Variation-Encounter-Mediation.

Figure

VARIATION
  metastable superabundance
  more futures than one resolution can exhaust
        |
        v
ENCOUNTER
  irreversible boundary event
  incompatibility is forced to discharge
        |
        v
MEDIATION
  propagating governance
  the new regime recruits and maintains itself

How to read it

The three terms are analytically distinct but co-constitutive. Variation supplies the unresolved field. Encounter commits it. Mediation turns the commitment into an operant regime. Remove any one term and you no longer have genesis in the strong sense the book requires.