Ethics
How the work should be held
Rules for using TEG-Blue without turning a pattern map into control, diagnosis, extraction, or borrowed authority.
The map should help people see patterns without shrinking people.
TEG-Blue exists to make emotional, bodily, and relational patterns easier to see and work with. That visibility should support clarity, agency, responsibility, and repair. It should not be used to reduce, control, or extract from a person.
People are never the map
A pattern read should never become a verdict on a person, a fixed identity, or a way to reduce someone's whole life to one state.
The work should increase choice
TEG-Blue should make patterns more discussable without pressuring a person to accept a label, story, action, or interpretation.
Shared reality matters
The work keeps what happened, what was felt, what was assumed, what evidence is available, and what response is needed in separate view.
Repair must be real
Explanation is not repair. Repair needs responsibility, changed pattern, care, boundary where needed, and enough shared reality to work with what happened.
Truthfulness matters at the level of the sentence.
TEG-Blue ethics show up in small claims: what a page says was observed, inferred, sourced, added by TEG-Blue, still unresolved, or outside what the framework can claim.
Name what is known
Separate observation, interpretation, source support, what TEG-Blue adds, and open questions. Do not make an inference sound like a fact.
Do not borrow authority
Research can support specific parts of the map. It should not be used to imply proof of all of TEG-Blue or clinical authority.
Keep the person larger than the pattern
Visible behaviour can support a pattern read, but it cannot prove motive, diagnosis, identity, or someone's true internal state from outside.
Name limits before use
Tools and pages are for reflection, education, comparison, and clearer conversation. They are not crisis support, treatment, legal support, or professional judgment.
Be careful when a map is used with people.
TEG-Blue deals with vulnerable material: body states, relational harm, perception, control, shutdown, repair, and meaning. Consent, context, agency, and power matter every time the map is used.
No extraction
Do not use another person's fear, confusion, vulnerability, hope, dependence, story, or emotional state as material to control choices, gain benefit, or make the framework look stronger.
No forced interpretation
A TEG-Blue reading should not be used to override someone's account of their own experience, context, culture, body, risk, or history.
Power changes the ethics
A map used by a teacher, practitioner, employer, institution, parent, partner, or platform carries more responsibility than a private reflection tool.
Calm is not proof of safety
Composure does not prove regulation or care. Distress does not prove danger. Impact and power still have to be read.
Attribution and permission matter.
The framework is meant to be citeable and discussable without becoming ownerless or detached from its source. Reuse should preserve authorship, claim limits, and the difference between public reference and applied adaptation.
Attribution stays visible
TEG-Blue, The Emotional Gradient Blueprint, and The Nervous System Gradient were created by Anna Paretas-Artacho. Public summaries, citations, adaptations, and reuse should preserve that attribution.
Public reference stays possible
The framework should be easy to cite, discuss, summarize, translate, and teach from when attribution and claim limits are preserved.
Permission is part of ethics
Applied builds, institutional implementations, product integrations, custom tools, software integrations, and reuse of Engine or tool logic require explicit written permission or a separate agreement.
Other work remains itself
Third-party research, sources, fonts, dependencies, and externally owned instruments keep their own rights, licenses, authorship, and limits.
Mechanism explains the pattern; it does not erase impact.
This rule keeps explanation from covering over harm. A pattern may have a protective origin and still cause harm.
Responsibility increases with pattern, power, choice, and impact.
Repair requires more than explanation. It needs shared reality, responsibility, care, boundary where needed, and changed pattern.