Interaction Rewind / Perspective Exploration

Interaction Rewind / Perspective Exploration is a live MBT session tool for practitioners, clients, and families examining a difficult interaction. It helps them build a chronological sequence, add plausible feelings, intentions, or interpretations as hypotheses, and identify where mentalizing may have been lost or could be restored.

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Explore a sample rewind timeline.

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Tool guide

Learn more about this tool

Use this background section to understand when the tool fits, how practitioners use it, and what to consider before sharing it with clients.

Practitioner And Client Roles

The practitioner structures and facilitates the rewind. Clients or family members can clarify, revise, disagree, or add perspectives during the session.

What The Timeline Preserves

The timeline preserves ordered moves, reported actions, participant-provided mental-state descriptions, practitioner hypotheses, unresolved moments, and marked possible breakdown/restoration points.

Relevant Limitations

The tool does not infer true intentions, decide blame, rank hypotheses, or produce clinical conclusions.

Can clients or family members use this without an account?

Yes. In the supported live-session configuration, participants can collaborate in session without a separate account or prework.

Does the tool decide which perspective is true?

No. Mental-state entries remain hypotheses, and the tool does not rank truth or assign blame.

Can a partial rewind be saved?

Yes. A partial timeline can preserve completed steps and mark unresolved moments.

What is saved when I save the demo?

The tool and selected configuration are saved; fictional timeline content and sample participant details are not carried into owned client data.