When It Is Used
Use the map at the beginning of a strengths-based change effort, before defining the future state or action commitments.
Strengths / Life-Giving Forces Map
The Strengths / Life-Giving Forces Map is a collaborative discovery tool for practitioners working with a client, team, or system. It helps identify shared strengths, past successes, life-giving assets, and the conditions that made those successes possible before future changes are defined.
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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.
What It Captures
The tool captures success examples, strengths/assets, and enabling conditions as distinct information types so the shared map remains traceable to participant-provided material.
Important Limits
The map does not score people, diagnose systems, define the preferred future, create design commitments, or build an action plan.
Does this tool score strengths?
No. The tool organizes strengths, successes, assets, and enabling conditions descriptively; it does not score, rank, or diagnose them.
Can participants contribute to the map?
Yes. A client, team, or system can contribute positive examples, strengths noticed, and enabling conditions during a facilitated session.
Can a draft map be saved before it is confirmed?
Yes. Partial maps remain usable as working notes and should be marked incomplete until the practitioner confirms the shared map with participants.
What is required before a map can be finalized?
At least one success or asset must be captured before the result can be finalized.