Preferred embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods for customizing the facilitation of development of user thinking about an arbitrary problem. The system includes first logic to facilitate user specification of a problem structure, second logic to facilitate user specification of a conclusion structure, third logic to facilitate specification of a knowledge structure, related to the arbitrary problem. Some embodiments of the system further include customization logic to accomplish customized or specialized facilitation as in the provisioning of a customized or specialized process for the user. Other embodiments further include customization or specialization of the structure for the user and in some embodiments, customization of the system output.