COMMUNITY AGREEMENTS

  • Attendance

    This is a participatory cohort of 10-20 participants. For optimal individual and group experience, we ask registrants to commit to attending all six sessions live. Recordings will be made available, but a large portion of our content will revolve around our interactions, conversations, and play together. Please consider not signing up if you cannot attend at least four sessions live and note in the sign-up if you are aware of dates in advance you will not be able to come. If life circumstances arise that prevent you from coming to some or all sessions once the course has begun, please be in touch via email.

    We will make our best effort to show up on time and ready to participate fully in every session. We understand that capacities fluctuate and life happens. We commit to non-judgement and adaptability.

  • Confidentiality & Consent

    This is a collective practice space. While you may experience opening, growth, or transformation within this series, Eris and Leroy are not therapists and this is not therapy. While we intend to support you as facilitators, we cannot guarantee any particular results from this course. You are responsible for your own practice.

    We honor and respect what is personally shared in the space with confidentiality. Lessons learned and experience gained may be cross-pollinated freely, but we don’t tell other’s stories.

  • Payments

    Participants decide their final cost within the limits of the sliding scale provided by facilitators ($800-$2000). Facilitators will not ask any follow up questions with regards to the participant’s decision. To best assess the appropriate cost for you, visit the Sliding Scale Guide. Participants identifying with Level 3 or 4 should pay more than participants identifying with Level 1 or 2.

    Participants have the option of paying in installments, rather than a full cost upfront. There is no interest attached to an installment plan. However, in choosing this option, you agree to pay each installment on time even if you do not attend the live session(s). This is part of a collective financial agreement that ensures programming can continue for the rest of the group & that facilitators receive fair compensation for their time and work.

    15% of proceeds from the course will be redistributed to LandBack, InterPlay RET Mini-Grant, & The Embodiment Institute

    Unfortunately we cannot offer refunds at this time.

  • Accessibility & Access Needs

    We invite you to honor your emergent body data/knowledge/wisdom regarding your access needs and capacity to participate in each session and activity. All activities will be invitational and grounded in consent. Access options will be given as often as possible to ensure space for diverse participation, and you may always adapt our invitations to meet your needs where you are at, ask for support from facilitators to this end, or opt out of any activity.

  • Photo & Video Release

    Each zoom session will be recorded. Session recordings are for participant use only. If you do not want your video to be recorded, you may turn your camera off while speaking. Recording will stop during connection room sessions. Video recordings will be emailed to course participants within 72 hours of the live session.

    With the knowledge of participants, we may at times take screenshots for future promotional material. Participants are welcome to decline photos at the time, or ask us not to use them in the future. However, if we do not hear explicit declines or retractions, Snailshell and Betula have. permission to use photos in the future.

  • Naming & Challenging Oppression

    This space acknowledges the reality of systemic oppressions including racism, classism, homophobia, transphobia and transmisogyny, ablelism, anit-semitism, cis-heteropatriarchy upheld by white supremacy culture and late-stage capitalism. We explicitly bring an abolitionist lens into our work. We support communities most impacted by systemic oppression, and invite individuals to bring their full identities & lived experience into the course. In this space, we intend to challenge systems of oppression and dominance, bravely try on new ways of relating, and honor the process as non-linear and implicitly unpredictable. We will move slowly. Holding that each of our experiences are differently informed by varying degrees of privilege and oppression, we enter this space with shared values for respecting, listening, and learning alongside one another. We honor that this process is nuanced, and aim to reduce harm while maintaining space for self exploration and growth.

INTERPLAY COMMUNITY PRACTICES

  • We all get to show up as we are

    However we show up—mind, heart, body, and spirit—is plenty. We welcome the whole of our gifts and abilities, alongside our limitations and growing edges. What we offer of ourselves in play is always welcomed and enough.

    We will make our best effort to show up on time and ready to participate fully in every session. We understand that abilities fluctuate and will make room for accommodations as needed.

  • We take space, we make space.

    We strive to create space for everyone. Sometimes that requires us to step up and other times to step back. We want to be aware of voices that have been historically or systemically ignored and practice centering these voices.

  • We welcome and respect all stories, dances, and songs equally.

    We show up in our truth, open to hearing other’s truth, and we hold that multiple truths can exist alongside one another. We celebrate our uniqueness and diversity of experience. We honor that others’ stories are not ours to tell. We can ask that our particular stories be held in confidence when we choose.

  • We speak from our own experience.

    We strive to create space for everyone. Sometimes that requires us to step up and other times to step back. We want to be aware of voices that have been historically or systemically ignored and practice centering these voices.

  • We practice embracing uncertainty and discomfort.

    We know that discomfort and growth dance hand-to-hand. We accept that “our way” may not be the “best” or “only” way. We try to listen with curiosity and wonder rather than judgment. We use “yes and” language as a way to co-create our way together.

  • We value interconnectedness.

    We understand that connections with others are crucial to our health and well-being, so we move boldly toward community. We also understand that sometimes connections weaken or rupture and need strengthening or repair. We also seek to acknowledge impact and address it with care and compassion. We can say “ouch” and we can say “sorry.”

  • We look for the good.

    We practice affirming each other. We assume best intentions.