‹ THE WALK
Code of Conduct
How every room is held.
This code binds every host, every volunteer and every partner at every walk, in every country. It exists so that anyone can step into a circle of strangers and be safe there.
In the room
- — The silence of the walk is protected. No one is hurried, questioned or watched.
- — No one interprets anyone else's experience — including the coach. We never tell anyone what an image means.
- — Passing is a complete answer. No one is pressed to speak, share or explain.
- — What is said in a circle stays in the circle. Hosts document numbers, never stories.
- — Nothing is sold, promoted or recruited for at a walk — no products, courses, services or beliefs. Ever.
- — No photography of participants without prior, explicit, revocable consent.
For hosts
- — Hosts hold the room; they do not perform in it. Coaching, not therapy — and they know the difference.
- — Every host completes the Facilitator module before their first walk, and names a local mental-health referral contact.
- — If someone is in distress, the host follows the referral protocol — calmly, privately, without diagnosis.
- — Youth editions run only under the separate youth protocol, never under this general standard.
A breach of this code — by anyone, including a host — can be reported confidentially to the global team and can end a host's accreditation. See also the safeguarding summary.