The TATC Manifesto

Whereas, we are a Teachers Circle named after a wildflower whose threefold petal represents the flowering of an awakening that includes consciousness, embodiment and relatedness, and

Whereas, while we honor and value any aspirant’s orientation toward a specific teacher or tradition, our association has evolved into a democratic Circle where all member teachers contribute to the collective transmission of the whole group, and there is no one specific teacher, tradition, or lineage that speaks for, or represents, the Circle, and

Whereas, we are an association of teachers whose history contains many lineages and traditions which have coalesced around the breakthrough principles of Saniel Bonder’s Waking Down® work, and

Whereas, within the Teachers Circle and community we recognize everyone’s fundamental equality in Being and a hierarchy of experience, training, and leadership with the intention of living mutuality across all levels and

Whereas, this Circle itself is governed by an Operations Circle based on a model adapted to our association to allow for a distribution of roles and projects among our members while maintaining the guidance of the entire circle for substantive decisions that effect overall identity, membership, and teaching, and

Whereas, this Circle has evolved a transparent Ethics Policy subscribed to by all member Teachers, which provides a framework that governs Teachers’ behaviors toward their students, with accountabilities for violation of this policy, and

Whereas, Teachers meet monthly in small groups, as a circle, and annually in retreat, to share insights, teaching skills, refine our common principles and grow from mutual association, and

Whereas, the Teachers Circle recognizes each student as a sacred mystery and provides a safe context through courses, sittings and private sessions, for all to come forward and awaken to the full range of their identity, and

Whereas, we trust in each student’s personal process, so that students hold the reins in their movement toward an organic, balanced, uniquely personal awakening, and

Whereas, students enjoy a collective approach to their awakening from teachers who teach courses together and singly, so that they may choose the teachers they most resonate with rather than template off of just one, and

Whereas, an association of awakened teachers trusting in their collective transmission with established ethics policy and student-centered orientation is a new emergence in the world today, therefore,

Be It Resolved, that we as the Trillium Awakening^TM Teachers Circle dedicate our teaching toward a wildflowering of whole-Being love and wisdom in ourselves and our students to serve the evolutionary force of life emerging throughout the world.