Principle 11: No Professional Class
No professional class. Anyone willing to follow the format can host a meeting.
Commentary
The operational form of the peer-led commitment. Eligibility to host is willingness + format adherence — not credential, training, or certification. This is what makes principle-6 (“the form does the work”) actually operable at the level of who-runs-the-meeting.
Status notes
v3, ready for team review. Named in source Open Questions as load-bearing. Central to facilitator-pathway-vs-no-professional-class (resolved toward peer-led).
When the Host Orientation document is drafted (currently named but not yet drafted), it must be checked against drift toward certification — orientation that helps someone hold the format cleanly is consistent with this principle; it only drifts if it becomes gated, graded, or credentialing (CLAUDE.md §8).
Source confirmations
v5 strategy draft (raw/EPI_Expansion_Strategy_v5.docx.md) is an independent
source asserting the same content. Section “What we’re actually offering / four pillars”: “We are not therapy. We are not a recovery program.” and v5’s naming the role for meeting-holding as host rather than facilitator/credential.
This is archival corroboration — a different voice and a different context arriving at the same statement. Worth noting for the eventual ratification pass.