Practice: Confrontation Analysis: separate positions, options and credibility

Summary

Build a small options table and identify what would make a joint commitment credible. An introductory confrontation-analysis rehearsal, not a full formal classification of dilemmas or a prediction of behaviour. Consent, new options and changing preferences remain possible.

Implications for practice

A concrete rehearsal with a fictional case, explicit outputs and a way to inspect the result.

Key distinctions

• Mechanical correctness is distinct from judgement in an open situation.
• Training-case application is distinct from competent organisational practice.

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Connections to practice

• List actors, controlled options and the four possible combinations.
• Separate preference, intention and belief.
• Propose a change that addresses credibility without coercion.
• Rebuild the table after the change.

Common confusions

• A worked comparison is not the only acceptable answer to an open question.

Further checks

• An introductory confrontation-analysis rehearsal, not a full formal classification of dilemmas or a prediction of behaviour. Consent, new options and changing preferences remain possible.
• Compare an independent attempt before revealing the worked answer.

Recorded connections

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• Systemic systems methods practice for systems practice (alpha) includes practice resource Practice: Confrontation Analysis: separate positions, options and credibility

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• Practice: Confrontation Analysis: separate positions, options and credibility provides a practice route for Confrontation Analysis (CONAN)

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  An introductory confrontation-analysis rehearsal, not a full formal classification of dilemmas or a prediction of behaviour. Consent, new options and changing preferences remain possible.

  Locator: Named exercise and its scope statement

  • Confrontation Analysis: separate positions, options and credibility (original material and source boundary recorded)

Sources and passage locators

• Confrontation Analysis: separate positions, options and credibility (original material and source boundary recorded)
• SCiO: Mosaic, multi-methodology, CONAN and INFORMED (specific access and content limit recorded)
• SCiO competency framework resource guide (PDF) (specific access and content limit recorded)
• SCiO Professional Development (checked)
• The Confrontation Analysis Handbook, Curry and Young (specific access and content limit recorded)
• Systemic systems methods practice for systems practice (alpha) (original material and source boundary recorded)

Cite this entry

Taylor, B. P. (2026). Practice: Confrontation Analysis: separate positions, options and credibility. The Necessary Tangle, release 0.35. https://transduction.systems/entries/practice_lab_confrontation_analysis/

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