Member groups are committed to fostering evaluation and accountability through an ongoing process of self and peer assessment. Each group takes responsibility for resolving problems which may emerge in the practice of its members, including issues raised by clients. It accepts that its membership of the Network stands or falls by how it carries out this responsibility and is, therefore, prepared to have its process examined, supported and challenged by other groups, and to do the same in return. The Network specifically favours diversity and ecological complexity and has no commitment to any particular model of therapy, therapy training, or therapeutic relationship. The Network is a system of linked groups which accept the responsibility of standing by each other's process of self-monitoring and issue resolution, offering support and challenge as appropriate.
Links apply equally in both directions.
Membership of the Network is only as a group. A group will ordinarily comprise between five and ten practitioners who are prepared to know and stand by each other's work. In principle, groups are open to practitioners who are, in whole or in part, counsellors, psychotherapists, educators, complementary health, or any other allied practitioner. A link may be withdrawn by either party, at which point a period of conditional membership, of up to 6 months, will obtain for each group until another link is formed. Similarly, if a group's membership falls below five they will have conditional membership, of up to 6 months, until it restores its numbers.