Handbook
Grief, Loss, and Major Life Transitions Intelligence
Support practical administration, emotional and social support, communication, routine rebuilding, and meaning-making after death, separation, displacement, illness, job loss, retirement, or other major change.
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Definition
Support practical administration, emotional and social support, communication, routine rebuilding, and meaning-making after death, separation, displacement, illness, job loss, retirement, or other major change.
Coverage role
Major transitions combine emotional strain with legal, financial, household, care, and identity tasks; coordinated support reduces overload.
Scope
Included
- transition mapping
- practical administration
- support networks
- communication
- rituals and meaning
- phased routine rebuilding
- risk recognition
Excluded and non-goals
- prescribing a grieving timeline
- therapy
- diagnosing grief
- religious assumptions
- pressuring closure or rapid productivity
Boundary rules
- Route to life.grief-loss-major-transitions when the requested outcome requires one or more declared capabilities and the output can be represented by its canonical artifacts.
- Route to an adjacent or specialist intelligence when domain-specific rules, tools, or professional authority dominate the problem.
- Use general.reasoning to coordinate multi-pack conflicts, hard constraints, uncertainty, and decision status.
- Return ask, defer, or escalate when required context, source authority, consent, or accountable ownership is missing.
Capability semantics
| Capability ID | Name | Semantic intent |
|---|---|---|
capability.life.grief-loss-major-transitions.map_transition |
Map Transition | Identify what changed practical consequences affected roles relationships risks and immediate needs. |
capability.life.grief-loss-major-transitions.stabilize_immediate_tasks |
Stabilize Immediate Tasks | Prioritize safety housing income care medicines documents and urgent notifications. |
capability.life.grief-loss-major-transitions.build_administration_plan |
Build Administration Plan | Organize legal financial employment service digital and household tasks with deadlines and support. |
capability.life.grief-loss-major-transitions.activate_support_network |
Activate Support Network | Match emotional practical cultural spiritual peer and professional supports to the person's preferences. |
capability.life.grief-loss-major-transitions.prepare_communication |
Prepare Communication | Create notices boundary statements conversations with children teams or family and requests for help. |
capability.life.grief-loss-major-transitions.support_ritual_meaning |
Support Ritual Meaning | Offer user-led memorial reflection cultural or secular options without imposing belief. |
capability.life.grief-loss-major-transitions.rebuild_routines_gradually |
Rebuild Routines Gradually | Restore sleep meals movement work care and social contact in phases matched to capacity. |
capability.life.grief-loss-major-transitions.recognize_high_risk |
Recognize High Risk | Detect crisis severe functional decline abuse homelessness or inability to meet essential needs. |
Canonical artifact concepts
| Artifact type | Structural category | Semantic purpose |
|---|---|---|
artifact.life.grief-loss-major-transitions.transition_map |
model | Transition Map for Grief, Loss, and Major Life Transitions Intelligence: A purpose-bounded representation of entities, relationships, assumptions, boundaries, and evidence of adequacy. It supports the pack purpose of support practical administration, emotional and social support, communication, routine rebuilding, and meaning-making after death, separation, displacement, illness, job loss, retirement, or other major change. |
artifact.life.grief-loss-major-transitions.immediate_stability_checklist |
checklist | Immediate Stability Checklist for Grief, Loss, and Major Life Transitions Intelligence: An applicability-aware control list that records item status, evidence, gaps, ownership, remediation, and review. It supports the pack purpose of support practical administration, emotional and social support, communication, routine rebuilding, and meaning-making after death, separation, displacement, illness, job loss, retirement, or other major change. |
artifact.life.grief-loss-major-transitions.administration_plan |
plan | Administration Plan for Grief, Loss, and Major Life Transitions Intelligence: A governed action design that sequences work, ownership, dependencies, timing, contingencies, and review. It supports the pack purpose of support practical administration, emotional and social support, communication, routine rebuilding, and meaning-making after death, separation, displacement, illness, job loss, retirement, or other major change. |
artifact.life.grief-loss-major-transitions.support_map |
model | Support Map for Grief, Loss, and Major Life Transitions Intelligence: A purpose-bounded representation of entities, relationships, assumptions, boundaries, and evidence of adequacy. It supports the pack purpose of support practical administration, emotional and social support, communication, routine rebuilding, and meaning-making after death, separation, displacement, illness, job loss, retirement, or other major change. |
artifact.life.grief-loss-major-transitions.communication_plan |
plan | Communication Plan for Grief, Loss, and Major Life Transitions Intelligence: A governed action design that sequences work, ownership, dependencies, timing, contingencies, and review. It supports the pack purpose of support practical administration, emotional and social support, communication, routine rebuilding, and meaning-making after death, separation, displacement, illness, job loss, retirement, or other major change. |
artifact.life.grief-loss-major-transitions.memorial_or_reflection_brief |
brief | Memorial Or Reflection Brief for Grief, Loss, and Major Life Transitions Intelligence: A bounded specification of purpose, stakeholders, requirements, constraints, assumptions, and success criteria. It supports the pack purpose of support practical administration, emotional and social support, communication, routine rebuilding, and meaning-making after death, separation, displacement, illness, job loss, retirement, or other major change. |
artifact.life.grief-loss-major-transitions.phased_routine_plan |
