These are the terms on which DMBranco, Inc., trading as CoCreating.School (11298 Carmel Creek Road, San Diego, CA 92130, United States), sells and runs its courses. Enrolling means you accept them. They are written to be understood; if a clause seems unfair, say so at hello@cocreating.school and we will answer rather than hide behind it.
What this is — and what it is not
CoCreating.School is an educational school. Our courses teach a method for examining first-person experience, and the whole discipline of the school is discernment: telling a real insight from a convincing one.
It is not therapy, counselling, or medical care, and it never substitutes for any of them. We make no medical claims, we do not diagnose or treat anything, and we promise no outcome — not health, not wealth, not happiness. If you are in crisis or in need of clinical care, that care comes first, and we will say so plainly rather than take your money. Nothing taught here should be used to delay or replace treatment.
Enrollment and payment
- —Self-paced courses (such as CoCreating.You and Cocriando.me) open free: the introduction, First Principles and the whole of Module 1 cost nothing. If the course is for you, it continues from Module 2 at one price, shown inside the course and at checkout. A discount code, when you have one, is entered at checkout.
- —Live cohorts, when they run: the first class is free. If the cohort is for you, it continues at three self-selected tiers for the same course, presented inside the course at the end of Class 1. You choose; we never ask why.
- —Payment is processed by Stripe. Prices are in US dollars for courses in English and in Brazilian reais for courses in Portuguese, and any tax shown at checkout is added under applicable law. Courses in Portuguese can also be paid in three monthly card installments.
- —Gifted seats (invitation links) and scholarship seats cost nothing and carry the same rights and obligations as a paid seat.
- —A seat is personal to you and cannot be transferred or resold without our agreement.
Cancellations and refunds
- —Self-paced courses. The free part costs nothing, so there is nothing to refund. When you pay: a full refund within 10 days of paying, the whole amount back, one email, no reason required. If you pay in three installments, the 10 days count from the first one, and a refund also cancels the installments still to come. After those 10 days there is no refund, but tell us if circumstances turned; we would rather find a way back for you than write you off.
- —Live cohorts. Class 1 is free for everyone: nothing to pay, so nothing to cancel or refund. If you continue and pay: a full refund through the end of Class 2, one email, no reason required, the whole amount back. After Class 2 there is no refund, with the same offer to find a way back. If we cancel or reschedule a cohort you cannot attend, you are refunded in full, automatically.
- —Refunds return to the original payment method.
How the classes run
Courses run in one of two formats, and each course says which it is. Self-paced courses open their classes in order as you walk them: recorded teaching, practice on your phone through the Loom (our classroom software), and recurring live Q&A sessions. Live cohorts, when they run, are scheduled, with dates published before you enroll; we may adjust a time or the order of material with as much notice as we can give. Live sessions of either format — cohort classes and Q&A alike — are recorded for registered students; because a live session cannot be separated from the people in it, recordings may include student participation, and they stay inside the school. Practice reports and circles are not recorded, by design.
The room
A first-person school only works if people can be honest, so these apply to every participant:
- —What is said in the room stays in the room. Do not record, screenshot, repeat, or publish what another student shares.
- —Treat other students with respect. Harassment, proselytising, coercion, or selling to the cohort ends your participation without refund.
- —Do not give medical, psychological, or financial advice to other students.
- —Recordings and materials are for you alone — not for sharing, uploading, or resale.
Who owns what
Course materials, decks, recordings, and the Loom software remain ours, licensed to you for personal, non-commercial use during and after the course. What you write stays yours. By submitting offerings in class you give us permission to display them to your cohort and to include them, without attribution, in the woven artifacts that cohort creates. We will not publish your words outside your cohort or use them in marketing unless you give explicit permission for that specific piece.
The Workbook
The Workbook is the school's practice instrument, and it is the school's intellectual property: its software, its method — the sealed take, the order of the phases, the care gate — its prompts, its training cases, and the philosophy text it carries. Your access is a personal, non-transferable license for your own practice and learning. It does not include extracting or reproducing the method or its prompts, using the Workbook or its output to build or train a competing tool or service, or selling access to it.
What you bring to it stays yours. The situations you write, the answers you give, and every read you commit are your material. A case is private by default: your teacher cannot open it unless you share it, and a case opened to a cohort is announced on the case itself. We touch stored case data only to operate and safeguard the service. The takes the Workbook seals on your own cases are yours to keep and to use in your own practice.
Artificial intelligence in the classroom
Parts of the course use AI to weave the cohort's written lines into shared artifacts and to generate images from descriptions you write. It is an instrument, not an authority: nothing it produces is advice, and the school's own rule applies to it more strictly than to any human teacher — it exists to help you look, never to hand down verdicts.
Liability
You take part voluntarily and remain responsible for your own decisions, health, and wellbeing. To the fullest extent the law allows, our total liability arising from a course is limited to the amount you paid for it, and we are not liable for indirect or consequential losses. Nothing here limits liability for fraud, death, or personal injury caused by our negligence, or any other liability that cannot lawfully be limited.
Ending participation
You may leave at any time; the refund terms above decide what comes back. We may remove a participant who breaks the conduct rules above, or cancel a cohort — in which case the refund terms apply.
Governing law and changes
These terms are governed by the laws of the State of California, and the courts of San Diego County have jurisdiction — without depriving you of the protection of mandatory consumer law where you live. We may update these terms; the version in force for your course is the one published when you enrolled, and material changes are emailed to enrolled students.
Contact
Questions, complaints, refunds, anything: hello@cocreating.school.
Versions
- —23 September 2026: self-paced courses: free through Module 1, one price from Module 2 (in reais in Portuguese, with three installments), and a full refund within 10 days of paying; the live-cohort rules kept as they were; processing fees no longer kept back from a refund.
- —22 August 2026: the first class of a course became free; paid seats are refundable through the end of Class 2; the tiers are presented inside the course.
- —15 August 2026: the Workbook: what your license covers, and that what you bring to it stays yours and private.
- —10 August 2026: class recordings stay inside the cohort; the full-refund window moved to the end of Class 1.
- —6 August 2026: the Portuguese translation published.
- —3 August 2026: the school's name became CoCreating.School.
- —25 July 2026: first version.
The version in force for your course is the one published when you enrolled. We keep every earlier version and will send you any of them on request.