The Relational Harmony Institute
Terms of Service - Code of Ethics - Course container agreements
We are dedicated to creating, maintaining, and updating standards of ethical practice, supporting practitioners in realising their creative potential.
Please read our collaborative learning
& course container agreements thoroughly.
These agreements are designed to support a harmonious and inclusive learning community. The co-creation of our somatic community requires trust, participation, active listening and compassionate support for each other, so take time to consider and reflect on each of the agreements.
Questions & requests are included, which may illuminate your specific needs within the community while encouraging you to remember the ways that you can resource and support yourself over the duration of the training.
Somatic learning doesn’t happen alone as we are interconnected beings! As the trees and living creatures in a forest collaborate to create a thriving ecosystem, supporting others in your community also supports your own growth.
co-creating our relationship agreements together
Course container agreements
Exploring Relational Embodiment is a journey of self-inquiry and self-discovery, and it is natural to experience uncomfortable moments at times as you update versions of yourself while encountering your learning edges.
It is our goal to create a learning environment that is inclusive and supports your participation in learning and exploring. We acknowledge the different walks of life we have all come from and how our past experiences influence our relationships and participation in groups.
We create our ground course container agreements to support everyone's participation, inviting curiosity when aspects that are unique to each training arise that may not have been included in our general course container agreements. We work from the understanding that relationship agreements are an ongoing process that requires updating to support each other’s harmonious participation.
The following are the course container agreements that we will all honour and respect during this training:
Confidentiality — We ask that you agree not to identify individuals, their words or their experiences on the course and not to make any recordings or take photos of people without their permission. You may share the facilitator's teachings outside of the group.
During our time together, when sharing, we encourage you to share from your personal experiences eg. I feel, I notice, I’m experiencing, etc.). This helps each of us to compassionately receive each other rather than generalising.
Feelings are welcome and do not need to be justified or explained; honour the feelings that arise in others by allowing them to feel without fixing or advising.
Be willing to stay open and free of assumptions about people's identities and experiences (eg. regarding gender, race, sexual orientation, etc). We ask that you honour the lived experience of each other in the group and use the names and pronouns people request.
During this practitioner training you will be expected to work outside of attraction and to not engage in erotic sexual relationships with other students in the group. Arousal happens and you are invited to simply notice it and practice response flexibility. Arousal is not to be cultivated or acted upon in the practitioner role.
As practitioners in training you will be expected to work outside of aversion within the wheel of consent relationship agreements (being in service within our range of optimum generosity while practising setting limits). This supports us to maintain our professional role and expands our capacity to work with a larger range of people, and we still get to have limits.
We are showing up here together as practitioners honouring the ACSB Code of Ethics. Please see the ACSB Code of Ethics to familiarise yourself with our duty of care. https://sexologicalbodyworkers.org
Use of drugs or alcohol before or during any online or in-person session is not permitted.
Practice self-awareness around ways you participate — if it’s easy for you to step in and share, maybe pause and wait a moment; if you find it challenging to join in, practice having the courage to share.
Impact and intention mismatch - at times our words and actions may impact others in ways which we may not intend. When another feels impacted by our words or actions we agree to engage in the repair processes taught on this training with compassion and humility.
Dual Roles. Some of us here might have different relationships with each other in other contexts, current or historical. Please share any dual roles that may influence our community here (whilst honouring privately agreed confidentiality).
We regard the client's role as sacred ground for all aspects of the self to have permission to express and participate in and not to be evaluated. During this training, these experiences are confidential to the group of three that you shared in and it is your choice what you share with the group.
Integration time. We encourage you to honour the roles, and responsibilities of each role, during class time and to maintain the time boundaries of these and not pursue the continuation of these roles during the breaks. This honours the breaks as integration time
Olfactory community health. Please be mindful of your personal hygiene and use of perfumed toiletries and detergents as we are not in choice with what we are breathing in. We use aromatic leaves like sage, sweet grass and essential oils eg Lavender and sweet orange for cleansing the air at times. Please share any sensitivities with any of these privately with a member of the team.
We ask that you arrive a few minutes before the start of each session or inform a member of the teacher team if you are unable to attend.
Bring an attitude of curiosity, kindness and radical acceptance. As adult learners, we are inhibited from learning new ways of being if we already “know”
We can participate in many ways - This might look like inhabiting the invited roles, taking the role of witnessing, requesting and negotiating ways of adapting the activity to support your participation or simply being present in the space.
Self-care and nervous system regulation — During our time together, please take care of your needs for sleep, rest, nourishment, and during class time, your needs for hydration & toilet, etc. If there is something specific you need please reach out to any of the teacher team.
