Become a Signatory

A Freely Undertaken Commitment

Signing the code is a covenantal act: a freely undertaken commitment to its principles, standards, evaluation practices, and accountability processes.

Signing During the Public Review Period

The code is presently in its public review period, and its governance structures — the provisional stewardship group and eventual Ethics Council described in Part IV — are still forming. Signing now is therefore an act of early commitment and co-stewardship: an affirmation that a code of this kind is needed, a personal adoption of its obligations, and a willingness to help the code and its community mature. Signatories form the community from which the provisional stewardship group and eventual Ethics Council will be drawn.

What Signing Means — and What It Doesn’t

Signing means committing to the eleven principles and the standards applicable to your domains of work; engaging the evaluation practices as constitutive of the commitment, not optional additions to it; and accepting mutual answerability, including good-faith engagement with concerns raised about your conduct.

Signing is not a credential. It does not confer certification, licensure, endorsement, or any attestation of competence, developmental attainment, or ethical standing. It is a voluntary covenant, not a professional qualification — and it supplements rather than replaces any legal, professional, institutional, or licensure-based obligations that already apply to your work. Where another applicable standard imposes a higher or more specific obligation, you remain bound by that obligation.

The Commitment Statement

This is the statement signatories affirm when signing:

I recognize that integrative, developmental, contemplative, and metatheoretical work carries ethical responsibilities commensurate with its scope, and that the interpretive power of these frameworks can illuminate or harm depending on how it is held.

I commit to the eleven principles of this code and to the standards of practice applicable to my domains of work. I will hold the dignity of persons as prior to the claims of any framework, practice within the limits of my competence, and neither exploit nor conceal the power I hold in relation to others.

I accept the practices of ongoing ethical evaluation — self-assessment, peer reflection, and openness to the perspectives of those affected by my work — as constitutive of this commitment, not optional additions to it.

I accept mutual answerability: I will engage in good faith with concerns raised about my conduct, participate in the code’s accountability processes when called upon, and accept that this commitment can be affirmed only through practice.

I make this commitment freely, understanding it as a living covenant with the persons, communities, and traditions my work touches — knowing that to see more is to owe more.

Sign the Code

The form asks for your name, email, domains of practice, and (optionally) an affiliation, and records your affirmation of the commitment statement above. Names of verified signatories are added to the public roll.

After You Sign

Signatories are expected to engage annually in self-assessment, peer reflection, and (where applicable) stakeholder feedback — the baseline of the code’s evaluation ecology — and to formally renew their commitment every two to three years. Questions about how the code applies to your work are signs of ethical health, not failure; you are warmly invited to raise them through the Contact page.