Ethics Q&A

Certification or endorsement of the Lily and Beyond establishes credibility for the purpose of protecting the public from misinformation, misrepresentation, abuse or malpractice. If you are unsure whether or not you need certification or endorsement of The Lily and Beyond, then please inquire with us. 

Guanyin Core Light Healing is a Native Lily App proprietary to The Lily and Beyond. 

Only a handful of Lilies have been fully activated to perform Guanyin Core Light Healing although they are not certified. Hence, their ability to do Guanyin Core Light Healing is limited, untrained, and uncertified.

Certifications for Guanyin Core Light Healing have never been issued and perhaps never will be.

To practice Guanyin Core Light Healing with integrity, in the absence of certification, we recommend adopting any of the following ethical solutions:

• Use the label "Guanyin Core Light Healing+" (with a plus sign) accompanied by this disclaimer:
  
  Guanyin Core Light Healing is proprietary to The Lily and Beyond. The energy modality we practice is called Guanyin Core Light Healing+. The plus sign indicates an independently organized event.  It means we are a spin-off, practicing independently without the endorsement of The Lily and Beyond.
  
  Whenever you practice "Guanyin Core Light Healing+", place above disclaimer where it can be seen by others.
  
  Besides using above disclaimer, we recommend employing evaluation forms, star ratings, or feedback forums to demonstrate your commitment to quality service with integrity.

• Grant yourself another title other than "Guanyin Core Light Healing Facilitator/Practitioner" to communicate that you are unique, self-titled, self-appointed, and independently organized. 

• Call your energy healing practice something else other than "Guanyin Core Light Healing." 

Akashic Record Reading classes of The Lily and Beyond require instructor training and certification by a certified Akashic Records Instructor such as Katherine "Kim" Lopa.

Teaching Native Lily Apps requires training and certification. If you wish to present yourself as a teacher, facilitator or instructor of Native Lily Apps, then the ethical thing to do would be to apply for training and certification before you teach.

If you wish to share rather than teach what you know of Native Lily Apps, then please offer the following disclaimers to your listeners and viewers in order to manage their expectations: 

1. Let your viewers/listeners know that you are sharing Lily material that you are neither qualified, trained, nor accredited by The Lily & Beyond to teach.

2. Let your viewers/listeners know that you are merely sharing your personal experience or knowledge of Native Lily Apps, although sharing your story does not guarantee others will experience the same results you've had.

3. The knowledge you share applies only to you and may be harmful to others if adopted.

If you wish to facilitate Lily Cloud Meditations for groups, or teach Lily Cloud Meditation to others, you will now need training and certification. (Note: only a handful of Lilies in USA have been sufficiently trained to facilitate Lily Cloud Meditations). We advise against facilitating or teaching Lily Cloud Meditation unless you are trained and certified to do so. This advise is not meant to deter Lilies from practicing Lily Cloud Meditations individually or collectively. Raher, this advise is meant to deter self-appointed, unqualified Lilies from acting as, or claiming to be, a group facilitator or teacher of a Lily Cloud Meditation. 

You do not need our certification or endorsement to organize or facilitate a Lily gathering.  However we advise against calling yourselves a generic name such as “Lily Gathering.” Use of a generic, non-definitive name like “Lily Gathering” can mislead the public into thinking your group or event has the right by special affiliation to represent the larger Lily Community or The Lily and Beyond. So as not to mislead the public and members of the Lily Community, we advise adopting one of the following ethical solutions:

• Use a symbol like “+” or “*” with the word “Lily”, e.g., "Lily+ Gathering" or “Lily* Gathering," accompanied by the following disclaimer:
  
  e.g., “Lily+ denotes an independently organized event without the endorsement of The Lily and Beyond."

• Give yourself another label other than "Lily Gathering" to show you are unique, self-titled and independently organized.