We invite you to practise attunement and kindness with yourself as you encounter your learning edges and limits. Sometimes we don’t know our limits until we are experiencing them and it can feel vulnerable to reach out. If you discover yourself experiencing overwhelm, feel into what you might need and give yourself permission to self-regulate in a way that supports you. If you need support, please reach out and remember the teaching team is here to support you.
We invite agreement here that communication between each other is inclusive and kind.
If the teacher team is advised that a participant has not respected any of these agreements we will take action and discuss this with that participant.
If a participant continues to act outside of these agreements and is unwilling or unable to respect the course container then they will be required to leave the training and will not be offered any refund.
Co-creating our community together requires participation, contributing, being present with and supporting each other.
Somatic learning doesn’t happen by ourselves because our nervous systems are interconnected. So supporting each other supports our own growth and learning like the trees and mycelium networks support each other as part of a forest.
At the end of this training we encourage you to allow any tender new aspects of yourself to continue to be nurtured, nourished and supported. Honour your reflection and integration time until you feel ready to share with others, rather than satisfying other people’s curiosity.
Terms of Service
Required commitments to the Study, Research and Practice towards Certification
Your kindness and ethical participation as a professional community member help our community stay attuned to one another, and you will be supported if there is a need to repair any ruptures.
You agree to arrange a Student Support meeting and supervision from an RHI-approved supervisor or coach (if needed, in addition to your 1-1 Coaching Sessions with your assigned Coach for the training) to help you with any learning edges or challenges you may encounter during the training.
The Course Container Agreements have been developed to support inclusivity in the group learning process. Please honour and respect these agreements throughout the training to the best of your ability.
Terms of Service
Required commitments to the Study, Research and Practice towards Certification
The RHI Postgraduate Community - Agreements that will support your certification to practice:
To participate in the postgraduate community to support my continuing professional development
To participate in 1-1 professional supervision at least 4 times per year
To practice in alignment with the ACSB Code of Ethics and the ethics of the RHI
To agree that if there is a rupture or an intention/impact mismatch, to engage in a repair process under the guidance of one of our RHI-approved Supervisors and Coaches
Understand that if you are made aware of a complaint or practice outside of the code of ethics, your profile will be removed from the RHI website until the rupture has been sufficiently repaired
Ethics of Service
Required commitments to the Study, Research and Practice towards Certification
The ASCB (Association of Sexological Bodyworkers) Code of Ethics
The Institute for Relational Harmony Studies Course Container agreements and requirements to practice as a student are aligned with the ACSB Code of Ethics and apply to all training facilitated by the RHI. Please apply your role to all instances where CSB is mentioned.
Contents:
Codes of Ethics of the Association of Certified Sexological Bodyworkers (ACSB)
Codes of Professional Conduct for Certified Sexological Bodyworkers (CSBs)
Introduction
Preamble
Duties and Obligations Towards Our Clients
Duties and Obligations Regarding the Preservation of Confidentiality
Duties and Obligations Towards the Profession
Duties and Obligations to Colleagues
Ethics of Service
Professional Membership
Upon completion of all requirements, The Relational Harmony Institute awards the Certificate in Somatic Intimacy Coaching (CSI) in the First year, The Somatic Intimacy Bodywork Practitioner (CSIB) with dual certification as a Sexological Bodywork (CSB) in the second year, and in the third year the Coaching Certificate of Somatic Sex Education (CSSE) and in the fourth year the advanced CSSE Professional Supervisor Certificate of Somatic Sex Education.
Students of this professional training can become Student members (and, on certification, Associate (CSI) or Professional (CSIB) members of The Association of Certified Sexological Bodyworkers (ACSB), and appear on the Practitioner listing pages. We have a historical agreement for your inclusion with the Somatic Sex Educators’ Association of Australasia (SSEAA) and the Association of Somatic and Integrative Sexologists (ASIS). Certified graduates can be admitted to the World Association of Sex Coaches (WASC) with no further requirements.
This course is recognised by The Association of Somatic and Integrative Sexologists as offering a training of sufficient depth for practitioners to be eligible for insurance for their work. See the-asis.org for more details.
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Required commitments to the Study, Research and Practice towards Certification
The Research Explorations, a key component of our program, are shared on the forum. Your active participation is required as part of the emergent assessment process. You are required to post your reflections from your research, respond to two other peers each time, and post your reflections on the specified dates.
You are required to self-manage your time, including reading the course study materials.
Attending the Webinars, 1-1 Coaching and Supervision meetings is required as specified by your training curriculum structures
Completing the self-assessment forms at specified dates during the training is required.
We understand that life happens and that you agree to inform the teacher team and co-create an achievable strategy for catching up to fulfil the course requirements if you cannot meet these commitments.
