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Wrestling with Ethical Dilemmas
For clinicians, consultants, and coaches, the subject of ethics is too
often addressed in an oversimplified, legalistic, cover-your-bases way that primarily involves an orientation to the relevant professional written codes and the consequences of violating them.


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However, the dilemma of ethics is the endless potential individual interpretation and application to each situation, often necessarily undertaken without the benefit of
consultation or collaboration.

This workshop takes a step beyond the basics to explore the relationship between these codes, the underlying individual and cultural values that shape individuals, and the real-life contradictions and complexities that produce ethical dilemmas.

Participants will be encouraged to bring their cases and share the issues they face in their own practices

Benefits

Participants will:

  • Explore issues with ethical implications in their own practice areas and caseloads.

  • Develop awareness of the relationship between their personal needs, individual practice values, and professional responsibilities.

  • Clarify their personal approach to ethical dilemmas.

  • Understand the consequences of their choices.

  • Develop a plan that includes supervision, feedback, and a network of support to gain perspective when approaching ethical dilemmas.

  • Have an opportunity for extensive practice.

Participants

This workshop is appropriate for organizational consultants, executive coaches, clinicians, and other advisors seeking clarity concerning ethical issues.

Continuing Education
<strong><img src="../images/icflogo07rgbSm.jpg" width="85" height="40" hspace="2" vspace="1" border="2" align="left" /></strong>Coaches: This program is International Coach Federation (ICF) certified for
14 core competency hours. Please see the Continuing Education page for
full details.
This program has been approved for 14 Social Work Continuing Education hours for relicensure, in accordance with 258 CMR. Collaborative of NASW and the Boston College and Simmons Schools of Social Work Authorization Number D60207-7.
GISC is approved by the American Psychological Association to offer continuing education for psychotherapists (APA, CE) for all programs we offer. GISC maintains responsibility for all programs and their content.

 



Dates and Fees:

WRESTLING WITH ETHICAL DILEMMAS
Dates September 15-16, 2013
Begins
Sunday, 9am
Ends
Monday, 5pm
Fee $450
  GISC Members: $400
CE Hours 14 - APA, ICF, NASW-MA
Faculty Carol Brockmon
  Spencer Melnick

 

“In this important class for the Advanced Practice OD Certificate program, I was challenged to apply the core principles of Gestalt leadership to difficult problems I experience in the workplace as an internal practitioner. Carol and Spencer revealed a framework for working through dilemmas, led provocative discussions and shared useful resources. I walked away with greater confidence to handle dilemmas and a comfort in the reminder that we can’t do this work alone.”

Michael Shipman
VP Talent and Organizational Development
Rockland Trust Company


“Wrestling with Ethical Dilemmas sounded as interesting to me as a course in Tax Evasion Techniques of the 12th Century. For some, a happy playground for their minds; for me, not so much. I attended because it was a requirement for my OD Certificate. Was I ever wrong! Carol Brockman led the class with psychic insight and wisdom that catalyzed our ability to add to our own. We not only wrestled with dilemmas, we learned how to recognize an ethical dilemma – as different from problems to be solved. We learned methods for resolving, and models that inform the process. We also were taught how to use our advisory community – and its essential role in seeing what we’re looking at.

“Carol and her colleague, Spencer Melnick, gave us far more than any of us expected, then added their patience as we experimented along the way. If 12th Century instruction were as informed and helpful as I experienced in this class, the Renaissance wouldn’t have waited a hundred more years to crank up.”

Perry Carrison
Executive Coach, Founder
Carrison Incorporated


 

     
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