Maturity in Practice

A Praxeological Anthropology

What does it mean to “act maturely” in a world full of pressure, role uncertainty, power imbalances, and social acceleration?

This book offers an unusually clear answer:
Maturity is not a character trait — it appears in action.
Not in self-image, not in ideals, not in moral narratives — but in what people actually do under real conditions.

Maturity in Practice presents a model that makes human actions readable along five axes: Awareness, Coherence, Responsibility, Power/Agency, and Dignity in practice.

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What it’s about

We constantly speak of “maturity,” “immaturity,” “irresponsibility,” or “toxic behavior” — often without saying what we actually mean.

This book reverses the perspective: It does not focus on self-images or grand moral stories, but on action — on what people truly do under real-world constraints.

To make this visible, Maturity in Practice introduces the IA-Model: a framework that reads action along five axes:

A – Awareness
C – Coherence (alignment of word and deed)
R – Responsibility
P – Power/Agency
D – Dignity in Action (self-dignity & relational dignity)

This makes situations, conflicts, and systems structurally readable — without labeling people as “mature” or “immature.”

What the book reveals

Through models, scorecards, and case analyses, the book shows:

why people are not mature, but only act maturely in specific situations,
how so-called “immature” patterns often arise from structure, role issues, and social tools — not from “bad character,”
why dignity is not evaluated, but observed in action,
how one can read conflicts, power relations, role ambiguities, or self-devaluation without moral shortcuts.

A praxeological toolkit

The approach integrates anthropology, action theory, sociology, performative psychology, power analysis, and ethics into a coherent toolkit for both practice and research.

It provides, among other things:

Scorecards: A-Score (Maturity in Action), M-Score (Shared Responsibility), IA-Box (Inadult Asymmetry)
Role & Publicness Modules: Who acts in which role, in which public, with which responsibilities?
D-Profiles: Ontological dignity (D₀), Self-dignity (D₁) and relational dignity (D₂) in everyday life
Checklists & Templates for coaching, leadership, organizational analysis, conflict moderation, and public communication
an extensive Guardrail System that prevents misuse of the model (e.g., as a “dignity police”)

Core idea:
This book is not a worldview, but a tool. It favors no political direction, no ideology, no moral habitus. It demands clarity rather than projection, responsibility rather than rhetoric, precision rather than virtue signaling.

Who is this book for?

Maturity in Practice is for anyone who works with difficult situations — professionally or socially — or seeks a deeper understanding of action, maturity, and dignity:

Leaders & organizational developers
Coaches, supervisors, and consultants
Educators and social workers
Ethicists, philosophers, and sociologists
Journalists and political actors
People in positions of responsibility
Anyone who wants to understand conflicts without resorting to quick moral diagnoses

What makes this book unique

It separates ontological dignity (unlosable) from dignity in action (observable and changeable).
It avoids psychological speculation and focuses on action, structure, and context.
It distinguishes functional asymmetries from inadult asymmetry (IA) — the model’s core concept.
It shows why people can act with “poor tools” without being “poor-quality people.”
It integrates tragic conflicts — situations where even high maturity cannot eliminate pain.
It is precise enough for research, yet practical enough for everyday life and organizational practice.

If you are curious - try it yourself!

You can either try the Custom GPT Agent - or have an AI use the model by uploading the YAML file yourself.

If you want to use it yourself, download this ZIP file, extract the YAML file (as well as the "Case Analysis Template.html" if needed) and run a full analysis with any capable AI system (e.g. ChatGPT, Grok):

The full source, version history, and specification are available on GitHub: https://github.com/tz-dev/Maturity-in-Practice

1. Load the YAML file into the AI system

Upload the file to your AI system and then give a single instruction:
“Load the YAML file completely, parse it and activate the agent_interface. Then output exactly the full text from agent_interface.welcome_message.message_text in German.”

After that, the system itself will explain how to proceed.

2. Two modes of use

After the welcome message, you can choose:

a) Reflection mode

The AI asks you targeted questions about roles, responsibility, asymmetries, A–C–R–P–D, etc.
Your answers directly fill the case protocol.
Ideal for self-reflection, coaching, teams or supervision.

b) Automatic analysis mode

The AI generates a complete structural analysis of your thesis or scenario – including A/M-band, IA-box, trajectory and (where appropriate) the D-module.
You can switch between the two modes at any time.

3. Disciplinary focus (optional)

You can also choose from which perspective the system should read the case, for example:

Psychology,
Social science,
Philosophy/Ethics,
Organisation/Leadership, or
Media/Public sphere.

The model then automatically activates the appropriate domain modules (e.g. psychological submodules, symbolic politics, institutional coherence, etc.).

4. Presentation-ready output (optional)

If you would like a clean, easy-to-read analysis sheet, you can insert the result into the "Case Analysis Template.html".

The AI can do this automatically for you – you receive a printable, professionally formatted case analysis:

“Fill ‘Case Analysis Template.html’ with the fields from my MIPractice_case.”