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• Treat others with kindness and respect, including respecting “No” and “Stop”.
• No smoking allowed on the domain, please go for a long walk outside the Heerlijckyt premises instead, out of care for others. If you are not willing to take care of our communityhealth and role modelling for our youth in this way, this might not be the festival for you.
• Big preference for an alcoholfree (and other drugs) festival, as our goal is to increase awareness and care for yourself and those around you.
• Curious to see what happens if you leave your phone in the room / car for the day, to really be with what is arising every moment? how can you relate to reality right in front of you, with feeling, healing and playfulness?
• Support others and Ask for support. We invite you to practice asking for support from others, maybe more than what you are used to.
• Long term awareness: Sometimes the open hearted energy can get intimate – beware of increased risk of actions you might regret later. How to weave your authenticity together with your integrity? 

Additional statements from participants:

Below are some answers from various festival participants to the question: “What would support care and respect at the festival”: 

• “Knowing that all participants are aware of how to treat others with respect and will do so. If participants (including children) act in harmful ways, the community will step in to stop the harm, and do so skillfully.”
• “Having someone to go to when feeling upset or in need of support “
• “As a newcomer feeling welcomed, being heard and included by the experienced participants”
• “Starting and ending on time “
• “When the community supports the facilitators in maintaining the structure and the flow of the community meetings.”
• “Being supported when needing it”
• “Being honest”
• “Learning how to deal with my own reactions in supportive and loving ways”