Training Levels

Publisher: Global.Church · Created: 2026-04-17 · 4 concepts

https://ontology.global.church/core#TrainingLevelScheme

Four-level attainment scale for discipleship-tool training. Matches Multiply Grow-tab semantics. Collapses Multiply's separate command-style (obeying / teaching) and skill-style (practicing / teaching) distinctions into a single attainment axis: Unlearned < Learning < Practicing < Teaching. Practicing is the pastoral-roster threshold; Teaching is the multiplication threshold. Used on gc:TrainingAttestation via gc:trainingLevel (required, single).

Code	Label	Definition
`LVL-LRN`	Learning	The subject is currently being introduced to or studying the tool. Has seen it demonstrated, may have attempted a guided application, but has not yet produced an independent application in a real ministry setting. Includes trainees in an active cohort, disciples working through a tool's first one or two sessions, and anyone whom the teacher does not yet trust to use the tool unsupervised.
`LVL-PRA`	Practicing	The subject is applying the tool in real ministry settings independently, with some degree of consistency. Does not yet reproduce the tool — that is, has not yet taught it to another disciple. Sits at the threshold of 'trained in' for pastoral roster filtering: a Shepherd looking for table leaders or core-team candidates will typically query for disciples at Practicing or above in the relevant tool. The canonical 'yes, my people are using this' level.
`LVL-TCH`	Teaching	The subject both practices the tool AND reproduces it by teaching it to at least one other disciple. The multiplication threshold — the level the pastor cares about when picking table leaders, assembling core teams for new church plants, or identifying multipliers within a congregation. A Teaching attestation implies an identifiable downstream disciple; when that disciple's own TrainingAttestation is recorded, the generational chain (who trained whom) can be walked via gc:attestedBy → gc:attestationSubject.
`LVL-UNL`	Unlearned	The subject has not been introduced to this tool. No exposure, no attempt, no prior training event recorded. Distinct from ignoring — this is pre-awareness, not refusal. Recording an Unlearned attestation is meaningful when a shepherd is mapping coverage gaps across a roster (e.g., 'how many of my disciples have never encountered SOAPS?'), which is why the level exists explicitly rather than being inferred from the absence of any attestation.