Scope of Practice

Applies to: all students, graduates, and certified practitioners operating under the Martin Rothery / Boundless: The Nine Realms system (“the System”).
Purpose: define what you may do, what you may not do, and the boundaries that protect clients, practitioners, and the System’s integrity.

1) Core Definitions

Realm Training
Structured education and formation within a specific Realm.

Certification of Completion (All Realms)
Confirms you completed that Realm’s training requirements. It does not authorize client-facing practice using System-branded protocols unless explicitly stated.

Certification to Practice with Clients (Practice Realms Only)
Authorizes method-specific client-facing practice using the protocols taught in that Realm, within the scope defined below.

Practice Realms (client-practice authorized):

• The Healing Realm (Sanomentology)
• The Transformational Realm (Reality Hacker)
• The Liberation Realm (The Greatest Escape)
• The Heroic Realm (The Hercules Quest)

All other Realms carry Completion certification only unless you later designate otherwise.

2) General Scope Boundary (Applies to Everyone)

You are trained in changework protocols and practitioner formation, not in regulated clinical authority (unless you separately hold it through your own licensure).

Therefore:

• You do not diagnose medical or psychiatric conditions unless you are legally licensed to do so.
• You do not prescribe, direct medication changes, or advise stopping treatment.
• You do not present the System as a substitute for medical, psychiatric, or emergency care.
• You do not claim guaranteed outcomes.

The System is method-specific training. Your authority is limited to correct application of the methods you have been trained and certified to use.

3) What Completion-Certified Graduates May Do (All Realms)

If you hold Certification of Completion only, you may:

• Apply the Realm’s principles to your own self-work.
• Use the Realm as conceptual framework in your thinking, writing, and teaching about your own perspective.
• Integrate non-protocol elements into coaching/education without claiming you are practicing System protocols.
• Publicly state:
  “Certified (Completion) in [Realm Name]” or “Completed [Realm Name] training”.

You may not:

• Deliver System protocols to clients as services (unless you hold Practice certification for that Realm).
• Represent Completion certification as client-practice authorization.
• Teach the Realm as a system, certify others, or provide “official” training in the System.
• Use System names/protocol labels to market client services if you are not Practice-certified for that Realm.

Completion certification = education. Not authorization to practice the System with clients.

4) What Practice-Certified Practitioners May Do (Practice Realms)

If you hold Certification to Practice with Clients in one of the four Practice Realms, you may:

• Offer client services using the specific protocols taught in that Realm.
• Describe your service accurately as method-specific work (e.g., “Sanomentology-based nervous system deconditioning protocols”).
• Use the approved title:
  “Certified Practitioner of [Practice Realm] (Boundless: The Nine Realms)”
• Integrate practice-realm protocols into your coaching/therapy/changework, provided you remain inside:
• the Realm’s stated scope,
• your competence,
• and your local legal requirements.

You may not:

• Claim the certification makes you a licensed therapist, clinician, or medical provider (unless you separately are).
• Expand the protocols beyond their defined intent (“I created an advanced version” / “my special method”).
• Teach, certify, license, or train others in System methods.
• Present yourself as an authority over “magic,” metaphysics, diagnosis, trauma treatment, or medical outcomes by virtue of this certification.

Practice certification = permission to apply protocols. Not permission to invent new ones, rebrand them as yours, or exceed ethical scope.

5) Boundless Integration Scope

Boundless: The Nine Realms is integration across domains.

Boundless completion may indicate breadth of formation, but it does not automatically expand client-practice authority beyond:

• what each Practice Realm authorizes, and
• what your own legal/regulated credentials authorize (if any).

Integration increases responsibility; it does not expand claimable authority.

6) Client Suitability & Exclusions (Minimum Standard)

You must screen and refuse/redirect when appropriate.

You may not accept clients for System-based work if they present with any of the following unless you are appropriately licensed and the work is explicitly within that license:

• Active suicidality or imminent self-harm risk
• Psychosis, mania, or severe dissociation currently destabilizing
• Active substance dependency where stabilization is not present
• Conditions requiring urgent medical evaluation
• Situations where the client cannot provide informed consent

In these cases you must refer out or require medical/clinical oversight as appropriate.

7) Informed Consent (Required)

Before beginning work, you must clearly explain:

• What the work is (method-specific changework / formation-based protocols)
• What it is not (not medical care, not diagnosis, not emergency services)
• Expected commitment and the role of client responsibility
• The client’s right to stop at any time
• Confidentiality limits (including legal exceptions)
• Fees, session structure, cancellations

Written consent is strongly recommended.

8) Claims, Marketing, and Language Boundaries

You must not claim or imply:

• guaranteed outcomes (“will cure,” “permanent fix,” “works for everyone”)
• supernatural causation (“I can alter reality,” “spells that change external events”)
• medical claims (“treats PTSD,” “heals chronic disease,” “fixes nervous system disorders”) unless you are licensed and legally allowed, and even then only with caution and evidence-based framing.

Approved language examples:

• “method-specific changework”
• “protocol-based internal work”
• “nervous system deconditioning protocols (Sanomentology)”
• “identity restructuring protocols (Reality Hacker)”
• “social conditioning deconstruction (Greatest Escape)”
• “fear/forward-motion coaching protocols (Hercules Quest)”

If you teach or market Potentiality, you must include a clarity clause such as:
“This work makes no claim of supernatural causation. It examines meaning, belief, and symbol as psychological forces.”

9) Professional Conduct (Non-Negotiables)

• No sexual relationships with clients.
• No coercion, intimidation, or dependency-building.
• No isolating clients from their support systems.
• No pressuring clients to recruit others.
• No exploiting client vulnerability for marketing or testimonials.
• Maintain clear boundaries around time, contact, and payments.

Violation may result in certification revocation.

10) Records, Confidentiality, and Safety

At minimum, keep:

• client name + contact info
• date of sessions
• brief session notes (not transcripts)
• consent form or consent record
• risk notes and referral notes when relevant

Confidentiality must follow your local laws and any professional board requirements you may have.

11) Attribution & Intellectual Boundaries

You may:

• state you are certified in the System and name the Realm(s) completed/practice-certified.
• build your own brand and practice.

You may not:

• claim authorship of the System’s methods
• repackage the protocols as your proprietary system
• train, certify, or license others in System methods

You can say:
“I use protocols developed by Martin Rothery as part of Boundless: The Nine Realms.”

12) Enforcement

The System reserves the right to:

• request corrections to public claims
• require re-training or supervision for boundary issues
• suspend or revoke certification for misrepresentation, ethical violations, or harmful practice