AUTHORITY

1. Charismatic Founder
A “charismatic founder” is characteristic of organizations - and cults. It is hard to develop a group of leaders, and although consensus decision-making is a nice concept, it is usually ineffective. We encourage independence, not only for organizational health but because we fear undue responsibility.

2. Inner Circle
An “Inner Circle” is characteristic of organizations – and cults. Every large political party, corporation, university, church, etc has an inner circle. We are creating a professional service organization - and we do not want it to be revered. We are fortunate to have the friendship and mentorship of people from many countries, each with proven expertise in key areas.

3. Management Secrecy
Secrecy is characteristic of organizations – and cults. Many details of your government are shrouded in secrecy. Corporations in your country protect their commercial secrets. We plan that Soulwork will be transparent; although we support privacy and we will attempt to control information that can be misused by untrained people.

4. Financial Openness
Financial evasiveness is characteristic of organizations – and cults. Financial secrecy may contaminate our role. We advocate financial transparency.

5. Dependency
Authoritarian leadership is characteristic of organizations – and cults. It encourages members to become or to remain dependent. We encourage our graduate coaches to be independent.

INDIVIDUALITY

6. Conformity
Conformity is characteristic of organizations – and cults. Consider militaries and large companies such as IBM. We encourage individuality and we appreciate diversity.

7. Special Language
A “specialized language” is characteristic of organizations – and cults. Groups that work together often develop jargon. Consider computers and psychology. Such jargon can become a secret language. While our systemic coaching does use some unusual systemic terms – we strive to keep our terms simple and easy to understand.

8. Dogmatic Doctrine
Norms and doctrines are characteristic of organizations– and cults. In cults, theories became dogma. Our systemic coaching discerns between theories and what can be readily demonstrated.

SPIRITUALITY

9. Doing good
Some cults are obsessive and distrust individual excellence. We distrust obsession and we applaud excellence. Our coaching is based on integrity. Instead of asking people to have faith, we repeatedly demonstrate whatever we describe.

10. Relationship with God
Some cults claim to define God. We minimize religious and esoteric concepts throughout systemic coach training. We provide experiences, demonstrations and exercises that allow people to explore what works and reject what is not effective.

We encourage people to fulfill their goals of happiness and well-being.
We do not support goals that appear illegal, immoral or that hurt children.