Values and Ethics

MNI Code of Ethics

Members of the Michael Newton Institute must:

• Act in the highest and best interest of the client and treat each client with respect and dignity.

• Conduct themselves in such a manner as to uphold the integrity of Life Between Lives® Hypnotherapy and The Michael Newton Institute.

• Use all their skills, training, and experience to reconnect clients to the loving wisdom of the spirit world as they hold sacred space for a meaningful Life Between Lives® experience which includes remaining open to spiritual guidance when conducting Life Between Lives® sessions.

• Display and facilitate sessions with professional etiquette, providing a safe and caring environment. Sessions are expected to be facilitated not only with skill, but with understanding, sensitivity, and patience.

• 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, gender, religion, class, belief or sexual orientation.

• Allow guidance to be given to clients in the Life Between Lives® state from Spirit and not from the practitioner. Here the practitioner’s role is to guide, to question and to listen. The needs of the client should be paramount, including allowing sufficient time for the client to process each individual experience.

• Assess and provide a professional environment for a client in advance of a session. A client is entitled to a clean and dedicated therapy room, which includes facilities.

• Maintain all client-therapist communications in a confidential manner, obtain the consent of the client to record past life regression and Life Between Lives® sessions, and preserve session records and session notes in a secure environment to ensure privacy. Videos and recordings provided to the client upon agreement are to remain neither altered nor edited.

• Obtain the consent of the client to share or publish session material and to discuss confidential session details.

• Explain the Life Between Lives® experience and discuss expectations, intentions and goals with each client prior to the Life Between Lives® appointment. Discuss with a client the experience and expectations the client is seeking. Review the list of questions and cast of

  characters. It is expected that all members facilitate the Life Between Lives® within realistic expectations, intentions and goals of a client.

• Assess the readiness of clients to participate in Life Between Lives® Hypnotherapy throughClient History or during Intake. Clients are expected to be open and honest in providingrelevant information, members cannot be responsible for anything deliberately withheld by a client.

• Ensure the client is aware of the range of physiological and emotional experiences that could occur during a Life Between Lives® session.

• Assess the client to determine his/her previous Past Life Regression experience. It isstrongly recommended that a client first experiences a Past Life Regression prior to a LifeBetween Lives® with the same Life Between Lives® hypnotherapist. This allows trust andrapport to build as well as initially prepares a client for the forthcoming Life BetweenLives® experience.

• Advise clients seeking to avail themselves of additional services offered by the hypnotherapist, that such services are beyond the explicit endorsement of The MichaelNewton Institute. Delivery of any non-Life Between Lives® related services with the client are to be conducted separate from a Life Between Lives® session.

• Acknowledge when therapist/client rapport is compromised. This includes acknowledgingthe possibility of a disruption in rapport being triggered during the pre-talk or the actual session, and the willingness of the hypnotherapist to address the issue even if it means putting the session on pause or recognizing the need to reschedule or even cancel the session unless rapport can be re-established.

• Ensure that we are ourselves are in a fit state to facilitate Life Between Lives® sessions –that is, that we are not ill, exhausted, under the influence of drugs or alcohol.

• Treat each other and The Newton Institute’s officials respectfully. Avoid disrespectful comments regarding other Michael Newton Institute hypnotherapists and refrain from soliciting another Life Between Lives® hypnotherapist’s clients.

• Hold Michael Newton Institute standards and interests ahead of self-interest. Ensure that alladvertising and promotional activities are truthful, and that all statements made regardingthe Life Between Lives® experience are realistic. No false claims for example, abouttraining or the purpose of Life Between Lives® work, or conducting unauthorized trainingshould be made by any practitioner claiming and, therefore, benefiting from MichaelNewton Institute certification.

• Declare financial policies, including session cost and cancellation policies in advance ofsessions and agree to payment arrangements before beginning the session. Manage clientexpectations prior to the session regarding what is and is not refundable.

• Deliver Life Between Lives® Hypnotherapy according to the Michael Newton Institute’s training and guidelines. It is expected that all members adhere to the protocol devised by Dr.Michael Newton and the Michael Newton Institute teaching faculty.

• Ensure that all advertised professional affiliations, certifications and credentials are truthful and up to date.

• Ensure that all advertised relevant credentials for services are backed by proven documentation

• Obtain the approval of the Michael Newton Institute to conduct Life Between Lives® relatedresearch and obtain explicit and separate consent of the client for their participation inresearch studies.

• Uphold the integrity of the organization at all times; act with accountability and responsibility and always remain positive ambassadors for The Newton Institute and its LifeBetween Lives® Hypnotherapy.