Toronto, Canada – June 2019 – by Heidi Light
Ethics is a hot topic in every single profession around the globe. EFT is no different.
- Where do we draw the lines in our practice?
- What are the best guidelines for keeping our clients both safe and respected?
- How do we make sure that we as practitioners are safe and respected too?
- How do we avoid or approach problematic situations?
- How do we create absolutely the best healing experience that we can for the people that we work with?
- How do we build and maintain credibility for our field?
These are the questions that are posed by ethics conversations.
Thankfully, more and more associations and organizations, like NeftTI, are having these ethics conversations, and offering an ethical code of conduct that their members are expected to follow, and some form of recourse for clients if they don’t.
That code may include concepts such as ensuring our clients’ rights to privacy and confidentiality, obtaining informed consent for our services, maintaining appropriate record-keeping, balanced fee structures, asking open-ended questions, and working only within our scope of practice. These are all common and necessary ethical structures and foundations that are taught and applied in professions from psychology to social work to teaching to healthcare to law enforcement.
These kinds of boundaries and guidelines are what ensure that both practitioners and clients are safe and respected. They ensure a balanced equilibrium whereby healing can actually occur. And they allow us to have healthy, robust lives and thriving practices.
But ethics means so much more than just these principles.
We encounter issues in our practice on a daily basis that push us outside of the comfort zones of these established boundaries, so it’s important that we have a way to understand these issues and to deal with them effectively. Things like self-care, self-reflection, energy management, switching off an intuitive or empathic ability, help us to maintain a healthy balance within ourselves so we can continue to do good work with others. A truly ethical practice can be complicated to develop and understand.
So – what does it mean to practice ethically, and how do we do that?
Join Nancy Forrester and I for our webinar on June 25 at 7:15 pm. Click here for details
Note: You must be registered to get a copy of the recording. Be sure to sign up even if you can’t be there live so you get the link to the replay.
We’ll be sharing simple ways to ensure that both you and your clients are both safe and respected, and discuss practical, grounded examples and guidelines that you can apply today.
Pick up my book “Ethics in Energy Medicine: Boundaries and Guidelines for Intuitive and Energetic Practices”, published by North Atlantic Books in California and available through Penguin Random House or Amazon.
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About Heidi Light
Heidi Light is an Author, Blogger, Speaker, Philosopher, Consultant, Creator of Wisdom House Learning Centre and the Leader of a social movement called The REAL Revolution. She is a Transformational Counsellor and Certified Consulting Hypnotist with a degree in Psychology, who incorporates Medical Intuition and Energy Medicine practices in her work.
She has spent many years designing personal development sessions for individuals, couples, and families in a variety of private, healthcare, holistic, and non-profit settings, as well as developing group programs, classes and workshops for intuition, energy medicine, stress management, mental health, and emotional literacy. A long-time business owner, Heidi also founded, owned, and managed a rural wellness and retreat centre in Southern Ontario, Canada.
Her latest book, “Ethics in Energy Medicine: Boundaries and Guidelines for Intuitive and Energetic Practices”, is published by North Atlantic Books in California and is available through Penguin Random House.
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