Onboarding, consent education, and Each One Teach One

New members get a real induction — an intro workshop on consent and expectations, possibly talking circles, and clarity about consent, possibly via a handbook (the ecosystem's Consent Handbook sits in the reference library, SYN-047) — because joining this community is closer to an initiation that unlearns default-world conditioning than a signup. Whether a consent workshop is mandatory, given fluid membership, is an open question the sources lean toward. Each One Teach One remains the cultural backbone, with its honest limits: it only works when the person wants to be taught, accountability ultimately sits with the individual, burns are not the place to teach people to be lekker — arrive lekker, or be humble enough to be guided — and the community's role is to name unacceptable behaviour, model good behaviour, and point to resources. Whether a code of conduct on tickets is enough is likewise open.

Deliberately left open — GTC-041 / OPIN-084 — mandatory workshop and ticket-code sufficiency are open questions for the group.

Where this comes from · 12 source items

This draft merges what the community actually said across 12 source items — every source ID is permanent and traceable.

GTC-037 Create clarity around consent – handbook?
GTC-041 Discuss mandatory consent workshop or intro/initiation to these guidelines/community?
OPIN-062 the Burn or Burner related events is not necessarily the appropriate container to "teach people how to be lekker". You need to arrive lekker, or at least have enough humility to be guided/helped when you stumble.
OPIN-063 The community have a role to play, but the "A" sits with the individual, always.
OPIN-064 We can point out that a behavior is not acceptable. We can show people what good looks like. We can point them to resources to help them.
OPIN-078 Make consent workshop mandatory (as we are fluid)
OPIN-081 If a new burner, intro workshop re: consent, expectations
OPIN-084 ( – code of conduct on tickets? Not enough, what else to educate?)
OPIN-113 Highlights – each one, teach one only works when someone wants to be taught.
OPIN-146 we need an induction into the community for new members; *talking circles. Men, women, both.
OPIN-174 to get to afrikaburn, need to go through an initiation and learn re: default world conditions and new expectations. A lot of unlearning and learning to be more consent friendly/safe.
PRIN-012 Each one teach one: It's the responsibility of each burner to teach other burners about the burn and what acceptable and encouraged behaviour looks like.

Themes · education and onboarding · consent and feedback culture

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