Ethics
All the professional bodies have their own ethics codes – ICF, EMCC, Association for Coaching … and then you add that to the complexity of working in organisations where there are lots of questions and no easy answers.

2021 Ethics Special
This is a brilliant bumper episode from The Coaching Inn

Ethicability by Roger Steare
Everyone should read this - there’s just enough in it to really help us ask the ethical questions.

Masterclass 2.8 Ethics
Ethics is in everything, listen to this masterclass with Claire Pedrick MCC.

In conversation with Kirsty Elderton - Disaster Ethics
Claire Pedrick MCC is talking to Kirsty Elderton about disaster ethics
What do you need to be thinking about?
Scenario, Clients, Action & Reflection
Other useful Resources
3D Ideas 830: What If There Were No Experts?
This week’s blog comes from our friend Val Hastings. He and Claire co-hosted some webinars about challenge and radical candour. There was lots of learning and this is some (longer than usual and useful!) Val writes: "On a recent training call with coaches, we got on...
Coaching Presence
As Stuart and Claire are preparing Neither From nor Towards - a day on coaching presence some of their inspiration is coming from blogs like: Heather Plett on holding space The On Being Project on the gift of presence and the perils of giving advice And Stuart has...
3D Ideas 829: Fixing
Claire writes: 'In the interests of experimentation, for the last two weeks I have asked every group I have worked with whether they like being fixed, or having their problems solved by others. That's about 150 people. About 5 people said they like it. About 145...
3D Ideas 828: Buttons
This week's blog is written by Richard who trained with 3D in 2015. It's never too late to apply what you are learning... He writes "Just thought I’d share with you… I have only ever used the buttons that you showed us at Transforming Conversations in the training...
3D Ideas 827: Stretch the Frame
Claire writes: "Continuing professional development (CPD) is useful, and in some organisations ongoing training is mandatory. In the coaching world, we are required to evidence 40 hours CPD every 3 years in order to retain our credentials. As people progress through...
3D Ideas 826: Change the Frame
Claire writes: "Last week was one of those weeks which hit many of us from time to time - there was just too much stuff. A late evening's work and two phone calls in the middle of the night from my husband's work were the straw that broke the camel's back and Friday...
3D Ideas 825: More than diagnosing
Sam, our health coach, writes: "As health professionals our desire to ‘fix it’ can sometimes get in the way of our patients living a more meaningful life. Here's an example - In her 20’s she noticed her eye sight getting worse. She was prescribed eye drops to stop the...
3D Ideas 824: Transformation
Claire writes: 'What a privilege to train people to increase the likelihood of their having transformational conversations! It's not possible to ensure that every conversation you have engenders deep transformation. But we work with people to help them to lose the...
3D Ideas: 823 Managers Say That
Claire writes: 'If we want to have a different kind of conversation sometimes we need to use different language. I think that's because we learn how to respond without fully listening. For example many managers say 'Do you want to explore that?' when they actually...