Most personality tools measure four dimensions and call it complete. Icosa Atlas maps personality across five — Physical, Emotional, Mental, Relational, and Spiritual — giving holistic and wellness practitioners a structural framework that reflects how they already understand human experience.
Practitioners who work with the whole person — energy, soma, spirit, relationship, and mind — often find that mainstream personality tools measure only a fragment of what they work with. A framework that ignores the Spiritual domain or reduces Physical to behavioral tendency cannot adequately map the terrain that holistic practitioners navigate every day. The measurement tool should match the practice.
When a retreat participant reports feeling fundamentally different after five days, that experience is real. Demonstrating it structurally — with before-and-after data that shows formation shifts, coherence changes, and gateway activations — is another matter. Without measurement infrastructure, transformation remains testimonial. With it, it becomes evidence.
Some clients arrive open to energy work, somatic practice, or spiritual inquiry. Others are skeptical and need a frame they can engage with before deeper work begins. A rigorous structural assessment — geometric, computational, reproducible — provides a credibility bridge: a way to start in the objective and move toward the experiential.
Retreat centers and program facilitators know that their work produces lasting shifts in participants. The gap is documentation. Without a standardized pre-assessment and post-assessment, there is no structural record of what changed. That gap limits program development, limits testimonials to anecdote, and makes it difficult to build on what worked.
The 20-center profile resolves into one of 75+ named geometric formations — a structural portrait of how the personality is currently organized across all five domains. Formations describe the actual geometry of activation and suppression, not a category. For holistic practitioners, the formation is a whole-person structural portrait: where the energy concentrates, where it is depleted, and how the domains relate.
Learn more →The Spiritual domain is not a metaphor or a supplemental add-on. It is one of five equal domains in the assessment model, crossed with all four Capacities: Open-Spiritual, Focus-Spiritual, Bond-Spiritual, Move-Spiritual. Most personality instruments omit this dimension entirely. Icosa treats it with the same structural rigor as the Physical, Emotional, Mental, and Relational domains.
Learn more →Nine gateway positions in the personality grid — Body, Grace, Choice, Voice, Belonging, Feeling, Discernment, Identity, Vitality — have elevated cascade potential. When a gateway is open, growth and energy move through it readily. When a gateway is closed, it marks a natural priority for practice. Gateway names speak directly to frameworks holistic practitioners already use.
Learn more →Every profile generates a centering plan from its specific geometry: which centers to prioritize, which gateways to activate, which stability reservoirs to strengthen. The plan translates structural assessment data into a personalized practice path — specific, derived from the individual's actual profile, not a generic wellness recommendation.
Learn more →The coherence score (0–100) measures how well the personality system is working together as an integrated whole — across all five domains and all four capacities. For holistic practitioners, coherence maps naturally to concepts of integration, harmony, and alignment. Tracking it across a program or retreat series shows whether the work is producing systemic integration.
Learn more →Participants complete an Icosa assessment before arriving — Standard (32 questions, ~5 min) for most contexts, Comprehensive (91 questions, ~15 min) for deep dives. They receive their full profile immediately: formation classification, domain balance across all five dimensions, gateway status, centering plan, and coherence score. You access the profile with their permission before your first session.
In your opening session, walk through the profile together. Where is the energy? Which domains are activated and which are suppressed? What does the Spiritual domain show? Which gateways are open and which are closed? The structural portrait externalizes the pattern in a way that creates an immediate shared frame — without requiring the participant to be fluent in a new vocabulary.
At the close of your retreat, program, or engagement series, have participants complete a Smart Retake — 10–15 targeted questions that probe the centers most likely to show movement. The timeline renders the before-and-after trajectory: formation evolution, coherence shift, gateway activation changes. Transformation becomes visible data, not just felt experience.
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Most personality assessments were built for organizational or clinical psychology contexts. They measure behavioral tendencies, cognitive preferences, or emotional regulation — and they leave out the body and the spirit almost entirely. The result is a measurement framework that captures, at best, three of the five dimensions that holistic practitioners work with.
The Icosa Atlas model was designed around a different premise: that personality is expressed across five domains — Physical, Emotional, Mental, Relational, and Spiritual — and that each domain hosts the same four fundamental Capacities: Open (receptivity), Focus (directed attention), Bond (attachment and connection), Move (action and expression). The 4×5 grid produces 20 centers, each with an activation level and relationships to every adjacent center.
For a holistic practitioner, this framework has an immediate resonance. The body is not a delivery vehicle for the mind — it is a full domain with its own capacity profile. The spiritual dimension is not an afterthought — it is a first-class structural domain with measurable centers. The whole-person framework that holistic practice has always operated from has a structural representation here.
This is not a spiritual claim. Icosa Atlas is a structural assessment tool — geometric, computational, reproducible. The Spiritual domain includes centers for spiritual receptivity (Open-Spiritual), spiritual focus (Focus-Spiritual), spiritual connection (Bond-Spiritual), and spiritual expression or practice (Move-Spiritual). What activates those centers depends entirely on the individual. The model provides the structure; the meaning belongs to the person being assessed.
The nine gateway positions in the Icosa grid have specific names that practitioners in somatic, spiritual, and integrative traditions may find immediately legible: Body, Grace, Choice, Voice, Belonging, Feeling, Discernment, Identity, Vitality.
These are not metaphors layered onto a structural model. They are the designated names for nine specific positions in the personality grid selected for their elevated cascade potential — the degree to which change at that position propagates through the system. A closed Body gateway in a client who has been disconnected from somatic experience is a structural observation with a name that makes clinical and practice sense. An open Vitality gateway in a client entering a period of active practice suggests a natural leverage point.
The gateway vocabulary creates a shared language between structural data and practice intuition — without requiring the practitioner to learn a new system or the participant to abandon their existing frameworks.
A five-day retreat produces changes that participants feel immediately and carry forward. Documenting that change structurally requires two things: a pre-assessment and a post-assessment using the same instrument.
With Icosa Atlas, retreat centers can administer a pre-retreat assessment during registration, run a Smart Retake at program close (10–15 targeted questions, 5 minutes), and compare the before-and-after trajectory automatically. The timeline renders formation evolution, coherence shift, gateway activation changes, and centering plan updates as a structural record.
That record serves multiple purposes: participants receive it as evidence of their own transformation. Facilitators can review aggregate trends across cohorts to understand what the program is producing structurally. Program developers can use it to identify which interventions are associated with which structural shifts.
The data belongs to participants. They control access to their profiles and can share or revoke access at any time. Retreat centers access only what participants explicitly grant.
Icosa Atlas is a personality structure assessment tool. It does not make spiritual claims, does not assess spiritual advancement or development, and does not validate or invalidate any spiritual framework or tradition. The Spiritual domain represents one of five contexts in which personality capacities are expressed — it is measured with the same structural rigor as the Physical and Mental domains.
The tool is not a diagnostic instrument and is not a substitute for clinical care. For participants who may need clinical support, appropriate referral pathways remain the practitioner’s professional responsibility.