A Practical Way to Adapt Without Losing Orientation

The Reclaim Method helps people strengthen Adaptive Integrity 

— the capacity to navigate complexity and competing demands without fragmenting clarity, agency, or coherence over time. 

Leaders, teams, and organizations rely on Adaptive Integrity, the ability to:

• accurately sense what is happening in context 
• interpret competing signals without distortion 
• make grounded choices inside unresolved conditions
   

In practice, Reclaim helps strengthen:

• clarity, when direction becomes blurred 
• judgment and discernment, when signals conflict 
• choice, when decisions are deferred, displaced, or absorbed by the system 
• agency, the ability to act deliberately rather than by default 
• coherence, the capacity to remain aligned individually and collectively inside complex systems
   

This work is not about coping better, or building resilience. 

It is about restoring the internal core to navigate complexity

 without fragmentation over time.

 Reclaim does not ask people to tolerate unsustainable squeeze conditions at work. It helps people see how their participation unfolds inside complex systems. As people smooth, stretch, absorb, 

and compensate as they adapt, they can become default responses. 

Reclaim is a guided practice for interrupting default patterns of participation. It helps people, teams, and organizations move from reactive adaptation to deliberate engagement, without opting out of responsibility or the realities of their work.
The method begins with a system level question:

What squeeze conditions are operating right now?

Only after that entry point does Reclaim examine how individuals or groups are responding within those conditions. By making these dynamics visible, tension can be held where it belongs, in the system, rather than carried privately by individuals. This shift is what allows adaptation to become deliberate, coherent, and sustainable again.  

 The Reclaim Method supports Adaptive Integrity through coherence- based sense making practices.

Radical Reflection™ is a core practice within the Reclaim Method. 

It is used at specific moments in the Method.

It is called radical because it departs from conventional reflection 

and mindfulness practices. Rather than focusing on insight alone, 

it works with how complexity is actually carried in attention, the body, 

and the nervous system, not just how it is understood cognitively.

Radical Reflection is an embodied inquiry practice. 

It slows automatic adaptation so people can notice what is happening as it happens, without collapsing into performance, defense, or premature solutions.

The practice intentionally incorporates humour and serious play.

Serious play creates space for experimentation, allowing assumptions, contradictions, and alternative interpretations to surface safely. Humour functions as both a diagnostic and integrative tool. It lowers defensiveness, exposes absurdity, and makes it possible to see

 what is happening without shame or self-protection.

Together, humour and serious play cultivate a creative stance. 

Not creativity as expression, but creativity as a leadership capacity: the ability to remain flexible, curious, and oriented when conditions are complex and unresolved.

Within the Reclaim Method, Radical Reflection supports inquiry 

that helps individuals, teams, and organizations:

• slow automatic reaction without disengaging
• notice how contradiction and tension are being carried
• separate signal from urgency, expectation, or role demand
• test different interpretations and responses
• reconnect with what matters while action is still required

Used at the right moments, Radical Reflection interrupts default patterns of adaptation before clarity, judgment, and identity 

are quietly traded away.

 Reclaim strengthens a small set of human capacities that shape how people interpret conditions, allocate attention, and regulate effort when work contains unresolved contradiction. These capacities do not eliminate ambiguity or complexity. They influence whether people can remain oriented and act deliberately without fragmenting judgment, identity, or energy over time

These are not traits or competencies.
They are practical capacities that shape how people stay oriented, make judgments, and regulate effort when conditions don’t resolve.

The Reclaim Method strengthens CQ by deliberately developing 

four core capacities:

Identity Anchoring
The ability to maintain a stable sense of self-reference when roles blur, authority is unclear, or expectations collide. This capacity reduces over-identification with shifting demands and limits the tendency to substitute performance narratives for judgment.

Meaning Integration
The capacity to hold and interpret multiple, often conflicting signals without collapsing them into false coherence or default explanations.

This supports sensemaking that reflects actual conditions rather than reinforcing convenient or rewarded interpretations.

Contextual Discernment
The ability to distinguish between what is structurally significant and what is merely urgent, amplified, or socially reinforced.

This capacity supports judgment under constraint, particularly when signals compete and priorities cannot be cleanly resolved.

Regulating Capacity Under Pressure
The ability to pace effort and adaptation in response to sustained demand without over-allocating personal, relational, or systemic capacity.

This limits compensatory behavior that maintains appearance of function while accelerating long-term depletion.

 Together, these capacities shape whether adaptation remains sustainable or becomes compensatory.

Reclaim does not aim to resolve contradiction. It supports participation that is more deliberate, less distortive, and less erosive over time.

This is how Adaptive Integrity is restored under pressure.