Fifteen therapeutic, coaching, and contemplative modalities compared not by which is true, but by whether they can help orient the same person without forcing premature certainty. Difference is not conflict. The strongest conflict signal is a proposed interpretation hardening into certainty before that certainty is necessary, helpful, or healthy.
Different modalities may illuminate different parts of the same problem space.
A useful lens should not have to become literal ontology before it can help.
The person should retain a meaningful ability to reject, revise, or defer an offered interpretation.
Ten core findings
The smallest set of findings needed to understand compatibility, resonance, impedance, and useful synthesis. Open any one for evidence and what not to infer.
Compatibility matrix
Primary result is orientation coherence. Select a cell for the full relationship; select a name to isolate one modality. Hatched cells are relationships not yet scored.
Modality profiles
How each modality tends to orient. Human and clinical readability first; AI and computational implications last.
Resonance and synthesis
Where modalities positively reinforce orientation, and where they can be usefully combined without ontological unification.
Impedance and timing
The 28 tensions and conflicts, re-probed by the Orientation Impedance Engine. Every algorithmic conflict was downgraded to a conditional probe on review — none established a necessary contradiction.
Concepts and latent functions
Where systems agree about how to help someone orient, even when they disagree about why. Six clusters, 24 concept nodes, twelve latent functions, and the boundaries that keep similar functions from collapsing into the same construct.
Orientation functional rhythm
An exploratory sequence, not a clinical protocol. It tests whether some apparent conflict is a matter of timing: the right function introduced too early, too late, in parallel, conditionally, or not at all.
Extend the framework
Everything on this page is rendered from one data model. A new modality is one record; its 15 relationships appear hatched in the matrix until they are scored. Paste a record below to see it take its place.
id, name, short. Everything else can be filled in later.
dimsNine orientation dimensions using the shared vocabulary below.
pairOne per relationship, keyed by a and b ids. Required: coherence. Optional blocks: conflict, resonance, synthesis, impedance.
conceptA concept node lists the modality ids it connects; bridge strength recomputes from family reach.
Very Low Low Low–Moderate Mixed Moderate Moderate–High High Very High. Agency and authority: Person-led Shared Framework-led (combine with / for a range). Falsifiability: F M NF (use → for a gradient). Coherence: High coherence Complementary Conditional Tension Conflict.Legend and method
Definitions used throughout, and the deferred language layer that Phase One deliberately did not score.