Code of Ethics:

For the Highest Good of All Concerned:

1. We promote the idea of the spiritual interconnectedness of all beings, compassionate action amongst all beings, and the raising of consciousness toward healing our planet.

2. We honor the inherent value and equality of all life, human and nonhuman.

3. We support the advancement of each being's honorable goals and purposes.

4. We honor and promote the innate capacity of nonhuman and human animals to communicate with each other.

5. We commit to using communications for the greatest and highest good of all when that good is for nurturing rather than exploitation.

6. We support the qualities of depth, perceptiveness, and spiritual essence of nonhuman and human animals through communication with each other, and through respect, reverence, and compassionate treatment.

7. We believe that animals must be allowed to exist and function within their own natural lifestyle, wild or domestic, according to their own goals and purposes without interference, except for interventions to rescue and rehabilitate. The intent is to return them to their environment whenever possible.

8. We believe that humans have a responsibility to protect animals from human-imposed suffering, and to enhance their rights and well being through compassionate action.

9. We believe in the rights of animals to complete their earthly journey in respect, care, safety, balance, health, joy, peace, and love. We believe in relieving them of suffering through humane euthanasia.

10. We believe in emotional sustenance through life-centered community with others of like values and beliefs.

11. We value service grounded in a balance of self assurance and humble respect.

12. We commit to maintaining understanding, respect, and compassion toward all participants.

13. We believe learning takes place primarily through encouraging, promoting, supporting, and reinforcing strengths, as well as respectfully and compassionately correcting errors.

14. We commit to establishing an atmosphere of safety where mistakes may occur to be used as learning tools.

15. We honor the integrity of our work by maintaining ethics and standards of excellence to guide training, services, and life-centered community, and through conscientious application of skills.

16. We provide to clients honest, accurate, timely, complete, and compassionate consultations.

17. We believe in taking compassionate action toward nonhuman and human animals as individuals and as groups within the limits and strengths of our own capabilities, intervening and taking action to address problems when ever possible.

19. We believe in leading our lives with compassionate intention directing daily actions.

—Sections taken from the Assisi Institute

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