Dreamwork Practitioners make a commitment to:
-Overview-

• collaborate with the utmost respect for the clients to find the truth of their dream
• their own personal growth in relationship to learning from the dream.
• focus on being clear messengers, within their capabilities as students of the dream.

-Boundaries-

• ensure that sessions are strictly confidential. Only with prior, written permission of the client will session contents be anonymously shared for teaching or professional purposes.
• clearly define the boundaries of the practitioner/client relationship.
• make clear what is appropriate contact in between sessions.
• provide clients with tools and perspectives that encourage taking personal responsibility for their own work.
• not have sexual relationships with clients.
• not borrow money from clients, nor lend money to them.
• avoid imposing their own values, attitudes, beliefs and behaviors on clients.
• avoid relationships with clients outside the dream session that would make them dependent on the practitioner.

-Financial-

• inform the client of session fees including, payment schedules, cancellation policy.

-Documentation-

• make available to clients the Dreamwork Practitioner Code of Ethics.
• inform clients of the practitioner’s qualifications.
• inform clients that since dreamwork asks that they delve deeply into their own psyches, latent or present negative emotions and/or mental disorders may intensify, and in that event, they may need to seek outside support from a physician or a professional.
• acquire written permission of the client to allow anonymous discussion of their work for peer support, supervision and teaching purposes.

-Professionalism-

• adhere to the intelligence of the dream as the guide.
• seek support from other practitioners when the well being of the client is uncertain or
  unclear.
• appropriately advise clients to other professionals when their predicament seems beyond the practitioner’s skill, experience or training.
• refer the client to another dreamwork practitioner when we believe that accepting a client will result in a conflict of interests.
• engage in ongoing professional development as dreamwork practitioners on an individual basis.