Self-Expansion Questionnaire: 10 Evidence-Based Coaching Practices
Describe almost anything you are working through and IX Coach finds the practices whose real-world fit is closest. For Self-Expansion Questionnaire, these are the strongest matches in the current practice library.
About 2 minutes
Try it here: list strengths and one new try
Write the strengths you already use, plus one thing you have never tried. Seeing both shows where you could grow next.
What strengths do you already use, and what have you not tried?
Practices that may help
- Apply the self-expansion framework to individual growth, not only relationships
The same motivation that drives relational closeness also drives individual meaning — seeking growth for its own sake.
Self-Expansion Model: How Relationships Grow (and Stagnate) Us - Take the VIA survey and identify your signature strengths
Discover your top five to seven character strengths using the validated VIA survey.
VIA Character Strengths, Made Practical - Expand the Unknown quadrant through challenge and experience
Try things outside your current self-concept — undiscovered capacity lives in the Unknown quadrant.
The Johari Window - Pursue personal growth that you share — not parallel but joint
Growing alongside a partner or friend, rather than separately, leverages the self-expansion mechanism for both people simultaneously.
Self-Expansion Model: How Relationships Grow (and Stagnate) Us - Take a validated Big Five measure
Use a psychometrically validated instrument — not a viral quiz — to get a reliable trait profile.
The Big Five Personality Model - Self-Expansion Model: How Relationships Grow (and Stagnate) Us
Arthur Aron’s self-expansion model proposes that people are motivated to grow — to expand their sense of self by incorporating new perspectives, skills, and resources — and that relationships are so motivating early on because they represent rapid self-expansion. The well-studied practical implication is that doing novel, challenging activities with a partner or close friend restores the expansion experience and revitalises closeness. The model has a substantial empirical base, primarily in romantic relationships. - Connect individual strengths to the broader virtues they serve
Understand which of the six VIA virtues your signature strengths express, and what that reveals about your character.
VIA Character Strengths, Made Practical - Audit current relationships for expansion rate
Relationships that stopped expanding tend to feel stagnant — a periodic audit reveals where the growth has stopped.
Self-Expansion Model: How Relationships Grow (and Stagnate) Us - Track self-stability over time
Notice when your sense of who you are shifts dramatically with context, mood, or others’ opinions — this instability is itself informative.
Self-Concept Clarity, Made Practical - Run a PERMA audit of your current well-being
Rate each of the five PERMA pillars to find which is currently limiting your overall flourishing.
Seligman’s PERMA Model, Made Practical
Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- I’m good at what I do and life is fine, but everything has started to feel like reruns
- If you asked me to name what I’m actually good at, I’d freeze
- I keep saying "that’s just not who I am" and steering clear of anything that doesn’t fit my picture of myself
- I’m changing and growing on my own and they’re changing on theirs, but none of it is together
- I’ve done a bunch of those fun online personality quizzes and the labels never quite fit or tell me anything useful
Related concerns
- Self Expansion Questionnaire Seq
The same motivation that drives relational closeness also drives individual meaning — seeking growth for its own sake.
Apply the self-expansion framework to individual growth, not only relationships
- Self Expansion Test
The same motivation that drives relational closeness also drives individual meaning — seeking growth for its own sake.
- Aron Self Expansion Model
Arthur Aron’s self-expansion model proposes that people are motivated to grow — to expand their sense of self by incorporating new perspectives, skills, and resources — and that relationships are so motivating early on because they represent rapid self-expansion. The well-studied practical implication is that doing novel, challenging activities with a partner or close friend restores the expansion experience and revitalises closeness. The model has a substantial empirical base, primarily in romantic relationships.
- Self Expansion Check
The same motivation that drives relational closeness also drives individual meaning — seeking growth for its own sake.
- Self Expansion Theory Questions
The same motivation that drives relational closeness also drives individual meaning — seeking growth for its own sake.
- Self Expansion Def
The same motivation that drives relational closeness also drives individual meaning — seeking growth for its own sake.
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