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Gather the person's decision language
You capture the goal, existing options, priorities, limits, and exact phrases without adding your interpretation.
Made for Counselors
Surface Options Without Taking Over the Decision
20 min
Intermediate
Decisions
Make a Decision
Need to Compare Options
Turn a person's stated goal, concerns, and limits into a small set of realistic options while keeping the choice firmly in their hands.
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Make Your Play
Give us the situation. We’ll build the prompt.
When someone feels stuck, it's easy to start solving the problem for them.
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What you'll do
This is the plan inside your prompt. Add your details first. Then follow these steps with ChatGPT or Claude.
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Generate a balanced option set
You use the primary prompt to widen the available choices and give each option a fair look.
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Remove hidden steering
You review the language for assumptions, unequal detail, loaded wording, or a preferred answer disguised as a question.
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Return the choice and close with one next step
You guide the comparison, invite corrections, and leave the decision where it belongs.
Make Your Play
Surface Options Without Taking Over the Decision
Tell us what the prompt needs to know
Start with the questions below. Each answer personalizes the playbook and builds the prompt you’ll use at the end.
Your situation
Describe the choice in anonymized terms, including what makes it difficult right now.
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Enter what the person says they want, keeping their wording as close as possible.
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List the options already mentioned, including any option the person dismissed quickly.
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Describe the priorities, concerns, barriers, deadlines, and resources that could affect what is realistic.
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List a few exact, anonymized phrases that should appear in the reflection and option set.
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What you'll do
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Gather the person's decision language
You capture the goal, existing options, priorities, limits, and exact phrases without adding your interpretation.
02
Generate a balanced option set
You use the primary prompt to widen the available choices and give each option a fair look.
03
Remove hidden steering
You review the language for assumptions, unequal detail, loaded wording, or a preferred answer disguised as a question.
04
Return the choice and close with one next step
You guide the comparison, invite corrections, and leave the decision where it belongs.
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Assembled prompt
Beginner instructions
Start with a decision that has clear boundaries and no immediate safety concern. Use short notes rather than a full case history. Read each suggested question before using it, remove anything that sounds leading, and let the person correct your wording.
Advanced instructions
Use the option set as a flexible conversation aid rather than a script. Watch for options that differ only on the surface, test whether each tradeoff reflects the person’s context, and name uncertainty openly. If power, family pressure, money, access, culture, disability, or safety affects what is realistic, explore that constraint without treating it as a personal failure.
Use this when
Use this during session preparation or in the moment when someone wants help with a decision, has narrowed the choice too quickly, or keeps asking what you think they should do. Don't use it when immediate safety, abuse, self-harm, medical risk, or another urgent concern requires your established response process.
You'll need
- Decision or situation
- Stated goal
- Known options
- Priorities and limits
- Person's phrases
You'll get
- A neutral reflection of the goal, three to five meaningfully different options, balanced benefits and costs, and questions that help the person compare the choices
- You can explain how your wording avoids steering, and the person still owns whether to choose, pause, or gather more information.
By the end of this playbook
You will have:
- A neutral reflection of the goal, three to five meaningfully different options, balanced benefits and costs, and questions that help the person compare the choices
- You can explain how your wording avoids steering, and the person still owns whether to choose, pause, or gather more information.
Examples
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