# Learner's Edition: Learning Outcomes

After completing the canonical Core Workbook and the Learner's Edition practices, a learner should be able to:

1. **Define a system.** Name the system of interest, its boundary, its scale, the relevant timescale, and what is outside the current inquiry.
2. **Use the Five Foci.** Ask one useful question about Phase, Field, Arc, Form, and Lattice without collapsing them into a single score or explanation.
3. **Separate evidence types.** Mark statements as **GROUNDED** (directly observed, measured, or well-supported), **HYPOTHESIZED** (plausible but requiring further testing), or **INTERPRETIVE** (useful meaning, metaphor, or synthesis).
4. **Describe before interpreting.** Record a concrete observation before assigning a cause, symbol, diagnosis, or larger significance.
5. **Identify a threshold or bottleneck.** State what may change, what is limiting movement, and what evidence would show that the threshold or bottleneck is real.
6. **Choose a proportionate intervention.** Select one small, reversible action that respects consent, safety, capacity, and the system's own boundaries.
7. **Return and assess.** Reobserve after the action, compare the result with the baseline, name competing explanations, and record what remains unknown.
8. **Translate across scales carefully.** Use a local observation to ask better questions at larger scales without claiming that different systems share one physical mechanism.
9. **Communicate responsibly.** Present a field log another person can inspect without requiring access to private, identifying, or unnecessary personal information.

## Evidence-boundary check

A learner has met the standard when they can write one paragraph containing all three labels:

- **Grounded:** What did I directly observe or measure?
- **Hypothesized:** What explanation am I testing?
- **Interpretive:** What meaning or image helps me stay attentive without pretending to be a mechanism?

Coherence is not a grade for a person. The evidence of learning is a clearer boundary, a more disciplined observation, a proportionate action, and an honest return.