ACSB Code of Ethics

Members of the ACSB agree that:

• The practitioner’s chief focus and primary ethical responsibility is for their clients’ wellbeing.
• The practitioner works to establish a relationship which the  client experiences as safe, consensual and fully engaged. 
• The practitioner intends to practice in a way that brings awareness to and reduces the harm to  clients that could follow from self-serving gratifications; such as authority, power, sexual pleasure and admiration.
• The practitioner works to support the client into their experience of embodiment. When consensual touch is included it is solely for the purposes of the client’s learning and growth and as much as possible is guided by the client in great respect for their boundaries.
• The practitioner commits to their own personal growth, self care and continuous professional development (CPD) including on-going peer and professional supervision.
• Members understand they have a duty of care to the community at large. This includes clients and potential clients who engage us as practitioners, as well as students of sexological bodywork, workshop participants, peers within the profession and those engaging in the work in informal ways.