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  "name": "The Seven Capacities Framework",
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  "datePublished": "2026-06-08",
  "url": "https://spiralhub.com.au/spec/v1",
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    "@type": "Person",
    "name": "Nirvan Soogrim",
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  "description": "Open developmental architecture providing a shared, modality-agnostic reference system for human development across coaching, therapy, education, leadership, somatics, breathwork, mindfulness, and community work.",
  "positioning": {
    "category": "Open developmental commons / shared reference system for human development",
    "status": "Emerging open-source framework, public pilot v1.0",
    "analogy": "What standard units (metre, kilogram, second) did for physical science, the Seven Capacities Framework aims to do for human development — provide a single shared scoring surface across previously incommensurable modalities.",
    "audiences": {
      "individuals": "One developmental map across every modality used. Therapy progress, coaching gains, somatic practice and meditation hours visible on one comparable scale.",
      "practitioners": "Modality-agnostic shared language that sits alongside any existing method. Free to use, attribution requested, no certification fee.",
      "researchers": "Interoperability layer enabling cross-modality comparison, aggregation and outcome research."
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    "differentiators": [
      "Single scoring surface across modalities",
      "Modality-agnostic by design",
      "Non-pathologising (developmental, not diagnostic)",
      "Measurable with explicit items and bands",
      "Stewarded, not owned",
      "Free to use under CC-BY 4.0",
      "Versioned and evolving with use"
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    "Modality-agnostic",
    "Non-pathologising",
    "Measurable",
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  "capacities": [
    { "order": 1, "key": "witnessing", "name": "Witnessing", "oneLiner": "Can I notice what's happening inside me — without becoming it?", "definition": "The capacity to observe thoughts, emotions, sensations and impulses as experience rather than identity." },
    { "order": 2, "key": "regulation", "name": "Regulation", "oneLiner": "Can I keep access to my faculties when I'm activated?", "definition": "The capacity to retain access to reasoning, discernment, communication and presence while participating under activation or pressure." },
    { "order": 3, "key": "presence", "name": "Presence", "oneLiner": "Can I meet what's actually here?", "definition": "The capacity to remain consciously available to reality, self and others as experience unfolds." },
    { "order": 4, "key": "allowance", "name": "Allowance", "oneLiner": "Can I let what's here exist long enough to participate with it?", "definition": "The capacity to permit reality, experience and internal states to exist without immediate rejection, suppression, escape or compulsive control." },
    { "order": 5, "key": "discernment", "name": "Discernment", "oneLiner": "Can I tell the difference between what happened and what I made it mean?", "definition": "The capacity to accurately distinguish reality from the meanings, interpretations, assumptions and stories assigned to it." },
    { "order": 6, "key": "boundaries", "name": "Boundaries", "oneLiner": "Can I tell what's mine, what's theirs, and what is shared?", "definition": "The capacity to accurately recognise and maintain ownership, responsibility and participation within relationship to self, others and reality." },
    { "order": 7, "key": "considered_action", "name": "Considered Action", "oneLiner": "Can I do what's needed once I know what's true and what's mine?", "definition": "The capacity to intentionally act in accordance with reality, discernment and responsibility." }
  ],
  "scoring": {
    "method": "Mean of items per capacity, rounded to 1 decimal",
    "scale": "1-10 (strongly disagree to strongly agree)",
    "bands": [
      { "key": "survival", "label": "Survival", "range": "≤ 3", "reframe": "This isn't a flaw. It's a capacity that hasn't had the conditions to grow yet." },
      { "key": "baseline", "label": "Baseline", "range": "> 3 and ≤ 6", "reframe": "You have access to this under low pressure. The work is making it available under heat." },
      { "key": "activated", "label": "Activated", "range": "> 6 and ≤ 8", "reframe": "This is reliably available to you. Keep using it." },
      { "key": "strongly_activated", "label": "Strongly Activated", "range": "> 8", "reframe": "This is a real strength. It's a resource for the others." }
    ],
    "priorityHierarchy": ["regulation", "witnessing", "presence", "allowance", "discernment", "boundaries", "considered_action"]
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    "apa": "Soogrim, N. (2026). The Seven Capacities Framework (Version 1.0). Spiral Hub. https://spiralhub.com.au/spec/v1",
    "bibtex": "@misc{soogrim2026sevencapacities, author={Soogrim, Nirvan}, title={The Seven Capacities Framework}, howpublished={Spiral Hub}, year={2026}, version={1.0}, url={https://spiralhub.com.au/spec/v1}, note={CC-BY 4.0}}"
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