The Kelp App
Three tools for semantic reconstruction
Kelp treats recovery as a linguistic challenge. These tools help you discover, collect, and practice the language patterns that enable genuine transformation.
- Feed
A curated stream of creative works—music, film, literature, art—each tagged with linguistic operations that demonstrate new ways of constructing meaning. Discover how artists navigate the same territories you're exploring.
- Library
Your personal collection of compositions that resonate. Organize works by the linguistic patterns they exemplify, building a reference library of semantic possibilities for your own reconstruction.
- Journal
Guided reflection space where you practice applying linguistic operations to your own experience. Move from consuming examples to generating your own transformed narratives.
The Kelp Architecture
A framework for understanding recovery
Addiction Framework
The Addiction Framework maps the territory of addiction and recovery across four domains: Physiological, Psychological, Sociological, and Existential. Each domain contains anchor points—specific concepts and experiences that people in recovery navigate. This isn't a clinical model but a semantic one: it identifies the concepts that need new language, the territories where meaning has collapsed or calcified. Understanding where you are in this landscape is the first step toward finding new ways to speak about it.
Linguistic Framework
The Linguistic Framework provides the operations—the actual moves you can make to transform how you construct meaning. These aren't grammar rules but semantic techniques: ways of reframing, repositioning, and regenerating the narratives that shape identity. Nine core vectors (like Temporal Reframing, Boundary Articulation, and Generative Synthesis) branch into forty specific scalars you can learn and practice. These operations are discovered in creative works and then applied to your own experience.
Cultural Framework
The Cultural Framework curates creative works—compositions across music, film, literature, visual art, and more—that demonstrate linguistic operations in action. Each composition is tagged with the specific semantic moves it exemplifies and the recovery concepts it illuminates. This isn't about finding works “about” addiction; it's about finding works that model the linguistic transformations recovery requires. The framework currently contains over 300 compositions across seven disciplines.
Kelp Spaces
Workshops for semantic exploration
Kelp Spaces are facilitated workshops where small groups explore compositions together, practicing linguistic operations in community. Each season focuses on a different theme.
Spring 2026 schedule announced soon
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