THE RESONANCE CODE — AI Prompt

Copy and paste everything below into ChatGPT, Claude, or another AI assistant.

You are going to guide me through a creative and reflective exploration of my Resonance Code: the seven elements that help communicate the deeper meaning, identity, culture, and world around what I am creating.

The seven elements are:

  1. Origin — Where did this come from?

  2. Ethos — What do I believe?

  3. Symbols — What represents this?

  4. Rituals — What do we repeatedly do?

  5. Language — How do we speak here?

  6. Non-Believers — Who are we not?

  7. Leader — Who initiates and embodies the vision?

The purpose of this process is not to manufacture a brand or force myself into a rigid framework.

It is to help me recognize, articulate, and deepen the meaning that may already exist within my work, story, values, creative expression, audience, community, and life.

Approach this as a process of self-discovery, creative exploration, and connection.

HOW TO GUIDE ME

Take me through this process one section at a time.

Do not give me all the questions at once.

Keep the experience conversational, spacious, and relatively light.

Ask only the minimum number of questions necessary to uncover something meaningful. Usually 1–3 thoughtful questions at a time is enough.

After I respond:

  • reflect back the most important patterns you notice;

  • help me clarify or deepen anything that feels significant;

  • suggest possible language when useful;

  • distinguish between what feels authentic and what feels manufactured;

  • bring forward relevant ideas from earlier parts of our conversation when they connect;

  • then move naturally into the next element.

Do not pressure me to have a perfect answer.

Some elements may already be obvious. Others may only exist as fragments, feelings, possibilities, images, words, stories, or intuitions.

Help me discover them.

If we have already completed previous work together around my:

  • identity;

  • character;

  • culture;

  • creative work;

  • Permission to Play game;

  • audience;

  • aligned offer;

  • purpose;

  • mission;

  • values;

  • business;

  • art;

  • or current project,

use that context wherever it is relevant rather than asking me to repeat information unnecessarily.

If that context is not available, this prompt should still work completely on its own.

BEGIN WITH CONTEXT

Start by asking me only these two questions:

1. What are you primarily creating or building right now, and what role best describes you within it?

For example: artist, coach, entrepreneur, musician, writer, creator, teacher, designer, founder, practitioner, or something else.

2. Who is it for, and what do you most hope people experience, feel, understand, become, or receive through your work?

After I answer, briefly reflect the essence back to me and begin the Resonance Code.

1. ORIGIN

Where did this come from?

Help me explore the story behind what I am creating.

Look for:

  • meaningful experiences;

  • turning points;

  • struggles;

  • curiosities;

  • obsessions;

  • discoveries;

  • teachers;

  • losses;

  • frustrations;

  • moments of inspiration;

  • recurring themes throughout my life;

  • reasons this work matters to me personally.

The goal is not simply to produce a chronological biography.

Help me identify the meaningful thread that explains why this work exists.

Explore questions such as:

  • What experiences seem to have prepared me for this?

  • Was there a moment, problem, realization, loss, desire, or discovery that changed my direction?

  • Why does this particular work feel personal to me?

  • What part of my own journey now allows me to help, serve, express, or create for others?

When we have explored enough, help me articulate a concise Origin Statement or short origin story that captures the essence.

It does not need to sound polished or promotional.

It should feel true.

2. ETHOS

What do I believe?

Help me uncover the beliefs, principles, values, and worldview underneath my work.

Go deeper than generic values like freedom, authenticity, love, success, or creativity.

Help me understand:

  • What do I believe about the work I do?

  • What do I believe about the people I serve?

  • What do I believe is possible?

  • What do I believe most people misunderstand?

  • What principles would I still stand behind even if they were unpopular?

  • What am I unwilling to compromise?

Look for convictions that already influence how I live, create, teach, work, or make decisions.

Then help me distill these into a small number of clear Ethos Statements.

These might sound like:

“We believe…”

“I believe…”

“Here, we value…”

“The work is based on the understanding that…”

Keep the language natural to me.

3. SYMBOLS

What represents this?

Help me explore the visual, sensory, emotional, and symbolic world around my work.

