Do you show up as your authentic self?
This is the starting point—your readiness to contribute and collaborate from a place of self-awareness. When you can identify your own patterns and rhythms, you create a foundation for genuine engagement.
Like finding your timing before jumping into Double-Dutch, this stage asks: Do you know your own cadence? Are you bringing your whole self to the work, or fragments that match expectations?
Does your team show up as their authentic selves?
This shifts focus from individual to collective. Trust represents the conditions that make collaboration and innovation possible—the environment where people feel safe to show up fully.
The turners in Double-Dutch: they set the rhythm that either welcomes or excludes. When the team environment doesn't match individual authenticity, the first friction point appears.
Do you feel safe being vulnerable with your team?
This is where the framework reveals its sharpest insight: most people don't equate authenticity with vulnerability. They believe they can show up authentically (92% say yes) while keeping vulnerability at arm's length (only 45% feel safe with it).
The drop exposes a fundamental misunderstanding—that you can be your "real self" without risk, that authenticity doesn't require exposing what might not be accepted. But transformation demands both: the willingness to take the leap, make mistakes, and trust you'll be caught.
This is the moment of jumping in—when you trust not just the environment but your relationship with it. This is where change initiatives most often lose momentum.