Utspring Membership 2026

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Utspring Membership Agreement

All members must read and agree to this before joining Utspring events.

These agreements form the foundation of our collective co-creation. They are not here to limit us, but to give us a platform to explore. They’re meant to help us all expand and embrace life fully. Have fun exploring!

What You’re Joining

Utspring membership is your agreement to participate in our collective emergence. You’re part of making this happen, not just consuming what others create.

Utspring Is for You if:

You want to be more fully alive and embrace your unfoldment, even when it involves challenges.
You want a community that supports your real liberation and transformation, not just comfort and confirmation.
You value depth AND embodiment.
If you can ask for help when you need it. And when others need support, you offer what you can.
You’re ready to participate.

What We’re NOT

Understanding what we’re not is as important as understanding what we are. We’re not:

A festival (it’s about transformation, not entertainment).
A retreat center (you participate, give and receive).
Therapy (it’s peer support, not treatment).
A cult (we invite you to question everything, and you belong to yourself).

Utspring is not for everyone

This membership is not for those who:

Are looking to be fixed, saved, or healed by others.
Cannot take responsibility for their own experience.
Require constant caretaking or emotional management.
Are in active crisis requiring professional intervention.
Cannot respect boundaries or consent.
Want only comfort and escape.
Cannot handle being challenged or uncomfortable.

This doesn’t mean you’re broken or bad. It means this particular container may not be right for you at this time.

Mental Health & Professional Support: Utspring is not therapy or medical treatment. If you have significant trauma, active mental health crisis, or conditions requiring professional care, please work with appropriate professionals. Utspring can complement professional support but cannot replace it. We’re a peer community, not treatment providers.

We Practice the Six Utspring Principles

By joining, you agree to practice (including trial & error) the Utspring Principles.

GROUNDED OPENNESS – Staying present and connected to ourselves, others and the environment. Meeting more of what’s actually here, not just our own projections. Letting go of beliefs and conclusions, and exploring reality with childlike curiosity.
FULL SPECTRUM ALIVENESS – Feel fully, flow freely and dare to express. Letting go of protective masks, shame and blame. Trusting that it’s safe to be you and play your uniqueness from the heart.
SELF-OWNERSHIP – Owning our feelings and responses instead of blaming others. Taking responsibility for our own process and asking for support instead of expecting or demanding rescue.
PARTICIPATION IN CO-CREATION – Discover the joy of contributing your unique spark to the collective flame. Everything you do makes a difference. We can heal our wounds of false insignificance by co-creating from the Heart of our Being.
CONSENT – Communicating our boundaries, desires and needs and honoring those of others. Remember, a genuine “yes” is enthusiastic, clear and freely given. Silence or uncertainty means pause and clarify.
ECO-SYSTEM AWARENESS – We are all connected–to each other, nature, and the energetic field we co-create. Let’s tend to it with care, and consider our impact on the whole.

Practical Agreements

Self-Responsibility

You are responsible for:

Your own emotional, physical, and psychological wellbeing
Asking for what you need (nobody can read your mind)
Communicating your own boundaries
Choosing your level of participation in activities
Leaving situations that feel genuinely unsafe to you
Managing your own triggers and ask for help when you need it
Your own healing and unfoldment
Trying not to project your inner process onto others as blame
If you’re in crisis, ask for support (don’t broadcast unprocessed intensity)

Note: When we’re vulnerable, we may project onto others (idealizing, blaming, romanticizing). Notice when this happens – it’s information about your inner world, not about them.

Substances

If you can’t be present without substances, Utspring is not for you.
Stay sober in workshops.
Alcohol in moderation. Don’t get drunk. Getting drunk, in a way that disturbs, may result in loss of membership.
You remain responsible for yourself regardless of substance use.
Prohibited substances include: Stimulants (like Amphetamine, Cocaine, 4MMC), Opiates, dissociatives (like Ketamine, NO2) and MDMA/XTC. If you are caught using any of these at Utspring Gathering, you will instantly lose your membership. Only exception is if you have been prescribed any of these by your doctor.

Photography, Recording, and Privacy

You agree to:

Not photograph or record others without explicit consent from the organizers and the people being photographed.
Respect that what happens at Utspring stays confidential.
Not share others’ stories or processes publicly.
Tag people in photos only with permission.
Understand that collective spaces are phone-free zones.

Utspring may:

Take photos/videos for promotional purposes (we ask for permission before sharing, or blur faces/bodies).
Share general content from events (without identifying individuals).
Document the gathering for community memory.

Your privacy: