Inner Critic Awareness Inventory

A VP of marketing at a consumer goods company is self-aware and articulate about her self-critical tendencies. She can describe her inner critic in general terms and has done enough personal development work to know the framework. In coaching sessions, however, her self-critical responses appear in specific clusters - she is most activated by situations involving public judgment of her work and by situations where she compares herself to peers - but she has never separated these from her overall self-awareness narrative. She treats her inner critic as a single phenomenon rather than a pattern with specific triggers.

Use the checklist as a sorting mechanism, not a discovery tool. 'You already know you have a self-critical voice. What t...