Our AscendifyTM Privacy and Discretion Guarantee
Privacy and discretion are foundational to every Ascendify experience, from corporate teams and conference attendees to private clients, athletes, and IncendifyTM members.
A Different Standard From the Rest of the Wellness & Event Industry
Across the event and wellness industry, most practitioners have turned their paying clients into their social media strategy. Sessions double as photo shoots, and participants are captured in their most unguarded moments and posted online to promote the practitioner's brand, usually without meaningful...or any...consent.
When a marketing agenda comes at the expense of the people in the room, it breaks the trust every participant places in the person guiding them. The leaders, executives, surgeons, and entrepreneurs we work with carry enormous responsibility, and they rarely get a moment where no one is watching, evaluating, or expecting something of them. At Ascendify, every experience is centered on giving each participant exactly that: a fully private setting where they can step away from constant scrutiny, recharge, and return with sharper focus and decision-making.
The Science That Powers Our Passion for Privacy
Why Being Watched Drains Performance
We know that as executives, surgeons, and founders, you operate under constant scrutiny from boards, patients, investors, and teams. Dr. Dickerson and Dr. Kemeny's landmark analysis at the University of California found that situations where people feel observed and judged trigger the strongest cortisol stress responses, so a camera in the room keeps that pressure running when it should be shutting off.
Why Privacy Sharpens Focus
Peak decision-making depends on stepping out of constant evaluation, even briefly. Dr. Slavich's Social Safety Theory at UCLA explains why a trusted, judgment-free environment is essential for the body to reset after stress, which is the foundation of every experience we curate.
Why Trusted Teams Outperform
Top-performing teams move faster, debate more productively, and execute with greater precision when they trust the room they are in. Dr. Edmondson’s research at Harvard shows how psychological safety supports full presence, deeper learning, and meaningful innovation in teams, the competitive advantage every leader expects from their investment.
Our Intentional Discretion Is Designed to Create Exactly Those Conditions
We do not photograph, video, or record paying clients or attendees during any experience, and all participant images, conversations, and practices stay within the doors of your venue. Founder Liz Adriano is fully present with every participant throughout every session.
For clients requiring additional formal protection, Ascendify supports NDAs with an established process. All marketing imagery comes exclusively from leaders who requested complimentary experiences in exchange for signed photo and content releases.
Our Four Commitments to You
No Photos or Recording
We never photograph, video, or record paying clients or attendees during any experience.
Fully Present
Founder Liz Adriano personally facilitates every experience and is fully present with every participant.
NDAs on Request
For clients requiring additional formal protection, we support NDAs with an established process.
Consent-Based Imagery
All marketing imagery comes from leaders who requested complimentary experiences in exchange for signed releases.
Frequently Asked Questions About Privacy and Discretion
Never. Ascendify does not photograph, video, or record paying clients or attendees during any experience. All participant images, conversations, and practices stay within the doors of your venue.
Feeling observed negatively impacts how our bodies respond. Dr. Dickerson and Dr. Kemeny's landmark analysis at the University of California found that situations where people feel observed and judged trigger the strongest cortisol stress responses. Privacy creates the conditions your leaders, teams, and attendees need to fully engage and restore.
They can. Most states give individuals the right to control the commercial use of their name and likeness, so a vendor using your employees’ images in its marketing without written consent can expose your organization to legal and reputational risk. Ascendify never photographs, records, or posts images of your employees or attendees.
Yes, absolutely! For corporate and private clients requiring additional formal protection, Ascendify supports signing of NDAs with an established process.
All marketing imagery comes exclusively from leaders who requested complimentary experiences in exchange for signed photo and content releases.
Yes. Your attendees are always welcome to photograph themselves at experiences, pending that no other participants are in frame. Ascendify does not allow any participant to film during experiences as doing so negatively impacts the privacy of others. Additionally, participants are welcome to take photos of Liz Adriano and each experience set up and share at their discretion with attribution to Ascendify. Our policies ensure the experience and imagery stay entirely in our participants' hands.
Yes. Founder Liz Adriano personally facilitates every experience and is fully present with every participant from start to finish to ensure specialized attention and quality of experience for all participants.