Posted by 64bowtie on July 21, 2004, at 2:43:33
In reply to Re: Hope this answers... » 64bowtie, posted by Dinah on July 20, 2004, at 3:25:55
(((Dinah))),
> Do you oppose licensing and oversight of life coaches?
<<< I oppose the assumption of the mental-health-industry that there is only one-way or the Hi-way... First of all, coaches that don't discover there own freedom and happiness, won't be able to understand what they are doing, so licensing them won't help protect any clients. Also, licensing is political expedience. It creates a self-fulfilling myth of security.
I trust my perceptions because I have trained myself to perceive without bias. As you have seen over and over from me, I don't know yet how to communicate my knowledge...... yet. Please accept my continuing gratitude for your attention. Some day I will have good words and good examples and good case studies that all can rely on. Until then, licensing and its riduclous outdated political proclivities, shades of "...father always knows best..."; big brother is watching (for big brother's sake, not your sake!)
>One nice thing about licensing is that there is some recourse for clients.
<<< Actually, in our litiginous society, any bad-guys who slip through and cause client death and destruction will be "Toast"! Governments and regulation in this case constipate the process of resolution. With the right influence, the bad-guy can extinguish any investigation since the government did certify him and don't want to get sued for making a lethal mistake. Life-coaching is not astrology, wicca, nor is it even Masonic. I have no issues with those practices but know some folks who do.
>Unfortunately there are some people in every field that might be more deterred from bad behavior by the prospect of official censure than by any other method.
<<< Attorneys and the market are much quicker at interdiction than licensing agencys.None of this is set into concrete. Things continue to change. People are getting worse as things in the world are getting better. Do I advocate a 5,000,000,000 people die-off??? No; never; and it will happen without me lifting a finger; and sooner instead of later. But the planet will go on without them, continuing to change like it is changing right now.
Take care to take care...
Rod
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