Using The Wheel with your clientsan instrument from The Bearings Framework, by Tame The Noise
Yes, and you may charge for it.
That is the short answer, and it is the only question most practitioners have. The long answer is below and it does not get less permissive.
What is released
The Wheel, in full. The eight parts and their definitions, the hundred point Weight allocation and the hundred point Actual allocation, the zero to ten Satisfaction reading, the arithmetic, the two named patterns and their thresholds, and the printable sheet. Released under the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0).
You may copy it, print it, redraw it, translate it, put it in a workshop deck, run it with paying clients, and build something else on top of it. You do not need permission and you do not need to tell us.
The two conditions
- Attribution
- Keep the mark visible on every copy. The line is: The Wheel, from The Bearings Framework by Tame The Noise. Free under CC BY-SA 4.0. www.tamethenoise.com/wheel
- Share alike
- If you adapt it, whatever you release carries the same license, so the next person gets what you got.
Share alike rather than plain attribution is the reason this is safe to give away. It means the Wheel can go anywhere and cannot be quietly folded into a closed product that competes with the method it came from.
Where the line is
Running it with a client, charging for the session, and putting your own name beside the attribution are all inside the license. Selling the Wheel itself as a product, or building it into software you sell, is not, and neither is presenting yourself as certified, licensed or endorsed. A copyright license covers the work. It does not grant a credential.
Everything else in the method stays held: the seven steps as a named sequence, the Constants and the twelve verb taxonomy, the Slack methodology, the four futures grid, the Refusal Set, The Ask, and all software inclusion.
Two things worth knowing before you run it
The two columns are forced to a hundred each. That makes the numbers comparable within one person and meaningless between two. Do not lay two clients' sheets side by side and read across them.
Work will usually come in high on the Actual column, and that is not a finding. A job takes the hours whether or not anyone chose them, which is why the two thresholds on the sheet are not the same number. If your client is between jobs, expect the second pattern to stay quiet and read the Weight column instead.