Seven facets. Twenty-three forms. One thing that moves.
Hold white light up to a prism and it separates into every colour it was carrying all along. Nothing is added. What was always there simply becomes visible, and countable.
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The seven facets
Ordered by how much they change. The first six describe who you are. The seventh describes how you are, today, and it is the only one we expect to move.
- 1How you’re wiredBig Five, Enneagram, Values and Beliefs
- 2What you carryACE
- 3How you connectAttachment Styles
- 4How you think about thinkingMetacognitive Awareness, Learning Styles
- 5How you communicateCommunication Style, Social Styles
- 6How you handle frictionConflict Style, three-point positioning
- 7How you’re doing nowStress and Anxiety Measurements
No single assessment defines you. Seven angles, taken together, come close.
A facet is not a test. It is a question about you that several tests answer from different directions. Where the answers agree, confidence rises. Where they disagree, something interesting is happening, and that disagreement is often the most useful thing in your profile.
How you’re wired
The dispositions you did not choose. What energises you, what depletes you, what you reach for under no pressure at all, and what you are quietly organising your life around.
What you carry
Early experience leaves a shape. This facet is not a verdict and it is not a diagnosis; it is context that makes the other six legible, and it is the one facet we treat with the most care.
How you connect
What you do when closeness is on offer, and what you do when it is withdrawn. The single best predictor of which relationships feel effortless to you and which ones cost you something.
How you think about thinking
Whether you can catch your own reasoning in the act. Metacognition is the facet most responsive to practice, which is why it is the one the Reflection Journal works on directly.
How you communicate
Your default register, your pace, and the gap between what you meant and what landed. This is the facet the Communications Coach reads from before it suggests anything.
How you handle friction
Where you go when something goes wrong: toward the problem, away from it, or into a role. Conflict is where patterns show themselves fastest, which makes this facet the most immediately actionable.
How you’re doing now
The only facet that is supposed to change. Six facets describe the instrument; this one is the reading. It is measured repeatedly, and it is the sole input to the Strain Index.
We do not claim to change your attachment style in ninety days. We claim that your strain moved, and that you can see why.
The same seven facets, pointed somewhere
You are not the same person in a performance review that you are at a family dinner, and any measure that pretends otherwise is measuring something you do not recognise. A prism can be aimed. So can this one.
A lens is a context, not an eighth facet
Three of the instruments come in three forms: work, school, and relationships. Choosing a lens swaps those forms and re-reads the facets through it. Your Prism does not change; the light coming out of it does.
The Workplace lens adds four SPARKS instruments that only make sense at work, and it is the lens an employer-sponsored deployment opens in by default. It is still your profile, and it is still visible to you alone.
Authority Blueprint, Calibration Check, Connection Check, Step-Up Profile, plus the work forms of communication, social and conflict style.
The school forms of communication, social and conflict style, read alongside Learning Styles.
The relationship forms, read alongside attachment and the three-point positioning model.
Sixteen instruments, twenty-three forms
Every instrument that feeds the Prism, which facet it feeds, and how many forms it takes. Three instruments exist in three context forms each, which is why the instrument count and the form count differ.
| Facet | Instrument | Forms | Count |
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| 1 · How you’re wired | Big Five | Single | 1 |
| The Enneagram | Single | 1 | |
| Values and Beliefs | Single | 1 | |
| 16-Type preferences | Single | 1 | |
| 2 · What you carry | ACE | Single | 1 |
| 3 · How you connect | Attachment Styles | Single | 1 |
| 4 · How you think | Metacognitive Awareness | Single | 1 |
| Learning Styles | Single | 1 | |
| 5 · How you communicate | Communication Style | Work, School, Relationships | 3 |
| Social Styles | Work, School, Relationships | 3 | |
| 6 · How you handle friction | Conflict Style | Work, School, Relationships | 3 |
| 7 · How you’re doing now | Stress and Anxiety Measurements | Single, repeated | 1 |
| Workplace lens | The Authority Blueprint | Work lens | 1 |
| The Calibration Check | Work lens | 1 | |
| The Connection Check | Work lens | 1 | |
| The Step-Up Profile | Work lens | 1 |
What we include, and what we will not claim for it
An instrument is only as useful as the honesty about its limits.
Included because you already know your four letters
A large share of people arrive already knowing their type, and that recognition is a genuinely useful way into a profile. We include 16-type items for familiarity and self-recognition, nothing more. Big Five carries the trait weight in this facet, and where the two disagree, Big Five is the reading we act on.
Drawn from validated instruments, scored by us
The instruments beneath each facet come from published, research-backed measures. The synthesis across them is ours, and it is documented rather than asserted: which items feed which facet, how they are scored, how they are normed, and what version of the method produced your result.
Not a diagnosis, not a decision tool
The Prism is a self-knowledge instrument. It is not a clinical assessment, it does not diagnose, and no part of it may be used in hiring, promotion, performance management, or any other decision about a person. That restriction is written into every organisational agreement, not only onto this page.
Trade Secrets, plus use of an issued patent, plus a continuation
The Prism synthesis methodology is covered trade secrets methods, and certain features are patent-protected. A continuation covering additional aspects is pending.
Six facets describe the instrument. One reports the reading.
That separation is what lets us measure change honestly. See what an organisation sees.