The Selfie-coach is a situational assessment that explores the state of mind of a person or a group facing a clearly identified situation. It answers one simple question: ‘How are you approaching this situation?’

Because our state of mind can change from one situation to another, the Selfie-coach does not try to lock a person into a personality profile. It helps you understand what is at play here and now, then observe how things change over time, so as to develop clear-sightedness and make adjustments easier.

The Meta-Forts House: a graphic representation of the state of mind in a given situation

Examples of use

Management
Recruitment
Conflict management
Motivation
Goal setting
Change management
Quality of relationships
Team cohesion
Communication
Public speaking…

The origins of the Selfie-coach approach

Knowing your personality is not enough to understand how we will react here and now. Being clear-sighted about the situation and its impact is the key that changes everything.

Depending on what is at stake, the context, the people present or our energy level, our state of mind can change profoundly. This happens instantly and can alter our motivations, emotions, values and behaviours in the moment.

Making visible what is at play

The Selfie-coach is built on two proven principles: the memory palace, to memorise the method, and visualisation, to make it easier to experiment with different states of mind.

This is how the graphic representation of the state of mind as a floor plan came about. Moving mentally through this house makes it easier to change and to put those changes into practice.

Six portraits of women and men with different attitudes

Simple, but not simplistic

We chose to make the main foundation of the Selfie-coach – psychology professor Michael Apter’s reversal theory – easier to apply, without losing any of its subtlety. The debriefing workbooks therefore give practitioners a clear and reassuring framework for using the different assessments.

Anticipating or reacting

The approach meets two needs.

Strategic: anticipating an upcoming situation and preparing for it.

Reactive: understanding what is at play at any given moment and adjusting.

The ambition of the Selfie-coach

To give access to a fine-grained understanding of the state of mind, so that you can anticipate accurately, react effectively and act at the right moment.

Selfie-coach assessments were designed by coaches who have held management positions.

The Selfie-coach draws mainly on the reversal theory of the psychologist Michael Apter. The approach turns his concepts into a visual, pragmatic and operational method, designed to be easy to use in real-life situations.

What the Selfie-coach brings to light

Motivations

Priority drive.
Motivations in play.
Mobility.
Ease of access.

Emotions

Conscious and unconscious emotions.
Target emotions.
Racket feelings.
Emotional clear-sightedness.

Values and representations

Values.
Value conflicts.
Cognitive biases.
Self-perception.

Behaviours

Activated behaviours.
Drivers.
Procrastination.
Acceptance / refusal.

Resources

Energy.
Stress.
Resilience.
Capacity for nuance.

Consistency

Validity of the results.
Consistency of the answers.
Alignment of emotion / mind / behaviour.
Overall state of mind.

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