Your formation shapes how you parent. Your child's formation shapes how they receive it. Icosa maps both — with age-aware context for every developmental stage from childhood through young adulthood — and shows you where connection can deepen.
How your personality structure — your particular geometry of Open, Focus, Bond, and Move — shapes the way you show up as a parent. Not a parenting type, but a structural portrait that helps you see your natural strengths and genuine growth edges.
Icosa understands developmental stages. Profiles for children (6–12), adolescents (13–17), and young adults (18–25) are interpreted with explicit developmental context — so scores mean what they should mean at each stage, not just against an adult baseline.
Dyadic assessment maps the interaction field between your profile and your child's. The four interaction types — Reinforcing, Complementary, Catalytic, Neutral — describe how your personality systems influence each other in practice.
Centering plans for parent-child dyads identify structural opportunities for deeper connection — not strategies for fixing your child, but structural insight for growing the relationship.
A full twenty-center profile for each family member. Parents complete the Standard or Comprehensive tier for the richest picture. Children 6 and up can take age-appropriate assessments with developmental context applied automatically.
Explore →Six developmental stages — Child (6–12), Adolescent (13–17), Young Adult (18–25), Adult (26–44), Middle Adult (45–64), Elder (65+) — each with specific interpretive frameworks built into the scoring system. What looks like rigidity in an adult may be healthy consolidation in an adolescent.
Explore →After both parent and child complete individual assessments, the dyadic system maps the interaction field between them — formation families, gateway channels, named currents, and dyadic coherence.
Explore →Personalized growth paths for individuals and for the pair. Centering strategies identify the structural leverage points most likely to produce positive movement in the relationship, not just in each person separately.
Explore →Children and adolescents change rapidly. Longitudinal tracking captures how a child's profile develops over time — and how the parent-child interaction field shifts as both profiles evolve.
Explore →Every parent brings a formation to parenting — a particular geometry of capacities and domains that shapes how they connect, set limits, respond to stress, and express warmth. A parent with strong Move-Relational activation may lead with energy and spontaneity. A parent with dominant Focus-Mental may reach for structure and explanation. Neither pattern is better than the other. Both become clearer when you can see them structurally.
The Icosa model maps four Capacities — Open (receptivity), Focus (directed attention), Bond (attachment and connection), Move (action and expression) — across five Domains: Physical, Emotional, Mental, Relational, and Spiritual. Your particular activation pattern across twenty centers is your formation. Seeing it does not tell you how to parent. It tells you how you are currently parenting, where your natural strengths concentrate, and where your genuine growth edges are.
That is useful information. Not as a judgment, but as a map.
A score that signals concern in an adult may be developmentally appropriate in an adolescent. A pattern that looks like rigidity in a young adult may be healthy consolidation in a child moving through concrete operations into abstract thought.
Icosa builds developmental context directly into the assessment system. Six age groups — Child (6–12), Adolescent (13–17), Young Adult (18–25), Adult (26–44), Middle Adult (45–64), Elder (65+) — each have specific interpretive frameworks applied at the scoring level. When your child takes an Icosa assessment, the profile is interpreted against what is structurally appropriate for their stage, not against adult norms.
Children as young as six can participate. Adolescents can take the assessment independently. The profile they receive is calibrated to who they developmentally are right now — and it tracks alongside them as they grow.
The dyadic assessment does not just compare two profiles side by side. It computes the interaction field between them — the structural dynamics produced when your formation and your child’s formation exist in relationship. The four interaction types (Reinforcing, Complementary, Catalytic, Neutral) describe how your personality systems influence each other in practice.
A Reinforcing interaction pattern between parent and child means your strengths amplify each other — and potentially your limitations too. A Complementary pattern means you cover ground the other does not naturally occupy. A Catalytic pattern means the relationship produces change, sometimes more than either partner anticipated. These are structural descriptions, not evaluations of how the relationship is going.
The goal of structural insight in a parenting context is empathy, not optimization. Understanding why a particular interaction pattern creates friction — structurally, not personally — opens room for a different kind of conversation between parent and child.
Individual centering plans identify what each person can do to develop their own profile. Dyadic centering plans identify something different: what the parent-child pair can do together to shift the structural dynamics of the relationship itself — which gateway channels to open, which interaction patterns to reinforce, where the most meaningful growth is likely to happen between you.
Children change quickly. Timeline tracking captures how a child’s profile develops over successive assessments — formation evolution, coherence trend, gateway activation shifts — and how the parent-child interaction field responds as both profiles grow. Longitudinal data makes development visible, not just felt.
Icosa Atlas is a personality and relationship mapping tool for families. It is not a clinical child development assessment and does not replace professional guidance for children with developmental or mental health needs.