Frameworks
The words we use, defined precisely enough to be argued with.
These are the models that structure our research and our products. We publish the definitions openly because a framework that cannot be examined is not a framework — it is a slogan.
The canonical chain
Conditions → Access → Function → Outcomes → Flourishing
Each term follows from the one before it. The chain is the argument: change the conditions and you change what becomes available; change what is available and you change what a person can do.
- 01Conditions
What surrounds a person — the environment they are responding to.
Everything a person is surrounded by and responding to — physical, social, economic, relational. Conditions are not background; they are the active input. Much of what appears to be a fixed trait turns out to be a durable response to durable conditions.
- 02Access
What actually becomes available to them within those conditions.
What actually becomes available to a person within their conditions. Access is distinct from availability: a resource that formally exists but cannot be reached, afforded, understood, or safely used is not accessible. Access is the hinge of the model — where conditions become consequences.
- 03Function
How well a person can do what matters to them.
How well a person can do what matters to them — think, rest, connect, decide, recover, act. Function is observed and described, never scored against a norm.
- 04Outcomes
What follows, over time, from functioning well or poorly.
What follows over time from functioning well or poorly. Outcomes accumulate; they are the visible residue of sustained access, or of sustained interference with it.
- 05Flourishing
A life with room in it — the point of the whole chain.
A life with room in it. The condition where a person has enough access, for long enough, that function is no longer the limiting factor on their life.
Resources
The canonical knowledge library
The definitions above are drawn from our internal knowledge library, which holds the full set of terms, their relationships, and the reasoning behind each. We are working through what can be published openly and in what order. Guides, glossaries, and downloadable references will live here as they are released.
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