My Formation — Full Guide

What it is

My Formation is your personal dashboard on Fideograph. It tracks your engagement across all the engines and builds a formation profile that develops as you use the site. Nothing is entered manually — everything is derived from your actual sessions.

The six formation vectors

Your profile tracks six dimensions of formation:

• Logic — your engagement with structured argument. Updated by Logical Pathways and the Theological Quiz (Apologetics category).
• Doctrine — your knowledge of Catholic teaching. Updated by the Theological Quiz (Doctrine categories) and the Claims Archive.
• History — your familiarity with Church history and patristic witness. Updated by the Historical Simulation Engine and the Citation Engine.
• Discipline — your engagement with structured formation practices. Updated by the Prayer Pathways.
• Prayer — your active prayer life as tracked through the pathways. Updated by Prayer Pathways stage completion.
• Charity — your engagement with the community. Updated by Forum participation.

Your archetype

Based on your formation vectors and your intake assessment, you are assigned one of five archetypes: The Seeker, The Warrior, The Contemplative, The Scholar, or The Disciple. Your archetype determines which engines are surfaced first in recommendations, how your Rule of Life is structured, and which vectors your sessions prioritise. It updates as your vectors change.

The Rule of Life

Your Rule of Life is a structured set of daily, weekly, and monthly formation practices calibrated to your archetype and current vector levels. It is not a generic programme — it is derived from where you actually are. Find it under My Formation → Rule of Life.

Tips

Work across all the engines, not just one. The formation profile is designed to be multi-dimensional. A user who only uses the Quiz will have high Doctrine but undeveloped History and Prayer vectors — the profile will reflect that gap and recommend what to do about it.

Complete the Assessment if you have not already. It sets your initial vector levels and archetype, and makes the recommendations more accurate from the start.