Core Terms & Field Signals
LPWS and DKWS use specific words to keep recognition, contribution, carrying capacity and practical exchange understandable.
Some words describe the structure.
Some words describe movement.
Some words describe signals that may appear when a field becomes unclear, overloaded, blocked or drained.
This page is not meant to become a heavy dictionary.
It is a reference map.
It helps keep the language consistent across the framework, so that the same word keeps the same meaning wherever it appears.
Why core terms matter
A framework becomes harder to trust when the same word means different things on different pages.
Core terms help prevent that.
They give shared language to what is being recognised, carried, protected, paused, restored or allowed to move.
They do not exist to make the field rigid.
They exist to keep the field readable.
When the language stays clear, people can better understand where they are in the structure and what kind of movement is being discussed.
Recognition
Recognition is the beginning of LPWS.
It means that a contribution, presence, action, care, responsibility or carried value is seen clearly enough to be named.
Recognition does not automatically create money, Lumen, entitlement, debt, access or a claim.
It simply begins with seeing what is there.
Recognition comes before movement.
Lightpoint
A Lightpoint is a visible marker of recognised contribution.
It may point to presence, care, responsibility, preparation, restoration, attention, support, reliability or another form of carried value.
A Lightpoint is not money.
A Lightpoint is not purchasing power.
A Lightpoint is not automatic entitlement.
A Lightpoint says: this has been seen.
Field Log
The Field Log keeps context.
It helps preserve what was recognised, where it happened, how it was understood, and why it mattered.
The Field Log is not a punishment record or a social credit system.
Its purpose is to keep recognition from becoming vague, forgotten or detached from context.
Where Lightpoints make recognition visible, the Field Log helps remember the ground around that recognition.
Draagwaarde
Draagwaarde is recognised contribution that has been carried in practice.
It may arise from help, care, listening, coaching, repair, preparation, support, food, craft, presence, responsibility or other concrete forms of contribution.
Draagwaarde is not the same as Lumen.
Draagwaarde may move more lightly within the field, especially where people recognise and exchange value directly with each other.
Where draagwaarde begins to touch physical sources, products, stock, business layers or wider circulation, stronger carrying conditions apply.
Draagwaarde may become visible before Lumen can move.
Bronruimte
Bronruimte is the available source space that determines where draagwaarde may touch physical sources without draining them.
It helps protect food, stock, products, materials, time, money, labour, suppliers, businesses, reserves and practical capacity.
Not all draagwaarde becomes bronruimte.
Bronruimte opens only where a source can safely share without being depleted.
This protects the difference between recognised human contribution and physical or operational resources that require real carrying capacity.
Bronruimte is opened by a source holder.
Bronhouder / Source Holder
A source holder is a person, business, project, hub or structure that carries a real source within DKWS.
A source may be stock, food, space, labour capacity, production capacity, money, tools, infrastructure, knowledge, service capacity or another practical form of carrying capacity.
A source holder does not carry the whole field.
A source holder opens a clearly bounded bronruimte within what can be safely carried.
A source holder should be able to carry the possibility that Lumen or value may return to the source.
This protects the source from depletion and keeps circulation connected to real capacity.
Lumen
Lumen belong to DKWS.
They may function as a context-bound circulation right, value marker or practical unit within voluntary agreements.
Lumen are not money.
They are not legal tender.
They are not ownership.
They are not an absolute claim.
Lumen may only move where practical exchange is supported by visible contribution, real carrying capacity, clear source, defined limits, responsibility and return flow.
Lumen do not arise from wish, claim or intention alone.
They must remain connected to the context, source and capacity that allow them to move.
They must be able to carry.
Carrying Capacity
Carrying capacity means what a person, source, business, reserve, project, field or structure can actually carry without being drained.
It asks whether movement is supported by real capacity.
This may include time, stock, labour, money, equipment, responsibility, trust, skill, planning, availability, reserve or risk-bearing ability.
Value may move only where it is carried.
Draagkrachtreserve
A draagkrachtreserve is real carried capacity that can temporarily, clearly and within limits support movement, continuity, risk, recovery or a pilot.
