As coaches, we recognize the boundary between coaching and mental health care – but how do we navigate the space between them? We are well trained in supporting our clients to explore their experiences more deeply, but few of us may know how to recognize or respond to a client having thoughts of suicide. What would be most ethical? Is referral to another profession the best response?
Join us in considering these questions in the context of the ICF Code of Ethics.
· The ethics of talking about suicide
· The training and skills required to have those conversations
· A coach’s story
· How the ICF Code of Ethics relates to this topic
· What’s ethical and possible for us as coaching professionals
Learning objectives
Participants will come away from this session with a better understanding of:
· The ethics of talking about suicide
· The training and skills required to have those conversations
· How the ICF Code of Ethics relates to this topic
· What’s ethical and possible for us as coaching professionals
Related ICF coaching competencies
- · Demonstrates Ethical Practice
- · Maintains Presence
- · Listens Actively
- · Evokes Awareness
- · Cultivates Trust and Safety
All participants will receive 1.5 Core Competency Credits and 0 Resource Development Credit
Presenters:
Lynn Thorsell
As a leadership coach, Lynn has worked with over 300 people on every continent, from business owners, CEOs, and executive directors to students and job-seekers. As a human systems consultant, she has supported leaders in IT, health care, biotechnology, non-profits, and international development.
Whatever her role, Lynn sees herself as a co-learner. She joins her clients in the work of better understanding and defining their teams and organizations, themselves, their situations, their purpose, and — most pragmatically — their next steps.
Maddy Brown
Woman (She/Her); White girl from the Vancouver, British Columbia who still resides here. Lover of Arts, Culture and Traveling. Flight attendant for over 18 years; Business owner; SafeTALK educator; Plant and Cat Mother; Yogi; Tea drinker; Avid Journal Writer and Trained Singer. Raised in the middle class and passionate about personal growth.
Maddy is a certified Mental Fitness Coach through Positive Intelligence. In addition to her coaching practice, she also co-leads youth workshops in mental fitness and healthy conflict. Maddy chairs the PQ for Schools Community of Practice, and is a founding member of the PQ Safeguarding Committee.
Before becoming a coach, Maddy volunteered at the Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention Centre of BC for six years. The skills she developed and experiences she had there sparked her interest in coaching, and ignited her passion for educating coaches about the value of being suicide alert.
Lu Ripley
Lu has been working in the field of education and health promotion for over 40 years, including several years in the Downtown Eastside Vancouver as an education and prevention lead in addiction services with Vancouver Coastal Health. She holds degrees from York University and the University of British Columbia. Since 2011, Lu has worked as Director of Community Learning and Engagement at the Crisis Centre of BC. She is also a LivingWorks Applied Suicide Intervention Skills coach and safeTALK trainer.
Lu’s passion for a community-based holistic suicide prevention programming is founded in both personal and professional experience. Life promotion is a key part of her work. For Lu, that involves her beautiful teenage son and large community of family and friends, as well as fitness and nutrition. Lu has studied yoga, spirituality and mindfulness for over 35 years, and is a certified yoga teacher. When not working, you can find her mountain biking with her son, hiking, cooking, and gardening.
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