Periodic Table of Frameworks · Fears · Moment

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Drama triangle

Stephen Karpman

You want out of a fight that keeps changing costumes. The problem is you think you are in a new scene. You are in a triangle: victim, persecutor, rescuer. Name the corner. Stay unnamed and you will rotate until you are tired. Name it and you can step off — which is the only move that is not another corner.

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In one line

In the moment the fear picks a corner: victim, persecutor, or rescuer. Switch corners if you want — you have not left the triangle.

Use this on a moment. It answers: What are you afraid of?

The other half

Four horsemen

The triangle is the fear in ninety seconds. The horsemen are that fear after it has a room.

How this talks to the others

  • Leads into

    Two fears

    The corner is how not-enough or not-loved shows up in the moment. Switch corners and it is still the same fear.

  • Start here, then

    JUDGE

    Name the corner, then choose. Staying in the triangle is also a choice.

  • Pushes against

    The Four Agreements

    Taking it personally is the victim corner. The second agreement is the step off. They disagree about whether the scene is about you.

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