From the Drafts Archive:
Still a gem from 2009. I have always been reluctant to join in on credentialing and certification schemes. I resist it personally (my baggage, I know), it focus on the individual rather than the field, and, for process work, context is critical and practice is always evolving.
I loved how Tenneson Woolf talked about Credentials as Practice. I’ve put a few snips below, but please, go read the original post!
Tenneson Woolf: Credentials as Practice
1. Credential as Practice — An older kind of thought would be credential as certification. As bestowed. Yes, there is value in this…Yet, there is also immense freedom to think of being credentialed by our practice…2. Work with Friends — Lots of friends. Practice together. Learn together. Feed off of each other to sharpen skills to see at the next level…
3. Offer Something — A harvest. A story. A poem. A question. An invitation to work together…
4. Learn in Public — Make it transparent. Open… Half-cooked ideas. Learnings. Insights. Learn on behalf of the whole.
5. Have a Presencing Practice — With my friends at The Berkana Institute, I learn that this work is about emergence…
6. Examine Core Beliefs — Keep this as an active conversation…
7. Learn Global. Connect Regional. Act Local … Doing the work in front of us.