The Ethics class only has one part, which I feel is the dumbest thing ever. For such an important topic, there’s not much time here. Linda gave us some various scenarios that she has encountered and then asked us for the conflict and some possible solutions before telling us what she did. However, she reiterated that there is no one right way to handle a situation - there can be many paths to go down that are all ethical. You must decide what sits best with you.

It’s tough, as a new coach and as someone who will have to deal with these conflicts on her own for the first time (aka not having a boss to bring problems to), to figure out What Would You Do?. Linda encourages us to try to come up with different dilemmas and then figure out how you would deal with them, and I feel that would be helpful. I just know that there are a hundred+ dilemmas and a hundred+ solutions for each one, and I’m unsure how I would feel about handling each of them. Hopefully this will become clearer for me when I tackle to homework in this section, since I know there are a few pointed questions there. I also want to make sure to re-read the ICF Code of Ethics, as I know this will be my guidelines for my practice.

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Today I am grateful for movers. Knowing I have to pack and unpack my whole apartment sucks - but knowing that someone else is going to move it is pretty awesome.