It is not calculated air.
It must be connected to something that can actually carry.
A reserve may help prevent a source from being drained too quickly.
It may also help protect a project while return flow is still developing.
Source / Bron
A source is where value, capacity or movement comes from.
A source may be a person, supplier, stock, field, business, skill, reserve, client, contract, material, space, tool, infrastructure, time, care, knowledge or responsibility.
Without source, there is nothing to let flow.
Source clarity matters because value becomes dangerous when it moves without showing what carries it.
Bedding
Bedding is the structure, agreement, boundary and route that allows value to move safely.
Like water needs a riverbed, value needs bedding.
Without bedding, movement spreads everywhere.
Within DKWS, bedding may include agreements, roles, limits, return flow, stop moments, responsibility, quality boundaries, recovery routes and clear project structure.
Bedding prevents movement from becoming overflow.
Circulation
Circulation means value moves in a way that remains connected to source, bedding and carrying capacity.
Healthy circulation does not only ask whether value moves.
It asks whether the source remains cared for, whether return flow is possible, and whether the field can carry the movement.
Circulation moves value.
It does not drain the source.
Circulation space can only grow when the carrying capacity of the field grows with it.
Return Flow
Return flow is the movement back toward the source, carrier, reserve or field after value has been made available, carried or put at risk.
Return flow is not interest.
It is not a charge on weakness or pressure.
Return flow only remains healthy where real contribution, availability, risk, stock, responsibility, liquidity or carrying capacity has actually been carried.
Pre-Circulation
Pre-circulation means value begins to move before the full return, outcome or recovery is fully present.
Pre-circulation can be useful, but only when the source, limit, risk, field capacity and return flow are clear before movement begins.
If value moves first and the question of who carries the emptiness remains vague, pre-circulation can become essence extraction.
Pre-circulation is not debt creation.
Source Clarity
Source Clarity means keeping the origin, meaning and responsibility of LPWS, DKWS and related terms understandable.
It helps prevent confusion around names, older language, AI summaries, search results, value claims and responsibility.
Source Clarity does not create hidden authority.
It helps keep the field readable and traceable.
Source Clarity also helps prevent Lumen from being mistaken for money, ownership or an unlimited claim.
Draagkrachtbegeleider
A draagkrachtbegeleider is someone who helps observe whether a proposed movement, exchange, project or pre-circulation can actually be carried.
This role is not meant as policing.
It is not based on distrust.
It helps clarify source, limit, risk, return flow, bronruimte and carrying capacity before movement becomes too heavy.
A draagkrachtbegeleider may help prevent air value, depletion, overflow or essence extraction.
Draagkrachtkaart
A draagkrachtkaart is a light overview of where carrying capacity is present in the field.
It may show source holders, available bronruimte, practical capacity, accepted limits, possible return flow and areas where pressure, depletion or stagnation may appear.
It is not meant to become a control system.
Its purpose is to help the field remain readable.
Protective Attention
Protective Attention is careful attention given to a signal before it becomes damage.
It is not accusation.
It is not punishment.
It means that something in the field may need to be slowed down, clarified or observed more carefully.
Protective Attention protects people, sources and the structure from avoidable harm.
Protective Pause
A Protective Pause is a temporary slowing or stopping of movement to protect the field.
It may be needed when value, responsibility, Lumen, access, claims, projects or agreements begin to move without enough clarity or carrying capacity.
A Protective Pause is not the same as punishment.
It gives time for review, correction, restoration or boundary-setting.
Restoration
Restoration means returning toward balance after confusion, harm, extraction, depletion, misalignment or unsupported movement.
Restoration may involve clarification, apology, repair, return flow, compensation, role correction, source recovery, boundary-setting or a renewed agreement.
Restoration should be visible enough to trust.
Words alone are not always restoration.
Field Signals
Field Signals are signs that something in the field may need attention.
They do not automatically mean someone is guilty or wrong.
They show where movement, recognition, source, bedding, responsibility or carrying capacity may need to be looked at more carefully.
