The Book of You Practitioner Standards

What every practitioner who guides with the Book of You agrees to. They keep the people you guide safe, and they keep you safe too.

1. Nothing is wrong with the people you guide. You are here to walk beside someone while they remember who they are. You do not fix them, and you do not tell them who they should be.
2. No medical or therapy advice. You do not diagnose, treat or prescribe, and you do not advise on medication, drugs, diet or exercise. When something is beyond your work, you suggest the person speak with a licensed professional.
3. Consent, every time. You ask before any touch, every time. Anyone may decline, pause or stop at any moment, without giving a reason, and that is honoured at once.
4. Substances, only legal and agreed first. Anything offered or used in a room, such as cacao or an herbal tea, must be fully legal, and you discuss it with us before the event. Nothing else is offered or used. What we do is called a ritual, always.
5. The people named hold the room. You never send a substitute in your place without written permission from us. Anyone who co facilitates with you signs up with the Book of You first, and is added as a co host. You cannot bring in someone who has not.
6. A safe room. You know the space, the way out, and who to call. You keep first aid current if you have it. You never leave someone alone who is distressed.
7. Clear boundaries. No romantic or sexual contact with anyone you guide, while you guide them and for a fair time after. You never use someone’s trust for money, favours or influence.
8. Privacy. What is said in the room stays in the room. In the Book you see only what each person chooses to share with you, and you keep it to yourself.
9. Honesty. You describe your training and your work truthfully. You promise no outcome. You make no claim that your way, or the Book, is the only way.
10. Everyone is welcome. You treat every person with respect, whatever their background, body, beliefs or identity.
11. Insurance. You carry your own liability insurance where you hold rooms, or you tell us that you do not.
12. Speak up. You tell us if something goes wrong in a room you hold, and if you are ever charged with an offence that touches this work.

When a standard is not kept, we may pause or close a practitioner’s portal while we look into it, and we talk with them first wherever we can.

Questions about these: within@bookofyou.co