Perspective Hypotheses Worksheet

COMMUNICATION & RELATIONSHIPS TOOLS

Optional client-owned prompts; use, adapt, or skip based on context.

Using This Optional Tool

This page offers optional prompts to separate observations from hypotheses about another person's perspective and identify consent-based questions rather than mind-reading. The fields are prompts, not findings, requirements, or a complete model of the situation.

Use the client's own words and distinguish observations from assumptions. Any field may be renamed, reordered, left blank, revisited, or discarded.

How to Use Perspective Hypotheses Worksheet

Choose one relevant situation, example, or question, or skip the page.
Record observed information separately from interpretations and unknowns.
Use any number of fields in any order; no blank, rating, or difficulty proves a cause, trait, priority, or outcome.
Review or share only what the client chooses and keep any next step optional.

Choice and Support Boundary

Optional coaching reflection - not therapy, diagnosis, medical care, legal advice, employment advice, or a validated assessment. Skip, adapt, or stop. Do not infer causes, conditions, traits, motives, truth, or required responses. Preserve privacy, consent, access, context, and uncertainty; use qualified or emergency support for unsafe, severe, or out-of-scope concerns.

Perspective Hypotheses Worksheet

Name:

Date:

Relationship focus:

Observations and Perspective Hypotheses

What did the person say or do, and what interpretations are only hypotheses?

What context is known, what is unknown, and what could be asked with consent?

What needs or preferences have they stated, and what should not be assumed?

Perspective Hypotheses Worksheet (continued)

Reviewing Your Own Observations

What response of your own, if any, would you like to review?

What consent-based question or respectful option could you consider?

Optional Consent-Based Action

What consent-based question, respectful option, or no action would I choose?

Timing, range, review point, or blank:

What observable feedback, consent, or uncertainty could I note?

Reflection

What was hard about this exercise?

What remains an observation, a hypothesis, or unknown?

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