Do not limit this to logos or graphic design.

Explore possible:

  • images;

  • objects;

  • colors;

  • shapes;

  • environments;

  • clothing;

  • textures;

  • sounds;

  • music;

  • gestures;

  • places;

  • characters;

  • archetypes;

  • natural elements;

  • recurring visual motifs;

  • physical objects;

  • metaphors.

Ask what already seems to carry meaning for me.

Also help me notice symbols that may already be recurring naturally in my work or life.

We do not need to force an official visual identity.

The goal is to identify a small symbolic vocabulary that feels connected to the world I am creating.

4. RITUALS

What do we repeatedly do?

Help me identify repeated actions that could deepen connection and create culture.

These may already exist or may be possibilities.

Explore:

  • practices;

  • routines;

  • ceremonies;

  • gatherings;

  • creative rhythms;

  • challenges;

  • ways of beginning;

  • ways of completing;

  • ways of celebrating;

  • ways of reflecting;

  • recurring questions;

  • community habits;

  • experiences clients or audience members move through.

Consider both my own rituals as the creator and the rituals that people around my work could participate in.

Ask:

What could people do, not merely consume?

Help me identify a few rituals that would feel natural, enjoyable, and meaningful rather than artificial.

5. LANGUAGE

How do we speak here?

Help me notice the words and phrases that belong to the world I am creating.

Look for:

  • concepts I repeat;

  • names I have given processes;

  • metaphors;

  • frameworks;

  • phrases;

  • questions;

  • expressions;

  • shorthand;

  • inside language;

  • terms that carry deeper meaning for me or my community.

Use language from our previous conversations if relevant.

Do not encourage jargon for its own sake.

The purpose is to identify language that helps people name experiences they already feel but may not yet have words for.

Help me create a short list of meaningful words or phrases and explain what each one represents.

6. NON-BELIEVERS

Who are we not?

Help me clarify the boundaries of this work.

This is not primarily about creating enemies or attacking competitors.

It is about understanding:

  • what I do not believe;

  • what I refuse;

  • what approaches feel fundamentally misaligned;

  • what cultural assumptions I challenge;

  • what this work is trying to move beyond;

  • who this is probably not for.

Explore tensions such as:

“What does my work exist in response to?”

“What frustrates me about the conventional approach?”

“What would I never want this work to become?”

“What kind of person may simply not resonate with this?”

Help me articulate this clearly without becoming unnecessarily negative or polarizing.

The aim is clarity through contrast.

7. LEADER

Who initiates and embodies the vision?

Help me explore my role as the person carrying this work.

This is not about becoming a guru or presenting myself as perfect.

Explore:

  • What qualities does this work ask me to embody?

  • What do I need to practice rather than merely preach?

  • What kind of example do I want to set?

  • What parts of my personality or story naturally represent this work?

  • Where am I still being asked to grow into the vision I am communicating?

  • What responsibility comes with leading this work?

Help me identify the characteristics of the leader I am becoming through the work itself.

Also help me distinguish between performing an identity and genuinely embodying one.

INTEGRATION — MY RESONANCE CODE

After we have completed all seven sections, bring everything together.

Create a concise summary with these headings:

ORIGIN
A short articulation of where this came from and why it exists.

ETHOS
My central beliefs and principles.

SYMBOLS
The images, sensory cues, motifs, or objects that represent the world.

RITUALS
The repeated actions or experiences that create participation.

LANGUAGE
The vocabulary, phrases, metaphors, or concepts that belong to the work.

NON-BELIEVERS
The beliefs, behaviours, approaches, or assumptions this work stands apart from.

LEADER
The qualities and responsibilities I am being called to embody.

Then give me a final synthesis answering:

What is the world I am creating?

Describe the deeper feeling, meaning, identity, and experience that connects all seven elements.

Also identify:

  • the 2–3 elements that already feel strongest;

  • the 1–2 elements that feel least developed;

  • any recurring themes that appeared across multiple sections;

  • anything that seems particularly distinctive or uniquely mine.

Finally, end by asking me:

“What part of this feels most true, alive, or exciting to develop further?”

Do not move beyond that question until I respond.