Mental Fitness · 04 Choose · FOUNDATION
A report tells you where you stand. A pod is where the practice holds.
It starts with one interpretation conversation — thirty minutes on your reading, the system around you, and whether an individual or intact-team pod is the right move.
The Mental Fitness Pod
Two modes, one practice.
Facilitated by Compass, on its own calendar, open to leaders and teams whether or not they sit in an executive forum. It begins as an eight-week foundation and continues as long as it earns its place: a minimum of 3 months at $1,500 for the whole engagement, including app access for one year.
Mode one
Individual pod
A leader joins a mixed pod of peers. The work is their own judgment under pressure, read against the demands of the role they actually hold.
The system change shipped with it: one named change to how the leader's own decisions are made — decision rights, a standard, or a cadence — with an owner and a review date.
Mode two
Intact-team pod
The leadership team as the team it actually is. Paired with the team reading.
The system change shipped with it: a written working agreement plus one change to decision rights, standards or cadence, held in the Compass delivery record.
The rule Compass holds
Awareness is not an intervention. Every Mental Fitness engagement ships a system change alongside the practice — decision rights, standards, cadence or role clarity — or the insight decays.
The two phases and what each commits to
8 weeks
The eight-week foundation cohort
One 90-minute virtual session each week
The cohort begins as an eight-week foundation. Members meet virtually once per week for ninety minutes, work through a one-hour video released each Friday, and complete roughly ten minutes of daily practice in the Positive Intelligence app.
Minimum of 3 months total
The continued cohort
Usually every other week, by group decision
After the eight weeks, the cohort can choose to remain together. Meeting frequency typically reduces to about an hour every other week. The group sets its own agenda — change management, stress management, coaching, leadership, and whatever the members need — and continues as long as it earns its place.
A week in the pod
- Weekly sessionOne 90-minute virtual cohort meeting.
- FridaysA new one-hour video is released for the week.
- DailyAbout 10 minutes of guided practice in the PQ app.
What participants get their hands on — the app, for one year
The pod runs on the Positive Intelligence® app: a weekly video, a guided daily practice of about ten minutes, rep timers, and each participant's own progress and streak history. Access holds for one year from the start, so the practice continues long after the eight weeks close.
- · Daily guided reps, timed on screen
- · A weekly video and focus for each of the eight weeks
- · Saboteur library and personal progress history
Illustrative view of the practice screen. Ask to see it live in the interpretation conversation.
Compass FOUNDATION
Where mental fitness sits in the operating system.
Mental fitness is not a wellbeing program. It is measured interference in executive judgment. Compass Mental Fitness is a capability inside FOUNDATION — one layer of the architecture Compass installs, held to the same evidence standard as every other layer.
Where it sits
FOUNDATION · Face Reality · self-leadership. FOUNDATION is the first of the five Compass disciplines, and Face Reality begins with the leader's own judgment. Mental fitness is one capability inside that discipline — never a program running alongside the operating system.
What it changes
A reading is evidence, not an intervention. Every engagement ships a system change with the practice — decision rights, standards, cadence or role clarity — so the insight lands in how the enterprise operates.
Where Positive Intelligence® appears
In exactly one layer: the two instruments and the practice app are licensed from Positive Intelligence, LLC and credited as theirs. The diagnostic reading, the enterprise interpretation and the system change are Compass.
The whole architecture is on the FOUNDATION discipline page.
Not sure where to start?
Three questions, and we point you to the right instrument.
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