The Sense Profile

This profile is used for Couples Coaching

Is your natural way of perceiving the world more Salt or more Sugar?

The Sense Profile explores how you naturally interpret and make sense of the world and consists of two flavors:

If you lean toward Salt, you naturally experience the world through tangible, observable, and practical reality. You may benefit from becoming more emotionally open to create deeper connections with others. At your best, your natural quality is grounding.

If you lean toward Sugar, you naturally experience the world through intuition, emotion, and subtle impressions. You likely have an open heart and may benefit from developing healthy boundaries to protect your emotional energy. At your best, your natural quality is soothing.

Why the Sense Profile Comes First

The Sense Profile differs from the other profiles because it is shaped by life experience. Even when two people have very similar profiles, meaningful differences will still exist because each person is shaped by the people, places and periods of life that influence how they make sense of the world. The only way to fully understand these influences is by understanding the person behind them.

The Sense Profile comes first because differences in these areas are often among the most significant sources of mismatch in relationships. Such differences do not necessarily make two people incompatible. However, they can create conflict when one or both partners view the differences as dealbreakers or are unable to understand and validate each other’s perspective.

A Few Guidelines Before You Start

The assessment consists of pairs of statements. Each pair describes two different, but equally valid, ways of perceiving or interpreting the same aspect of life.

For each pair, choose the one that best describes your natural tendency. If you feel that both statements describe you to some extent, ask yourself:

If I had to choose only one, which one comes closest to how I naturally experience this in life?

There are no right or wrong answers. The goal is not to choose the “better” statement, but the one that most closely reflects your natural way of perceiving, interpreting and making sense of the world.