the rickter scale method
Understanding Human Movement
Before performance outcomes can be reported, the human movement behind them has to be understood.
Rickter turns structured human conversation into evidence that matters, what the individual would like to be different and what has moved while keeping meaning and ownership with the individual.
FROM individual meaning TO ORGANISATIONAL INTELLIGENCE
For the Individual
The Life Board enables the individual to articulate what matters, establish their current position, explain what that position means and identify a Desired State. They choose a commitment and, at review, see insights into what has or has not moved, what contributed and what matters next.
For the Practitioner
The Impact Management System preserves the individual’s articulation alongside their positions, commitment and Movement Evidence. Practitioners can return to the meaning behind the scores, understand the individual’s experience of change and shape the next conversation without relying on assumption.
For the Organisation
For the Organisation
Across programmes, measurable of individual and cluster movement can be considered alongside patterns in what has been articulated, while protecting personal identities. Organisations can understand where change is occurring, what may be contributing to it and how delivery should respond.
TRAINING academy
Become a Certified Practitioner
Complete our one-day Fast Track training and required assessment to become a Certified Rickter Practitioner. The course has supported more than 22,000 staff and is available to organisations online or in-house, with open Academy courses for individuals and half-day refreshers for existing practitioners.
ADVANCED PRACTITIONER
Experienced Rickter trainers guide certified practitioners through advanced processes, techniques, theories and client-engagement practice. Participants receive a comprehensive reference manual, continuing educational resources, access to our expert practitioner consortium and the weekly Café Connect live stream.
community navigator
The Community Navigator Programme prepares community-facing staff to apply the Rickter philosophy through less formal conversations without delivering the full Life Board process. Navigators help people articulate what matters, recognise choices and identify next steps, while recording engagement, themes, agreed actions and reported progress within their organisation’s reporting framework.
associate training academy
Rickter invites expressions of interest from experienced practitioners and established organisations seeking to operate a licensed Associate Training Academy. Approved Associates are licensed to train and assess Rickter Practitioners within an agreed area of operation. They receive trainer development, authorised training materials, an established Academy model and continuing quality assurance.
Where Rickter is applied
Human Movement Analysis
Rickter has been applied across diverse services, programmes and professional settings where individual experience, purposeful change and evidence of movement need to be understood.
CHILDREN, YOUNG PEOPLE AND FAMILIES
Children’s services, young people’s services, parenting and families, school curricula, behaviour and self-regulation support, education support, secure units and intensive care.
EDUCATION, SKILLS, EMPLOYABILITY AND ENTERPRISE
Adult learning, colleges and universities, essential skills, employability, enterprise, coaching and mentoring, volunteering, learning support and progression programmes.
HEALTH, WELLBEING, CARE AND RECOVERY
Addiction services, bereavement support, counselling, mental health, psychotherapy, health and social care, rehabilitation and recovery, residential care and trauma-informed practice.
JUSTICE, SAFETY AND PROTECTION
Community safety, criminal justice, prisons and probation, domestic abuse support, gang-violence reduction, hate-crime awareness, victim support, crisis management, incident recovery and veteran services.
COMMUNITY, INCLUSION AND INDEPENDENT LIVING
Community development, disability and enabling services, neuro-inclusive practice, equality, diversity and inclusion, independent living, homelessness, poverty reduction, debt-management planning, neighbourhood empowerment, and refugee advocacy and protection.
ORGANISATIONS, LEADERSHIP AND WORKFORCE PERFORMANCE
Leadership development, business operations, project management, staff development and appraisal, workforce development, fitness and performance, sport and training, and Meta Thinking outcomes.