Guiding Principles

These guidelines are not crafted as a dictate of how people should be and act, but as a reflection of the community's ethos and culture.

Radical Participation

We are all leaders. Everyone is invited to create. Everyone is invited to teach. Everyone is invited to play. We make the world real through actions and an open the heart. No one is a spectator.

Participants freely share their time, skills, ideas, and best practices with each other, for the betterment of the greater parkour community, with no expectations of reciprocation.

Inclusion

We welcome and respect the stranger. We grow most in environments of diversity. The Art of Retreat creates a safe space where folks of all identities and ideologies can enrich one another.

Curiosity

We bring a love for new things, an attitude of openness, and a beginner’s mind to exploring new ideas and possibilities. To be open to challenging conversations, different perspectives, and changing our minds.

Collective Effort

We value creative cooperation and collaboration This value rests on our members to act with respect for others, self-awareness, reflection, and ability to balance reason and emotion in our interactions.

Leave no Trace

We respect the environment. We are committed to leaving no physical trace of our activities wherever we gather. We clean up after ourselves and endeavors, whenever possible, to leave such places in a better state than when we found them.

Free Sharing

We are the caretakers of our culture. As a community grown through free sharing, we believe the responsibility of spreading our culture lies with each and every one of us. All of us are caretakers of our culture – when the opportunity presents itself, we pass knowledge on. This is a non-commercial, decommodified space.