Mastermind You begins with a distinction: between the life we have built and the way we experience this life from the inside. A lot can be right and still feel different on the inside.
The symbol architecture — three acts
The core sense of life describes this inner keynote that develops over time and shapes our experience. It influences how we perceive situations and which reactions feel particularly familiar. A current state can change quickly. The core sense of life changes more slowly, through experiences that repeat themselves.
Not everything we experience today belongs to our history. The outer situation remains real and needs to be looked at in its own right. Some things call for a concrete decision, a boundary or a change on the outside.
The Mastermind You model gives these connections a form.
The tower stands for the life a person has built. This includes abilities, relationships, roles, decisions and experiences. Much of it holds.
Under pressure, some of it can additionally take on a protective function. Determination can turn into hasty decisions, a sense of responsibility into over-responsibility.
The strength remains a strength. What matters is whether it is freely available.
The treasure chest holds the original feeling. This means a recurring emotional experience that was once too much and therefore had to be kept at a distance inside.
In today's situations this feeling can resonate again, even if the situation itself is a different one.
The key stands for knowledge, context and understanding. It helps to recognise why a reaction once made sense and why it is so quickly available today.
Understanding changes the view. Over time, new experiences change what becomes possible in a decisive moment.
The Mastermind You state is a state of consciousness in which we are more present, clearer and freer and have easier access to intuition, creativity and conscious choice.
When the inner ground becomes more stable, this state becomes easier to access.
In seven steps, the Mastermind You process describes how automatically arising protective movements become more conscious and how growing room to act can emerge.
The steps provide orientation but do not follow a rigid sequence. Depending on the situation, they can interlock, repeat themselves or become important at different times.
A familiar reaction is quickly available
Mastermind You connects an understanding of how imprints and protective movements work with the experience of the present moment and the question of how more room to act can emerge from this over time.
A good core sense of life means that the inner ground holds. The more stable this ground becomes, the easier the Mastermind You state is to access.
The old path remains well developed. Beside it, another possibility emerges. What feels unfamiliar at first can become more familiar over time. Through repetition and integration, the core sense of life can change too. The inner ground becomes more stable.
A good core sense of life does not mean that difficult situations disappear or that life is always easy. It describes an inner ground that holds more.
The Mastermind You state is a state of consciousness in which we are more present, clearer and freer and have easier access to intuition, creativity and conscious choice.
It is not the same as a good core sense of life. A state can be accessible and then recede into the background again. When the inner ground becomes more stable, this state becomes easier to access.
Mastermind You draws on findings and professional perspectives from, among other fields, attachment research, emotion and stress regulation, implicit learning and memory, and research on human development.
The core sense of life and the original feeling belong to the vocabulary of Mastermind You. Tower, treasure chest and key make the connections in the model tangible.