What is integrative negotiation?

Integrative negotiation is a concept in personal epistemology: The best resolutions satisfy multiple drives simultaneously.

Example: You want to leave your stable job to pursue a creative project. Security screams stay, creativity screams go. The win-win: negotiate a four-day workweek and dedicate Fridays to the project. Security keeps its paycheck. Creativity gets its runway. Neither drive was silenced — both were satisfied through a solution that neither would have generated alone.

This concept is part of Phase 39 (Internal Negotiation) in the How to Think curriculum, which builds the epistemic infrastructure for internal negotiation.