THE INNER COMPASS

Private Cohort Landscape

Purpose:
To synthesize participant intake responses into a collective picture that informs facilitation while preserving the integrity of the six-week TIC methodology.

This document is private facilitator material. It is not shared with participants.

1. THE COHORT AT A GLANCE

Cohort Composition

Number of participants:

Common life stage / transition:

Most prevalent presenting experiences:

Most prevalent desires:

Most prevalent values:

Most prevalent areas participants want to explore:

The Cohort in One Sentence

Complete:

This is a group of women who are collectively ________, while simultaneously longing for ________.

This sentence is important because it forces you to identify the tension within the cohort.

For example:

This is a group of women who are collectively outgrowing familiar ways of operating, while simultaneously longing for greater clarity, trust, freedom, and permission to move differently.

That's more useful to you than simply knowing that "60% selected self-trust."

2. WHERE THEY ARE

This corresponds to the first part of the intake.

Collective Life Context

Track:

Theme # Participants %

Notes

Major transition

Closing an old chapter

Beginning something new

Rebuilding/redefining

Internal change despite external stability

Unclear but knows something needs to shift

What seems to be happening underneath the circumstances?

This is where you move beyond the literal answers.

Surface-level circumstances:

Career change, relationship change, relocation, creative transition, burnout, etc.

Potential deeper collective theme:

Identity is changing faster than external circumstances.

or:

The women know something has changed internally but haven't yet developed a new way of orienting themselves around it.

Facilitator Note

What does this tell me about where to meet them?

3. THE COLLECTIVE FRICTION

This may become one of your most valuable sections.

Aggregate the answers to the "what are you experiencing?" questions.

Most Common Patterns

Rank them:

1. ___ — ___ participants
2. ___ — ___ participants
3. ___ — ___ participants
4. ___ — ___ participants
5. ___ — ___ participants

Then ask:

What is the common thread?

Don't simply list:

second-guessing
scattered
disconnected
burned out
stuck

Ask:

What do these different experiences have in common?

Perhaps the answer is:

They are struggling to orient themselves from within rather than continuing to use external expectations, old identities, or familiar strategies as their primary reference point.

That is Inner Compass territory.

Potential Core Pattern

What this may mean for facilitation

4. WHAT THEY WANT

This deserves its own section because desire is not necessarily the same thing as the problem they're presenting.

What participants say they want:

What may be underneath those desires:

Stated Desire Possible Deeper Desire

Clarity Trusting oneself enough to move

Confidence Freedom from constant self-questioning

Direction Internal orientation

Boundaries Permission to honor oneself

Creativity Reconnection with aliveness

You don't need to assume the deeper meaning is correct.

Instead, mark it:

Hypothesis to explore: ___

That word—hypothesis—is important.

You are noticing patterns, not diagnosing your participants.

5. VALUES MAP

Take the selected values from the intake and rank them.

Most Common Values

1. ___
2. ___
3. ___
4. ___
5. ___

Then ask:

What do these values tell me about this cohort?

For example, if the dominant values are:

Freedom + Authenticity + Creativity + Self-Trust + Purpose

that's telling you something about the kind of women who are attracted to this work.

It also gives you language.

Instead of constantly talking about "fixing problems," you can frame your facilitation around:

What would it look like to make choices that are actually congruent with what matters to you?

6. THE INTUITION LANDSCAPE

This deserves special attention because intuition is central to TIC.

Current relationship with intuition

Response # %

Trusts easily

Hears it but overrides it

Second-guesses it

Can't distinguish intuition/fear

Feels disconnected

Relationship is changing

Still learning what intuition feels like

Collective Pattern

Complete:

This cohort's relationship with intuition appears to be characterized by ________.

Then:

What might they actually need?

Not necessarily:

"More intuition."

Possibly:

More trust in what they already know.

Or:

A clearer distinction between inner knowing and the voices that compete with it.

That distinction could materially influence your teaching.

7. THE QUESTIONS THEY ARE CARRYING

This is probably one of the highest-value sections for you as a facilitator.

Pull the open-ended questions from the intake and group them into themes.

Theme 1 — Identity

Questions:

Underlying question:

Who am I becoming?

Theme 2 — Trust

Questions:

Underlying question:

Can I trust myself enough to act without certainty?

