The Red Jasper Erotic Blueprints journey is designed to be an experimental and un/learning journey. The outcomes of this convergence are unknown and emergent.
In creating this container, we are consciously opening to the fugitive and the trickster, to the provocative, the unexpected, and the rogue – even with our longings to practice sanctuary-making and a safe-space.
Those of us on the organizing team imagine that the community of participants on this course will espouse different cosmologies, worldviews, political opinions, cultural backgrounds, and so on. This may mean that tensions arise. These tensions can lead to new insights, possibilities, and connections; it can also lead to conflict, fragmentation, and even trauma. We ask that you try to hold these tensions generatively and experience them as potential places of growth. While we are trauma informed, we are not trauma therapists. If you need a trauma therapist, we can help you get the help you need.
We have developed a set of community guidelines to support us throughout the Red Jasper Erotic Blueprints journey. These include the following kinds of practices:
Share generously. This experience will call for you to share your stories, dreams, questions, failures, ideas, and challenges. Speak what needs to be spoken. Speak with an awareness of the impact of your contributions on the group. Please share openly and honestly while trying to stay connected with heart, mind, body, and spirit.
Stay with the challenges. Try to be constructive. Sit with the possibility that we don’t know what’s needed and we don’t have the answers. Can we soften the urge to fix, solve, or transform our reality? Try to observe, listen and honour what is shared without trying to explain, advise, or offer solutions. Keep in mind that conflict is not abuse. If conflict arises and/or someone expresses something you don’t like, consider if there are constructive ways of engaging. Be aware that various cultures have different ways of communicating and engaging in conflict. Some may be more passive, quiet, or avoidant while others may be more direct, expressive, or assertive.
Aim for kindness, settle for curiosity or even avoidance. Though people often make good friends when going through a journey like this, we do not need to come out of this experience as friends. Still, try to be kind and compassionate to one another. If that feels too difficult, try to stay respectful and curious. If that feels too difficult, then maintain a safe distance and carry on.
The full set of guiding principles will be shared with participants upon their acceptance.
While each person is responsible for their personal experience, we also invite an awareness of our entanglements and our impacts on each other and the larger whole from the outset. We invoke the spirits of mutual care. Our intention is to create a context in which we can continually practice cultivating curiosity and skillful means within the complexity of our unfolding relationships.
The Red Jasper Erotic Blueprints Journey is a safe space only as much as we can make it a safe space together, we aspire to support one another and co-create a container where we can all take healthy risks together.