About the project

Who is behind JakToMám

JakToMám grew out of many years of working with people and with family and systemic constellations, and from an effort to capture part of relational structure in a digital form.

How a JakToMám map works

JakToMám does not begin with a fixed questionnaire that assigns you to a predefined type. You first name a particular situation and choose the people, themes, or values that belong to it from your point of view.

You then assign symbols to the individual terms intuitively. The system observes similarities among your choices and uses them to calculate the relative distances between terms. The result is not a verdict or diagnosis, but a map of relationships within one particular situation—an image that can prompt further questions.

  1. 1You name the situation.
  2. 2You choose the people and themes.
  3. 3You assign symbols to them intuitively.
  4. 4The system calculates a map from the similarities in your choices.

The map is not selected from a predefined typology. It emerges from the combination of your specific choices.

Marek Páral

Marek works with family and systemic constellations and is responsible for the digital adaptation, development, and interpretation framework of JakToMám. He brings experience from working with people, formulating readings, and continually examining what the map can do and where its limits lie.

Michaela Ella Páral

Michaela is involved primarily in live work with people, facilitating constellations, and providing feedback on the project. She helps maintain the connection between the digital model and how people actually experience their situations.

Methodological background

What JakToMám builds on

JakToMám is not an entirely new psychological method. It builds on the principle of the Semantic Selection Test (SST), a psychosemantic method developed in the 1960s by V. Doležal and subsequently developed further by researchers.

It adopts the original principle of assigning symbols to concepts and observing similarities between choices. JakToMám turns this foundation into a digital process and extends it with map computation, multiple analytical views, and interpretation layers.

JakToMám is an original digital adaptation and extension of this principle. It is neither a standardized psychological test nor a psychological diagnostic tool.

Academic sources: Urbánek (1999) Filip (2003)

Map vs live constellations

You create a JakToMám symbolic map independently online through your intuitive choices. It shows relationships, closeness, distance, and tension among the people and themes in a particular situation. It can stand on its own as a basis for observation and questions.

A live constellation is a distinct form of facilitated individual or group work. It adds embodied experience, movement, contact, and the responses of other people. It does not require a map, and a map is not a prerequisite for taking part in a constellation.

Both approaches can stand entirely on their own. At times they may complement each other naturally: a map can reveal the structure of a situation, while live work may bring an experience no screen can provide. Neither approach replaces or necessarily follows the other.

Read one such story in Czech →

Technology, explained transparently

Where AI works in JakToMám

The positions of terms in the map and their mutual distances are produced by a mathematical calculation from your choices. AI may help formulate some textual layers of the reading.

What AI does not do

  • choose symbols for you,
  • determine the positions of terms,
  • decide what you should do,
  • make a diagnosis.

How AI may help

  • translate the map structure into more understandable text,
  • name possible themes,
  • suggest questions for reflection.

The website also includes outputs created by rules without generative AI. Every textual reading should be treated as something to examine, not as a truth about a person.

What JakToMám is not

  • a psychological diagnosis,
  • a healthcare service,
  • therapy,
  • instructions for a major life decision,
  • a replacement for a live constellation.

The map is the beginning of observation

It can draw your attention to a relationship, distance, or tension. What this image means in your life cannot be determined without your own context.