Join us on Monday, December 01, 2025, from 06:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. (ET NY), for this insightful session on the “Always Be Contracting,” approach, where you’ll explore how ethical contracting evolves throughout a coaching engagement and gain practical strategies for navigating re-contracting moments with confidence and integrity.
Who Is This For?
- ICF members, chapter leaders, volunteers, and coach educators who seek to grow as ethical coaches and human beings within a complex, ever-changing world.
- Coaches who want to navigate unexpected situations during coaching engagements through ongoing contracting practices.
- Managers and leaders who wish to apply ICF’s ethical values and principles to real-world coaching and leadership contexts.
- Coaching professionals eager to strengthen integrity, trust, and alignment across their client relationships.
What You Will Learn:
- Clarify why contracting and re-contracting are essential ethical practices—and when and how to revisit agreements.
- Develop clear, values-based language for creating contracts at the start of coaching engagements.
- Recognize signs during coaching sessions that signal the need for re-alignment or re-contracting.
- Deepen understanding of ICF’s values and principles as tools for ethical reasoning, reflection, and decision-making.
- Examine re-contracting themes such as confidentiality, conflict of interest, and power balance through real-life discussion and examples.
Course Details:
Contracting is more than paperwork—it’s a living, evolving process at the heart of every ethical coaching engagement. Under the updated ICF Code of Ethics, we are called to go beyond what is written and to embody ICF’s values and principles in how we think, act, and relate.
This session invites you to see contracting not as a one-time step, but as a dynamic, ongoing practice that keeps coaching relationships aligned and ethical as circumstances shift. From the influence of stakeholders and organizational systems to emerging tools like AI, coaches must continuously ask: How do we maintain clarity, trust, and ethical grounding as conditions change?
Through reflection, discussion, and case examples, you’ll gain greater confidence in recognizing when re-contracting is needed, how to approach it with transparency, and where ethical boundaries lie. Rather than seeking fixed answers, you’ll strengthen your ability to reason, decide, and act from an ethical lens—living ICF’s values intentionally in every coaching moment.
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