Code of Ethics
(adapted from the Association of Professional Historians)
lifewriters.ca endeavours to:
- Conduct business according to impeccable standards of fairness and integrity. Represent honestly our qualifications, background, and professional affiliations
- Provide clients with the highest quality of service possible
- Work diligently and with reasonable promptness
- Abide by agreements with clients and narrators, establishing new agreements as necessary
- Act in the best interests of the client, narrator, and profession, avoiding conflicts of interest, activity, or influence
- Respect the inherent worth of all persons
- Respect clients’ and narrators’ wishes about privacy, confidentiality, and nondisclosure
- Respect the right of clients and narrators to hold values, beliefs, attitudes, and opinions that differ from our own
- Respect cultural, individual, and role differences, including those based on age, race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, language, and socio-economic status
- Act honourably toward other members of the profession and the field as a whole
Philip Sherwood
Owner, lifewriters.ca
“Philip recently helped me write a book about my life that did very well when published. I thoroughly recommend him to anyone thinking about writing his or her life story. He makes it fun.”
— Dorothy Babbitt, author
