Zealous Mirror
For a team, a class or a program

Take the read together.

Each person keeps their own read. The group gets one picture, and nobody in it is ranked.

Starting a team is free and takes a minute. You get a six-letter code and a link to hand round the room.

The same twenty situations, taken by everyone in the group, about ten minutes each on a phone. The picture says what this group is strong in, where it bends when the right choice costs something, and one thing to practise together this week.


Who it is for

Any group that has to do something hard together.

A class or a youth program

Per-person growth, and a group picture a board or a funder can read. Take it again after a term and see what actually moved.

A team at work

What this team reaches for under pressure and what it steps back from, without a single name attached to a number in front of the room.

A congregation or a small group

One honest thing to work on together, chosen by what the group actually answered and not by who spoke loudest.


How it runs

Three steps, and the first takes a minute.

01

Start a team

Name the group. You get a six-letter code and a link, written to be read out loud across a room.

02

Everyone takes their own read

Before anyone joins they are told, in plain words, exactly what you will see, and they tick a box to agree. Their answers save as they go.

03

The picture appears

Once 3 people have finished, the group picture is drawn. Before that it shows nothing and says how many more it needs.


A sample

These people are invented.

9 made-up people, 7 of them finished. No number below belongs to anyone. It is here so you can see exactly what your own group would be shown, drawn by the same page that will draw yours.

7 of 9 people have finished the read. The rest is waiting on them.

What this group looks like.

65 across 7 finished reads. Not a grade, and not anybody's individual score.
Courage 62
The people in this group sit between 44 and 80 here. A wide gap is not a problem: it means the group can teach itself this one.
Wisdom 70
The people in this group sit between 59 and 84 here. A wide gap is not a problem: it means the group can teach itself this one.
Temperance 51
The people in this group sit between 38 and 67 here. A wide gap is not a problem: it means the group can teach itself this one.
Justice 77
The people in this group sit between 63 and 88 here. A wide gap is not a problem: it means the group can teach itself this one.

This group's growth edge: Temperance

The one this group reaches for and steps back from when it costs the most. It belongs to the group, not to whoever scored lowest, and nothing on this site will ever tell you who that was.

Together this week. This week each person names one thing they will stop at a set point: a time, a number, a limit decided before they start, not during.


The rules it keeps

Four things this will never do to your group.

Rank anyoneNo order, no highest, no lowest. A group that leaves the room knowing who scored lowest has been harmed, whatever the numbers said.
Show you a read nobody agreed to showYou see a person's read only because they were told first and said yes. Leaving the team takes them out of the picture the same minute.
Average two people and call it a groupBelow 3 finished reads there is no picture. An average of two people is those two people with a group's name on top.
Round a count up“Five of nine have finished” is the whole truth, and more use to you than an average of five presented as the team.

If your group includes anyone under 13, a parent or guardian gives consent before that child's account works at all, the child gets a shorter set of situations written for their age, and an under-13 account is never asked to pay.


What it costs

The group picture is yours to run. The written work is what costs.

  • Starting a team is free. So is the group picture, and so is taking it again later.
  • A group carries the read. On its own a read is $2.50. Once 3 people have joined your team, nobody in it is asked for that. Until then a new account is asked the usual price to open its own read.
  • Work a person does for you is what costs, and the free call comes before any of it:
    • Team assessment, $299. For a whole team or class: per person, plus a group picture.
    • Org engagement, $500. For a whole program: books the scoping call.

Early and honest work: a bounded, reproducible measure, not a validated or clinical instrument, and not a tool for hiring, grading or discipline.