Archetype Architecture
Understand Your Developmental Stage
Like flowers coming into season, your blossoming also follows a trajectory. The Eight Stages of Human Development describe how mindset, behaviour, and leadership naturally evolve over time, or become stuck. Each person’s path and timeline varies infinitely, yet we all pass through the same stages. The vast majority of us remain stagnant at early developmental stages. Each stage reflects a distinct way of thinking, deciding, and responding to pressure, offering a clear view of where you currently stand and how to open what’s next.
Reveals the patterns and priorities that naturally emerge at each stage.
Identifies the developmental stage shaping how you think, decide, and lead.
Highlights the next stage of growth available to you.
What Your Archetype Reveals
Where You Came From
Trace the archetypical stages you have already come through. Noticing the past, helps us navigate the future. Recall unconscious the core beliefs, emotional triggers, and protective patterns that shaped how you learned to operate. What once helped you adapt and succeed is made visible, without judgement. This creates understanding and flexibility for the way forward.
How You Operate Today
Learn which of the eight archetypes you currently occupy, and what the unspoken roles of this are. See the strengths it provides you, and the limitations sitting quietly below the surface. Extract the key patterns creating your world today, explaining why certain outcomes keep repeating. The obstacle is the way.
Pathways Forward
How to grow beyond your current archetype. Highlight what needs to loosen, mature, or be integrated. The focus is on thematic shifts that translate into elevated life, career, and leadership. Each archetype is a distinct journey of discovery offered by life for you, we cannot control of change, only open and engage.
Is It Time to Gain Perspective?
Limited Language for Change
Developing to our greatest potential requires a broad language set, much of which has been misrepresented. New language and new distinctions are needed.
No Frame of Comparison
Viewing only our own developmental journey, it’s hard to judge what is normal, what is progress, and what could be possible.
Trained for Doing, Not Becoming
Technical skill and output tend to attract attention while inner development is left unsupported and unexplored.
Growth Without a Map
Most people were never taught how holistic human development happens, so change is hard to support.
Mistaking Motion for Growth
What’s celebrated, or feels gratifying in the moment often doesn’t contribute to our development.
Too Busy to See
Demands and responsibility capture our attention, leaving little space to reflect on patterns, progress, and direction.
The Truth About Transformation
of adults carry unresolved patterns impacting daily decisions
70%
95%
of performance isn’t explained by personality
of decisions, emotions, and behaviour occur unconsciously
95%
Inside your True Self Profile
Past Archetypes
A visual map showing the patterns, beliefs, and experiences that shaped how you arrived here.
Your Archetype Today
Clear identification of which of the 8 archetypes you are operating from today and what defines it.
Your Next Stage
Practical developmental directions showing where growth naturally opens across life, career, and leadership.
Understand Your Stage of Development
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This didn’t feel like a diagnostic output, it felt like my truth brought to the surface. The breadth of Mike’s approach helped make things practical, holding both heart and structure."
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We cannot become what we want by remaining what we are.
~Max Depree