THE PLANES OF AGENCYFour places movement can occur. None is higher or better.

Continuity

Where value is sustained.

“What needs to keep working?”

Continuity is where value is sustained. Attention here tends what already exists — keeping it healthy, protecting what matters, letting what works keep working.

In the field
Above · Execution

Execution produces what Continuity sustains; Continuity keeps action from having to begin again each time.

Adjacency is spatial. No plane is higher or better.

Movement, in general
Into Continuity
  • From Emergence
    When something emerging belongs to what already works.
  • From Structure
    When something shaped needs to become durable.
  • From Execution
    When what has been done needs to be sustained rather than repeated.
Out of Continuity
  • Toward Emergence
    When what is sustained no longer fits what is wanted.
  • Toward Structure
    When something that works needs reshaping to keep working.
  • Toward Execution
    When tending reveals something that needs doing now.

Descriptions of the framework — not predictions or recommendations.