The Living Method Manifesto

The Living Method Manifesto

Framework, Ethics, and Application

The Living Method is an ethical, transferable framework developed through sustained documentation of lived experience, disciplined attention, and iterative reflection over time.

The Problem This Method Addresses

Modern systems are highly effective at processing external data, yet poorly equipped to work with first-person experience rigorously.

  • Lived experience is often dismissed as anecdotal.
  • Insight is separated from structure.
  • Reflection lacks continuity.

Core Principles

Intuition as Signal: A prompt for inquiry, not truth.
Experience as Data: Recorded, revisited, compared.
Documentation as Infrastructure: Enables continuity and pattern recognition.
Meaning is Surfaced: Not imposed.
Coherence Precedes Explanation: Stabilization before theory.

How the Method Works: The Cycle

1. Attention: Notice internal/external states.
2. Documentation: Record neutrally and consistently.
3. Reflection: Review records across time.
4. Pattern Recognition: Identify emergent structures.
5. Integration: Apply insights to systems or self-regulation.

Ethical Guardrails

Derived from lived experience, not supernatural authority.
Technology is scaffolding, not agency or intelligence.
Descriptive (what happened), not causal (why it happened).
Purpose: coherence, self-regulation, ethical sense-making.

Who This Method Is For

Individuals Researchers Educators Organizations

Purpose and Continuity: To create systems that can be learned, transferred, inherited, and adapted—without losing ethical grounding.

"The Method exists to help meaning hold its shape at scale."