We say "those who share our values" and you are entitled to know what that means before you decide whether it means you.

You do not need a faith, or any particular faith, to train with us, work with us or join us. Women who are agnostic, women working it out, and women who hold no belief are here on the same terms. What is asked is that you work the way described below, alongside people whose practice is not yours.

The Inter Faith Network for the UK calls this finding "common ground in shared values", and is explicit that it includes people without a religion: "I don't belong to any religion but that doesn't mean that I don't think about the values that shape my decisions."

The Golden Rule, as each Abrahamic tradition states it — collected by the Inter Faith Network for the UK.

• Judaism. "What is hateful to you, do not do to your fellow man."
• Christianity. "Do to others as you would have them do to you."
• Islam. "No one of you is a believer until he desires for his brother that which he desires for himself."
• And outside all three. The same rule is arrived at by people who hold no faith at all, which is the point. It is not borrowed from one tradition. It keeps being found.

Each one is already written down elsewhere on this site. You can hold us to all of them.

• Practice is planned for, not accommodated. Prayer breaks go on the call sheet at the times they fall. Fasting is in the schedule. Catering is settled before the day, not at lunchtime.
• Nobody is a spokesperson. No woman here represents her faith, her community or anybody but herself. Practice varies inside every tradition and we do not flatten it.
• Argue with the idea, never with the person. Disagreement is the point of a room full of different people. Nobody gets talked over.
• What is yours stays yours. The story you arrive with is yours. Your circumstances are yours to disclose or not. What is said in a room stays in it.
• We say what is true about ourselves. What has been delivered is written in the past tense, what is opening is written as opening, and no organisation is named as a partner until it agrees in writing.
• The work is paid for, so the door is free. Places cost the participant nothing. That is currently funded by grants and by Futures in Film CIC while we build our own trading income — and saying which is which matters.

This is the part people expect us to be vague about.

Faiths conflict, on things their adherents consider settled. Pretending otherwise is not respect, it is avoidance. The Inter Faith Network is direct: dialogue is "not about compromising your own principles or beliefs".

What it is about is working next to someone whose account of the world is not yours and building something anyway. On a film unit that is not abstract. It is a call sheet that works for a woman who prays at four and a woman who does not, and a crew where neither explains herself twice.

Two principles taken directly: find what connects you rather than what divides you, and respect the other person's right to express their beliefs and to disagree.