Personal Development Mapper

The Personal Development Mapper helps you reflect on patterns in your experience and possible areas for development. It is not a diagnosis, psychotherapy or a crisis service. This version is for people aged 18 or over who ordinarily live in the UK and are in the UK while completing it. Your answers are used to calculate your results and determine whether developmental feedback is appropriate. AI helps draft the interpretation. Matthew reviews every report before it can be sent. Some answers may mean that a report needs further review or cannot be provided. This does not amount to a clinical assessment of your safety.

Responses are not continuously monitored. Do not use this questionnaire to request urgent help or wait for a response if you need support now. Read the privacy information before answering. It explains how your answers are used, who can access them, the use of AI and how long information is kept. If serious and immediate danger comes to a human reviewer’s attention, they may need to consider sharing limited information to protect someone. Any such decision is considered individually; submitting an answer does not automatically trigger emergency contact. If you or someone else is in immediate danger, call 999 or go to A&E. Do not wait for a response from the Map service. For someone to talk to, you can call Samaritans free on 116 123, day or night.

We only ask for information that helps us provide and communicate your Development Map.

Take a little time with these questions. Your own words help us understand the context behind your later responses. Please describe your experiences without naming other people or including details that could identify them. Avoid unnecessary identifying details about yourself, such as addresses, phone numbers or workplace names.

The following statements explore how you relate to your thoughts, feelings and inner experience. Choose the response that feels most true of you in general. Try not to answer according to how you think you should be.

These questions explore how you relate to the different parts of yourself, including inner conflict, self-criticism and self-worth.

These questions explore how you express your needs, respond to other people's expectations, manage boundaries and remain connected to yourself in relationships.

These questions explore what gives your life meaning, how clearly you experience your values and direction, and whether there are qualities or possibilities that seem to be seeking greater expression.

These questions help us understand whether a self-guided personal-development process is appropriate for you at the moment. Some questions are more direct because we want to avoid recommending exercises that may not be suitable when someone is experiencing significant distress or instability. This section is not intended to diagnose you.