The instrument

CORE maps the structure underneath your goals.

CORE is Human Creative Coaching’s developing framework: four capacities, drawn from decades of research on attachment, boundaries, integration and agency, and from Dr. John Townsend’s developmental work. Its assessment is in pilot. We use it for guided reflection and coaching conversations while we keep studying how well it measures. I read every snapshot myself.

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Connection

Capacity for being reachable under pressure

Safety that doesn't depend on performing. Being known without managing the impression, receiving support without shame, staying in relationship under stress instead of withdrawing into self-sufficiency.

Ownership

Capacity for signing your own name

A self defined from the inside. Knowing where you end and others begin, so your yes means something and your no costs you less. Worth carried internally, held without cutting people off.

Reality

Capacity for holding the whole picture

The good and the hard in one frame: limits, failure, disappointment and loss carried without splitting into idealization or despair, and good news allowed to be real.

Empowerment

Capacity for acting from what matters

Moving from a grounded adult center: knowing why you're moving, turning it into practiced action, holding it steady when power enters the room.

Try the sketch

Where would you put yourself today?

Drag the four points. Each one answers with a reading in the practice's own words. It's a sketch, not the instrument: the real one is 37 items, and where each capacity actually sits is something you and a coach name together.

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ii · The positions

Four capacities. Four kinds of work.

A number doesn't tell you what to do. The position does: it's why the same advice lands for one person and bounces off another.

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What meets it

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A capacity in any position, walking into a new room, returns to Naming.
Start a conversation The conversation comes first and costs nothing. When it helps, the CORE pilot assessment is taken in the first sessions, once we both know this is the right fit.
What it can't see

Two people could get the same score but need opposite things.

Both of these people scored six out of ten on Ownership. Same dot, same place on the circle, same line in the email. What separates them is not the number, it is what the number is made of.

Ownership · 6 of 10 How it shows up in a room Takes everything on
Underneath

Carrying outcomes that belong to other people, because a dropped ball is unbearable regardless of whose hands it left. The capacity is not missing here. It is overextended, and it is expensive.

So the work is

Give back what was never yours.

Ownership · 6 of 10 How it shows up in a room Measured, delegates well
Underneath

Ownership stops exactly where blame could start. Everything owned is something safe to be right about, and the risky thing quietly stays unclaimed.

So the work is

Take on one thing that can visibly fail.

Same score. Opposite work.

Thirty minutes with a person is what tells the two apart: which rooms shrink the capacity, what the gap is costing on an ordinary Tuesday, and what you actually want it for. That is why no snapshot leaves here without one, and why an algorithm never writes the reading.

CORE is a pilot assessment. The research it draws on is well established; CORE’s own measurement properties are still being studied, so a score is a starting point for reflection, not a verdict.

A score is where the conversation starts.

How it runs
iThe conversation
Free · thirty minutes

The conversation

Thirty free minutes on whether this is the right fit, for you and for me. What you are carrying, what it is costing, and what I would build first.

iiThe first sessions
Sessions one to four

The first sessions

When it is useful, the CORE pilot assessment is taken early and read together: a score in each capacity, a short reading of each, your four dots on the circle. It gives the conversation a starting point.

iiiThe work
Weekly · ongoing

The work

Weekly, if the fit is right. You can re-take CORE along the way as a point of reflection.

The conversation comes first. The map comes with the work.

Start a conversation CORE's constructs are adapted, with permission, from the TPRAT lineage. A growth assessment, not a personality type.

Four positions

Naming

The capacity is running on effort and workarounds, mostly unseen. The costliest patterns are the ones you can't see yet, and putting one into words is already the first thing that changes it.

What meets it: An accurate map, and the first need named out loud.

Building

You can name the pattern. Under pressure it still runs you sometimes, which isn't a failure of you or the work: new responses compete with old ones, and stress favors the older one.

What meets it: Reps with support, not more insight.

Widening

The capacity holds in most rooms. Certain rooms still shrink it, because what you build in one place doesn't automatically travel to the next.

What meets it: Precision. Specific rooms, specific reps.

Spending

The capacity has become a resource other people draw on. Giving from it feeds you rather than drains you, as long as your boundaries protect it.

What meets it: A larger frame, and something worth spending it on.