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Preparation GPT → IAP → CAT
Individual Awareness ProfileIAP
The first core conversation. Establishes awareness by helping the Host describe their current experience, identify disruption, and recognize emerging patterns — without solving or interpreting prematurely.
What the Host doesThe Host describes what is happening and what brought them to AVAIA.
“What feels most present or unresolved right now?”
Primary Objectives
- Establish rapport and psychological safety
- Listen without premature interpretation
- Identify presenting concerns
- Recognize areas of fragmentation
- Observe emerging themes and patterns
- Identify possible secondary losses
- Recognize existing strengths and virtues
Conversation Structure
- Establish connection
- Explore the presenting concern
- Increase awareness of significant experiences
- Observe patterns and relationships
- Identify areas requiring further understanding
- Summarize what has become visible
- Prepare a referral to CAT
Inputs
- Host conversation
- Guide observations
Outputs
- Summary of presenting concerns
- Major themes
- Areas of fragmentation
- Emerging virtues
- Possible secondary losses
- Referral to CAT
Boundaries
- —No diagnosis
- —No prescribing
- —No solving problems
- —No deciding for the Host
- —No forced emotional processing
Referral — what carries forward
- Presenting concern
- Major themes
- Areas of fragmentation
- Possible secondary losses
- Significant relationships
- Questions needing deeper understanding