Charter
This charter names the commitments that shape Threshold as a spiritual community. It is not a list of rules, but a shared agreement about how we practice devotion, care, power, and responsibility together.
Threshold exists to tend human thresholds with integrity.
This charter protects the work, the people who participate in it, and the container that makes it possible.
Leadership & Stewardship
Threshold is founder-led. Vision, teaching direction, and final decision-making authority rest with the leadership of Threshold. This is intentional. Clear leadership allows for coherence, accountability, and spiritual depth without confusion or diffusion of responsibility.
Leadership at Threshold is not democratic and not committee-based. Decisions are not made by vote, popularity, or consensus process. This community is guided by discernment, experience, and responsibility rather than constant negotiation.
At the same time, leadership does not operate in isolation.
Threshold is supported by an Advisory Council that serves as a resource for discernment, conflict resolution, and long-term vision stewardship. The council exists to offer perspective, wisdom, and accountability beyond any single voice, especially in moments of complexity, harm, or uncertainty.
The Advisory Council:
- Provides counsel and perspective to leadership
- Supports thoughtful conflict response and repair
- Helps steward the long-term integrity of Threshold’s values and direction
The Advisory Council does not function as a governing body, disciplinary tribunal, or decision-making committee. Leadership remains responsible for final decisions, informed by advisory input.
This structure exists to balance clarity with care, authority with accountability, and vision with humility.
Conflict, Accountability & Repair
Conflict is inevitable in real community. At Threshold, we do not avoid conflict, dramatize it, or weaponize it.
We commit to addressing harm with seriousness, proportionality, and care.
When conflict arises, we prioritize:
- Clarity over avoidance
- Repair over punishment
- Accountability over spectacle
Concerns are encouraged to be raised directly and privately whenever possible. We discourage public airing of grievances, triangulation, or rumor-based engagement. Not every discomfort is harm, and not every disagreement requires intervention.
When harm is identified, leadership may consult the Advisory Council to support discernment, perspective, and appropriate response. Responses are shaped by context, impact, and the needs of those involved, not by rigid procedure or performative accountability.
Threshold does not engage in:
- Call-out culture
- Public shaming
- Forced reconciliation
- Trauma extraction as proof of harm
Repair may include conversation, boundary clarification, mediated dialogue, changes in participation, or separation when necessary. In some cases, repair is not possible, and distance is the healthiest outcome.
The goal is not preservation at all costs.
The goal is integrity.
What This Charter Protects
This charter exists to:
- Protect women, queer, and trans people from domination or erasure
- Protect the community from confusion, coercion, and uncontained conflict
- Protect leadership from unsustainable emotional labor
- Protect Threshold’s work from drift, dilution, or spectacle
Participation in Threshold implies a willingness to practice within this container.
Threshold is a place of devotion, not performance.
Care, power, and responsibility are held deliberately here.
This charter is part of how we tend the threshold itself.
