Ethics and Anti-racist Commitments

As an 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, I agree that ICF in its sole discretion may hold me accountable for so doing. I further agree that my accountability to ICF 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 Credential.

SBSGrowth, LLC., d/b/a Becky Swanson Notfainthearted Coaching, makes these additional commitments:

• As a company, we are working with DEI consultant(s) to develop anti-oppressive life and leadership coaching.

• When purchasing gifts for clients (books, journals, swag bag items, etc.) we will purchase from BIPOC owned small businesses at least 66% of the time. 

• When hiring or contracting with consultants, we strive to hire/contract with BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ individuals at least 50% of the time.

• In all teaching, group coaching, podcasts, and events, we 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.

• We strive to support you in growing in your understanding and relationship of the Divine as you describe and know it, and we make no space for proselytizing to a particular understanding. That said, Becky Swanson is an ordained pastor in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America (ELCA) and while she has a broad understanding of many world religions, she does NOT guarantee that she understands or can teach the subtleties of every view of the Divine.