Purpose of This Statement
The Highly Aligned Career Cohort (HACC) is designed as a reflective, faith-aware, and professionally grounded space for growth, alignment, and discernment. Psychological safety is foundational to the depth, honesty, and transformation we expect within the cohort. This statement sets out the commitments, boundaries, and shared responsibilities that create a safe and respectful environment for all participants.
This statement applies across all HACC touchpoints, including live Zoom sessions, breakout rooms, WhatsApp community spaces, written reflections, assessments, and any optional recordings or materials shared during the cohort.
Our Commitment as Hosts
HACC commits to providing an environment that is:
Respectful – honouring each participant’s dignity, background, and lived experience.
Confidential – protecting what is shared within the cohort.
Faith-aware and faith-safe – welcoming prayer, scripture, and expressions of faith without coercion or exclusion.
Boundaried – clear about the scope and limits of the programme.
Well-facilitated – guided with care, intention, and professionalism.
We recognise that meaningful alignment work requires trust. We therefore prioritise clarity, consent, and care over pressure or performance.
Participant Commitments
By participating in HACC, each cohort member agrees to:
1. Confidentiality
What is shared in the cohort stays in the cohort.
Personal stories, reflections, or experiences shared by others must not be discussed, quoted, recorded, or redistributed outside HACC without explicit permission.
Screenshots, recordings, or forwarding of WhatsApp messages are not permitted.
2. Respectful Engagement
Speak from personal experience rather than offering unsolicited advice.
Listen to understand, not to fix or correct.
Honour differing perspectives, journeys, and expressions of faith.
Avoid language or behaviour that is dismissive, judgmental, or coercive.
3. Boundaries of Support
HACC is a developmental and reflective cohort, not a therapy programme.
Participants are encouraged to seek appropriate professional support where needed.
Facilitators and mentors will not provide counselling, medical, legal, or financial advice.
Safeguarding & Duty of Care
HACC follows safeguarding principles aligned with best practice for adult learning and group-based development programmes:
Facilitators will intervene where behaviour undermines psychological safety.
Any concerns relating to harm, abuse, or significant distress will be handled sensitively and responsibly.
Where appropriate, participants may be signposted to external support services.
HACC reserves the right to pause or remove a participant from the cohort if behaviour consistently breaches this statement or the Code of Conduct.
Data Privacy & Information Handling
HACC takes data protection seriously and operates in alignment with applicable regulations, including UK GDPR, GDPR, NDPR and relevant international data protection principles.
Personal data collected (e.g. registration details, assessments) is used solely for cohort delivery, evaluation, and improvement.
Assessment responses are treated as confidential and will only be reviewed by authorised facilitators.
Any anonymised insights used for learning or improvement will not identify individual participants.
Data is stored securely and not shared with third parties without consent.
Further details are available in the HACC Privacy & Data Notice.
Shared Responsibility
Psychological safety is a shared commitment. Facilitators will hold the space, but the quality of the environment is shaped collectively by how participants show up for themselves and for one another.
We invite every member of HACC to engage with honesty, humility, and care – trusting that alignment grows best in spaces where people feel safe to be fully present.