plan | Phased Routine Plan for Grief, Loss, and Major Life Transitions Intelligence: A governed action design that sequences work, ownership, dependencies, timing, contingencies, and review. It supports the pack purpose of support practical administration, emotional and social support, communication, routine rebuilding, and meaning-making after death, separation, displacement, illness, job loss, retirement, or other major change. |
artifact.life.grief-loss-major-transitions.escalation_route |
decision | Escalation Route for Grief, Loss, and Major Life Transitions Intelligence: A bounded decision or routing record that exposes alternatives, governing constraints, evidence, rationale, ownership, status, and reopening conditions. It supports the pack purpose of support practical administration, emotional and social support, communication, routine rebuilding, and meaning-making after death, separation, displacement, illness, job loss, retirement, or other major change. |
artifact.life.grief-loss-major-transitions.recognize_high_risk_decision_record |
decision | Recognize High Risk Decision Record for Grief, Loss, and Major Life Transitions Intelligence: A bounded decision or routing record that exposes alternatives, governing constraints, evidence, rationale, ownership, status, and reopening conditions. It supports the pack purpose of support practical administration, emotional and social support, communication, routine rebuilding, and meaning-making after death, separation, displacement, illness, job loss, retirement, or other major change. |
Method families and limits
| Method ID | Method | Use when | Avoid when |
|---|---|---|---|
method.life.grief-loss-major-transitions.priority_triage |
priority triage | Use when potential harm must be detected, prioritized, contained, routed, and recorded without exceeding available authority. | Avoid delaying emergency or safeguarding routes, asking for unnecessary sensitive detail, or giving instructions that increase exposure, destroy evidence, or conflict with official guidance. |
method.life.grief-loss-major-transitions.paced_planning |
paced planning | Use when work must be sequenced across dependencies, people, time, capacity, deadlines, contingencies, and review points. | Avoid false precision, schedules that ignore uncertainty or human capacity, and plans without owners, fallbacks, or stop conditions. |
method.life.grief-loss-major-transitions.dual_practical_and_emotional_support |
dual practical and emotional support | Use when a person benefits from small practical steps, emotional acknowledgment, choice, and support without turning distress into a purely logistical problem. | Avoid pushing action before safety and readiness, minimizing grief or distress, making the person responsible for unavailable support, or delaying professional help. |
method.life.grief-loss-major-transitions.role_transition_mapping |
role transition mapping | Use when work must be sequenced across dependencies, people, time, capacity, deadlines, contingencies, and review points. | Avoid false precision, schedules that ignore uncertainty or human capacity, and plans without owners, fallbacks, or stop conditions. |
method.life.grief-loss-major-transitions.small_routine_restoration |
small routine restoration | Use when work must be sequenced across dependencies, people, time, capacity, deadlines, contingencies, and review points. | Avoid false precision, schedules that ignore uncertainty or human capacity, and plans without owners, fallbacks, or stop conditions. |
method.life.grief-loss-major-transitions.culturally_responsive_reflection |
culturally responsive reflection | Use when a plan depends on local assets, culture, power, belonging, participation, or co-design with affected people. | Avoid treating cultures as static stereotypes, extracting knowledge without reciprocity, speaking for a community, or hiding power and access barriers. |
Pack-specific invariants
The pack also inherits the core invariants in core/core_invariants.yaml.
| Invariant ID | Statement | Failure action |
|---|---|---|
invariant.life.grief-loss-major-transitions.01_there_is_no_prescribed_correct_timeline_or_emotion |
There is no prescribed correct timeline or emotion. | fail_or_repair |
invariant.life.grief-loss-major-transitions.02_practical_deadlines_are_balanced_with_current_capacity_and |
Practical deadlines are balanced with current capacity and delegated where possible. | fail_or_repair |
invariant.life.grief-loss-major-transitions.03_cultural_spiritual_or_secular_preferences_are_user_defined |
Cultural spiritual or secular preferences are user-defined. | fail_or_repair |
invariant.life.grief-loss-major-transitions.04_crisis_and_essential_needs_risks_override_ordinary_plannin |
Crisis and essential-needs risks override ordinary planning. | fail_or_repair |
Dependencies and relations
Operational general intelligences: None
Foundation concepts: general.affective-self-regulation, general.planning-execution, general.temporal, general.ethical-normative, general.collaborative-social
Life intelligences: life.personal-organization-administration, life.mental-health-help-seeking, life.personal-finance-resilience, life.civic-legal-public-services, life.community-culture-belonging
Source roles
| Source ID | Claim roles | Runtime resolution required |
|---|---|---|
who.mental_health |
concept_definition, health_or_safety_boundary, population_guidance | True |
ec.lifecomp |
competence_framework, concept_definition, evaluation_dimension | True |
local.authority |
jurisdiction_rule, runtime_fact, service_or_community_context | True |
local.community |
jurisdiction_rule, runtime_fact, service_or_community_context | True |
Risk and authority boundary
Risk class: high
- Immediate safety or self-harm concern.
- Inability to meet essential needs care for dependents or maintain housing.
- Probate family law employment benefits or other professional matters.
- Persistent severe functional decline.
Accountable people retain consent, value, regulated, irreversible, and residual-risk decisions. This semantic page does not claim a deployed implementation.
Maturity
semantic: S3_reviewable_definition
contract: C3_testable_contract
implementation: I0_not_included
evidence: E2_source_roles_mapped
governance: G2_controls_and_review_defined
overlay: O2_paired_seed_complete
Paired overlay
Runtime maturity
- Capabilities: 8
- Technical floor→ceiling:
I1_runtime→I1_runtime - Autonomy floor→ceiling:
A0_assisted→A0_assisted - I1_runtime count: 8
- Evidence class:
contract: 8 - Full hierarchy: MATURITY-HIERARCHY.md
Evaluation suite status
- CI status:
pass - Suite:
evaluation_suites/grief-loss-major-transitions.yaml - Cases defined: 7
- Capabilities under test: 8