
Professional Standards and Accreditation Board Consultations
What does it mean to be a professional dialogue practitioner? Between 2018 and 2020, Academy members wrestled with this question across nine consultation calls and three intensive sessions. The recordings and documents here capture that collective inquiry into standards, competencies, and accreditation.
How should professional dialogue practice be defined, assessed, and accredited? The Academy's Professional Standards and Accreditation Board undertook a multi-year consultation to address these questions without imposing premature answers. This resource compiles nine consultation recordings from December 2018 through August 2019, plus three intensive accreditation sessions from early 2020 featuring Tom O'Connor, Harold Clarke, Crystal Butler, Bernhard Holtrop, and Mechtild Beucke-Galm. The collection includes framework proposals, focus outlines, and detailed consultation notes documenting how thinking evolved. For members interested in the Academy's approach to professionalism, these materials reveal how practitioners collectively navigated tensions between codifying standards and preserving dialogue's emergent, contextual nature. Can you specify competencies without reducing dialogue to technique? How do you assess practitioner development without creating checkbox mentalities? The conversations model dialogue about dialogue; the process itself demonstrates the principles being discussed.
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