Say it at the same time.
Perspective Exchange takes a situation and asks each person for two things: what happened, and how it felt. Nobody can read anyone else's words until everyone has written. Then every perspective opens at once, side by side.
How it works.
Blind until reveal, enforced by the server rather than by trust.
Name the situation.
One short context, up to 500 characters. The argument in the kitchen, the client call that went sideways, the decision you both remember differently.
Share a link, not an account.
A private link or a QR code. Whoever opens it can write without signing up. They see the context and nothing else.
Everyone writes, nobody reads.
Facts on one side, perceptions on the other, or up to fifty fact-and-feeling pairs if the situation deserves that care. The server keeps every take sealed until the agreed number of people have written.
Everything opens together.
At the threshold, all perspectives appear at once as a wall of cards. Until then, each person can still edit their own words. After, the exchange is locked and can be downloaded.
Who it is for.
Any two or more people who keep talking past each other.
Couples and partners.
After the same argument for the third time. You each write what happened and how it landed, and you read both versions together, with nobody having gone first.
Therapists, counsellors, mediators.
Between-session homework with structure built in: facts separated from feelings, simultaneous disclosure, a record both parties can bring back. You open the exchange; they take part with a link.
Co-founders, mentors, managers.
Before the one-to-one, both of you write what you expect and what worries you. Reading the other's take only after writing your own removes the anchoring that makes those conversations polite and useless.
Small groups and workshops.
Up to a thousand participants, all writing before anyone reads. A retrospective, a case review, a family decision, without the first speaker setting the frame.
Two columns, on purpose.
Splitting the account into facts and perceptions is the oldest trick in non-violent communication. The app makes it the shape of the form, so nobody has to remember to do it.
Facts
What happened, when, in which order. The part both of you could agree a camera would have recorded.
Perceptions
What it made you feel: comfortable, uncomfortable, and everything specific in between. The part only you can report.
The structured mode goes further: up to fifty pairs, each fact with the perception it left, when a situation deserves that care.
What a free account gets.
Opening an exchange needs an account; taking part needs only the link. Every account has the same allowance and there is no paid tier. Larger groups can be enabled on request.
- 2
- participants per exchange
- 5
- exchanges per month
- 500
- characters of context
- 50
- fact and feeling pairs
Questions people ask.
Can anyone read my words before the reveal?
No. Below the threshold the server sends each person only their own take. The others do not exist in the response, so no client, extension or screenshot can show them.
Do participants need an account?
No. A participant opens the link, writes, and is identified by a private code shown only as its last six characters. The person who opens the exchange needs an account.
Can I edit after writing?
Yes, until the reveal, with an optional note about why. After the reveal the exchange is locked for everyone.
What happens to the exchange afterwards?
It stays readable to its participants and can be downloaded as a JSON file. Your data settings let you export everything at once.
Is this therapy?
No. It is a writing tool that people in therapy, mediation or coaching can use, on their own or as homework set by a practitioner. It gives structure; it does not give advice.
Open an exchange for the thing you keep circling.
Two minutes to set up. The other person needs nothing but the link.
Perspective Exchange is part of Sintopia, a suite of small tools by Arasaka. It is also reachable at therapybridge.online.