The Relationship Quality Protocol

A RAW Systems Work Model Protocol: The parts are present. The weight between them has gone.

What this is for: Developing the capacity to influence the quality of relationships from inside the system — working directly with what flows through the connections you are part of, so that interdependence can restore and the system can move toward its goal as a whole.

When to use: When parts are working but not together. When information is being filtered, hedged, or routed around rather than flowing directly. When the system is producing parallel effort rather than integrated movement. When something that should be collaborative has become careful.

The goal: To influence the system’s relationship quality from within it — not by describing what is wrong but by changing what you introduce into the connections you are already part of, so the system can move as a whole toward its goal.