THE ART OF ASSESSING SELF-ACTUALIZATION

As a Meta-Coach the value of assessing a client’s current state of living the self-actualizing life and then measuring the progress of becoming more and more self-actualizing and less and less static, stale, and stuck enables you to show the value that you are adding to the client’s life. This is important. So how do we do it?

Well, if you want to invest $130 per client, you can order the POI— Personal Orientation Inventory. This was the first measurement of Self-Actualization. Everett Shostrom (a leader in the Human Potential Movement) and Abraham Maslow created it in 1964 after their 1962 consultations. This instrument has 150 two-choice comparative-value judgment items and is used to identify two primary measurements and 10 subsidiary scales. The two primary indicators of self-actualizing is inner-directedness and time competency. Supportive subsidiary scales that indicate self-actualizing includes flexibility (existentiality), responsiveness (feeling reactivity), spontaneity, high self-regard, self-acceptance, positive belief in human nature, synergy, acceptance of aggression, and capacity for intimacy.