Heart Guardians and education stewardship
Education stewardship and assessment
Contributions need an actual scope, resource and evidence boundary. The proposed role does not rank general empathy or create universal authority. Formal client audit, conformity assessment, certification review and conformity decisions remain with competent independent external parties. Current Foundation status.
Earlier assessment-profession research
The following v2.0 suite describes the earlier assessment-profession model. It is retained for research and version history, separately from the proposed education role above. Publication alone does not establish an operating profession, a person’s competence or an appointment.
Why the earlier suite has five documents
The Guardian canon is deliberately modular so professional identity, competence, ethics, reliability, and practice do not collapse into one opaque credential.
| Versioned document | Responsibility described by the source |
|---|---|
| Guardian Profession Standard Specification v2.0 | Defines professional identity, when a Guardian is required, professional functions, status lifecycle, anti-capture, continuing competence, discipline, records, and public claims. |
| Guardian Competence Coordinate System Specification v2.0 | Defines the coordinates within which competence and authorization are established and prevents title-based universal authority. |
| Guardian Code of Professional Conduct v2.0 | Governs independence, integrity, conflicts, confidentiality, evidence discipline, conduct toward affected persons, and duty to the assessment record. |
| Guardian Calibration and Reliability Standard v2.0 | Governs calibration design, inter-assessor reliability, disagreement, drift, corrective action, uncertainty, and competence maintenance. |
| Guardian Assessment Practice Standard v2.0 | Governs planning, evidence handling, judgment, findings, records, limitations, communication, escalation, and handoff in actual assessment practice. |
No one document substitutes for the others where its responsibility is material.
Coordinate-bounded authority
Authorization is expressed as G[D, F, L, E, M]:
| Axis | What it bounds |
|---|---|
D — Domain | One or more of the eight active Domain Profiles: Emotional Autonomy, Attentional Integrity, Cognitive/Epistemic Coherence, Developmental Interaction, Somatic/Embodied Interface, Relational Architecture, Ecological Stewardship, and Representational Integrity. |
F — Function | Assessment, monitoring, investigation, advisory, advocacy, or technical review. These functions are not interchangeable. |
L — Competence level | Supervised practice, independent practice, or advanced review and supervision within that coordinate. |
E — Evidence class | Documentary, data, system, observational, experimental, human, incident, or competent external evidence. |
M — Modality | Remote, on-site, laboratory, live operational, participatory, or an expressly defined hybrid. |
Source, jurisdiction, language, population, system, method, and risk limitations remain part of the authorization and engagement record even though they are not additional coordinate axes. A Guardian must not imply competence beyond that complete current record.
Conditional use
Guardians are not universal checkpoints. Deterministic checks, ordinary audit evidence, technical testing, and qualified specialists should be used when sufficient. A Guardian is selected only when irreducible professional judgment remains and the required coordinates match.
Status boundary
These published professional descriptions do not establish current appointments or credentials. Legacy tiers, pathways, oaths, direct-HVC authority, sample registries and informal title use are not evidence of current Guardian status. Any assessment authorization requires its own competent decision, scope and actual operating record.