Luminous Awareness Institute offers processes, tools and techniques for the purpose of supporting the evolution of consciousness and the awakening of all beings to their true nature. As we unfold and expand into heightened awareness, subtle energy perception, sensing ability, and healing capacity, we also step into increased responsibility for holding our ethics to our highest integrity.

We ask that, as you begin to work with other beings’ systems, you first clarify and align your intention and energy and invoke your steadfast intent for the highest good for the “client” (the person who is receiving the work) and for all beings. We also ask that you hold and honor the wisdom, intelligence, and divine nature of each being, and offer your work as a tool for their unique process of unfolding.

It is in this spirit that we have clarified specific ethics that we hold for students, practitioners, and teachers of the Luminous Awareness Institute work:

• To respect the innate wisdom and sovereignty of each being, you want to get consent before tracking or working in a person’s energy field, touching them physically, or otherwise interacting with their system.
  • Anyone, regardless of role, has the right to draw boundaries about how they wish to engage with this work or with other people. It is the individual person’s responsibility to state what they are okay with (or to ask for support to do so) and it is also your responsibility to attune to your client or classmate carefully and check whether your approach is working for them.
  • Not honoring consent or the boundaries of others may be cause for initiating conflict resolution processes and could lead to being asked to leave the program.
• To respect the beautiful vulnerability and opening that occurs in healing sessions, you are expected to hold all processes that happen in session or in Luminous modules in confidentiality.
  • The only exception is if a question comes up in regards to a session you gave another student, and you would like to be advised, what arose can be shared with a teacher for feedback.
  • Teachers / staff / practitioners may discuss the processes of students for support or learning purposes.
• At any time, you or another may request complete confidentiality. It is your responsibility to honor this request.
• We ask that during modules, we take the shared responsibility of container holders along with the staff when it comes to maintaining clean relational healing space. This means during modules we are aware of the need for safety, openness, and vulnerability and understand that we are often doing inner child work. Non-romantic non-sexual container time is necessary for us to descend into the depths and regress into deep child states. This is important to maintain for the whole module even during breaks and after hours during  the long weekend to give a large enough container for  all that is processing through.
• We ask people to practice  attunement, curiosity, and the ability to check in and ask if something feels comfortable when offering connection, touch and sessions.
• We also ask for people to recognize their personal responsibility and ability to speak their own needs, and let someone know what we want and don't want.
• We also need to acknowledge because of trauma some of us don't know our boundaries or have our voice. Or perhaps can't find that  voice during the  moment something is happening. We all need to have compassionate awareness for this possibility and use our best attunement.
• If you are unclear or experience others as not holding to these ethics in their interactions with you or another, please reach out to a teacher, practitioner, or staff member for support.
• We also acknowledge the intimacy and connection that can arise within this teaching and learning environment.  We celebrate  the special bonds that are formed through journeying in the depth of vulnerability and spiritual heights and hope that  your new friends become long  standing spiritual and heartfelt family.

Potential Pitfalls to be Aware of:

The Luminous work allows for expanded awareness and ability which can be directed for the evolution of consciousness and awakening to our true nature. With this expansion, there may be pitfalls along the path where the ego takes hold of newly found skills and powers in the service of the small or disconnected self.

Some common experiences to be aware of include:

• A desire to feel special, accomplished, superior, or recognized due to your work.
• A belief that you have the power to fix or change someone else.
• Loss of alignment during a session. Do not hesitate to take time to realign and reconnect during a session if you feel disconnected.
• “Getting in the boat” with your client (i.e. believing the stories that come from their smaller self and agreeing with their internal structures of fear and limitation). Instead, work to maintain a healthy awareness of yourselves and an objectivity toward the client’s self.
• Transference and countertransference - where transference is the concept of a client or student redirecting feelings meant for others onto the practitioner and countertransference is the reaction to a client's transference, in which the practitioner projects his or her feelings unconsciously onto the client.

As a living and evolving community, we support the discussion and refinement of these Code of Ethics to meet the unique needs and realities of our practice and collaboration together within the Luminous context. We seek to hold each other with highest regard and to be intentional in our choices and aware of our impact.