As A Member of both the International COaching Federation (ICf) and the Association for Coaching (AC) We adhere to their Codes of Ethical Coaching Practice.

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“Be happy to change your goals, but never change your values.”

— His Holiness the Dalai Lama

A code of ethics is a set of guidelines and values which dictate how our staff and volunteers handle situations (human and equine), engage with clients and work together. As we are working with clients and horses we hold these core principles at heart.
Getting to know HJC means learning about our values. The environment here is a direct result of how we work within these values every day. Embodying our core principles and making them your own will lead everyone to success.

1. Authenticity.

You must bring your real and true self to the coaching process. There is only one you, use your unique equine and coaching knowledge to serve your coachees responsibly and to the best of your ability.

Working horses and the environment into my coaching practice - is not a gimmick. It is an embodiment of my personal and professional experience come to fruition.

Employees and volunteers at HJC need not have had the same experiences to be effective so long as their work is their own authenticity come to fruition.

Using that which you are most passionate about to affect change in the lives of others, is a quality all of us at HJC relate to and look for in our employees, volunteers and contracted partners.

We strive every day to help people live into their own authenticity by embracing our own.

Bring it!

“Because true belonging only happens when we present our authentic, imperfect selves to the world, our sense of belonging can never be greater than our level of self-acceptance.””

— Brene Brown, Daring Greatly

2. Learn by doing.

Provide safe and specialized equine informed coaching experiences, by creating a learning environment in which coachees’ learnings are informed both directly and indirectly through interaction with horses.

It has been said that horses, in particular for women, aid in the facilitation of these types of experiential learning experiences, creating an opportunity to explore power dynamics, body language, leadership skills and more while standing in the moment with an unpredictable entity (“The Psychodynamics in the Feminine-Equine Relationship Dyad - ProQuest,” n.d., p. 140).

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3. Resilience.

Fall. Fail. Struggle

Rise. Learn Lead.

— HJC

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It may not look the same - but there’s always a chance to rebuild.

4. Integrity.

Always do right by the horse and the client. By practicing integrity you will always do right by HJC and yourself as well.

“Milton Friedman said, “the only entities who can have responsibilities are individuals ... A business cannot have responsibilities.” At HJC we challenge this statement. We stand together as a group of individuals and as a business, together we are responsible for each other. This is how we will change the world.”

5. Safety.

JC Photos PEI image 2019 — Always act with safety of self, horse and others at heart.

If unsure what to do in any situation ask yourself: if an accident were to occur would you feel you could have done something to prevent it?

To feel safe is more than feeling physically safe from harm. Emotional safety is equally important, take steps to ensure the emotional safety of clients by refraining from, judgement and destructive criticism (at HJC or online). What is discussed with clients is confidential, HJC staff will respect what is said at HJC by keeping it AT HJC.

A horse’s emotional wellbeing ensures the physical safety of our clients, horses should always be monitored for signs of stress and not worked more than twice a day, five times a week. Our horses need to be con- sidered equally important to our participants. The better you care for and understand them the safer our clients will be.

6. Failure is Feedback.

Yup! We want our clients to fail and fail fabulously!

Allowing clients to fail and facilitate a learning experience is at the heart of coaching. “Rescuing” is not supportive. We want our clients to become the heroes of their own stories, learning how to fail well is a part of becoming a healthy individual. Support your client in a way that every failure is feedback - more information they have gained in their journey.