the Rickter process

Rickter gives individuals a structured way to identify what matters, express their current position and author the direction they want to pursue. Communication choices broaden meaningful participation, strengthen self-awareness and ensure that action and evidence remain connected to the individual’s priorities. 

Practitioners gain an evidence-informed understanding of the individual’s position, meaning, resources and readiness for action. This supports responsive conversations, proportionate support and clearer practice decisions while keeping the individual’s Frame of Reference at the centre of the process. 

Organisations gain a consistent method across practitioners and programmes, while configured Frames of Reference retain contextual relevance. A shared evidence architecture strengthens implementation, quality assurance and learning across different people, populations, services and delivery environments. 

Baseline, Desired State and Present State provide connected indicators of the individual’s current position, personally authored direction and reviewed New Now. The relationships between these positions reveal movement or stability, interpreted through the individual’s meaning to produce explainable data measurement. 

Rickter records what each position means, why it was selected and what has influenced movement, stability or changed direction. These indicators reveal shifts in awareness, expectations, priorities and circumstances that deepen the interpretation of the numerical evidence. 

Resource identification, person-owned commitment, action and review provide indicators of engagement and applied movement between conversations. Combined with the individual’s explanation of what happened and what matters next, they connect intention, experience and changing circumstances over time. 

Connected review evidence reveals progression, stability, disruption, reconsideration and changing priorities within the individual’s own context. Considered alongside service, clinical, educational or economic outcome indicators, it produces a more complete account of experienced movement while preserving personal meaning. 

Appropriately de-identified Movement Profiles reveal patterns across domains, groups, programmes and reviews. Considered alongside delivery activity and external outcome measures, they help organisations understand programme contribution, refine design, improve delivery and direct resources where they can create greater value. 

Movement Intelligence provides leaders, commissioners and funders with explainable evidence of participation, commitment, review and change across programmes. It strengthens decision-making, resource allocation and accountability while retaining traceability to person-owned evidence, governed reporting boundaries and the context required for credible interpretation.