These are not rules imposed upon you, but shared agreements that help us create a space where honesty, vulnerability, and true transformation can unfold safely.

By joining this container, you agree to honor these commitments alongside everyone else.

1. Confidentiality

What is shared within this container stays within this container.

Please treat every person’s story, process, and vulnerability with the same care you would hope others would offer yours.

You are always welcome to share your own experience outside the container, but never another person’s without their explicit permission.

2. Commitment

This path unfolds through relationship and continuity.

We invite you to participate wholeheartedly for the duration of the container, trusting that each gathering builds upon the last.

If you’re on a payment plan, your commitment includes completing the agreed payments regardless of your level of participation. Not having time to participate or choosing to step away does not exempt you from this agreement.

3. Trusting the rhythm of Life

While we gather every Wednesday, we don’t follow a rigid curriculum or fixed agenda.

Call durations may vary. Some might be one hour, others three. Some evenings may be quiet and spacious and others may be deeply emotional or more practical.

We do not follow a fixed format, but rather the will of Creation itself.

Some calls might be with only Shikoba or only Andreas. If we are unwell, depleted, or receive strong guidance to reschedule, we will follow that guidance - to remain in integrity with what we’re here to share with you. Should that happen, we’ll always communicate clearly and offer a new date as soon as possible.

You are always free to leave a call early if that’s what feels true.

4. Embodiment before teaching

One of the deepest invitations of this path is to live the teachings before sharing them.

This path can seem deceptively simple. But being with What Is - with true presence, moment to moment - is one of the most profound and demanding paths there is.

We ask that you do not offer these teachings to others, either personally or professionally, unless they have been deeply integrated and embodied within you. If we see these teachings being shared from a place of performance, imitation, or premature transmission, we will name it.

This is not to shame, but to protect the integrity of the path and the safety of others. And this isn’t about protecting ideas. It’s about honoring the responsibility that comes with guiding others and preserving the integrity of what we are cultivating together.

5. Respect for every path

Every person arrives here carrying a different life, different conditioning, and different timing.

Please resist the impulse to fix, diagnose, or advise one another unless it has been explicitly invited.

Instead, practice listening deeply. Often, being fully witnessed is far more transformative than receiving another solution.

6. Participation with honesty

You are never expected to perform.

There will be weeks when you speak often and weeks when you simply listen.And both are valuable.

When you do choose to share, we invite you to speak from your direct experience rather than from concepts, theories, or what you think should be true.

7. Care for the field

Each of us contributes to the atmosphere of this container.

By arriving with presence, honesty, humility, and kindness, we help create a space where everyone can meet themselves more fully.

The Crossing belongs to all of us and we thank you for helping care for it.