When It Is Used
Use the tool after a strengths map and preferred future statement exist, when the group needs commitments that can guide decisions and action planning.
Provocative Proposition / Design Statement
The Provocative Proposition / Design Statement is a collaborative tool for practitioners working with a client, team, or system. It helps create affirmative design commitments that connect what already works with the preferred future participants want to make true.
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Tool guide
Learn more about this tool
Use this background section to understand when the tool fits, how practitioners use it, and what to consider before sharing it with clients.
What It Captures
The tool captures commitment text, links to strengths and aspirations, draft or confirmed status, unresolved wording, and consolidation of related drafts.
Important Limits
The tool does not manage tasks, assign responsibilities, rank commitments, score alignment, or judge whether a commitment is substantively correct.
Does this tool create the commitments for the group?
No. Commitment wording is supplied by participants and the practitioner; the system organizes grounding and structural review.
Can a commitment be drafted without source material?
Yes. Drafting can continue, but the commitment should be marked as having unresolved grounding until linked to a strength or aspiration when available.
Can there be more than one design commitment?
Yes. The tool supports one or more affirmative design commitments.
Is this an action plan?
No. The tool creates guiding design commitments; implementation responsibilities and next steps belong in a separate action-planning workflow.