The IMR System Assessment
A research-informed personality instrument designed to clarify your core motivations. Through the language of color, it reveals how those motivations shape your relationships.
A Lens, Not a Label
The IMR System does not seek to reduce you to a single category. Human personality is far too complex—and far too dynamic—for that. Instead, the assessment provides a clarifying lens: a way to see the prewired motivational and relational dynamics you naturally bring to every relationship, team, and community you are part of.
Think of your color not as a box, but as a starting point. Every individual carries elements of all nine colors, we are all connected in some way. Your color personality type reflects the dominant motivational pattern that most consistently influences your perception, decisions, and relational style. Even the most mature individual will fall back on these patterns when they are tired, hungry, or backed into a corner. By understanding your patterns, you gain the vocabulary to articulate what has always been true about you - and the awareness to grow beyond automatic responses.
Personality is nuanced and dynamic, shaped by meaning, relationship, and context. It is also influenced by parental dynamics, culture, race, gender, sexual orientation, birth order, socio-economic background, astrological symbolism, spiritual path, and generational lineage. The IMR System honors this complexity while offering a clear, accessible framework for self-understanding and relational clarity.
The Nine Color Archetypes
Each color personality type reflects a distinct motivational archetype, revealing
how a core meaning orientation influences relationships, behavior,
and engagement across cultures and life contexts.
What the Assessment Measures
The IMR System Assessment uncovers the deeper internal frameworks that organize motivation, shape relationships, and influence behavior. It reveals how you naturally engage with yourself and the world around you.
Intrinsic Motivation
- The IMR System uncovers the internal meaning structures that drive motivation
- Reveals how individuals are naturally oriented toward purpose, fulfillment, and inner alignment
- Uses a color-coded personality framework to distinguish different motivational patterns
- Explains how these patterns shape decision-making, goal pursuit, and the experience of meaning
- Focuses on deeper internal drivers rather than external rewards, expectations, or surface behaviors
- Clarifies why individuals act, choose, and move through life the way they do
Relational Orientation
- Positions individuals at the center of their relationship landscape
- Reveals how people naturally approach connection with others
- Uses a color-coded personality framework to illustrate core relational tendencies
- Shows how these tendencies influence communication, emotional exchange, and conflict navigation
- Recognizes that every relationship is distinct, with unique emotional needs and levels of closeness
- Acknowledges that relationships are sustained in different ways
- Focuses on deeper relational patterns rather than surface interaction styles
- Clarifies how people build, care for, manage, and restore their connections
Behavioral Expression
- Shows how internal meaning structures translate into lived behavior
- Reveals consistent patterns in how people think, feel, and respond across situations
- Uses a color-based framework to clarify outward personality expression
- Highlights how behaviors emerge under stress, in relationships, and during change
- Avoids defining fixed traits, emphasizing behavior as dynamic and responsive
- Frames behavior as adaptive to relational context, emotional intensity, and inner alignment
How the Assessment Works
The assessment is designed to be intuitive and reflective. There are no right or wrong answers—only honest ones.
Word Resonance
You will be presented with 270 words, each connected to one of the nine color archetypes. For every word, you simply indicate whether it resonates with you (agree), is occasionally how you show up (sometimes) or does not resonate with you (disagree). By prioritizing instinctive responses over deliberation, the IMR assessment reveals deeper motivational logic that is often filtered out through conscious self-reporting.
Scoring & Results
Your responses are aggregated across all nine color dimensions to identify your color personality type—the motivational archetype that most consistently emerged. If scores are closely tied, a brief tiebreaker round ensures precision.
Steadfast
“Firm and unwavering in purpose or loyalty”
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Built on Science. Designed for Real Life
The IMR System advances personality science by focusing on the internal drivers that shape motivation, relationships, and behavior in real-world contexts. Rather than reducing people to traits, IMR System examines how meaning is organized internally and expressed relationally. The spectrum of color functions as a unifying framework, illustrating movement, connection, and developmental flow among personality patterns—supporting growth, integration, and shared understanding.
Personality Psychology
IMR is grounded in enduring traditions of personality psychology; drawing from Pythagorean principles, Jungian theories, and Enneagram archetypes. Building on these foundations, IMR advances a meaning-centered, relational model that understands personality as dynamic rather than fixed.
Personality is an evolving internal system of meaning that shapes how perception, motivation, and responses are organized through a color personality lens. This approach moves beyond typology and trait measurement, offering a coherent framework for understanding how individuals make sense of experience and act with consistency across changing environments.
Motivation and Meaning
The IMR System defines motivation as meaning-driven, rather than shaped by incentives, compliance, or external control. Informed by applied education theory—including constructivist, experiential, and identity-based learning models—the IMR System understands the learner as an active meaning-maker.
Individuals are motivated when experience feels relevant, coherent, and aligned with their internal sense of purpose. IMR System emphasizes how meaning is constructed through action, relationship, and interpretation, rather than assumed to arise from universal needs or external rewards. Motivation, within the IMR System framework, reflects how individuals organize experience and orient themselves toward what matters to them.
Relational Context
The IMR System approaches personality as inherently relational. Internal meaning structures are expressed and refined through relationships—within families, teams, organizations, and communities. Behavior is understood as a relational response, shaped by an individual's color personality type.
A core strength of the IMR System is its shared language. When individuals understand their own perspective and can recognize the perspectives of others, communication improves, misinterpretation decreases, and integration becomes possible. This relational fluency supports collaboration, leadership development, conflict navigation, and long-term relational resilience.
Sociocultural Context
Humans are social creatures and personality is expressed within social and cultural systems. The IMR System framework was shaped through applied work across diverse contexts, spanning from the United States to Micronesian communities.
By situating personality within families, organizations, and communities, the IMR System provides a practical, culturally responsive framework for understanding group dynamics, role differentiation, and leadership across sociocultural contexts—extending personality science beyond the individual into the systems where life and learning unfold.
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