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Good practice and ethical conduct
As a student and practitioner, you will be required to agree to work within the code of ethics for your profession. We recommend that you join a professional body, such as the ACSB. Part of this agreement is to recognise the need for regular supervision and continuing professional development and learning and to commit to undertaking regular self-reflection, supervision and CPD as well as ethical self-care.
It is at the sole discretion of the RHI to endorse the certificate for your training.
Terms of Service
This agreement and the terms of service contained therein are a legally binding contract (Agreement) between you and each of your heirs, assigns, and successors (“You”) and The Relational Harmony Institute and each of its principals, owners, shareholders, directors, agents, and employees, and each of their respective heirs, assigns, and successors The Relational Harmony Institute
Acceptance of Agreement
Please read this Agreement in its entirety. You should review it prior to subscribing to, purchasing, or participating in any Program. By using the RHI websites or purchasing or participating in any Program offered by RHI, you agree to be bound by this Agreement. The term “Program” is defined to include any class, session, product, training, workshop or service, whether online or in person. It specifically includes the RHI websites and their contents.
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Payment of Course Fees - Financial Agreement for the RHI Training Programs
At enrolment - Agreement that ⅓ of the total CSI, CSIB, CSSE, Body Poem & Supervision programs 2027-8 + VAT are payable to secure your place, and without this, your place will not be secured, and this is non-refundable and non-deferred once your place has been confirmed.
Agreement that when enrolling in the CSIB 2027 - 8 Program, 50% of the Embodiment retreat payment is also required.
Agreement that completion of the remaining course fees ⅔ CSI & CSSE Third year payment is to be completed by February 2027 and completion of the ⅔ CSIB & CSSE Fourth year payment is to be completed by July 2027
For participants on a current payment plan 2026-7, payments must be made on the dates agreed, and you are responsible for managing these. Agreement that two missed consecutive payments and/or inconsistent payments may result in suspension or discontinuation from the course.
The RHI reserves the right to remove you from the course at any time and date during the training until the money owed is paid. There are no payment plans for the CSI, CSIB & CSSE Training programs starting in 2027. We recommend you prepare for these programs in advance to ensure your financial readiness.
This is an Agreement to be liable for the full fee if leaving the course partway through or not completing it, when there are outstanding payments in a payment plan, or not completing it.
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Indemnification
You agree to indemnify, defend and hold IRHS harmless from any and all liability, loss, damages, claim and expense, including reasonable legal fees, related to:
your violation of this Agreement
your use of the RHI websites or contents; or
your participation or enrolment in any Program offered by IRHS
Assumption of Risk
You acknowledge that you are responsible for your choice to participate in the Program and for your health and well-being before, during and after the Program.
RHI makes no representations or warranties.
You assume all risk of mental, physical and personal injury, serious injury, property loss, or death which may occur in engaging with IRHS or any of its Programs or products.
If you have specific concerns or a situation in which you require professional or medical advice, you should consult with an appropriately trained and qualified specialist, such as a licensed psychologist, physician or other health professional.
Never disregard the medical advice of a psychologist, physician, or other health professional, or delay in seeking such advice, because of the information offered or provided within a Program.
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Maximum liability
Notwithstanding the Indemnity, Dispute Resolution Agreement and the other terms of this Agreement, the maximum liability of IRHS under this Agreement shall be no greater than a refund of 30 % of monies paid for the Program to which any Dispute applies.
Waiver of Legal Rights and Release
To the maximum extent permitted by law, You unconditionally and forever release, discharge, hold harmless, and indemnify IRHS from any actions or causes of action, suits, claims, complaints, contracts, liabilities, agreements, promises, contracts, torts, debts, damages, controversies, judgments, losses, and demands of every kind or nature whether existing, contingent, or future, known or unknown, suspected or unsuspected, whether in law or equity under the laws of any jurisdiction (“Claims”), including without limitation any Claims caused by the negligence of IRHS or of any other participant in any class, program, or session hosted or supported by IRHS, that relate to, arise out of, or concern any Programs, whether or not you pay anything for such Programs or products and whether or not your Claims arise from the action or inaction of other users of such Programs, other participants in the Programs, or anyone else. You agree and intend that this waiver, release, and indemnification shall be construed broadly to provide a release and waiver to the maximum extent permissible under applicable law.
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Dispute Resolution Agreement
You and The RHI agree that any disputes of any type that are not resolved through engaging in the Right Use Of Power Five Step Repair Process discussion and mutual agreement will be referred to Alternate Dispute Resolution (ADR) by a practitioner accredited by the Civil Mediation Council (“CMC”, London, charity number 1163065).
In the event that the matter cannot be resolved by mediation, you and IRHS agree to refer it to Arbitration by a mutually approved arbitrator, such as the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA).
Before referring to ADR, you and he matter to ADR, you and RHI agree to attempt to resolve the matter through at least three good-faith meetings conducted under RHI agree to attempt to resolve the matter through at least three good-faith meetings engaging in the RUPI Repair Process without lawyers.