A field does not need to break before its signals are taken seriously.
Stagnation
Stagnation occurs when value, contribution, attention, stock, responsibility or carrying capacity stops moving while movement is needed.
Rest is not the same as stagnation.
Rest can protect.
Stagnation points to blockage, unclear agreement, lack of bedding, missing responsibility or movement that has stopped without being consciously paused.
Accumulation
Accumulation occurs when value, reserve, influence, responsibility or recognition gathers too much in one place.
Accumulation is not always wrong.
A reserve may need to grow.
But unhealthy accumulation can block movement, create dependency, centralise influence or prevent return flow.
The question is whether accumulation protects the field or traps the field.
Depletion
Depletion occurs when a source gives more than it can restore, renew or carry.
This may happen to a person, supplier, reserve, business, stock, field, relationship or practical source.
Depletion is a serious field signal.
It shows that movement may be taking more than the source can safely provide.
Overflow
Overflow occurs when movement becomes larger than the available bedding.
Demand, expectation, production, Lumen release, responsibility, communication or activity may grow faster than the field can carry.
Overflow does not always mean the idea is wrong.
It means the structure may not yet be ready to carry that amount of movement.
Imbalance
Imbalance occurs when giving, receiving, carrying, recognition, return flow or responsibility no longer stands in a healthy relation.
Imbalance is not automatically blame.
It is a signal that the structure needs more clarity.
Healthy correction begins with seeing the imbalance before it becomes conflict.
Air Value
Air Value is unsupported movement.
It appears when value seems to be created, released or circulated without real source, contribution, reserve, carrying capacity or return flow.
Lumen from air are not circulation.
They are unsupported movement.
Air Value weakens the field because it creates appearance without ground.
Essence Extraction
Essence Extraction happens when value appears to move, but the real source is being drained.
It may happen when labour, trust, stock, care, ideas, responsibility, risk or availability are used without clear recognition, return flow, boundary or source protection.
Essence Extraction can also happen when value is taken from the field and it remains vague who carries the emptiness.
This signal must be taken seriously.
Noise / Ruis
Noise appears when language, claims, reactions, expectations or interpretations become so loud that the actual structure becomes harder to read.
Noise can come from over-explaining, over-promising, repeating without clarity, mixing old terms with new terms, or adding too many meanings to one layer.
Noise does not always mean something is false.
It means the signal needs to be cleaned.
Delay / Vertraging
Delay occurs when movement slows down because a step is waiting for clarity, capacity, agreement, review, source confirmation or practical readiness.
Delay is not always negative.
Sometimes delay protects the field.
But repeated delay can become a signal that the bedding is not clear enough or that responsibility has not been assigned.
Dependency
Dependency appears when a person, project, supplier, participant or field part becomes too reliant on one source, one person, one organisation, one reserve or one decision point.
Some reliance is natural in early phases.
But hidden dependency can become dangerous when the field cannot move without one actor carrying too much.
Dependency should be made visible before it becomes pressure.
False Movement / Schijnbeweging
False Movement occurs when something appears to move, but the real carrying work is not happening.
A project may look active while no source is protected.
Lumen may appear to circulate while no real return flow exists.
Plans may look complete while risk remains vague.
False Movement can feel energetic at first, but it eventually exposes the absence of carrying capacity.
How to use this page
This page is meant as a reference.
When a term appears elsewhere in LPWS or DKWS, this page can help clarify its meaning.
Not every page needs to repeat every definition.
The full explanation belongs here.
Other pages may use shorter references.
This keeps the structure lighter, more consistent and easier to maintain.
In essence
Core terms help the framework remain readable.
Field signals help the framework notice when something needs attention.
LPWS begins with recognition.
DKWS begins where practical exchange needs structure, carrying capacity, responsibility and clear agreement.
Lightpoints make recognition visible.
The Field Log keeps context.
Draagwaarde may arise where contribution is recognised.
Bronruimte protects physical sources.
Lumen may only move where carrying capacity is present.
A clear field does not need heavier language.
It needs language that keeps pointing back to what is real, carried and understandable.