Events and Meetups

Effective date: [Effective Date]. Sites: AwakenedSky.com and DivineInfiniteBeing.com, operated by [Legal Entity Name]. This policy forms part of our Terms of Service.

What this policy covers

This policy covers every gathering arranged through the School's sites. On AwakenedSky these are the local groups, meetups and Astrology Socials that members host, and the Zoom talks given by teachers of the School. On DivineInfiniteBeing.com these are the initiations of the grades, given in person or by video, the monthly Inner Order call, the Academy's onboarding call and any other call or gathering of the School. Recording at any of these follows our Recording Notice, and conduct at all of them follows our Community Guidelines.

Member-hosted groups and meetups

Local groups, meetups and Astrology Socials are hosted by AwakenedSky members who choose to host. The School supplies the lessons, slides, printouts and host notes for each meetup, and the event pages, RSVP and reminders, and it neither organizes nor supervises the gathering itself. Hosts are independent members, and they are not employees, agents or representatives of [Legal Entity Name]. Each host is responsible for the gathering they arrange, and each attendee is responsible for their own safety and conduct while attending.

What hosts agree to

A member who hosts a gathering agrees to these rules:

• Choose a public or well-known place, such as a library room, a bookshop or a cafe, and follow its rules. A gathering in a private home is open only to people the host knows or has met before.
• Get the venue's permission, keep within its capacity and its fire rules, and use no open flame where the venue forbids it.
• Describe the gathering honestly on its event page: the place, the time, the subject, any cost and whether the venue is accessible.
• Charge nothing beyond a fair share of real costs, such as the venue or printing, and state any cost on the event page before anyone RSVPs.
• Serve or allow alcohol only where the venue and the law allow it, and only to adults of legal drinking age.
• Welcome children only when a parent or guardian attends with them and stays with them for the whole gathering.
• Ask before photographing or filming anyone, and never post a picture of a child.
• Cancel through the event page as early as possible when a gathering cannot go ahead, so that attendees receive the notice.

Attending a gathering

An RSVP shares your profile name and your community profile with the host and with the other members who have RSVPed to the same gathering, so that people know who is coming, and the table pack for a gathering prints each attendee's name and four anchor points only for members who agreed to it. Attendance at any gathering is voluntary. Members meeting someone for the first time meet in a public place, tell a friend where they are going, travel and leave by their own arrangements, and leave any gathering where they feel unsafe. A member who sees a breach of these rules, or who feels unsafe, reports it through the event page or at [support email]. The School photographs its own talks and gatherings only with notice to the people present, and it uses a person's picture or voice in its marketing only with that person's written consent, or a parent's consent for a child.

Risk and responsibility

Gatherings that members host are arranged and run by those members. To the fullest extent the law allows, [Legal Entity Name] is not responsible for the acts or omissions of hosts, attendees or venues, or for any injury, loss or damage that happens at or on the way to a gathering we did not organize. Each attendee accepts the ordinary risks of meeting people in public places and of travel. Nothing in this section limits liability for our own negligence where the law does not allow such a limit, and our Terms of Service set out the general limits of our liability.

The teachers' Zoom talks

The Zoom talks are given by teachers of the School for AwakenedSky members, and each talk has a registration page on the site. The joining link is personal to each member and may not be shared, and the talks follow the same guidelines as the rest of the community. A teacher may remove a participant who disrupts a talk. Talks are recorded and shared with members as our Recording Notice describes, and a talk may be moved or cancelled with notice on its page and by email.

Initiations, calls and appointments of the School

The initiations of the first five grades of the Mystery School are performed live by the Head Master or by an officiant he permits, in person or by video. Each student books the initiation of a grade from the back office once the grade's requirements are complete, and the student may move a booking by giving at least [48 hours] of notice. An in-person initiation follows the fire rules of its venue and the safety rules of our Disclaimer, and the student follows the officiant's directions on flame, incense and movement during the rite. The monthly Inner Order call is open to members whose payments to the School are current, and the Academy's 30-minute onboarding call is booked by each new Academy student. The time of the onboarding call matters for refunds, as our Refund and Cancellation Policy explains.

Missed appointments

A student who misses a booked initiation or call without notice may book again, and the School may limit how often a missed booking is replaced [set the limit]. A missed Academy onboarding call counts as held for the purpose of the refund rule, because the rule turns on cancelling before the scheduled time. When the School must move an initiation or a call, we give as much notice as we can and offer the next available time, and no fee is charged for the change.

Accessibility at gatherings

Hosts state on each event page whether the venue is accessible, and a member who needs an accommodation to attend a talk, a call or an initiation may write to [support email] before the date. We arrange what we reasonably can, such as captions for a talk or a seated position at an initiation. Our Accessibility statement describes the rest of our work on access.

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