Theme 3 — Direction

Questions:

Underlying question:

How do I know what is actually mine to pursue?

Theme 4 — Release

Questions:

Underlying question:

What am I still carrying that no longer belongs in my life?

Then identify the 3–5 deepest collective questions.

These become potential teaching threads, not necessarily session titles.

8. WHAT THEY MAY BE READY TO RELEASE

Look specifically at:

what they want less of
what they're questioning
what they want to stop carrying
recurring patterns
what they're ready to reconsider

Collective Release Themes

They're ready to release:

They're questioning:

They're potentially outgrowing:

Facilitator Inquiry

What might become possible if they no longer had to organize their lives around these patterns?

9. WHAT THEY ARE READY TO EMBODY

Now turn the landscape toward possibility.

The cohort appears to be moving toward:

Then complete:

They aren't simply trying to get rid of ________. They are learning how to embody ________.

This is a powerful distinction.

For example:

They aren't simply trying to get rid of self-doubt. They're learning how to embody self-trust.

They aren't simply trying to stop feeling scattered. They're learning how to orient themselves from within.

That's the bridge between recalibration and embodiment.

10. THE COLLECTIVE TENSION

This is the section I would want you to read immediately before every TIC session.

Identify 2–4 tensions emerging across the group.

For example:

TENSION 1

They want clarity ↔ but are being asked to tolerate uncertainty.

TENSION 2

They want change ↔ but are still attached to familiar ways of operating.

TENSION 3

They want to trust themselves ↔ but continue looking outside themselves for confirmation.

TENSION 4

They want expansion ↔ but their current capacity/identity may not yet support it.

These tensions give you facilitation territory.

11. SIX-WEEK FACILITATION MAP

Here's where the Cohort Landscape connects directly to your facilitator guide.

You don't change your fundamental TIC methodology based on the intake.

Instead, you create a responsive layer over it.

Week Core TIC Movement Cohort Themes to Weave In Questions to Explore Practices/Emphasis

For each week, ask:

What does this particular cohort need to hear?

What are they already showing me?

What assumptions might I need to challenge?

What concepts will likely resonate?

What needs more space?

What might I not need to teach?

That last question is surprisingly important.

Your intake shouldn't just tell you what to add.

It can tell you what to leave out.

12. LANGUAGE BANK

This is a subtle but powerful addition.

Capture their actual language.

Words participants repeatedly use

Phrases that reveal their experience

"___"

Phrases that reveal their desires

"___"

You can then use their language organically during facilitation.

Not because you're parroting them, but because you're speaking into the actual landscape they're inhabiting.

13. WHAT I SHOULD WATCH FOR

Create a final section specifically for yourself.

Potential collective blind spots

Patterns that may show up during group discussion

Places participants may resist

Places participants may intellectualize instead of embody

Places they may look to me for answers instead of themselves

Opportunities for deeper exploration

This is especially relevant to TIC because one of the things you're ultimately teaching is internal orientation.

You don't want the cohort to unconsciously replace:

"What does everyone else think?"

with:

"What does Kapualani think?"

Your facilitation should continually return them to their own inner compass.

14. YOUR FACILITATOR NORTH STAR

Finally, distill the entire landscape into 3–5 sentences.

I'd actually title this:

HOW I WANT TO HOLD THIS COHORT

Complete:

These women are arriving with…

They appear to be longing for…

The deeper question beneath many of their concerns may be…

My role is not to give them the answer, but to help them…

Throughout these six weeks, I want to continually bring them back to…

That becomes the thing you read before facilitating.

And I would add one important rule to the framework

DATA → PATTERN → HYPOTHESIS → RESPONSE

Don't jump directly from participant responses to:

"This is what they need."

Instead:

DATA
What did they actually say?

↓

PATTERN
What themes appear repeatedly?

↓

HYPOTHESIS
What might be underneath those themes?

↓

RESPONSE
How might I allow that insight to influence my facilitation?

That preserves your intuitive authority without letting intuition override what the participants actually told you.

And it fits beautifully with the philosophy of TIC itself.

You're not creating a rigid curriculum.

You're creating a container with a compass.

The methodology gives you the structure.
The cohort gives you the landscape.
Your intuition helps you navigate between the two.