Our faith community’s culture includes ethical awareness and ethical practices as key components of self-awareness on a path of spiritual growth and development. Over a period of several years, our community held discussions and a small working group drafted and refined our community’s Code of Ethics, which was then adopted by our board of directors. The code is taught in our formation programs in seminary and is part of the continuing education process for ordained clergy.
We gratefully acknowledge the help and support of Kylea Taylor, M.S., M.F.T., who consulted with us and gave permission for us to adopt into our community standards her unique framework that articulately connects the chakras, psychospiritual development, self-care, and ethics for spiritually aware helpers.
We hold to these Principles of Ethical Helping Relationships:
- We base our helping work and relationships in authentic caring about and regard for
- Those who come to us for service entrust themselves to our
- We accept and honor this
- This covenant of trust, also known as a fiduciary relationship, calls for us to be accountable to a high standard of professional behavior.
- Our fiduciary accountability applies whether or not we are paid for our
- We tend to the welfare of those who seek or to whom we offer our
- We are willing to examine our own motivations and to actively reflect on and cultivate curiosity about what we may not yet have been able to discern and accept in
- We are willing to tell the truth without blame or judgment.
- We are willing to ask for help (consultation and supervision) and to learn and grow.