The personal map investigates one episode through several observations. The short sample introduces the framework through descriptions you choose.
THE MAIN FREE ASSESSMENT
Your personal map
Answer the 73 statements from Chapter 9: 68 substantive statements and five self-checks. Receive supporting answers, competing possibilities, a starting practice and a direction for the need. The book suggests allowing 20–25 minutes.
Five needs. Eight ordinary stuck points. Restore remains a separate route. Enter your email after completing the assessment to receive your full result on screen and request an emailed copy. Optional device saving keeps progress in this browser.
Choose a familiar description and explore a practice. Five questions introduce the map through your selections. They do not investigate competing explanations.
This sample is separate from the Chapter 9 instrument. Nobody needs to complete it before beginning the personal map.
Each of the five need scales and eight point scales contains five statements rated 0–4. Emotion uses the five statements at the beginning. A total of 10/20 is the book’s practical threshold for choosing a chapter to explore. Lower totals leave the starting point open. These numbers are not diagnostic scores, probabilities or validated confidence.
A second scale within two points remains visible. Three elevated scales within two points of the highest score produce a broad result. Close leaders lead to a follow-up with an unresolved option. The selected chapter remains a starting place to examine.
What differs from the paper version
The original 73 statements and response scale are retained. This web adaptation, dated September 15, 2026, asks about readiness now separately from the intensity of the earlier episode. A high past Emotion score does not stop a reader who feels ready today. All statements are completed before interpretation.
The paper Emotion gate uses a total of 15/20. Here, this becomes context about the earlier episode rather than an automatic stop or override. The five Emotion answers also contribute to the ordinary point comparison.
The separate Restore prompt uses a total of 9/12 or a rating of 4 on the question about trusting your own perceptions, memory and judgment. Self-checks are reviewed before suggesting this route. Coherence as a need does not select Restore by itself.
For a close-score follow-up, choices are limited to elevated scales within one point of the highest score, or within two points when three or more elevated scales overlap. “Keep this part open” is available. A separate Restore choice in a process follow-up is labeled as the reader’s exploratory choice.
The paper leaves some descriptions qualitative. Here, a broad cluster means at least three scales scoring 10 or above within two points of the highest score. For the third self-check, uniformly high means all 65 ordinary need and process statements received 3 or 4. These are declared implementation choices, not validated measurement rules.
The first self-check holds need identification open when strongly endorsed. The second holds point identification open. The fourth, or two or more flagged checks, holds the full interpretation open. The fifth adds a reason to hold results loosely. The report explains these flags without treating them as a judgment of the reader.
How a practice is chosen
The stuck point selects the practice family. The need shapes its content, stakes and direction. The report quotes supporting answers, shows close alternatives and leaves gaps unresolved. It does not establish why previous treatment failed.
Earlier SULF assessment
The separately hosted Replit assessment uses an earlier six-need framework and different scoring. It is not the same instrument as the personal map on this website. Its own consent screen governs stored responses.
The framework and these assessments have not been validated as diagnostic or treatment tools. They support educational reflection and a more specific conversation about a repeating pattern. Research and approach.