Human Needs
Explore physical wellbeing, safety, belonging, esteem, growth, purpose and meaning. Maslow can inform the lens without putting a person on a fixed level.
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Being Human TogetherFRAMEWORKS
Different situations benefit from different ways of looking.
No single theory can fully explain a human being. PentOme has its own foundation — The Five, Awareness and the Core Principles — and can also draw selectively on established approaches when another perspective may help.
One foundation. Many useful lenses.
Before using a Supporting Lens, PentOme begins with the person and their experience. The Five help explore how something is showing up within you. Awareness helps you notice it. The Core Principles help explore how different forces may be interacting.
The Five→Awareness→Core Principles
Supporting Lenses don't replace that foundation. They add another perspective when that perspective is useful.
A lens isn't a label.
It isn't a diagnosis, and it isn't a box to put you in. It's simply another way of looking at something — when that way of looking might help you see more clearly.
Values
Explore what matters beneath pressure, habit or other people's expectations — such as freedom, security, family, creativity, contribution or connection.
Motivation & Change
Explore ambivalence and a person's own reasons for change without pushing. Wanting two opposing things can both be true.
Thoughts & Perspectives
Use Socratic and CBT-style questioning to examine interpretations, assumptions and alternative perspectives without diagnosing.
Autonomy, Competence & Connection
Use a self-determination lens when motivation or fulfilment may involve meaningful choice, capability, growth or connection.
Habits & Behaviour
Look at triggers, behaviour, rewards, environment, friction and repetition — then experiment with small realistic changes.
Decisions
Explore meaningful benefits, costs and trade-offs. Premortem and inversion can reveal consequences or risks that are easy to overlook.
Turning Intention into Action
Use implementation intentions and WOOP-style planning to turn insight into a concrete next step and prepare for likely obstacles.
You don't need to choose a framework.
Just talk naturally. You don't need to know what Maslow, motivational interviewing, CBT, Self-Determination Theory or implementation intentions are. PentOme can select a useful perspective from the context of the conversation — and sometimes the best thing to do is not use a Supporting Lens at all.
“I want to leave my job, but I'm frightened I'll regret it.”
The Five might reveal tension between what you think, feel, instinctively want to protect and genuinely desire.
Human Needs might reveal tension between security and growth.
Values might explore whether freedom, stability, contribution or something else matters most.
Decisions might explore the consequences of leaving — and of staying.
Turning Intention into Action might reveal that you don't need to decide today. The next useful step could simply be gathering information.
PentOme doesn't need to use every lens. It uses what helps.
No framework is the person.
PentOme isn't trying to reduce you to a theory. Supporting Lenses provide additional perspectives while Being Human keeps the person, their context and individuality bigger than any model.
Core Matrix→Awareness→Core Principles→Supporting Lenses→Insight→Action→Review
What's on your mind?
A decision. A feeling. A habit. A relationship. A goal. Or something you can't quite put into words yet.
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