1. Name the situation
Describe what is happening without loading it with theory.
Use
How to Use Reality Audit
Reality Audit can be used on arguments, policies, claims, identities, models, news stories, institutional decisions, and everyday situations.
Six steps
2. Name the claim
What is being said, implied, assumed, or imposed?
3. Separate actuality from frame
What is observed, and what is interpretation, model, role, or story?
4. Identify capture
What may be standing in place of what is?
5. Trace and test
What supports the claim, and what would correct it?
6. Return to practice
What should now be corrected, stopped, said, done, or left standing?
Do not ask first: who wins? Ask first: what holds?