Internal Ethos:
“Our roots; the foundational ethics of our community”​

Sacred Garden Ethics and Practice

Intention

We shall focus our practice on serving in ways that cultivate the wisdoms of care, respect, and trust.​

Tolerance

We shall hear and create space for community to come together and hear each other, heart-centered and mediation focused.​

Integrity

We shall strive to be aware of how our belief systems, values, needs, limitations, and how they affect our work. We pledge to protect our community from anyone who seeks to manipulate, exploit or harm in any way.

Competence

We shall assist only with those practices for which we are qualified by personal experience and by training or education.

Communal Caritas:
“Our flowers; the beauty we bring to society”​

Sacred Garden Ethics and Practice

Dedication to Healing

We take and make many reasonable preparations to protect each participant’s health and safety during spiritual practices and in the periods of vulnerability that may follow. Spiritual practices are designed and conducted in ways that respect the common good, traditional practices, and ancestral insights with due regard for public safety, health, and order. Limits on the behaviors of participants and facilitators are made clear and agreed upon in advance of any session.

Honor the Sacrament

We acknowledge the power of these Sacraments to heighten perception; due to the increased awareness gained from spiritual practices, catalyzing the desire for personal and social change is not uncommon. We shall use special care to help direct the energies of those we serve, as well as our own, in responsible ways that reflect a loving regard for the Unity of Nature.​

Commitment to Community

We shall respect and seek to preserve the autonomy and dignity of each person; this includes, but is not limited to, the safe, caring, compassionate, consensual and responsible guidance of the individual through their preparation, initiation and integration. We strive for the nurturance and well-being of all those we serve, and to the co-creation of safe, solid, sacred and secure containers for our practice.​

Transparent Practice

We know the necessity for, and thus, intentionally make space to allow, lucid, informed, and freely given consent with the intent for the surrender completely to the experience of respectful healing practice. Participation in practice will be voluntary and based on prior disclosure and consent given individually while in an ordinary state of consciousness. Disclosure includes, at a minimum, discussion of any elements of the practice that could reasonably be seen as presenting physical or psychological risks. In particular, participants will be made acutely aware that primary religious experience can be difficult and dramatically transformative.

Ethical Anonymity

We will ensure and maintain absolute privacy, confidentiality, discretion and respect in regard to the identities and specific personal processes of all those we serve, in addition to all those offering their service unless with their express permission.