• Access to a dedicated workspace for certification participants with specific content to guide you throughout the entire process.
• A visual tracker that shows where you are in the process and what remains to be completed.
• A personalized Action Learning Portfolio.
• A platform where you can seek feedback from peers and stakeholders.
• Dedicated support through discussion board chat and email.

Your Social Presencing Theater Practitioner Certification pathway culminates in an action learning project of your choice where you apply the methods, tools and space holding capacities learned in programs to your own context. On the Certification Workspace, you will find a framework for you to document your activities and engage in guided reflection on your learning. 

Please note, your final Action Learning Project is a different project from those you did during the programs, but it can be a new iteration of an earlier project.

In the Action Learning Project Portfolio page, you will upload photos or videos of your application experience and share your learning reflections with us. You will be guided through the process on your personal, online portfolio tool. 

You can only start your Action Learning Project submission after all required programs have been completed. Once you have started, you have up to 2 years to complete and submit your project.

When you have completed your Action Learning Project Portfolio submission, you will submit it for verification. This is the final step of the ABSC Practitioner Certification Process. Projects are reviewed monthly and you will receive an email when yours has been reviewed and verified. Once your Action Learning Project Portfolio has been verified, you will be issued your Certificate.

What is an SPT application project?

Social Presencing Theater (SPT) has a strong inclination toward action-confidence and social justice. We therefore view SPT application projects as opportunities to apply the practices and wisdom of SPT in a social context, creating impact in people’s lives.

Such a project may be initiated in response to societal, ecological, or spiritual divides that a practitioner encounters in their environment. A practitioner may either be invited by an organization or partner with community members to initiate the project.

The project typically includes the following phases:

Co-initiation:

• Uncovering the common intent of the project with the clients, community, or partners who invite the practitioner to help/support them
• Clear outcome orientation to address a societal challenge

Co-sensing:

• Gathering information and conducting dialogue interviews to sense the context and diverse stakeholder views
• May include some TU/SPT-based activities to prepare the participants

Co-inspiring:

• Workshop with SPT activities to help participants deepen their awareness of their current challenges

Co-creating:

• Helping them identify action steps to shift the system, based on the PI evaluation framework – mindset, relationship, and action shifts

Co-evolving:

• Following up with participants to record the shifts and plan next steps
• Gathering client testimonies about the shifts
• Conducting an AAR with a co-facilitator or mentor to reflect on your final learning

One may need 3–4 such projects over 2 years to cover all SPT practices.

Please note that this certification does not entitle you to represent the u-school for Transformation and/or the Presencing Institute, to use our brand, or to be displayed on our website. It does certify you to be formally recognized as a quality-level Practitioner of Awareness-Based Systems Change processes, methods and tools, and to apply these in your own context. If you are interested in pursuing advanced level of certification in the future, please subscribe to our newsletter to receive details throughout the year.