ACSFs Core Values and Anti-Harassment Policy

All participating teachers and students must read and agree with this document.

ABADA-Capoeira San Francisco (ACSF)

CORE VALUES
ABADÁ-Capoeira San Francisco promotes the following individual and community values.

RESPECT:
Maintain respect for ourselves, each other, our ever-evolving capoeira community, the studio we share, and the art that we practice together.

FREEDOM:
Create a safe space to express ourselves as the unique individuals we are.

EQUALITY:
Acknowledge everyone’s contribution as valuable. Never underestimate anyone – especially yourself.

INTEGRITY:
Be fair, impartial, and true to our word. Admit when we are wrong and strive to make it right.

LEADERSHIP:
Serve as positive role models, both inside the studio while training and outside of the studio as community representatives of ABADÁ. Offer help when we can give it and ask for help when we need it. Hold ourselves and each other accountable for our actions.

COMMUNITY:
Share experiences –hard and easy, joyous and frustrating. Foster a sense of belonging, camaraderie, and wonder. Meet new people and have fun!

EDUCATION:
Seek to understand and honor our rich traditions.

STRENGTH:
Build strong minds, bodies, and souls. Push our limits and approach challenges as opportunities for growth, remembering that failure is essential for success.

I have read and acknowledged the receipt of ACSF’s Core Values. I commit to developing a culture free from harassment and interpersonal violence. Harassment is unwanted behavior, physical or verbal (or even suggested), that makes a person feel uncomfortable, humiliated, or mentally distressed. Interpersonal Violence is very commonly a way to gain power and control over another person. It often takes advantage of unequal power relations.

I understand that there are consequences to any form of harassment or violent behaviour and that ACSF reserves the right to remove, prosecute, and report anyone who commits an act of harassment or interpersonal violence while participating in or at an ACSF activity or facility.

I commit to using Capoeira as a catalyst to build a healthy, just and vibrant Batizado and workshop series in which we feel connected to and responsible for our ABADÁ-Capoeira community and all participants at this event.

By completing my registration I am agreeing to the above information.