An Institute Built Around One Question
If everything we know about a person comes from what they chose to tell us, how much do we really know? Binat HaLev Institute was built to answer that question in a different way: not to ask, but to look.
Who stands behind it
The Founder of the Institute
I came to the field after long engagement with the question of how one understands a person, and out of frustration that every tool within reach relied on the person describing themselves accurately.
I am not a psychologist and not a therapist, and I say this at the start and not in a footnote. What I do is read the findings that the system produces and translate them into a report one can do something with. I write the conclusions myself, for each and every assessment.
Along the way, professionals far more experienced than I am have come through: a clinical psychologist, a career counselor with thirty years of experience, rabbis and educators. Some arrived with openly stated skepticism. What they wrote afterward is on the Testimonials page, under their full names.
The path here
Three Stops
- BACKGROUND
The question that led here
Every personality test that exists asks a person to describe themselves. But that description is limited by two walls: what the person knows about themselves, and what they are willing to say. The question that started it all was whether it is possible to get around both.
- FOUNDATION
From research to method
Research on coding the movements of facial muscles has existed for decades. What has changed in recent years is the computing ability to analyze video frame by frame, at a scale no person can match. That is where the window opened.
- TODAY
More than 150 assessments
Binat HaLev Institute today performs seven types of assessment, for adults, couples, children, and teens. All are built on the same technological foundation, differing in the question asked and in the way the report is written.
How we work
Four Principles We Do Not Compromise On
In a field where it is easy to promise too much, we chose to set clear rules for ourselves and to hold to them even when it costs us a client.
We don't say what we don't know
We have no government accreditation and we do not present one. We have no research of our own published in a journal and we do not claim to. What we do have is a recognized research foundation, a transparent working method, and hundreds of assessments carried out in practice.
The person comes before the algorithm
The system produces findings. It does not produce reports. Every report is written by a person who read the findings and decided which of them are relevant to the question the examinee came with.
When it isn't a fit, we say so
There are inquiries we turn away. If someone is looking for a medical diagnosis, a formal certification, or an answer the assessment cannot provide, it is better to say so up front than to sell something that will not help.
The report is written to be read
In plain language, with no jargon, no scores, and no sorting into categories. A document a person can sit with, understand, and actually use.
The name
Why "Binat HaLev"
Binah is not knowledge. Knowing is knowing a fact; binah is understanding one thing from another: seeing what is not stated explicitly and drawing a conclusion from it.
This is exactly what this method does. It does not ask the person who they are. It looks at tiny movements they do not know they are making, and understands one thing from another.
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