What the Credential Requires
The Standard
A credential built around depth, held to on purpose, at a pace that is part of the design.
What the Credential Requires
A credential built around depth, held to on purpose, at a pace that is part of the design.
A credential means whatever its weakest holder was allowed to get away with. The AILA standard is written against that fact. The Autonomy Commission certifies practitioners slowly, screens them personally, and holds them to the terms below for as long as they carry the credential.
Formal training in the full body of work, through the pathway The Autonomy Commission is building for that purpose, rather than through reading alone. Supervised practice under direct oversight, with real engagements reviewed rather than assumed. Examination before certification, so the credential attests to demonstrated competence rather than attendance. Adherence to the canonical vocabulary as published in the glossary, because a practitioner who redefines the terms is practicing something else under this work's name. And listing on the public register, so anyone can verify a claim to the credential in seconds.
The pathway, supervision structure, and examination are in active development and are deliberately unpublished while they are built. Certification will not open broadly or quickly. A small number of practitioners, trained to depth, is the design, and the pace is part of the standard rather than a delay of it.
The client, first. A person in the middle of real excavation deserves a practitioner who has been trained, supervised, and examined, and who is accountable to a body that can withdraw the credential. The vocabulary, second. The Masks, the Chains and Freedoms, the 6 C's, and the rest of the canon keep their exact meanings only if the people using them professionally are held to those meanings. The practice itself, third, because a category with no standard becomes a costume, and this one was built from lived work over years.
Practitioners who want to work toward AILA certification when the pathway opens can say so through the contact form, selecting the professional inquiry option. Serious interest is recorded and answered. Nothing about the timeline is promised.