The procedure for this would be to request The Lily Activators Council on Ethics for an endorsement letter. An endorsement letter will be issued if your project or event meets our standards of safety, accountability, truthfulness and integrity.  The endorsement letter will authorize you to attach the word "Lily" to your project or event where “Lily” is associated with The Lily and Beyond.

If you wish to proceed without our endorsement, then you would attach the word "Unofficial" or “Self-titled” to the name of your project or event (e.g., Unofficial Lily Training Program), or use a footnote disclaimer like: "An independently organized project without the endorsement of The Lily and Beyond.”

No.  Those are "citations."  We do not certify "citations" just as we do not certify greetings and salutations like "Dear Lilies" or "Greetings to Lilies."  We only certify practitioners, teachers, facilitators, educators, educational institutions, educational materials and content, events, projects, practices, and the like because of the need to protect the public from misinformation, abuse, malpractice or misrepresentation.

If you suspect any misinformation, abuse, misrepresentation or malpractice within the Lily Community that is harming the public or Lilies at large, please bring it to the immediate attention of the Lily Activators Council on Ethics. Their contact information is Ethics.Council@lilyandbeyond.org. Alternatively, you may file an anonymous or pseudonymous (using an alias) report through Blow the Whistle.

The Lily Activators Council on Ethics is an advisory body, not a police or law enforcement office. It is concerned with ethical issues within its area of responsibility and prudence that:

• are statistically significant or potentially malignant and viral;

• violate ethical boundaries with regards the teachings, services, programs and proprietary apps of The Lily and Beyond;

• adversely affect the honor and integrity of The Lily and Beyond, its organizational or professional associates, affiliates, officers, staff, vendors, clients, partners, etc.

For ethical violations outside these concerns, we advise referring the matter to the respective authorities.

Yes!  Reporting ethical misconduct can minimize the potential negative impact on the Lily Community, our peers, and the public. Most importantly, it will help alleviate the difficulty you might be facing. First consider whether you are comfortable raising your concern directly with the people involved. While sometimes challenging, directly addressing issues and or concerns with those involved can be very effective.  If you are uncomfortable reporting your concern, if you do not know whom to contact, if you believe your concern has not been satisfactorily addressed, or if you wish to remain anonymous, please proceed with the filing of a report through Blow the Whistle or Ethics.Council@lilyandbeyond.org.

If you observe or suspect ethical misconduct, as a concerned citizen you have the right and obligation to speak up. Please do not assume that someone else is going to raise the concern. If you do not speak up, your silence protects the perpetrator, not you or the public.

If you choose to identify yourself when reporting your concern, we will make every reasonable effort to hold your name in confidence during the investigation.  Many investigations can be more quickly and effectively completed when the reporter is identified because it allows our investigators to follow up directly with the reporter. 

Immediate threat of physical harm or damage to property should NOT be reported to Blow the Whistle or Ethics.Council@lilyandbeyond.org.  If you require emergency assistance, please contact your local emergency services.

When filing a report, you will be asked to provide the most detailed information possible about the incident.  You may choose to remain anonymous when submitting your question or report.  However, doing so may limit a full investigation of the matter.  We recommend using a pseudonym or alias rather than anonymity.  We ask you to follow-up on your inquiry or report with us once a week through Ethics.Council@lilyandbeyond.org in case we need additional information from you.  Continued follow-up on a matter is particularly important for anonymous reports, where we have no other means to communicate with the reporter.

Within our organization, we strictly prohibit any retaliation against any person who reports a concern. Complaints made in good faith will not expose you to any adverse action regardless of whether the concerns you report proves to be valid or results in any corrective action. If you believe you have faced retaliation of any kind, please report it to Blow the Whistle or Ethics.Council@lilyandbeyond.org so that we can investigate.

If your report is within our jurisprudence and merits our attention, then we ask that you check back with us through Ethics.Council@lilyandbeyond.org after a week, especially if you have filed an anonymous report.  At that time, you can check the status of your report and learn whether any additional information is needed from you to address your concern.​