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Foundation certificate · Module 01

Locate
power.

Study one real situation. Map who decides, compare two autonomous lenses, observe practice, test your account with another person, and name the limit of this credential.

Self-paced60–90 minutesSaves on this device

Completion criteria

Evidence, not attendance.

Complete all five field steps. Your writing remains on this device until you deliberately submit it. Submission requests human review; it does not automatically grant a credential.

01

Locate

Start with a consequence.

Choose a group, institution, workplace, household, campaign, classroom, or commons you know directly. Avoid starting with an abstract system: begin where a decision changes what someone can actually do.

02

Compare

Use two lenses.

Autonomy asks whether people can direct their own participation. Mutual aid asks whether reciprocity builds shared capacity. Free association tests whether joining and leaving are real. Commons thinking asks how a resource and its rules are held together.

03

Observe

Find practice, not branding.

Look for one concrete mechanism: an agenda anyone can amend, shared access to information, rotating facilitation, a credible exit, recallable delegation, repair after harm, or control kept near those who bear the result.

04

Test

Let another person alter the map.

Share your account with someone affected by the situation or someone who sees it differently. Ask what you missed, whose knowledge you discounted, and what change would create a new problem.

05

Refuse

Name the credential’s limit.

What can this evidence demonstrate—and what can the Institute never legitimately decide about you?

Human review

Offer your evidence.

When all five steps are complete, you may send this field record to the Institute. A person—not an automated score—will read it and respond.