~~#00F:I summarized and exchanged IMMA with MHI:~~

!Ethical Principles
MHI's members are a community of professionals that use and spread META-Health.
All members aim to integrate META-Health into their lives.

Through our concept, we understand that all humans follow their biological needs:
*to be sufficiently supplied
*to feel protected from harm
*to express our individuality
*to be an accepted and loved part of a society

!!General rules
*The META-Health Community is characterized by diversity. The professional members of MHI do not have any personal territories protected by the organization.
*Every accredited META-Health Professional is entitled to use the META-Health and MHI logos on their website and info material. These shall be used in descriptions of all accredited META-Health trainings.
*Shared material on the member's portal, like graphics, presentations, articles etc, is free to be used. The author needs to be accredited. For some material, members need to have a certain level (Trainer, Master Trainer).
*Members do not claim that they do "better" work or provide "better" training than another member. So on MHI's website and newsletters, offers and trainings related to META-Health and their specialties can be described informatively (not in comparatives or superlatives).
*Diversity is strength and META-Health is not defined by certain methods. Our different coaching, therapy and teaching styles fit different publics. We meet each other with respect to each one's personality.
*Any Facebook group carrying the title and main subject of META-Health, Meta-Medicine, or translations of these terms, can only be created and maintained by accredited members of MHI.
*Trainers shall have access to each others closed online groups where the words META-Health or Metamedicine is a part of the group name.
**Criticism shall be given as private messages.
**You are not allowed to market yourself in these forums unless agreed with the owner of the Page/Group.
**We shall support each other when there is an attack on META-Health/Metamedicine 
*For public communication as within websites, trainings, and in social media, 
**The general statement and disclaimer must be respected.
**Clear distinctions shall be made between statements representing our common understanding of META-Health, and own opinions in addition or in contradiction to this common understanding.

!!!Transparency 
*MHI is steered by the Board of Directors with the input and feedback from her members. Any issues concerning the organization (inquiries, ideas, complaints etc) can be sent to office@meta-health.net or support@meta-health.net, or posted transparently in the member's portal www.meta-health.net.
*All members are welcome to participate in mutual support, workgroups and committees (provided they have the required competence for the task). The member's portal provides forums for group exchange. Every month, a member notification is sent with IMMA news and current discussions.
*The Board meetings are documented and saved on the member's portal. Members can ask to take insight into the minutes.
*Board members are links between the Board of Directors and the other Master Trainers as well as the local communities. Board members support MHI communication channels, and actively inform their local communities about decisions, as well as about ways to participate and engage. Board members present needs from their local communities to the Board of Directors.
*Master Trainers and Trainers support MHI communication channels, keep themselves informed and pass on MHI information to their Practitioners and Trainees. 
*All members' email lists belong to MHI and are maintained and updated by the office staff. Officers can give out email lists of certain groups to persons with a mandate to communicate. Officers and members who end their task or leave their position are required to delete MHI email lists they used.
*Email communication to all MHI members or any group thereof must be authorized by the Board of Directors, they are not to be used privately. Forum and private-message communication on www.meta-health.net however is open to all members.
*In MHI-related email communication, bcc (blind copies) are not acceptable.
*Facebook communication in the official MHI FB-group "META-Health Community" is an addition, not a substitute for communication via MHI's office or the members' portal. 


!!!Conflicts 
We know that territorial issues exist in every group, and that each of us has triggers which can make us react emotional where we believe to need to protect ourselves or to defend our position.

When conflicts among members arise,
*we seek help from a person in a neutral Meta-position. Mediator's work can be voluntary or paid.
*we try to see and to grant the biological needs of the other person as well as our own.
*unlike written information, we don't take everything said at face value.
*A mediation ends with an agreement, mutual tolerance, or acceptance of limitations of certain rights.
*If mediation is not accepted as an approach to learn from our conflicts, a member can be excluded from IMMA.
*The Board can react upon conflicts and complaints about members, when these complaints are clearly stated. The Board will try to verify the statement made, before deciding to take appropriate action.
*Disciplinary action from the Board upon a breach of the code of practice or the code of conduct are in order of severity:
**A warning is given to the member
**Further controlling measurements are applied
**Retraction of the title and function
**Exclusion from the organization