Professional Accreditation

Leading Practitioner of the IOL (LPIOL)

Who/what is a Leading Practitioner?  

LPIOLs show leadership in excellent outdoor practice (this does not mean you have to be a manager!) and will be involved in and contributing to the outdoor field. 
LPIOLs have a future-focused mindset; they:

• consider future trends & scenarios. 
• Anticipate and shape the future of the sector,
• influence people over whom they have no “control”. 
• are catalysts, enablers, people who give to the wider field

Leading Practitioners take action, making a significant contribution to outdoor learning beyond their workplace, through:

• Leadership
• Significant professional reflection and development, applying the learning to their own practice and to enhance the sector.

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What do LPIOLs have to demonstrate?

As you develop beyond the 8 APIOL criteria, to become an LPIOL you will need to demonstrate four areas of excellent practice:

• Extending the boundaries of best practice (INNOVATION)
• High standards of continuously evolving reflective and ethical practice (REFLECTION)
• Building and helping the practice of other practitioners (DEVELOPMENT)
• Promoting the ability of the outdoor learning field to continue to operate and add value. (PROMOTION)

What this means is explained in full in the LPIOL criteria and benchmarks:

• Click the link to see the LPIOL criteria in full.
• Click the link to see the relationship between the APIOL and LPIOL benchmarks.