Values & Agreements

The Gene Keys Approach

A path of gentle transformation

The Gene Keys Approach invites us to develop our humility through embodying the four qualities that lie at the heart of the Gene Keys. Please consider these values as you navigate the Gene Keys Teachings.

Contemplation – taking full responsibility for one’s inner state, using everyday challenges for growth and transformation.
Inquiry – asking the profound introspective questions, inviting wisdom to come from within. Cultivating a state of presence in all situations.
Gentleness – nurturing a kind and gracious approach towards self and others. Encouraging a spirit of unwinding and un-learning, versus striving and fixing.
Patience – cultivating compassion, honesty and curiosity with an inherent trust in the underlying process.

The Noble Code

An Ethical Agreement for all those working with the Gene Keys

The purpose of this document is to outline a simple set of values, rooted in the highest principles of the Gene Keys, to act as guidelines for all members of our extended Gene Keys community. We are each invited to follow and embody these guidelines to the very best of our ability, both in our private and our professional life. Thus we aim to work together towards greater self-honesty, forgiveness and care, fostering a unified spirit of reverence for all beings and their various stages of transformation.

Forum & Live Event Guidelines

If you participate in a forum, chat room, or live event, we ask you for your agreement to these Values:

Please respect each other in word & action
Hold in confidence what is shared
Avoid giving unsolicited advice
Avoid posting marketing or promotional materials to outside events or services, except in designated areas
Share from your personal feelings/experience only
Please keep your discussions specific to the Gene Keys retreat you are currently participating in
Observe feeling/emotions that may arise as opportunities for contemplation and expansion.
Please honour authorship and copyright of others by citing sources where needed
Please clearly label if your post contains any AI-generated or AI-assisted content. Do not post any AI generated content that uses copyrighted materials.

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The Role of our Hosts

The primary purpose of our Hosts is to model the Gene Keys Approach. Hosts foster a culture of friendship and warmth, inspire self-inquiry and listen with humility and respect to the issues and questions that may arise in the group. Whilst our Hosts will do their utmost to support the whole group journey from a place of compassion, they are not able to provide any form of therapeutic support.

Please note – we reserve the right to substitute any of our advertised hosts (including Richard Rudd, Elijah Parker or Tanmayo Lawson) with others to hold and run the retreat at any point before or during the retreat.

Single Account Use

The Gene Keys is an amazing gift to share with friends and family. However, the virtual retreats and online courses on genekeys.com are designed specifically for YOU. Your account is connected to your unique Gene Keys profile, your social messaging and activity functions, and your own personal online notes journal.

All participants are asked to purchase their own copy of the online courses and create their own separate unique logins. Only single-use accounts will be eligible for future event prerequisites, or other programme discounts and opportunities.

If you would like to purchase an online course for a friend or family member, you can use this product and send them a voucher code.

At the heart of the Gene Keys is the vision of syntropy, generosity, and service. We can offer scholarships and bursaries to those in financial need. Please visit our Scholarships page to learn more.

Thank you for respecting the dedicated work that went into these teachings, and refrain from publicly posting or sharing private course materials without consent.

Regarding Artificial Intelligence (AI)

In this time of Great Change, we recognize the transformative power of coherent, human-centric and trustworthy use of artificial intelligence (AI) and its profound impact on the world including our community, our creative collaborators and our dedicated team members.

The Gene Keys Companies (Gene Keys Group Ltd, Gene Keys Publishing Ltd and Gene Keys Ltd) aim to align all aspects of their respective business, and their response to these changes in the spirit of the Gene Keys Approach and Noble Code, and in compliance with the existing and future legal regulatory requirements such as the new EU AI Act with its worldwide effect.

Team 64, the team behind the Gene Keys organisation, strives to model and uphold these values in our use of AI tools.

Transparency – Gene Keys books, courses, products and websites do not use AI-generated text. Any use of AI-generated imagery will be labeled. When we develop and/or use any AI systems, we will ensure that such are developed and used in a way that allows appropriate labelling, traceability and explainability, while making all users aware if and when they are interacting with an AI system.
Honour – We respect authorship and honour the source. Gene Keys Publishing Ltd. does not permit content from our books, courses, or website material to be used by AI or machine-learning systems without expressed consent, for any purposes, including training.
Privacy, Consent and Data Governance – Community contributions and customer participation in genekeys.com offerings are not being monitored or used in any AI or machine-learning systems. Any potential future projects that include AI learning will ask for explicit consent first.
Legal and regulatory requirements – We will continue to keep abreast with the changing legal and regulatory landscape, as this may apply to The Gene Keys Companies, especially requirements related to data governance, human agency and oversight, technical robustness, safety, diversity, non-discrimination, fairness and accountability. We will duly inform all deployers of the capabilities and limitations of any AI systems and affected persons about their rights.
Integrity – We are committed to review and update our policies in collaboration with experts to support a safe space for our community contemplation and ensure protection against any potential harmful effects of AI.
Synthesis with Playfulness – When AI tools may be used in our future projects, we invoke the gift of delight with the magic of synchronicity and synthesis as an inspirational aid to human artmaking instead of replacing it.