agreements below. If you have any doubt or comment, please get in contact with us: Mark & Anna growinglovingrelations@gmail.com
General agreements
* The festival is an alcohol and drugs free event. This includes legal drugs or considered being natural (like plants or mushrooms, Ayahuasca, cannabis oil, Fly agaric). Smoking tobacco, e-cigarettes, and vaporizers is not allowed in the festival area including the garden.
* You agree to abstain from giving medical advice.
* You agree to be open to participants of all races, gender, sexual orientation or expression, religion, or national origin. We ask you also to be aware to adhere to what pronoun/other participants and leaders would like to be addressed.
* You agree to avoid speaking negatively about other teachers, schools, traditions, and health modalities. Additionally, you will treat other teachers and colleagues in a respectful manner.
* You will obtain consent from students before photographing, audio or video tape recording and ask students permission before adding any photo or video on any social media platform.
* You understand that everything said or done during the festival is confidential. You can share your own experiences, but you will not talk about what someone else has done or said.
Professional awareness
Tantra facilitators and emotional support team, like all health practitioners, are in a unique relationship of trust with participants. The professional relationship is an unequal relationship, which can result in a power imbalance. This imbalance is due to the position of authority and specialized knowledge in relation to the participant’s own health or personal development theme’s. A student’s desire to improve her/his/their own health or to grow as a person leads to a need to establish trust in the professional much more quickly and completely than their/he/she might do otherwise.
As a facilitator or emotional support member you are aware of this imbalance and the risk that this implies. You are responsible for setting and managing physical and emotional boundaries.
* You are committed to promoting the physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual well‐being of the participants.
* You agree not to involve in any exchange of sexual activity with participants.
* You won’t initiate an activity when you know or should know that there is a substantial likelihood that your personal problems will prevent you from performing your work-related activities in a competent manner.
* As a facilitator or emotional support member you are open to the feedback of others and will reach to colleagues for consultation if you are doubting if a concrete behavior is appropriate.
* You will take responsibility to give feedback to colleagues if you consider that the professional boundaries are not being held.
Thank you for agreeing to everything above. Participants will also receive a letter with agreements. We hope that this will result in a festival that is as safe as possible, where participants can experience tantra & intimacy in a positive way!
Mark Oostermeijer & Anna Prat i Bascompte
