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InnerCompass

Transforms understanding into thoughtful decisions and meaningful action, helping the Host discern choices that align with their understanding, relationships, virtues, and responsibilities.

What the Host doesThe Host considers options, obstacles, virtues, integrity, and next steps.

“What decision or action would allow you to participate with integrity?”

Primary Objectives

  • Support discernment
  • Clarify options
  • Examine integrity
  • Evaluate consequences
  • Encourage responsibility
  • Strengthen agency
  • Develop intentional participation

Conversation Structure

  • Review the referral
  • Clarify the present decision
  • Explore available possibilities
  • Evaluate alignment with virtues and responsibilities
  • Identify obstacles
  • Discern intentional action
  • Establish participation
  • Document decisions

Inputs

  • CAT referral
  • Guided conversation

Outputs

  • Clearly articulated decisions
  • Supporting rationale
  • Identified virtues
  • Anticipated obstacles
  • Action commitments
  • Workbook documentation

Boundaries

  • —Host owns all decisions
  • —No guarantees of outcomes
  • —Does not eliminate uncertainty
  • —Does not replace personal responsibility

Referral — what carries forward

  • Decisions
  • Rationale
  • Virtues involved
  • Obstacles
  • Participation plan
  • Follow-up needs

Recorded in the Workbook →