The 12 Frameworks — TEG-Blue's Explanatory Architecture
One mechanism. Twelve angles. A unified model tracing how the nervous system shapes perception, identity, social structure, escalation, and repair.
Most models describe either the inner world or the social world. TEG-Blue connects them as one system. The frameworks are interdependent because humans do not experience life in separate categories.
A nervous system state shapes perception. Perception shapes meaning. Meaning shapes identity. Identity shapes behaviour. Behaviour shapes what gets rewarded. And reward shapes the nervous system again.
This is how trauma becomes culture — and how culture becomes trauma.
TEG-Blue is structured as a sequence so we can locate where a pattern is coming from, where it is being reinforced, and where repair is actually possible.
The mapping system makes visible that what people do is strongly shaped by the conditions their nervous system is adapting to — and by their capacity to return to connection under challenge.
The Regulation Thread
A single thread runs through all twelve frameworks. Each framework describes a regulation substitute at a different scale — what the nervous system recruits to stay stable when the body's designed return path is missing. Each substitute works. Each comes at a cost.
Framework
What Regulates Instead
Scale
Cost
F1
Biological Restoration — the body completing its own cycle
Individual biology
No cost — this is the design
F2
Co-regulation → self-restoration (when learned). When not learned: the compass locks
Developmental / relational
The restoration path is never built
F3
False coherence — cognition replacing restoration
Individual adult cognition
Truth
F4
Rules regulate
Collective — social systems
Flexibility
F5
Worth hierarchies regulate
Collective — value systems
Equity
F6
Bias regulates
Collective — perceptual systems
Accuracy
F7
Domination regulates
Collective — power systems
Everything
F8–F12 reverse the thread — not by adding another substitute, but by building the original.
The Three-Arc Structure
F1–F3 (Individual)The instrument. How the nervous system evaluates safety, how the compass calibrates through development, and how cognition steps in when the return path is missing.
F4–F7 (Collective)The scaling. How individual patterns become shared rules, how rules produce worth hierarchies, how hierarchies shape perception, and how protection escalates all the way to domination.
F8–F12 (Repair and Complexity)The return. How the awareness capacities can be rebuilt, how neurodivergent variation is understood on its own terms, how patterns transmit across generations, how paradox emerges when healing begins, and what the underlying architecture explains about all of it.
Arc 1 — IndividualF1–F3
Arc 2 — CollectiveF4–F7
Arc 3 — Repair and ComplexityF8–F12
The Three Core Models
The frameworks explain why. The models provide what — the applied tools that practitioners, researchers, and individuals actually use.