Social Identity Map

A client who is a managing partner at a law firm is facing a forced reduction in practice hours due to health reasons and describes feeling 'like I don't know who I am without the work.' He has built his identity around his professional role for twenty years and cannot name who he is outside it. The three-ring map - given identities, chosen identities, and core self - creates a visual structure for examining what exists in the outer rings that has been suppressed or ignored, and identifies what in the core self has been present across roles even when the professional identity is removed.

Frame the diagram as a way to see what's there, not what should be: 'This three-ring map separates the identities you we...