LBL Practitioners' Code of Ethics
Introduction:
This version of the Code of Ethics is created for Students and Practitioners trained by The Newton Institute (TNI) to practice Life Between Lives Spiritual Integration Therapy using the methods devised by Michael Newton, his teaching faculty and team of practitioners. It provides guidelines to which our TNI Board requests that all TNI-trained practitioners, from initial training through to certification and onward, should adhere to, in the interests of our clients and the maintenance of best practice.
- It is an honor to facilitate a Life Between Lives (LBL) session and therefore all TNI-trained LBL practitioners are requested to maintain the integrity of LBL work at all times. Client confidentiality must be honored and every client treated with the utmost respect. As professional therapists, LBL practitioners will already be familiar with this practice; however, a similar level of respect should also be given to the Beings who guide and advise each client within the context of every LBL session.
- Practitioners are requested to place clients, best practice, the development of LBL work and The Newton Institute's standards and interests ahead of self-interest.
- TNI-trained LBL practitioners are, by the very nature of this work, likely to be intuitive and spiritually-aware individuals. LBL work is soul work - so humility, openness and willingness to learn are important factors. We encourage all practitioners to operate on an intuitive level; to work from the heart, asking for guidance in the best interests of each client and acting on that guidance to create the most meaningful LBL experience for each client. Practitioners will be open to guidance from many sources; for example, from our own Spirit Guides, the Spirit Guides of each client, from other LBL practitioners, from within Michael Newton's books, from TNI e-group...and from the signs and 'coincidences' we are offered in our daily lives. We ask that each practitioner should be open to receiving the appropriate guidance in each case, to ensure the most meaningful LBL experience for each LBL client.
- It is imperative for every LBL practitioner to remember, and to impart clearly to all clients, exactly what LBL is - and what it is not. TNI-trained LBL practitioners do not offer, or seek to include, trauma therapy as part of the LBL process. If appropriately trained and qualified, practitioners may choose to offer this therapy or to refer clients on accordingly, but these issues are not part of the LBL process and should be dealt with separately, in the appropriate manner according to each individual client. Remember, guidance is given to clients in the between-lives state - but from Spirit, and not from the practitioner. Here, the practitioner's role is to guide, to question - and to listen; with the needs of the client uppermost in focus.
- LBL practitioners should give each client the necessary amount of time needed for each individual experience. This includes (sometimes lengthy) time for preparation, the LBL experience itself, and follow-up. Practitioners will recognise that these periods of time will vary greatly between individual clients. It is unethical for an LBL practitioner to extend the LBL session in order to gain additional fees.
- TNI LBL practitioners and teachers will strive to be advocates for and seekers of deeper truth. Appreciating that truth is relative, and that the body's mortal truth is different to the soul's immortal reality. Therefore understanding that the human mind, being limited to physical awareness, is capable of misunderstanding, interfering and mistranslating spiritual knowledge. Therefore we acknowledge the need to challenge instances of possible conscious mind interference and balance open minded exploration with discernment and common sense. Always being prepared to expand our current understanding of the nature of soul and the spirit world as and when more clarity and knowledge arises
- Practitioners should honor and respect the fact that LBL clients, and indeed practitioners themselves, come from many different religious and cultural backgrounds, and therefore make no distinctions on grounds of race, sex, religion, class, belief or sexual orientation.
- In honor and respect to our clients and our LBL work, we undertake:
- to conduct ourselves with courtesy, sensitivity and patience, and to impart all information needed to put each client at ease
- to provide a comfortable environment to further that sense of ease
- to ensure that we are ourselves in a fit state to facilitate LBL sessions - that is, that we are not ill, exhausted, under the influence of drugs or alcohol
- to keep clear and confidential records of each LBL session and to offer these to clients as requested, in recorded or written form. These records should include signed permission from each client to forward details, on an anonymous basis, to TNI's Research Department where appropriate
- to offer such records to TNI's Research Department where cases will further the understanding and work of TNI's LBL community
- In the honor and respect of the work by and dedication of Michael Newton, our respected founder, together with the Board and teaching faculty, we undertake to ensure that our LBL work is promoted, carried out and followed up as a stand-alone discipline. The Newton Institute respects the variety of therapies and methodologies followed by its members and associate members and no judgement or devaluation is intended by this statement. Rather, the request for practitioners to observe this undertaking is designed to further the awareness, understanding and practice of LBL work as a respected therapy in its own right. LBL Spiritual Integration Therapy is still in its infancy; so it is the request of TNI that, whilst its practitioners will continue to make new discoveries that will allow the work to evolve and grow, the purity of LBL as a stand-alone therapy is understood, maintained and protected.
- In the honor and respect of The Newton Institute and our TNI colleagues, we undertake:
- to participate in TNI's e-group with discretion and with
understanding of the impersonal nature of email.
Messages posted on e-group should be written with
care, with understanding that our global community is
a blessed combination of languages and cultures and, therefore, that the words we write may be open to misunderstanding and misinterpretation if such care is not exercised. The e-group is designed to provide a forum for communication, requests for advice and celebration of LBL work and every member should be able to participate in this facility in comfort and with total confidence. Therefore, we agree a) that all other participants will exercise care, understanding and avoid judgement and b) that all postings are created to further our shared goals
- that individual advertising and promotional campaigns will adhere to the generally-required standards of 'legal, decent, honest and truthful' - 'legal' and 'decent' require no explanation in this community, and TNI's interpretation of 'honest' and 'truthful' are closely allied to Point 2, in which we ask practitioners to place clients, best practice, the development of LBL work and The Newton Institute's standards and interests ahead of self-interest. No false claims - for example, about training or the purpose of LBL work - should be made by any practitioner claiming (and, therefore, benefiting from) TNI certification.
- All TNI-trained LBL practitioners should uphold the integrity of the
organisation at all times; should act with accountability and responsibility and, therefore, always remain positive ambassadors for The Newton Institute and its Life Between Lives Spiritual Integration Therapy.
This is the full and complete version of the Code of Ethics for Life Between Lives Practitioners. A further version sourced from this very document has been created to meet the needs of the general public and for display in Practitioners premises. A copy is available upon request and from TNI's website.
For other articles pertaining to such TNI policy statements as our Mission Objectives, the Board of Directors, Codes of Conduct, LBL Training, Membership and Certification please refer to descriptions in the Bi-Laws.
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