Which Lens Are You Using?

PRACTICE TOOL

Professional reasoning is never completely neutral. The questions we ask, the information we prioritise and the explanations that seem most convincing are all influenced by the conceptual lens we bring to a case.

Which Lens Are You Using? gives you a quick way to step back from a familiar developmental situation and examine how you are currently making sense of it.

Using four recognisable patterns — One Profile, Nested Systems, A Family Pattern and An Exchange — the Tool helps you identify which perspective is most present in your reasoning, notice what it brings into focus, and ask what another lens might add before your interpretation becomes fixed.

Designed for immediate professional reflection, it turns theoretical models into a practical question you can bring directly to your own reasoning: What am I seeing because of the lens I am using — and what might I be missing?

Practice Tool · 4 pages · PDF · English (UK) · Instant digital download

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