What this is, and what it is not.

Spiritual Intelligence is a paid online diagnostic — a conversation of around twenty to thirty minutes — that produces a written analysis about you. Not a type. Not a bucket. A portrait of the patterns you’re carrying, where they came from, and what the next move looks like.

The single product is the diagnostic conversation and the analysis it produces. Everything else on this site either leads into that conversation (the landing page, pricing) or builds on top of it (an optional monthly pathway for people who want to do the work alongside it).

The diagnostic works in three stages.

1. The conversation

You sign in, consent to how your data will be handled, pay for the diagnostic, and the conversation opens. It’s unhurried. You type, it reads; it asks, you reflect. There are no multiple-choice sliders. The prompts are drawn from decades of validated instruments — VIA character strengths, the SAPA personality battery — but rephrased as human questions instead of psychometric statements, and interpreted by looking at how you answer them, not just what you tick.

2. The analysis

When the conversation ends, we generate a three-part written report. Described in detail in section 4 below.

3. The optional pathway

After the analysis arrives, you can stop there. Many people do — the document is enough. If you want to work on what the analysis names, you can subscribe to a monthly guided pathway that walks you through structured exercises drawn from the same framework. The pathway is optional and the diagnostic stands on its own.

The diagnostic is a synthesis of three bodies of published psychological research, rethought inside a pastoral and theological frame.

VIA — Values in Action

The VIA Inventory of Strengths is the most rigorously validated character-strengths tool in positive psychology. Developed by Christopher Peterson and Martin Seligman and refined across more than two decades, it identifies twenty-four strengths organised under six broad virtues. We use it as the scaffolding for the strengths half of the analysis — but instead of asking you to self-rate, we identify your strengths from how you describe what you reach toward, what you admire in others, and what you return to under pressure.

SAPA — Synthetic Aperture Personality Assessment

SAPA is an open-data personality research programme led by William Revelle at Northwestern University. Its 27-facet architecture is the most granular personality profile currently validated in published research. We use SAPA to map the fine grain of your personality — not to produce a label, but to show how specific facets intersect with the patterns you’re carrying.

Jeffrey Young’s pattern research

The pattern side of the analysis builds on Jeffrey Young’s research into early maladaptive schemas — 18 patterns that originate early in life and continue to shape how people think, feel, and relate. The research is academic. Schema therapy, the clinical modality built on top of it, is delivered by licensed therapists. We are not schema therapists. We do not deliver therapy. We use the 18-pattern map as a diagnostic vocabulary to name what a person is carrying, with permission and a clear disclaimer that the work of changing a pattern sits outside the scope of an online analysis.

The theological and pastoral synthesis

On top of these three bodies of psychological research is a layer of original pastoral and theological work: how the lies people carry about themselves form, how they resist dismantling, and what it looks like to undo them in a way that sticks. That layer is the thing that makes this more than “another personality test.” It is documented in long-form and is being prepared for publication.{{BOOK_REFERENCE}}If a book is published with ISBN/publisher, replace this paragraph to name it and link out to buy it.

The analysis is delivered in three parts. You receive all three in one document, the first time you complete the diagnostic.

Part one — your strengths

Your top character strengths, identified through the conversation rather than self-reported. The SAPA personality profile across 27 facets and what they reveal about how you move through the world. Put together, not a list — a portrait.

Part two — your patterns

The patterns most likely to be driving your current struggles, placed in the context of your life history. For each pattern: how it shows up, what it costs you, where it was likely installed, and why the decisions you made at the time made sense.

Part three — the action plan

A concrete starting point. Not a recipe and not a cure — a set of moves that align with what the analysis has named, so that the document becomes something you can act on rather than something that just sits in a folder.

Most people read the document three or four times. You own it. You can export it, forward it to your therapist or counsellor, print it, archive it.

After you have your analysis, you can optionally subscribe to the guided pathway. It costs £10 per month and is cancellable at any time.

The pathway is not open-ended AI chat. It is structured work. For each pattern you choose to engage, you move through an eight-step process drawn from the same framework as the diagnostic:

1. Recognition — naming the primary lie and the protective lie in your own words.
2. Grief — reckoning with what the lie has cost.
3. Forgiveness — naming the debt and cancelling it.
4. Understanding — where and when the lie was installed.
5. Encounter — the truth that displaces the lie.
6. Metanoia — writing the declaration.
7. Rearrangement — what changes now, concretely.
8. Watchfulness — the ongoing practice.

Most of the pathway is authored content — written by us, not improvised by a model. The AI’s role is narrow: to present the authored content, receive your written responses, and connect what you write to what your analysis already named. If you disclose distress beyond the scope of the step, the system is explicitly instructed to hold it warmly and point you to a human professional. It is not there to improvise therapy.

Because the subject matter is serious, it is worth being explicit about what we are not.

• Not psychotherapy. No therapeutic relationship is formed. We are not licensed to practise therapy and this product does not deliver it.
• Not a clinical assessment. We are not diagnosing a mental health condition. The frameworks we use are research instruments, not diagnostic tools.
• Not schema therapy. We draw on schema research for its vocabulary, but we are not affiliated with or endorsed by the Schema Therapy Institute or any clinical body.
• Not a personality quiz. It is written for adults willing to sit with hard things about themselves. The result will not be a shareable Buzzfeed-style label.
• Not for children. You must be at least 18 years old to use this service.
• Not for crisis. If you are in acute mental health crisis, this is not the right tool. Please see the contact page for crisis resources in the UK.

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