{"id":8509,"date":"2019-11-04T09:03:30","date_gmt":"2019-11-04T09:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/?p=8509"},"modified":"2025-04-09T22:02:04","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T22:02:04","slug":"an-invitation-what-do-you-think-ethical-challenges-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/an-invitation-what-do-you-think-ethical-challenges-series\/","title":{"rendered":"An Invitation: What do you think?  Ethical Challenges Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A coaching client invites the coach to their wedding.\u00a0 The coach has completed their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/en\/training.html\">coach training<\/a> and is a member of the ICF and accountable to the Code of Ethics. \u00a0 <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-8510 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/02E66259.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"182\" height=\"136\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Possible Responses:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The coach accepts the invitation and attends the wedding.<\/li>\n<li>The coach declines the invitation without explanation.<\/li>\n<li>The coach says they have a schedule conflict and cannot attend.<\/li>\n<li>The coach invites the client to discuss the pros and cons of their attendance.<\/li>\n<li>The coach explains that it might be perceived as the coach benefitting from the relationship and for that reason they will not accept.<\/li>\n<li>The coach accepts and gives the client a gift card in the amount of the cost of their attendance.<\/li>\n<li>What else?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Refer to the ICF Code of Ethics:<\/p>\n<p>21)\u00a0Avoid any sexual or romantic relationship with current clients or sponsor(s) or students, mentees or supervisees. Further, I will be alert to the possibility of any potential sexual intimacy among the parties including my support staff and\/or assistants and will take the appropriate action to address the issue or cancel the engagement in order to provide a safe environment overall.<\/p>\n<p>AND <a href=\"https:\/\/coachingfederation.org\/credentialing\/coaching-ethics\/icf-code-of-ethics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/coachingfederation.org\/credentialing\/coaching-ethics\/icf-code-of-ethics\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Q: If my client invites me out to a social engagement, may I accept?<br \/>\nA: Accepting the engagement would be appropriate if:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the coach and client both think that the coaching relationship would not be impaired<\/li>\n<li>the coach can remain objective in the coaching meetings<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If however, the coach finds it difficult to maintain the boundaries of a coaching relationship with the client, then the coach has the option to terminate the relationship and refer the client to another coach. A good guideline is that whatever the nature of the relationship prior to beginning coaching is where it should remain throughout the duration of the coaching arrangement.<\/p>\n<p>How do you recommend it be handled?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A coaching client invites the coach to their wedding.\u00a0 The coach has completed their coach training and is a member of the ICF and accountable &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8510,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[470,471,16,40],"tags":[523,1001,48,85,50,514,49,214,205],"class_list":["post-8509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-coaching-resources","category-coaching-skills","category-coaching-stories","category-tools-and-techniques","tag-accountable","tag-an-invitation","tag-coach","tag-coach-training","tag-coaching","tag-coaching-client","tag-code-of-ethics","tag-ethical","tag-icf","latest_post"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8509"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12657,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8509\/revisions\/12657"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}