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Route / 4 steps

After a rupture

For the days after something was broken, when the order you do things in matters more than usual.

Who this is for

Something has been broken, and you are both still in the days straight after it.

What it is

Four steps in a deliberate order: name what happened against what you actually agreed, take the repair you decided on while calm, work through the seven mediation steps without either of you seeing the other’s first answer, then change the agreement so it covers this.

The steps, in order

You can take them out of order. Nothing here locks a module, and no step waits on the one before it.

  • Breach Protocol

    Three tiers, agreed while calm.

    Name what happened, against what you actually agreed, while you both still remember it the same way.

  • Repairs

    Decided while calm, so it's available when you aren't.

    The repair you decided on while calm, which is the whole reason it was decided then.

  • Mediation Room

    Seven steps, and neither sees the other's first answer.

    Seven steps, and neither of you sees the other’s first answer.

  • Your Terms

    Ten sections. Plain language. Both signatures.

    Change the agreement so this is covered, rather than assuming it will not happen again.

A route, not a gate

A route is a named list of modules with something written down at the end of it. Nothing in a route locks anything, and you can take the steps out of order.

Why a route rather than a list

Thirty-two modules is a lot to look at when you do not yet know which of them you need. A route is somebody having already answered that: these ones, in this order, because the earlier ones give the later ones something to work from. The Structural Report is easier to write an agreement from than a blank page, and it needs two finished Soundings before it exists at all.

What it does not do

It does not lock anything, and it is not a course. Nothing is withheld until you finish a step, there is no schedule, and stopping halfway costs you nothing — what you wrote stays written and the modules stay open. Where a module genuinely needs both of you, that module is what waits, exactly as it would if you had opened it on your own.

What it never shows either of you

A route shows where each of you has got to and nothing else. It does not record how long anything took, or how long the other one has left something undone. Elapsed time is not a number this product prints about a person.