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Check-in Awareness Cards

Analytical Frameworks for Recognising Adopted Positions

Research-informed frameworks that help people recognise their current position, understand patterns they may be experiencing, and consider possibilities for movement and adaptation.

About the Check-in Cards

Life presents moments that benefit from accurate awareness of adopted positions - before difficult conversations, during decision-making, when facing new challenges, or when patterns keep repeating. These Check-in Awareness Cards provide analytical frameworks for recognising adopted positions based on established psychological research and professional practice wisdom.

Each card addresses a specific aspect of human functioning that shapes how situations unfold. They offer information about adopted positions, patterns, and possibilities for movement, presented through evidence-based frameworks and accompanying analytical guides.

The cards follow YoungFamilyLife's "Information Without Instruction" philosophy - providing research-based frameworks while respecting the user's intelligence to analyse how adopted positions might be recognised and potentially shifted.

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Humility Check-in

Analyse information reliability, openness to learning, and competence positions

This card provides a framework for identifying current positions on three critical parameters that influence outcomes: information reliability, openness to updating understanding, and level of equipment for the situation at hand.

Key position parameters:

  • Information Reliability (Scientific to Guessing)
  • Information Stance (Constantly Curious to Knows It All)
  • How Equipped (Experienced & Ready to New to This)

Relevant contexts: Interview preparation, difficult conversations, new responsibilities, or when patterns of conflict or failure emerge.

Access the Humility Check-in Card

How to Use the Check-in Cards

The cards provide analytical frameworks for recognising adopted positions and patterns in moments when awareness matters. Each card includes:

  1. The Card Itself: A one-page framework with questions about adopted positions, position scales, and behavioral indicators for analysis.
  2. The Manual: Detailed information about when the framework applies, how to interpret adopted positions, and what possibilities for movement exist.
  3. Related Essays: Links to deeper explorations of the concepts, providing theoretical background and research evidence.

The cards provide information that may be useful when:

Note: These frameworks provide information for recognition and analysis. They illuminate adopted positions, which represents information about possibilities for adaptation and movement.

Copyright Notice

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These Check-in Awareness Cards were developed collaboratively using AI assistance to research academic sources and refine content structure, while maintaining the author's original voice, insights, and "Information Without Instruction" philosophy.

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