ThryvfulTypes
A Framework for How You
Naturally Navigate Life.
The Gift You Bring to the World
A ThryvfulType is the way you’re naturally oriented to see and move through the world. It’s not about your job title, your hobbies, or even what you happen to be good at.
Each ThryvfulType combines two things:
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Time orientation: whether you tend to focus on the past, the present, or the future.
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Space orientation: whether your attention gravitates toward relationships, ideas, possibilities, or tangible results.
Together, these form your lens, the perspective you naturally bring to decisions, problem solving, and everyday tasks.
This is why two people can be strong at the same skill but approach it differently. One person may be present-oriented and focus on building connection in the moment. Another may be future-oriented and build connection as a way of understanding what is coming next. The skill is similar, but the approach is different, and that difference is what defines each ThryvfulType.
We call this a gift because it is already part of who you are. It is the way you tend to contribute, the perspective you bring without having to think about it. When you understand this gift, you can use it more intentionally and make clearer choices about how you work.
Knowing your ThryvfulType helps you understand how you approach your work and how to build systems, goals, and habits that fit the way you function. It helps you make choices that reduce friction and increase follow through.
The ThryvfulType Matrix
Orientation Drivers
Orientation drivers are the natural filters that shape what a person notices, prioritizes, and responds to first. They reveal the type of information or input that feels most intuitive and energizing for someone. These drivers are not values or personality traits. They are the starting points of attention that influence how people think, make decisions, and navigate their day.
Human Relational
• relationships
• trust
• belonging
• communication
• emotional tone
• shared understanding
• social harmony
• community
• the meaning behind interactions
• how decisions affect people
Expansive
• possibilities
• inspiration
• imagination
• meaning over time
• potential
• new directions
• creative exploration
• vision
• energy and momentum
• the larger story or arc
Conceptual
• ideas
• knowledge
• clarity
• models and frameworks
• understanding how things work
• mental organization
• patterns
• accuracy
• logic
• meaning through insight
Tangible
• action
• tasks
• physical realities
• building and creating
• tools and resources
• visible progress
• structure
• implementation
• outcomes they can touch or measure
• execution in the real world
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What ThryvfulTypes Are
Your orientation.
Each ThryvfulType reflects how you naturally orient in time (past, present, or future) and space (relationships, ideas, possibilities, or tangible things). This orientation is the lens through which you see and move through the world.
A guide to your “how.”
Your ThryvfulType doesn’t tell you what to value or what to do. It shows you how you instinctively approach those values, goals, and habits. It’s the pattern behind the choices that feel natural and energizing.
A source of alignment.
When you design systems, workflows, and rhythms that align with your ThryvfulType, you stop fighting against yourself. Life feels lighter, focus comes easier, and progress feels sustainable.
A gift to others.
Each ThryvfulType represents a way of contributing be that clarifying complexity, preserving wisdom, sparking energy, or building systems for the future. When you live from your orientation, you bring a gift that others need.
Language for self-understanding.
ThryvfulTypes give you words for something you may have sensed all along: the way you’re wired to contribute. This language helps you honor it, design around it, and share it with others.
A coaching framework.
ThryvfulTypes is an original coaching framework created to spark self-awareness, alignment, and collaboration. It’s a practical tool for reflection and growth, helping you design systems and rhythms that fit the way you’re naturally wired.
What ThryvfulTypes Are Not
Not your strengths.
Strengths are the skills, talents, and capacities you develop and refine through practice and experience. Your ThryvfulType is deeper — it’s about the natural orientation that shapes how you apply those strengths, not the strengths themselves.
Not your personality.
Personality refers to enduring traits and patterns of thought, emotion, and behavior (like those measured in the Big Five: openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, neuroticism). Your ThryvfulType is not a trait profile. It describes your time and space orientation — the lens you naturally use to approach values, goals, and habits.
Not your values.
Values are personal and chosen. Anyone can value things like health, family, or freedom. Your ThryvfulType doesn’t decide what you value — it shapes how you live those values out in daily life.
Not a box.
You’re not locked into one way of being. Knowing your ThryvfulType simply gives you language for your natural tendencies, while leaving space for your unique expression and growth.
Not about proving, about practicing.
ThryvfulTypes is not astrology or a proven science. It’s not about prediction or diagnosis, but about giving you a fresh, practical lens for understanding yourself and creating a life that feels aligned and energizing
Why Knowing Your ThryvfulType Matters
When you know your ThryvfulType, you gain clarity on how you naturally see the world and where you create the most impact. This self-awareness becomes a powerful tool for living and working in alignment.
With your ThryvfulType, you can:
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Set goals that truly fit. Instead of chasing someone else’s version of success, you’ll define goals that energize you and reflect your values.
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Build systems that work with you. Every ThryvfulType orients toward time and space in a unique way; some toward the future, some anchored in the past, some centered in the present; some focused on relationships, others on ideas, possibilities, or tangible results. When your systems reflect this orientation, they stop feeling like a struggle and start feeling natural.
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Understand your natural pull. Your ThryvfulType sheds light on the kinds of spaces, patterns, and roles you’re intuitively drawn toward. Recognizing this helps you channel that pull with intention instead of drifting without clarity.
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Spot blind spots. You’ll notice where you get stuck or drained, and understand what support you need to move forward with less friction.
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Collaborate better. Knowing your ThryvfulType helps you appreciate what others bring and how you naturally complement them.
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Stay aligned long-term. As life shifts, your ThryvfulType acts like a compass, guiding you back to the conditions where you thrive.
In short: your ThryvfulType reveals how you naturally approach goals and challenges. With that self-awareness, you can design systems, habits, and choices that feel natural so you stop wasting energy fighting against yourself and start building real momentum.
The Bigger Picture
How ThryvfulTypes Interact With Beliefs, Values, “Your Why,” Goals, and Habits
Your ThryvfulType shows how you go about going about things; your natural way of navigating and contributing. But your “how” is always interacting with other layers of your life:
Beliefs
The stories you hold about yourself and the world. Your ThryvfulType shapes how you act on those beliefs — whether through reflection, action, vision, or connection.
Values
The principles and priorities that matter most to you. Values are personal and type-agnostic, anyone can value things like creativity, freedom, stability, or community. Your ThryvfulType doesn’t decide what you value it informs how you respond. Two people may share the same value but live it out very differently depending on their orientation.
Your Why
The deeper reason behind your contribution. Your ThryvfulType gives the how; your Why provides the fuel.
ThryvfulType - Your How
How you act on your values and your natural orientation to the world.
Goals
The outcomes you move toward. When goals honor your values and are pursued in a way that fits your ThryvfulType, they feel meaningful and sustainable.
Habits
The rhythms that carry your “how” into daily life. Habits make your orientation repeatable and reliable over time.
Together, these layers form a whole system.
Your ThryvfulType explains how you move, your values explain what matters, your Why gives meaning, and your goals and habits turn it all into a life you can actually live.
Example
In this example we will look at how each ThryvfulType might intuitively
choose a different way of acting on a value.
Shared Value: Good Health
Shared Why: To live a full life with family
Click below to explore how each ThryvfulType might act on their value of good health.