Governing Law
This Agreement shall be construed and governed exclusively by the laws of England, Wales, and Ireland. This training is incorporated within the Body Poem Sole Trader and Relational Harmony Institute Partnership organisation, which are part of the UK Tax system.
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Course fees & Refund Policy
Certificate in Somatic Intimacy Coach Program April 2027-February 2028
Course Fees £6,300 + VAT
Course fees increase by 10% each year (April 2028- February 2029 £6,930 + VAT)
Payment schedule 2027-8:
At enrolment 1/3 £2100 + VAT - Non-refundable
Remaining 2/3 course fees due 1st February - Non-refundable
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Certificate in Somatic Intimacy Bodywork Practitioner Program September 2027-July 2028
Course Fees £6,300 + VAT plus cost of 2-week embodiment retreat in Kenya (We will supply the costs at interview for your financial planning)
Course fees increase by 10% each year.
Payment schedule 2027-8:
At enrolment 1/3 £2100 + VAT - Non-refundable plus deposit for embodiment retreat 50% cost
Remaining 2/3 course fees due 1st July - Non-refundabl
No payment plans available
Scholarship funding: We work with the ACSB joint funding scholarship places for the CSIB program. Please apply to the ACSB with proof of enrolment.
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Certificate in Somatic Sex Educator & Supervisor Year 3 Practitioner Program April - February 2027-8
Certificate in Somatic Sex Educator & Supervisor Year 4 Practitioner Program September 2027-July 2028
Course Fees £2,700 + VAT for each year
Course fees increase by 10% each year.
Payment schedule 2027-8:
At enrolment, 1/3 + VAT - Non-refundable plus deposit for embodiment retreat 50% cost
Remaining 2/3 course fees due February (year 3) or July (year 4)- Non-refundable
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RHI Cancellation of Programs
RHI reserves the right to postpone or cancel any of its Programs in the unlikely but not impossible event that the Directors of training and the Faculty are collectively unable to facilitate it. We have built-in structures in the choreography that allow faculty members to cover for one another to support your learning and certification process. Events such as death, pandemics, war, natural disasters, or illness may require postponing or cancelling parts of Training Programs. In such unlikely events, remaining Faculty members with internet access will arrange to meet with each participant individually and collectively, and identify the ways that are possible to support your learning and certification process. Our aim is to support your learning and certification process during the final year of your current training program, or, if that is not possible, after creative problem-solving, the following year. You agree to collaborate to reschedule your training program if extreme events outside the Faculty team's control, such as natural disasters or death, disrupt its facilitation.
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RHI Postponement
If the Program or any part of it cannot occur on the scheduled dates, it may be postponed to the next available dates. You agree to be flexible and attend on the rescheduled dates. If you are unable to participate on the immediately rescheduled dates, we can arrange for you to defer to a subsequent training within one year of the cancellation date. The course fees you have paid are non-refundable and will be transferred to the subsequent training.
Travel, Venue and Accommodation costs
You are responsible for covering your travel, venue, and Accommodation costs for in-person events. If an in-person component exists and this part of the training is postponed for any reason, the RHI is not responsible for refunding course or venue fees, or travel and accommodation costs.
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Illness and Non-attendance
If you are unable to fully attend any part of the program due to physical or mental illness or life circumstances with dependents, you will need to discuss the option of deferring to the next training with RHI. The fee for deferral, in this instance, is 60% of the course fee for the year you are joining with re-application within a year. You will need to start the next training at the beginning of that year's Cohort.
RHI Cancelling your Enrolment
RHI reserves the right to cancel your enrolment in any Program at any time if, at the discretion of the facilitators, it is decided that you are unsuitable for the Program or that the Program is unsuitable for You, which may be a result of not completing the agreed study and research requirements, non-payment of Course fees if you are on a payment plan, not being available to resolve a rupture in the 5 step repair process with a member of your Cohort or Teacher Team, or a breach of the ACSB code of ethics without you engaging Supervision and Personal Therapy to support you to come back into ethical practice. Any refund of course fees in such eventuality is at the discretion of the RHI.
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Container agreements & Terms of Service Form
It is our goal to create a learning environment that is inclusive and supports your participation in learning and exploring. We acknowledge the different walks of life we have all come from and how our past experiences influence our relationships and participation in groups.
We create our ground course container agreements to support everyone's participation, inviting curiosity when aspects, that are unique to each training, arise that may not have been included in our general course container agreements. We work from the understanding that relationship agreements are an ongoing process that requires updating to support each other’s harmonious participation.
The following are the course container agreements that we will all honour and respect during this training.
By checking and submitting the form you are agreeing to the Container Agreements and Terms of Service.