Support Network Map

Your client is navigating a significant transition - a job change, a divorce, a relocation - and is doing it with a vague sense that they are on their own. When you ask who is in their corner, they give you a list of people who care about them but cannot describe what any particular person provides. They have not thought about their network structurally. They experience support as something that either appears or does not, not as something that can be mapped, understood, and strengthened. The circles exercise is the right first move before any action planning.

Frame this as creating visibility, not measuring adequacy. 'The map does not tell you whether you have enough support - ...