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Task III · i5.3.8 · Resolution of Findings

FINDINGS REGISTER

A finding is not a confession, and it is not a flaw in the program — an unresolved finding is. Everything you discover about yourself gets logged here, given a disposition, and closed. This is the page that keeps self-examination from becoming a lifestyle.

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The discipline: findings close

Every inspection in this program — the daily log, the deep audit, the joint inventory, a hard conversation — produces findings: discrete, dated observations that something is not as assumed. Aviation's rule about them is absolute and transfers whole: a finding is never left open indefinitely. It gets one of four dispositions, each legitimate, each with a cost:

Redesign

The structure changes so the finding cannot recur. Highest cost, most permanent. A schedule rebuilt so the overload is impossible, not resisted.

Repair

The damage is fixed to a procedure (๐‘–SRM), inspected afterward, and logged. The structure returns to service. An unrecorded repair is indistinguishable from unrepaired damage.

Restrict

The structure operates on, inside a new placard. The finding becomes an operating restriction (i5.4.2) — and the placard traces back to this finding, which is what makes it defensible.

Accept — with rationale

The finding stands, and you fly with it, on purpose, with the reasoning written down. The written rationale is the entire difference between acceptance and avoidance. Blank rationale, no closure.

Why the count matters. The number of open findings is the single metric this page surfaces to the ๐‘–SMP. Zero open findings forever means you stopped inspecting. A rising count means you stopped resolving. The health of the program is the flow — opened, dispositioned, closed — not the absence of findings.

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The register

Open a finding

IDOpenedSourceFindingSeverityDispositionRationale / procedureClosed
0
Open findings
(surfaces on the ๐‘–SMP)
0
Closed
0
Referred out
(completed, not failed)

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How to close a finding

Pick the disposition in the row, write the rationale (or the procedure used), and set the closed date. The register enforces one rule only: "accept" without a written rationale does not close. A disposition of Restrict should end with a new placard on the Envelope Management page; a Repair should reference its ๐‘–SRM procedure; a Referred finding closes when the referral is made — not when the outside work is done, because that work is not this program's to track.

Operating restriction โ€” the referral limit

This instrument is exploratory, not diagnostic. It borrows the discipline of a structural-integrity program to help you inventory, declare, and inspect — it does not measure a clinical condition, and it issues no clinical conclusion. Its reflective moves are informed by practices with strong evidence bases in structured psychology — self-monitoring and written records as used in cognitive behavioral therapy, values clarification as used in acceptance-and-commitment approaches — but working a worksheet is not a course of therapy and does not substitute for one.

Some findings route outside this program, and routing them out is a completed task, not a failed one. Persistent depression, anxiety that does not respond to load reduction, trauma symptoms, crisis, or anything involving harm to yourself or others are outside this program’s certification basis. They belong with a qualified medical or psychological authority — a physician, a licensed therapist (including trauma-specific modalities such as EMDR, which only a trained clinician can deliver), or emergency services. Operating outside the certification basis is prohibited. Severity levels on this page grade a finding's effect on your declared mission โ€” they are program triage, not clinical triage, and “critical” here means precisely that the finding exceeds what this program can handle.