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THE LIFE
MATRIX™is not a test. It is not an acclaimed
clinically validated psychometric instrument. It is a self-affirmation
format designed to focus a person’s attention upon some generally
accepted crucially significant social functioning indicators in the
life domains of satisfaction and
frustration and a global perspective of an individual’s
life situation. THE LIFE
MATRIX™solicits responses to carefully
crafted affirmative statements and assigns numerical values to them.
It is purposely subjective. It is this very subjectivity
that makes it so valuable to the respondent. It is their own
opinion of their life, not some “expert’s.” This information is useful
to the respondent because it organizes and orders one’s complex, multifaceted
life circumstances into a coherent and comprehensive whole, revealing
potentials for conscious, positively managed change. It is not uncommon
for a person to change their perception of a major factor in their
life, simply from reflecting upon it during and after its completion.
Each response is scored and the scores are summarized into Part, Sector
and Domain scores and a Perspective score. THE LIFE MATRIX GRAPHIC PROFILE™ presentation is
then constructed from the assembled numeric score summaries, representing
the respondent’s assessment of their own, personal, subjective perceptions
of their current social functioning. THE
LIFE MATRIX NARRATIVE REPORT™ is then prepared by doing a pattern and content analysis of THE LIFE MATRIX GRAPHIC PROFILE™ and prioritizing
this response pattern into an interview format using the selected
statements and the person’s responses thereto. THE LIFE MATRIX GRAPHIC PROFILE™ and THE LIFE MATRIX NARRATIVE REPORT™ derived from it stand alone as
self-help devices. They are tools designed to present an individual’s
subjective perception of their own current satisfactions and frustrations
as these relate to specific indicators of their social functioning
in a simple, easily understood, graphic format. These tools are very
helpful to anyone who self-administers THE LIFE MATRIX™ and uses the GRAPHIC PROFILE AND NARRATIVE REPORT™ on their own for a better grasp
of their life situation and making plans to change it. In this way,
a person moves toward a more integrated and expanded conscious awareness
of their current functioning.
The greatest potential impact of these tools
upon the respondent is fully realized only when utilized in a structured
VIDEOSYNERGY® LIFE MATRIX™ VIDEO
FEEDBACK INTERVIEW, or an AUDIO
AUTOSYNTHESIS™ LIFE MATRIX ™ AUDIO
FEEDBACK INTERVIEW In these processes
the respondent interprets the pattern analysis of the responses to
THE
LIFE MATRIX™ statements, discussing and synthesizing
the meaning of this pattern in their own terms during
a programmed video, or audio feedback session. When employed in a VIDEOSYNERGY® LIFE MATRIX™ INTERVIEW conducted by a
VIDEOSYNERGIST™, THE LIFE MATRIX NARRATIVE REPORT™ is used to focus a person’s attention
upon their overall perception of their life as they are guided through
a video feedback session in which they are videotaped reading each
statement and their response to it and then discussing their perception
of the meaning of the statement and the reason(s) for their particular
response. This discussion is videotaped and played back to the client
for their review, after being carefully and specifically instructed
by the VIDEOSYNERGIST™ regarding when and how to interrupt and respond to the playback. They are
“feeding back” to themselves, getting an “objective” look at their
“subjective” world. They are becoming more self-aware, more self-knowledgeable
– they are self-actualizing, integrating and expanding their consciousness.
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