CP²R

Description

CP²R is a reflective framework for consciously doing what you can do well and want to do in ways that positively impact yourself and others. It interprets how a person, organization, or other entity may be fit for a role or initiative through domains of Capacity, Passion, Relevance, and Presence. CP2R suggests that if a person has the Capacity for a role, a Passion for the role, an ability to maintain a state of Presence in the role, and their participation in the role has Relevance, then they are considered to be fit for the role and, thus, are more likely to achieve success in the role.

Capacity Domain

Capacity represents an ability to do something well. There are four subdomains within the domain of Capacity. The subdomains, which are informed by four of Hettler’s (1976) dimensions of wellness, include Intellectual, Emotional, Social, and Physical. Intellectual Capacity represents mental knowledge, skills, vocabulary, analytical reasoning, problem solving, critical thinking, learning, and other manifestations associated with mental abilities. Emotional Capacity represents a positive outlook, awareness and acceptance of feelings, and expression and management of feelings. This can also include one’s ability to navigate feelings of stress and uncertainty. Social Capacity represents interdependence between others, communication, and relationship building. Physical Capacity represents bodily strength, flexibility, endurance, and health. Guiding questions in this domain may include:

Intellectual Subdomain

• What are examples of how you have used your knowledge and skills, been creative, solved problems, and continued learning in your role? 

• What knowledge and skills may be helpful for you to sustain, improve, or develop for your role? 

• What strategies could help you sustain, improve, or develop the knowledge and skills you identified? 

Social Subdomain

• With whom have you developed relationships in your role, and how do you communicate with them? 

• What relationships and/or communication methods may be helpful for you to sustain, improve, or develop for your role? 

• What strategies could help you sustain, improve, or develop the relationships and/or communication methods that you identified? 

Emotional Subdomain

• What are examples of how you have kept a positive outlook, navigated frustrations, or otherwise managed and expressed your emotions in healthy ways in your role?

• What areas of your emotional well-being may be helpful for you to sustain or improve for your role? 

• What strategies could help you sustain or improve the areas of emotional well-being that you identified? 

Physical Subdomain

• What are examples of how you have used bodily strength, flexibility, endurance, and/or other attributes of your physical health in your role? 

• What areas of your physical well-being may be helpful for you to sustain or improve for your role? 

• What strategies could help you sustain or improve the areas of physical well-being that you identified? 

Passion

Passion represents acting on something that a person cares deeply about. There are four subdomains within the domain of Passion: Like, Importance, Time, Energy. The subdomains are informed by Vallerand et al.’s (2003) work, which explains passion in terms of doing something a person likes, finds important, spends time on, and puts energy into. Guiding questions in this domain may include:

• Which of the activities in your role do you tend to like the most? 

• Which of the activities in your role do you tend to like the least? 

• Which of the activities in your role do you tend to find the most important? 

• Which of the activities in your role do you tend to find the least important? 

• Which of the activities in your role do you tend to put the most time and energy into?

• Which of the activities in your role do you tend to put the least time and energy into?

• What activities in your role may be helpful for you to sustain or improve your passion for?

• What strategies could help you sustain or improve your passion for the activities you identified?

Relevance

Relevance represents the impact of taking action on something. There are four subdomains within the domain of Relevance. The subdomains, which are informed by Bronfenbrenner’s (2005) bioecological theory, include Self, Family, Peer, and Community. Self represents a person's essential being. Family represents a person's relatives. Peers represent people with a similar set of given demographic characteristics [e.g., age, gender, race, ethnicity, culture, group affiliation, region, occupation, education, socio-economic level, sexual orientation, family status]). Community represents a geographic group or choice-based group involving face-to-face or virtual interactions who shares common activities and/or beliefs. Guiding questions in this domain may include:

Self Subdomain

• What are examples of how your role has had an impact on your self? 

• What types of impacts on your self may be possible to sustain or improve in your role? 

• What strategies could help you sustain or improve the types of impacts on your self that you identified? 

Family, Peers, and Community Subdomains

• What are examples of how your role has had an impact on your family, peers, community, or others? 

• What types of impacts on your family, peers, community, or others may be possible to sustain or improve in your role? 

• What strategies could help you sustain or improve the types of impacts on your family, peers, community, or others that you identified? 

Presence

Presence represents pure consciousness, which is described by Tolle (1999) as “consciousness becoming conscious of itself, or life attaining self-consciousness” (p. 98). There are four subdomains within the domain of Presence. They are informed by Kabat-Zinn’s (1994) definition of mindfulness and Feldman et al.’s (2004) corresponding measure, which align with Tolle’s interpretation of presence. The subdomains include Attention, Present Focus, Awareness, and Acceptance. Other concepts, such as contemplation and mindfulness, point toward an essence similar to Presence. Rohr (2009) described contemplation as “keeping your heart and mind spaces open long enough for the mind to see other hidden material” (pp. 33-34). Kabat-Zinn (1994) defined mindfulness as “paying attention in a particular way: on purpose, in the present moment, and nonjudgmentally” (p. 4). He referred to it simply as “the art of conscious living” (p. 6). Other scholars have explained mindfulness in comparable terms. For example, Brown and Ryan (2003) defined it as “present awareness and attention” (p. 844). Walach et al. (2006) suggested it is “an alert mode of perceiving all mental contents—perceptions, sensations, cognitions, affects” (p. 1543). Langer and Moldoveanu (2000) described it as “a heightened state of involvement and wakefulness or being in the present” (p. 2). Guiding questions in this domain may include:

• What are examples of activities in your role that you are able to focus on in the present moment without being preoccupied with the past or future or are able to pay attention to for an extended period of time?

• What activities in your role may be helpful for you to improve your focus on or extended attention toward?

• What strategies could help you sustain or improve your focus on or extended attention toward the activities you identified?