Made for Counselors
Explore Options Without Steering the Choice
Also useful for: Mental Health Counselors
You guide a careful option-exploration conversation without quietly pushing toward the choice you prefer. You'll separate facts from suggestions, uncover outside pressure, test each option against the person's values, and prepare for uncertainty.
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Use this when
Use this when someone faces two or more meaningful options, feels stuck between competing priorities, asks you to decide, or may be responding to pressure from family, work, money, culture, or another source. Don't use AI-generated analysis as a substitute for required supervision, legal duties, emergency procedures, or specialized advice.
You'll need
- Decision to explore
- Options already identified
- Stated values and priorities
- Known facts and open questions
- Pressures and constraints
- Your reactions
- Time frame and reversibility
You'll get
- A neutral statement of the decision
- A reasonably complete option set
- Clear separation of facts, interpretations, suggestions, preferences, and unknowns
- Outside pressure, values fit, uncertainty, and your own possible steering checked
- A balanced conversation guide
- A person-owned next step
By the end of this playbook
You will have:
- A neutral statement of the decision
- A reasonably complete option set
- Clear separation of facts, interpretations, suggestions, preferences, and unknowns
- Outside pressure, values fit, uncertainty, and your own possible steering checked
- A balanced conversation guide
- A person-owned next step
Sample
This is sample data, not your prompt. Pro unlocks this higher-stakes Playbook. On Free Playbooks you can still copy the assembled prompt into any AI.
Sample input
Decision: Someone must decide within three weeks whether to remain in a demanding training program, seek a temporary leave, reduce the course load, or withdraw. Options: Stay with more support, request a one-term leave, seek a reduced load, or withdraw. Values: Finishing the program, protecting health, maintaining family relationships, independence, and keeping future options open. Knowns and unknowns: The leave deadline is confirmed. Financial aid, housing, reduced-load approval, and re-entry effects need confirmation. Pressures: Tuition has been paid, a parent strongly expects on-time graduation, and student housing depends on enrollment. My reaction: I prefer a temporary leave because the person appears exhausted. I may be judging continued enrollment too harshly. Time and reversibility: The request deadline is three weeks away. A leave may be reversible, while withdrawal may create re-entry barriers.
Sample assembled prompt
Neutral decision statement: "Which enrollment path... Financial aid, housing, reduced-load eligibility, and... Family disappointment is a concern, not... Steering concern: Describing leave as "a... Neutral replacements are "request a one-term... I don't want my concern about... If you want, I can name... Review the option map afterward. No final choice is required during...