QueerKin Circle
Terms of Participation
By attending and participating in QueerKin Circle by Rootwork Healing, LLC. and Soma & Psych Center for Embodied Liberation, you agree to the following terms and conditions:
Informed Consent
QueerKin Circle events are intended to provide a group setting for connection and interpersonal healing. These support groups should NOT replace any ongoing psychological, medical, or other services you are engaging in with a licensed professional for your health and well-being. Rather, the intent of these groups is to provide additional educational supplementation to your existing professional protocols.
Contact Information
As a part of joining the QueerKin Circle, each participant will be asked to provide their:
Name
Email address - to be directly shared with others in the support group to contact you for listening session swaps.
Phone number - will be used to set up the application, Signal, to contact others for listening session swaps. Your phone number will remain anonymous in Signal.
Personal Information
We do everything in our power to ensure your personal information is not being shared with other people or companies who intend to do you harm. With that said, we cannot control how others ultimately use your information, in particular the applications and technology companies (e.g., Google Meet, Signal, etc.) that are used to help facilitate QueerKin Circle events. By participating in QueerKin Circle, you understand the inherent risk of your information being public and have consented to only provide information that is safe for sharing. Rootwork Healing, LLC and Soma & Psych Center for Embodied Liberation will not be held liable for any disclosure of your personal information by any third-party, including other members of the group.
Listening Session Swaps
QueerKin Circle participants will trade listening sessions with other members of the group in both a 1:1 capacity and group setting. While we have a strict set of guidelines in place for our community’s safety, participation in this group has inherent risks, including emotionally, spiritually, and intellectually. By participating in the QueerKin Circle, you agree to these risks and will do everything in your power to mitigate these risks for yourself and others, including taking full ownership of your own distress and child parts as a sovereign, mature adult. You will also agree to notify us in the event of conflict, secrecy, or if you’re unsure about the motivations or actions of someone in the group. Oppression thrives in secrecy and we are breaking down walls here!
Ethics & Community Guidelines
We have outlined a very clear and direct set of community guidelines for the members of this group. These community guidelines are to be followed at all times to ensure a safe, loving, and secure container for our work as a QueerKin Circle. Failure to meet any part of the community guidelines will result in either a warning or immediate removal from the group, depending on the severity of the behavior and/or action. By participating in the QueerKin Circle events, you agree to follow the community guidelines and will report any suspicious behavior or concerns using the Listening Partnership & Group Concern Form or by contacting us directly.
Somatics-Based Group
QueerKin Circle is a somatics-based space, leveraging the methodology founded by Emily Waymire in her Visual and Somatic Therapies (VAST)™ program. Somatic listening sessions heal the nervous system by unlocking the natural reflex movements of the body while in deep connection with another person or people. This listening form will involve light physical activity including, but not limited to, movements, emotional release, postures on the floor, and certain breathing exercises. You and your listening partners should always take into account your body's specific needs and abilities before approaching any movement sets. As a participant in the QueerKin Circle events, you agree to participate only within the range of your physical comfort. Somatic listening sessions are deep energetic work that releases identifications and entanglements that block us on emotional, mental, physical, or spiritual levels - and as such comes with any associated risks from these energetic movements. Please communicate any needs in advance of your session by contacting your listening partner(s) or emailing us at Chan@rootworkhealing.us prior to any scheduled group sessions.
Participant Responsibility & Liability
All QueerKin Circle events and sessions are for educational purposes only. They should not be considered as professional advice or guidance in legal, financial, medical, or psychological matters. Participants are required to be 18+ years of age. As such, you acknowledge that you are fully responsible for your own decision-making regarding your personal identity (LGBTQIA+ or otherwise) and have complete agency around your choices, movements, and actions. If at any point you feel suicidal or mentally or emotionally unstable, please contact your licensed therapist or call the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline at (988; U.S. only). By participating in the QueerKin Circle events and sessions, which includes Reclamation Circles, you assume full responsibility for any risk of injury or loss arising from your participation, and hereby release Rootwork Healing, LLC and Soma & Psych Center for Embodied Liberation from any claims of negligence occurring now or in the future, during or after your participation in these services. You acknowledge and understand that you are free to discontinue your participation at any time, including during group or individual listening sessions as needed.
Contact Information
Chan Osanyin
Rootwork Healing, LLC
Chan@Rootworkhealing.us
(626) 548-8056
Joleen Aguon Baza
Soma & Psych Center for Embodied Liberation
Joleen@somapsychcenter.com