Community Covenant

The community covenant is the shared agreement that members of Earth Connection Community enter into upon joining the ceremonial community. It articulates a member's sincere religious purpose in seeking out ceremony, their commitment to the community's spiritual values, and their acceptance of the protocols that govern ceremonial life together.

The covenant is not a legal contract or a liability waiver — though ECC maintains those separately — but a religious commitment. By entering into it, a member affirms that their participation in ceremony is grounded in genuine spiritual seeking rather than secular curiosity, and agrees to uphold the confidentiality, respect, and care that the ceremonial community depends on.

The covenant also binds members to one another. It asks each person to hold the container of communal ceremony with integrity — to show up prepared, to support fellow participants, and to carry the community's values forward between ceremonies as well as within them. In this way, the covenant is less a one-time signature than an ongoing orientation toward the community's shared spiritual life.