Every Brook agent starts with CS12, a personality framework that describes twelve ways of expressing personality and character, flowing from four core drives: power, knowing, peace, and joy.
Each River holds three Streams. Together they describe how personality and character tend to flow outward: what we seek, what we enjoy, and what we have to give.
Seeking new realms of possibility—building in new ways and unveiling hidden foundations.
Seeking prosperous reigning—guiding people toward thriving outcomes and taking responsibility for them.
Seeking greatness in the world—guarding the vulnerable and helping others become great too.
Seeking newness through wild experiences—savoring the moment, then tinkering and exploring with delight.
Seeking freedom and new culture—being yourself, even at the expense of decorum.
Seeking levity—enjoying the richness of every moment through laughter and play.
Seeking to secure peace through relationship—listening before responding, and negotiating when needed.
Caring for what needs it and mending what is broken—listening without rushing to fix.
Seeking equity and fairness—patiently rooting out bias and noise, with time to process.
Seeking the treasures of knowledge and wisdom—piecing together the puzzle of life.
Valuing close connections—knowing who people really are, and sometimes standing between their worlds.
Wrestling with the Why of life—and feeling a deep need to express the journey.
A short walkthrough of the wheel, the four Rivers, and the four Outlets of expression. Prefer to read? Everything in the video is also on this page.
A type can feel like a box. A framework is more like a map: steady enough to orient you, open enough to move within.
CS12 describes twelve ways of expressing personality and character—the Streams—flowing from four core drives—the Rivers. Both sets are based on source-verbs of words found in Genesis. The framework’s organization is linguistic and informed by empirical psychological taxonomy, and it shows structural convergence with established models such as the Big Five, Schwartz’s Theory of Basic Human Values, and Haidt’s Moral Foundations Theory.
That’s why CS12 never says you are a Stream. It says you’ve been found to be flowing in one. We believe personality and character are not so much something you possess as something you participate in—in relation to others, over time.
Personality doesn’t come out in just one way. The CS12 Assessment looks at four Outlets and, for each one, names the River and the Stream you’ve been found to be flowing in.
How you seem to have been expressing yourself from early on.
The closest thing to a settled disposition.
How you feel called to express yourself in life.
A passionate draw, even a mission.
How you’ve been connecting with other people.
The way you integrate, often the Outlet others see most.
Ways in this season that you have been reaching for the unfamiliar.
Brought out by urgencies and the need for new experiences. Changes with life seasons.
The CS12 Assessment is 120 prompts, each asking you to spread 12 tokens across the options. Your progress saves on your device as you go. At the end, your CS12 Profile names a River and a Stream for each of the four Outlets.
No scores, percentiles, or rankings. A finding to test against your own experience, not a verdict.
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