Mission
Trillium Awakening: a wildflowering of whole-being love and wisdom dedicated to healing, guiding, and inspiring the fullest awakening of self, society and the world.
Manifesto
Whereas, we are a Teachers Circle named after a wildflower whose threefold
petal represents the flowering of an awakening that includes consciousness,
embodiment and relatedness, and
Whereas, we are an association of teachers whose history contains many
lineages and traditions which have coalesced around the breakthrough
principles of Saniel Bonder’s Waking Down® work, and
Whereas, while we honor and value any aspirant’s orientation toward a
specific teacher or tradition, our association has evolved into a democratic
Circle where all member teachers contribute to the collective transmission of
the whole group, and there is no one specific teacher, tradition, or lineage
that speaks for, or represents, the Circle, and
Whereas, within the Teachers Circle and community we recognize everyone’s
fundamental equality in Being and a hierarchy of experience, training, and
leadership with the intention of living mutuality across all levels and
Whereas, this Circle itself is governed by an Operations Circle based on a
model adapted to our association to allow for a distribution of roles and
projects among our members while maintaining the guidance of the entire
circle for substantive decisions that effect overall identity, membership, and
teaching, and
Whereas, this Circle has evolved a transparent Ethics Policy subscribed to by
all member Teachers, which provides a framework that governs Teachers’
behaviors toward their students, with accountabilities for violation of this
policy, and
Whereas, Teachers meet monthly in small groups, as a circle, and annually
in retreat, to share insights, teaching skills, refine our common principles
and grow from mutual association, and
Whereas, the Teachers Circle recognizes each student as a sacred mystery
and provides a safe context through courses, sittings and private sessions,
for all to come forward and awaken to the full range of their identity, and
Whereas, we trust in each student’s personal process, so that students hold
the reins in their movement toward an organic, balanced, uniquely personal
awakening, and
Whereas, students enjoy a collective approach to their awakening from
teachers who teach courses together and singly, so that they may choose
the teachers they most resonate with rather than template off of just one, and
Whereas, an association of awakened teachers trusting in their collective
transmission with established ethics policy and student-centered orientation
is a new emergence in the world today, therefore,
Be It Resolved, that we as the Trillium Awakening Teachers Circle dedicate
our teaching toward a wildflowering of whole-Being love and wisdom in
ourselves and our students to serve the evolutionary force of life emerging
throughout the world.
July 2016, Trillium Awakening Teachers Circle
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