GOING PROFESSIONAL ETHICALLY

From time to time I put out a statement about the ethics of the field of Coaching. The reason is to remind ourselves of the ethics that we need to be living by and the importance of each of us holding each of us accountable to these ethical standards. This is critical for the field to be a profession and especially for the field of Meta-Coaching to be recognized as a legitimate profession. After all, every profession has a code of ethics. And so do we as the Meta-Coach Foundation.

But having a code is not the same as the field of Meta-Coaches living that code. That’s why we put into place the conflict resolution process and why we ask every Licensed Meta-Coach to sign the Conflict Resolution Agreement. “Why?” you ask. Because the only way to effectively enforce the code of ethics is for every Meta-Coach to accept responsibility to hold every other Meta-Coach responsible to that code of ethics. Did you catch your responsibility in that statement? This means that we need you to be engaged in this as a kind of peer accountability. Will you do that? Are you doing that?