Human Constraint Map
Client / organisation:
Date:
1. Pattern
What keeps happening? What do they do — or repeatedly fail to do?
2. Pressure
When does it happen? What happens just before the response changes?
3. Meaning
What does that moment seem to say to them?
4. Prediction
What do they expect might happen next?
5. Protection
What do they do because they expect that?
6. Payoff
What gets easier straight away? Why is the response useful in the moment?
7. The Five-P loop
How does the response help create evidence that seems to prove them right?
Prediction → Protection → Perception → Performance → Proof
8. Recommendation
So what should happen differently now?
The explanation in one paragraph
When __________ happens, it seems to say __________. The person appears to expect __________ might happen, so they __________ because that immediately makes __________ easier. The problem is that this then changes __________, which helps create __________. That gives the original expectation more evidence next time.
This is a working explanation, not a clinical diagnosis. Anything inferred about another person's meaning or expectations should be treated as a hypothesis until checked with them.