The Australian Climbing Instructors Association is pleased to announce the inclusion of indoor climbing qualifications within its qualification scheme, supporting the growing demand for skilled, current and professionally recognised indoor climbing guides and instructors. The Australian Climbing Instructors Association (ACIA) has expanded its training and assessment framework to include new indoor climbing […]
The ACIA represents climbing interests throughout Australia and offers instruction at cliffs in Victoria, New South Wales, Western Australia and Queensland.
The aims of the association are to promote professional standards of rock climbing instruction as well as to assist its member guides and instructors with issues such as accreditation, land management and licensing, cliff access and environmental responsibility.
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Training & Assessment
The emphasis of the scheme is on providing opportunities for training and qualification and an incentive for instructors to increase their experience and abilities.
Course Schedules
The ACIA is happy to liaise with you to organise courses for group bookings. Courses are scheduled in NSW, Victoria & Western Australia through Approved Course Providers.
Membership
Membership is open to anyone who agrees with the aims and goals of the ACIA (below).
Resources
Various documents & links for membership and assessments.
About us
The Australian Climbing Instructors' Association (ACIA) is an incorporated body formed in 2000 by the merger of state based professional climbing instructor organizations. The Climbing Instructors Association (CIA), incorporated in Victoria in 1990 and including NSW, and the Rockclimbing Instructors Association of Queensland (RIAQ) dissolved as separate state bodies and now operate under the national banner of the Australian Climbing Instructors' Association.
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Latest News
A Long-Awaited Return: ACIA Courses are Back in NSW!
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A Long-Awaited Return: ACIA Courses are Back in NSW! The Australian Climbing Instructors' Association (ACIA) is thrilled to announce the long-awaited return of its courses to New South Wales. After a significant period of limited course availability in the state, the ACIA is proud to have a new Approved Course […]
Continued Professional development and current competence
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Ongoing professional development and having processes to ensure genuine current competence are really critical to ensuring that qualification schemes and qualifications remain credible and help guides/ instructors to ensure that they are retaining and improving competence throughout the years. In the climbing world this is especially important as there is […]
TRG - Top Rope Guide (Climb/ Abseil) qualification review
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TRG - Top Rope Guide (Climb/ Abseil) qualification. As part of our ongoing qualification review process our TRG qualification has been reviewed and revamped, with a few changes to improve the quality, relevance and accessibility of the qualification. There were a wide variety of factors that were taken into account […]
Approved Course Providers
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Anyone who has done an ACIA training or assessment course is probably pretty aware that courses are actually provided through an external provider (The Climbing Company in Vic, ASM in NSW, Adventure Training Consultants in WA, hopefully you would have noticed this when reading and signing the acknowledgment of risks […]
Sport Climbing Instructor Qualification
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Our newest qualification is now being rolled out and will be offered across the country. The SCI (Sport Climbing Instructor) qualification is the appropriate qualification level for those who supervise, lead and teach sport climbing activities at single pitch sport climbing venues, this includes teaching people all the required skills […]
Sport Climbing Instructor Pilot Program
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The ACIA is in the process of creating a Sport Climbing Instructor (SCI) qualification. A PILOT training course for the SCI will be conducted later in 2023 in Western Australia.
