The 7 Governing Dynamics Assessment Center Is Here: Take It Free, Go as Deep as You Want
My dear friends and fellow seekers,
Years ago I built a set of simple Google Forms to help people see how active each of the Seven Governing Dynamics was in their own life. They did their job, but my understanding of the model has deepened a great deal since then, and the questions no longer said what I now know. So I started over.
I am glad to tell you that the new 7 Governing Dynamics Assessment Center is now live on the website. Here is what it is, what it costs, and how it treats you.
Start free
Everything begins free, and you do not need an account.
- The whole-profile assessment. All seven Dynamics in one sitting: 56 statements, about 8 minutes. You rate each statement from Almost Never to Consistently, and you receive a 0 to 100% activation score for each Dynamic, so you can see where to focus first.
- Go deeper into any one Dynamic. Twenty-four statements on a single Dynamic, looking at the six capacities inside it. If one Dynamic stands out in your profile, this shows you where inside it the work is.
Your scores fall into four bands: Strong (80 to 100%), Growing (60 to 79%), Undernourished (40 to 59%) and Starving (0 to 39%). A low score is not a verdict on you. It is a map of what needs feeding.
These are developmental reflection tools. They are not clinical, and they are not psychometrically validated assessments. They are meant to help you see yourself more clearly and act on it.
Something to keep, study or share
If you want more than the on-screen results, there are options. You pay only if you want them, and you can decide with the facts in front of you.
The detailed Overview ($9, one person). A personal PDF write-up of your whole profile: where to focus first, the answers that flagged concern, and recommendations of which of my books to read for the Dynamics you most need. It is something you can study, print, or bring to a counselor, a mentor or a spouse. It belongs to the assessment you took, so if you retake it with different answers, the new Overview is a new purchase.
The Focus Report ($5, one person, one Dynamic). Offered when you finish a deep dive. It gives you your priorities inside that Dynamic in order, the answers that flagged concern, a practice for each of the six capacities, and a four-week plan.
The Focus Module Bundle ($29, one person, all seven Dynamics). For the person who means to go deep on most or all of the seven. Seven Focus Reports bought one at a time would cost $35, so the bundle is the better value from your sixth report on.
The 7GD Team Profile. This one is for couples, partners, families, work teams, church groups and classes. Each person takes the whole-profile assessment, then joins the team with a team code. The report shows how the seven Dynamics look across the group: where you agree about what needs feeding, and where one person’s strength can steady another. One person, the leader, pays for everyone: $15 for a pair, $39 for up to 10 people, and $79 for up to 30. A team can be Named, where everyone sees each member’s seven scores, or Anonymous, where the leader sees only averages and ranges. Anonymous takes at least three people, so no one can be picked out.
Not sure which one is for you? The FAQ has a section called “Which option is right for me?” that says plainly who each option is for and where its value lies, so you can decide before you spend anything. If the free results answer your question, you do not need to buy anything at all.
How I treat your information
I wrote this to be simple and honest, and I put it in plain words on the Privacy page.
- Your answers stay in your own browser. We do not receive them. If you clear your browsing data, they are gone.
- If you buy an Overview or a Focus Report, your scores and flagged answers are sent once to build it and are not stored. We keep only your name, your email, your order code, and a one-way fingerprint that ties your payment to your answers and cannot be turned back into them.
- Team members share only their name and their seven percentage scores. Never their individual answers. Every member sees exactly what will be shared before joining.
- You can erase your information yourself, any time, without asking anyone. Choose Erase my information on the Assessment Center page, enter the email you bought with, and enter the one-time code we send you.
- We do not sell your information, and we do not share it except as needed to run these services.
Payment, and why it is built the way it is
Payment is by Venmo. I chose it because it keeps the cost low for you and for me, and I wanted a way to pay that does not make you create yet another account. You pay, and the page unlocks your document by itself. There is no waiting on me. I will be honest with you: I am one person, and I cannot answer individual purchase questions. So the whole service was built to look after itself. If a payment is slow to show up, the page can check again, and the FAQ walks through what to do in every case I could think of.
Other things that came together
- A new FAQ page with 60 questions in plain language and a search box, organized by what you are trying to do: taking an assessment, saving and printing results, buying, teams, privacy, and troubleshooting.
- The Assessment Center is easy to find. It is in the Library, and the two organizational diagnostics now point to it.
- It works on your phone. I tested it on three phone sizes and enlarged the buttons for thumbs.
- A Symphony of Becoming in ten languages. On the Symphony page you can now choose a language, and the lyrics follow the music as it plays.
An invitation
Take the free assessment. Then tell me what you notice. The model is only as good as it is useful to real people living real lives, and what you tell me will help me refine it.
With love and gratitude,
Kelly L. Call