You may or may not know that Coaching is not a licensed profession. That means that anyone can call themselves a coach without having any training or following a code of ethics.
However, I have had training and have been certified both as a general Life Coach through the ICF (International Coaching Federation) and as a Divorce Coach through the CDC (Certified Divorce Coaching)
As a Certified Divorce Coach and ICF Professional, in accordance with the Standards of the ICF Code of Ethics, I acknowledge and agree to fulfill my ethical and legal obligations to my coaching Client(s), Sponsor(s), colleagues and to the public at large. If I breach any part of the ICF Code of Ethics, and the Certified Divorce Coaching Code of Standards, I agree that ICF in its sole discretion may hold me accountable for so doing. I further agree that my accountability to ICF and the CDC for any breach may include sanctions, such as mandatory additional coach training or other education, or loss of my ICF Membership and / or my ICF or CDC Credential.
SBSGrowth, LLC., d/b/a Becky Swanson Coaching, makes these additional commitments:
- As an individual and a company, I am working with DEI consultant(s) to develop anti-oppressive life and leadership coaching.
- When purchasing gifts for clients (books, journals, swag bag items, etc.) I will purchase from BIPOC owned small businesses at least 66% of the time.
- When hiring or contracting with consultants, I strive to hire/contract with BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, and women owned businesses at least 50% of the time.
- In all teaching, group coaching, podcasts, and events, I commit to using expansive language for the Divine and gender-neutral language for people.
- As a business owner, I renounce the interlocking systems of oppression that distort the image of the Divine found in people of every land, race, faith, age, ability, income, orientation, status — of every kind, so that each and every one cannot tell they are the Divine’s own beloved. I renounce my intentional and unintentional collusion with these powers, my own actions and failures to act and every impulse within me that separates me from the Divine. Although I make these renunciations daily, I daily fail at them and daily seek forgiveness and healing from that failure.
- I strive to support you in growing in your understanding and relationship of the Divine as you describe and know it, and I make no space for proselytizing to a particular understanding. That said, I am an ordained pastor in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America (ELCA) and while I have a broad understanding of many world religions, I do NOT guarantee that I understand or can teach the subtleties of every view of the Divine.
