Consent + 10 Burning Man Principles
Our core and first principle is Consent. It is the bedrock of our Burn and supports everything our culture strives to provide in the 10 principles and beyond that.
We are proud to uphold an “Ask First” culture, and this is in everything from high fives and hugs, to food and photography, all the way to paddock incident management.
We are running the B.E.D consent pilot program for the first time in an Official Australian Regional Burn at the Third Degree! With a unified approach to teaching consent, the core concept to take away is that there are processes in place to generate increased safety for everyone.
Everyone can – and should – participate in consent education. Watch the following video to learn about how consent can be handled by you or others:
There will be communication for all participants before and after the event outlining feedback options for any consent concerns experienced during the event.
This can be about anything that happened across the Burning Man Principles. This feedback can be about any person or experience. We value this feedback as a mechanism to generate a thriving culture of consent at The 3rd Degree.
All matters of consent will be held in strict confidence and dealt with by the Incident Committee, containing members outside the org chain of command for transparency and accountability of everyone from down on the paddock up to the Board of Directors.
The 10 Burning Man Principles
Anyone may be a part of Burning Man. We welcome and respect the stranger. No prerequisites exist for participation in our community.
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In order to preserve the spirit of gifting, our community seeks to create social environments that are unmediated by commercial sponsorships, transactions, or advertising. We stand ready to protect our culture from such exploitation. We resist the substitution of consumption for participatory experience.
Burning Man encourages the individual to discover, exercise and rely on his or her inner resources.
Radical self-expression arises from the unique gifts of the individual. No one other than the individual or a collaborating group can determine its content. It is offered as a gift to others. In this spirit, the giver should respect the rights and liberties of the recipient.
Our community values creative cooperation and collaboration. We strive to produce, promote and protect social networks, public spaces, works of art, and methods of communication that support such interaction.
We value civil society. Community members who organize events should assume responsibility for public welfare and endeavor to communicate civic responsibilities to participants. They must also assume responsibility for conducting events in accordance with local, state and federal laws.
Our community respects the environment. We are committed to leaving no physical trace of our activities wherever we gather. We clean up after ourselves and endeavor, whenever possible, to leave such places in a better state than when we found them.
Our community is committed to a radically participatory ethic. We believe that transformative change, whether in the individual or in society, can occur only through the medium of deeply personal participation. We achieve being through doing. Everyone is invited to work. Everyone is invited to play. We make the world real through actions that open the heart.
Immediate experience is, in many ways, the most important touchstone of value in our culture. We seek to overcome barriers that stand between us and a recognition of our inner selves, the reality of those around us, participation in society, and contact with a natural world exceeding human powers. No idea can substitute for this experience.