Are you preparing for your ACC or PCC exam, or simply seeking to elevate your ethical coaching practice? This session is essential for coaches navigating complex ethical scenarios and striving for excellence.We begin by exploring how to engage in ethical conversations without fear, guilt, or avoidance – a common challenge often presented in certification exams. This episode critically differentiates between proactive care and reactive empathy, highlighting that care, in the ICF context, is an active and deliberate measure a coach takes to support the client, fostering a space of trust and safety.This session meticulously breaks down the eight key sections of Part 3, which fundamentally centers on commitment for all within the ICF ecosystem – encompassing clients, stakeholders, the coaching profession, and its processes.Here’s what we delve into:• Mindful Performance with Integrity and Accountability: Understand your duties to perform mindfully, considering the global impact of your actions on the coaching profession. A critical focus is placed on client confidentiality: learn why sharing client stories or successes, even anonymously, is an ethical breach unless you have explicit, articulated, and recorded permission from the client. We also discuss strategies like fictionalizing content to ethically share lessons learned without compromising privacy. Key factors to consider are the scope of impact/reach and the nature of the permission given.• Commitment to Excellence through Ethical Development: Discover why ethical development is just as vital as skill and personal development. This involves continuous reflection, engaging with dilemmas, and learning from ethical missteps. We explore challenging scenarios, such as the internal struggle of a coach feeling ineffective and the urge to 'solve' for a client, and the importance of regularly resetting your ethical parameters.• Cultural Competence and Curiosity: Navigate the complexities of cultural filters – our invisible assumptions – and how culture profoundly influences ethics. This section advocates for moving beyond mere cultural tolerance to cultural curiosity and responsiveness, rather than neutrality. Learn to respect and adapt to differences in communication styles, hierarchy, generational nuances, and traditions. We provide insights on the importance of pre-session cultural 'homework' and how to frame initial conversations when cultural context is unfamiliar. The distinction between cross-cultural and multicultural differences is also explored.• Awareness of Relationships and Influencing Factors: Gain insight into how biases, power dynamics, and systemic oppressions can affect coaching relationships. Understand that unexamined power can distort the coaching relationship and that the client remains the expert in their own domain knowledge, while the coach provides expertise in the coaching process. We also discuss avoiding overly 'politically correct' but robotic conversations in favor of genuine ethical alignment for client safety.• Respectfully Addressing Unethical Conduct: Develop the courage to confront concerns regarding unethical behavior by peers, clients, or stakeholders. This includes navigating sensitive situations such as HR requests for confidential client insights, or addressing misleading marketing claims and over-promising breakthroughs by other coaches online. Private communication is often the preferred first step.----For more real stories, practical tools, and thought-provoking reflections, or to explore upcoming programs, visit jedi.coach or check out our show notes. If this podcast helped you grow, please follow, share, and leave a review – it helps more people find us. Until next time, keep listening, keep reflecting, and keep braving your story from within.https://jedi.coachJedi@Jedi.Coach