Every member travelling to a community-governed experience receives a briefing document before departure. We publish its substance here so that nobody joins the Circle under a misapprehension about what is being offered.
You will be told the group size and it will not change. Caps are set by the community below carrying capacity, and a request to add a guest is a request to break the agreement that makes the visit possible.
Photography is permission-based, per person and per site, and permission is not transferable to social platforms. In several places recording is not permitted at all. This is not negotiable at any tier.
You will be asked to participate — communal labour, food preparation, or ceremony support as appropriate. Hosts consistently report that this is the single thing that distinguishes a visit they would repeat from one they would not.
Some things will be closed to you. You will not always be told why. The ability to accept that gracefully is, in practice, the only entry requirement the Circle has that money does not satisfy.
Read the Indigenous Partnership Principles alongside this. They are the standing commitments; this is how they feel on the ground.