The Mirror Series
Four instruments. One accurate reflection.
They map how you actually operate, not how you'd describe yourself operating.
$39Self-Guided, all four
What the mirror shows
Choose a word you'd use for yourself.
You already knew the word. The shadow is the one that costs you, and the one nobody tells you.
The instruments
Built for a single job.
Showing you, precisely, so practice has somewhere exact to aim.
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How you fight.
Nº 01The Conflict Map
24 itemsHeat (measured to direct) against focus (relationship to outcome). Five styles: Challenger, Advocate, Strategist, Stabilizer, Situationalist. A conflict-styles assessment, not a verdict on your character.
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What charges you.
Nº 02The Current
24 itemsProblems, people and systems, each initiated or sustained. Six modes: Diagnostician, Refiner, Catalyst, Steward, Architect, Operator. Your top two are the current, your bottom two the drag. Energy, not ability.
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What you transmit.
Nº 03The Signal
24 itemsFour channels: reception, regulation, reading, response. The gaps between them matter more than the levels.
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What pulls against your intention.
Nº 04The Undertow
28 itemsSeven interference patterns between what you intend and what you do. The one that pulls hardest is rarely the one you'd guess.
Nº 01 · The Conflict Map · One real item of twenty-four
If something about a situation is bothering me, I'd rather name it out loud than manage it quietly.
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Every strength, paired with its shadow.
Not the flattering kind of reflection. The kind you can act on. An original instrument set, wholly owned, and it does not ask your birthday.
Editions
Self first. Then the room.
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Nº 01
The Self-Guided Edition
You hold the mirror.
Four assessments. One synthesis. All four instruments, an eleven-page workbook and the cross-reading protocol.
- Access
- One private link. Your results save in your browser and download as a PDF that's yours.
- Comes with
- What Happens Now and Reading the Mirror.
- Then what
- Bring your results to the free call and you're a session ahead.
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Nº 02
The Witness Edition
The people who work with you hold it.
The same instruments, answered about you by leaders, teammates, peers and direct reports, item for item. Then The Room, where their answers meet yours.
- How
- One link. Each witness answers in one sitting. You receive one report by rater group.
- When
- After your debrief, and again as the cycles widen.
- Included in
- The Launchpad. Self-guided readers ask on the call.
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Nº 03
The Leadership Mirror
We read it together.
The written synthesis: all four read against each other, by me, with you. Not a type. A precise account of how you operate under load, and the single edge worth working first.
- Inside
- The Self-Awareness Sprint and the Launchpad.
Where the reflection goes
Insight is the aim, not the change.
Used well, a reflection tells practice exactly where to aim. Both starting packages begin with the Mirror Series and turn what it shows into one behavior you practice in your real week.
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Nº 01
The Self-Awareness Sprint
Clarity, and a place to start.
The Mirror Series, synthesized into your Leadership Mirror, then a thirty-day plan around your single highest-leverage edge.
- Shape
- Two sessions over six weeks: an integration debrief, then an action plan.
- Between
- Async support, and Elio from day one.
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Nº 02
The Self-Mastery Launchpad
The reflection, then the practice.
Your first five cycles with the Mirror Series, the Leadership Mirror and a kick-off built in, and a written summary at the end.
- Shape
- A thirty-minute kick-off, then six sessions, one every two weeks across the five cycles.
- After
- You enter the ladder at cycle six. Three more cycles to graduation.
For teams · The room
Everyone can see it. Nobody will name it.
The decision that gets quietly remade every month. The person everyone routes around.
Each person knows how the team feels to them. Nobody holds the map. This builds the map, then turns it into practice.
Before
Each person completes the four instruments privately. Every synthesis is AI-assisted and personally reviewed: read and edited by me before it reaches anyone. Then the team map.
In the room
Three to four hours, facilitated. Each person meets their own mirror privately first. Then the team meets the map.
After
A Sprint Cycle leadership guide, so the map turns into practice.
The team map
From $1,150Three people, $1,150. Six, $1,900. Larger groups split by who works most closely. Founding-team rate for now.
Who sees what
- Each person
- Their own results. They never go to a manager, a sponsor or HR.
- The organization
- The team map. Patterns, not names.
- Me
- Individual results, because synthesis requires it. They stay with me.
If your team is small enough that a pattern would point to one person, I'll say so before anyone commits.
The test
Did decision rights move, or only the conversation?
Participation theater is what it looks like when they didn't: the offsite happened, everyone was heard, and the decision got made where it always gets made.
Participation Theater in the Workplace, the essay →Talks: the knowing-doing gap and participation theater. The latest, Crossing the Knowing-Doing Gap, is at UC's Lindner Hall on November 14.
See the talk →Sessions run on evenings and weekends.
Start here
Start with your own reflection.
Four instruments and a workbook, on your own time.