Q: How do we reconcile any form of heckling, righteous or unrighteous, with the GC principle of no judgement?
RF: Let me take “no judgement”.
No judgement: we accept you as you arrive on a course.
This is a GC House Rule and binding on all Staff members. The Staff are informed and aware of the House Rules.
However, as the course develops, assessments are made of the progress of the participants towards the declared aim. A Guitar Craft Course takes place, essentially, within a craft framework. The overall process is in three stages: injunction – do this; application – working with the provided material; adjudication.
There are also three stages to adjudication: validation, verification, accreditation. Accreditation is where the student / apprentice begins again, but at a higher station than when they began their training.
Adjudication, or judgement, is undertaken by a community / council / body of those qualified and experienced in the particular field of endeavour under consideration, and therefore with a sufficient capacity to render a reliable judgement.
Those passing assent, affirmation, approval, making a determination of the proposition under consideration, will have, themselves, been validated and verified by a body of the {at least) competent, perhaps even expert judges / adjudicators.
There are different kinds and qualities of judgement.
1. Knowledge of the subject.
2. A feeling for the subject.
3. The capacity to enact, discharge and embody the subject.
4. An understanding of the subject.
There are different kinds and qualities of qualities of engagement.
The primary Rule Of Engagement is that all parties to the engagement accept each other as they arrive.
1. A meeting of minds.
2. A meetings of hearts.
3. A meeting in action, eg circulating.
4. A meeting of understanding.
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