The Foundational Grammar
Personality is not a type. It is a living landscape of four capacities, five domains, and twenty intersections — and this is the grammar everything else builds on.
Most personality models put you in a box. A type, a number, a label. The Icosa model does something different: it maps how life moves through you. Four capacities — Open, Focus, Bond, Move — describe the fundamental processes every person uses to receive, attend to, hold, and act on experience. Five domains — Physical, Emotional, Mental, Relational, Spiritual — describe the territories where those processes operate. Cross them and you get twenty harmonies: a 4×5 grid that captures the full variety of human functioning without reducing anyone to a single score.
At every intersection, a harmony can be under-expressed, centered, or over-expressed — and centered does not mean average. Centered is the state where a capacity operates at its best in that domain: the gate opens and closes as needed, attention is neither scattered nor locked, connection holds without clinging, and action flows without force. The map does not tell you who you are. It shows you where life is flowing freely and where it has become blocked or distorted — and that distinction is the starting point for real change.
Capacities
Open, Focus, Bond, Move — four fundamental processes through which experience flows. Every pattern in your profile begins here.
Domains
Physical, Emotional, Mental, Relational, Spiritual — five territories where each capacity operates, giving the model its resolving power.
Harmonies
Twenty intersections where capacity meets domain. Each one names a specific human quality — from Sensitivity to Service — that appears when both dimensions are centered.
States
Every harmony can be under-expressed, centered, or over-expressed on two axes — nine possible states that describe exactly how life is moving through each position.
Paths
How each harmony moves toward centering. Not a prescription, but a description of the natural direction — what shifts when a blocked process begins to flow again.
See your personal map — twenty harmonies, measured in minutes.
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