Maturity in Practice

What this is

Maturity in Practice is a toolbox for structured case-reading and action clarity.

It treats “maturity” as praxeological: not what people claim, intend, or identify with, but what is enacted under real conditions— including costs, resistance, time pressure, dependence, and power differentials.

Guiding stance:
Better structures than stories.
Better action than ideals.
Better understanding than judgment.

The core model: five axes (A–C–R–P–D)

The framework reads situations along five coordinated dimensions:

• A — Awareness: Who sees what, when, and with what blind spots?
• C — Coherence: Do words, actions, roles, and narratives fit together over time?
• R — Responsibility: Who carries which burdens, risks, and consequences—and who shifts them?
• P — Power / Agency: Who can actually act, decide, stop, leave, reverse?
• D — Dignity in Practice (optional): How dignity is enacted or strained in behavior and interaction.

Together, these form a precise lens for conflicts, organizations, public discourse, and responsibility-intensive roles.

Five levels the model reads (without collapsing them)

The book distinguishes five simultaneous reading levels, with strict separation of what is observed vs. what is concluded:

1. Structural level (core): A–C–R–P–D, asymmetries, scores, modulators, trajectories
2. Moral–normative level: justification, fairness, protected goods—built on structure, not replacing it
3. Psychological level (performative, non-clinical): behavior under pressure, learning capacity, projection, self-treatment—no diagnoses
4. Narrative–cultural level: stories, archetypes, semantic drift, symbolic politics, context-dependent meanings
5. Dignity level (optional): a controlled module with guardrails; never used as a “person value verdict”

Dignity, clarified (and protected)

The model makes a strict distinction:

• D₀ — Ontological dignity: inalienable, not measurable, never at stake
• D₁ — Self-dignity in practice: enacted self-treatment (inner + bodily/material)
• D₂ — Relational dignity: enacted treatment of others and the public (relational + symbolic/public)

When the book speaks of “D (dignity in practice)”, it means praxeological enactments of D₁/D₂ only. D₀ remains untouched.

Boundary rule: “acting without dignity” ≠ “being without dignity”.

Functional vs. inadult asymmetry: the IA box (T–J–TB–R)

Asymmetry is normal in human systems (education, protection, organization, expertise). It becomes problematic when it turns inadulte—opaque, unjustified, unbounded, or irreversible.

The IA box checks whether an asymmetry is:

• T — Transparent: visible and nameable
• J — Justified: grounded in a legitimate function / protected good
• TB — Time-bound: limited, reviewed, scoped
• R — Reversible: real paths back exist (not only “on paper”)

This enables analysis of power without reflexive anti-power moralism.

Maturity ≠ purity: the role of necessary inadulthood

The book rejects the “purity myth” (the fantasy of a fully adult, always coherent, always regulated human).

Inadulthood can be:

• creative,
• rebellious,
• courageous,
• vulnerable,
• visionary.

The question is not whether it exists—but how it is integrated under role and responsibility.

Maturity in practice means:

• making adult zones available,
• holding and containing inadult energy,
• coordinating both under real constraints,
• preventing avoidable dignity damage.

Tragic conflicts (the tragedy clause)

Not every painful outcome is caused by immaturity or IA.

Some situations are tragic collisions of goods where every option harms something (justice, loyalty, safety, truth, dignity-as-enacted). The model is designed to separate:

• unnecessary harm via IA, from
• residual pain via tragedy.

The tool aims for clarity—not a pain-free world.

Guardrails: how the model prevents misuse

This framework is intentionally constrained.

It enforces:

• Profile ≠ person: only enactments, roles, structures are assessed
• System axiom: no enactment is purely individual (context matters)
• Entry condition: minimal adulthood by the analyst (self-implication, protect dignity, accept correction, no enemy-search)
• Documentation duty: what is observation, what is inference, what remains unknown
• D-module discipline: D is optional, default off, with red zones (no clinical diagnostics, forensics, HR decisions, child diagnostics, public pillory)

Misuse is treated as a model failure and as its own IA/D finding.

What you can do with it (practice and domains)

The book provides practical instruments:

• score sheets and banded ratings (not hard “verdict numbers”)
• IA-box templates
• role and public-context modules
• trajectories (development lines instead of labels)
• checklists for audits, moderation, leadership, coaching

Typical fields:

• leadership & organizational development
• coaching / supervision / facilitation
• education & social work
• media & public communication
• sociology, philosophy, ethics
• politics and responsibility-heavy public roles

A deeper reach: a praxeological grammar of structure

Originally designed for human action in roles, the MIPractice model has shown stability across broader domains:

• teams, organizations, politics, media, biographies
• and also
• emergent structures, attractors, “non-events” (latent absences), and minimal structural conditions (difference / gradient / frame)

This extends the model toward a praxeological grammar of structure and enactment—while keeping its ethical constraint: recognize enactments, not person value.

Experience it directly: the Custom GPT

You can use the framework as an interactive case lens:

👉 Maturity in Action – Custom GPT
https://chatgpt.com/g/g-693460d3def48191ad08647301645a2e-maturity-in-action-a-praxeological-anthropology

Not a diagnosis. Not a verdict. A structured reading of enactment, roles, constraints, and asymmetries—within the book’s guardrails.

Open model & transparency (GitHub)

The formal model (YAML schema) and precision modules (including the AH extension) were derived from the book and published openly:

👉 GitHub Repository – Maturity in Practice
https://github.com/tz-dev/Maturity-in-Practice

Normative reference:
The book is the primary source.

The formal specification and AI implementation are derived from it. If ambiguity arises, the book is the normative reference.

A stance, not an ideology

This is not a political program, not a worldview, not a moral posture.

It is a disciplined way of seeing and acting:

Structure before story.
Responsibility before rhetoric.
Dignity protected—never weaponized.

Links & Resources

Maturity in Practice is situated within a broader praxeological ecosystem that connects anthropological theory, formal operator models, applied analyses, and executable specifications.

The resources below provide different points of access into that ecosystem: from the book and its conceptual foundations, to related model architectures, reference implementations, and interactive tools. Together, they form a coherent field of inquiry rather than a collection of isolated artifacts.