The Alignment Blueprint Free Field Guide (PDF) contains the complete Blueprint. This page helps you find where to begin.
You do not have to start at the beginning. If you are dealing with a decision, problem, change, discomfort, or situation right now, start with what is happening and use this page to locate the stage, module, and page in the Field Guide that may be most useful.
Over time, you can work through the complete Blueprint and develop all 29 alignment skills.
But you do not have to learn the whole Blueprint before you can use it.
Start with the situation in front of you.
Bring one situation you want help with.
It does not have to be the biggest problem in your life. Start with one thing that is happening now and that you want to understand or respond to more clearly.
If something already clearly needs immediate attention—your safety, someone’s consent, a clear boundary, urgent medical or professional help, or another situation that clearly requires action—deal with that first.
Do not use the Blueprint to talk yourself out of what is already clear.
If you understand enough of the situation and need to decide how to respond or what may need to change, choose:
Use this when you are not yet sure what is actually happening, what you can reasonably conclude, or what remains unknown.
What happened?
What is directly observable or reasonably established?
What happened inside me?
What emotion, bodily response, impulse, memory, fear, desire, or expectation appeared?
What did I make it mean?
What interpretation, explanation, prediction, or conclusion appeared?
What remains unknown?
What has not actually been established?
Hold your interpretation only as strongly as the available information supports.
Use this when you understand enough of what is happening to ask what, if anything, to do next.
Which question is closest to what you are dealing with right now?
Start with the question that seems closest. Let use improve the location.
If you’re asking “Does the plan still fit?” or “Should I stop?”, first notice what kind of thing you are thinking about.
Something I am starting, doing, continuing, finishing, or changing.
More than one responsibility, relationship, goal, or commitment needs my attention.
I am asking what keeps happening, what it may be creating, or where it seems to be leading.
I cannot understand the problem by looking at only one part of it.
I may need to step back and ask what this situation actually needs before deciding what to do.