6 Sides Growth Profile
See how six essential sides of you work together and which may need more room to grow.
Personal Growth Assessment
Discover Your Growth Profile
Understand what may be getting in your way, identify the capacities that need strengthening, and get a clearer direction for your next stage of growth.
Use your personalized results independently or alongside therapy, coaching, or other personal-growth work.
One assessment • Two personalized readouts • Focused growth areas • One future retest
Takes you to the Wilder Method assessment site to begin.
Developed by Bill Wilder, LCMHC, and Matt Burch, LPC, with more than 35 years of combined experience helping people understand patterns and create meaningful change.
See a full sample readout
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Know what to strengthen. Learn how to strengthen it. Measure what changes.
The distinction
This Is Not a Personality Test.
A personality test asks
“What kind of person am I?”
The Wilder Method asks
- “Where am I right now?”
- “What may be getting in my way?”
- “What do I need to strengthen next?”
Your results are not a permanent label. They create a working growth map that can change as you change.
The core promise
Stop Guessing About What You Need to Work On
You may already recognize many of your patterns. The harder question is knowing which part of you needs attention and where focused effort could create the greatest change.
The Wilder Method Assessment establishes your current baseline, identifies your most important growth areas, and gives you a clearer place to begin.
This may be useful if:
- You understand some of your patterns but still struggle to change them.
- You are uncertain where to focus your personal growth.
- You want practical direction you can use independently.
- You want to make therapy or coaching more focused.
You do not need to be in therapy to benefit from the assessment.
Included with your $49 assessment
What You Receive
Instinctual Drive Profile
Explore six capacities connected to action, self-trust, boundaries, authenticity, vitality, and freedom from self-consciousness.
Focused Growth Areas
Identify the few areas where focused attention may create the greatest movement.
Growth Resources
Explore educational guides and optional resources connected to your results.
One Future Retest
Retake the assessment after a period of focused growth and compare your results with your original baseline.
Educational guides on this website are free. Books, workbooks, and professional support are optional and sold separately.
Two pathways
One Growth Map. More Than One Way to Use It.
Your results belong to you. Choose the approach that best fits your growth journey.
Use It Independently
- Review your personalized results.
- Identify the capacities that need attention.
- Use relevant exercises and growth resources.
- Practice those capacities in daily life.
- Retest later to measure movement.
Use It With Professional Support
- Bring your results into therapy or coaching.
- Create a shared language for growth.
- Focus conversations on your most relevant patterns.
- Select tools that support your existing work.
- Retest later to explore what changed.
The assessment provides a structured map for reflection, conversation, and focused action. It does not diagnose you or dictate how you must grow.
How it works
- 01
Take the assessment
Complete one online assessment at your own pace.
- 02
Receive two personalized readouts
Receive your 6 Sides Growth Profile and Instinctual Drive Profile, including your most important focus areas.
- 03
Use your results
Work with your results independently or bring them into therapy, coaching, or another growth process.
- 04
Retest and compare
Retake the assessment after a period of focused growth and compare it with your original baseline.
Understanding your readout
Already Have Your Results? Start Here.
Short, plain-language explanations of everything your readout refers to.
Readout One
What are the 6 Sides?
The Adventurer, Life Enthusiast, Conscientious One, Connector, Leader, and Mediator — what each side does, and what it means when one is carrying too much.
Read →Readout Two
What is the Instinctual Drive?
A close-up of the two sides that get you moving, broken into six capacities — Risk Tolerance, Self-Trust, Standing Your Ground, Free to Be Me, Follow Your Bliss, and Low Self-Consciousness.
Read →The language
Castle, Barn, Cave — and horse, rider, cart
Why your readout uses journey language, what each term means in one sentence, and where id, ego, and superego fit in.
Read →For Therapists and Growth Professionals
The Wilder Method Assessment can provide a shared language and structured growth map for work with clients. Results may help focus conversations, identify areas for exploration, and establish a baseline for measuring movement.
Where am I? What is getting in my way? What should I strengthen next?
One assessment helps you answer all three, and a future retest helps you see what changed.
Build My Growth Map