The Receptiveness Framework is a language recipe developed by Julia Minson, Hanne Collins, and Mike Yeomans for staying in hard conversations without escalating. The components: Acknowledgement (name what the other person said), Affirmation (find something real to agree with), positive framing (avoid "because" / "therefore" which sound like prosecutorial logic), and Division of Self (name multiple roles at once). It's measurable — the researchers can score how receptive a given response sounds — and it works even when the underlying disagreement stays fully intact.