Prime tools / Physical therapy
Physical
Therapist Prime.
Read the moment. Read yourself.
Bring clarity, connection, and intention to your next interaction.
A brief check before a session, during a safe pause,
or after an experience worth learning from.
Keep the whole person in view.
Small pause. Purposeful next move.
Find your moment.
Use your experience. Stay open to what is happening now. Choose one adjustment that fits.
Prepare.
Stay open.
Bring your preparation into the room while making space for today’s priorities, observations, and the person’s perspective.
Notice.
Make room.
Consider what your focus may be leaving out. Reconnect your plan with the person’s response and the surrounding context.
Reflect.
Carry it forward.
Separate what you observed from what you assumed. Keep the useful learning and choose what to reconsider next time.
Keep care first. Use this tool only when your attention is safely available, away from hands-on care or active supervision. The check focuses on you, the therapist; clinical decisions remain within your professional judgment and care procedures.
Your next useful adjustment
Read. Compare. Recalibrate.
A short phrase is enough. Use general, non-identifying notes. Save only when you choose.
The focus is my own processing, in this moment.
Practice the shift
Recognize the moment?
Open a fictional example. Adjust the words to practice a different way of responding.
XL2 / Three connected questions
See your processing more completely.
These are changing emphases. Their value depends on what the moment requires.
01 / Locality
Where is your information coming from?
Internal ↔ External
Bring your knowledge, expectations, and experience into conversation with current observations, the person’s report, and the environment.
02 / Polarity
How are you shaping it?
Vertical ↔ Horizontal
Define the priority clearly while considering its relationships and context. Narrow enough to act; open enough to adapt.
03 / Loops
What’s guiding your response?
Cortical ↔ Subcortical
Connect organized thinking and goals with felt importance, concern, motivation, and urgency. Notice how each is influencing your response.
Think completely.
Act with clarity.
Does my response match what this situation requires?
Return to your learning
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