
Explore how Jungian type theory and cognitive functions illuminate your core self, contextual self, and developed self through a holistic self-discovery mindset.
discover your type pattern through the multiple models approach, using two lenses to reveal interaction styles, energy, core beliefs, and motivators, with cognitive dynamics, whole type descriptions, and Jung-inspired awareness.
Explore how irritations reveal self-awareness and help identify your interaction style. Learn to shift your behavior to relate better to others using the platinum rule over the golden rule.
Explore the in charge pattern, a leadership style driven to accomplish outcomes through quick decisions and rapid action, with control of resources, supervising, mobilizing, executing, and spotting and mentoring talent.
Chart the course pattern drives an urgent urge to anticipate outcomes, map multiple courses from an elevated view, and devise action plans with reference points to reach a vision.
Facilitate the get things going pattern by involving others and moving the group toward action and an emerging vision. Encourage inclusive participation and consensual decisions aligned with the outcome.
Discover the behind the scenes interaction style, where leaders gather inputs, integrate diverse sources, and make consultative decisions to achieve the highest quality results.
Explore your core communication style, directing or informing, on a continuum and learn to blend approaches based on role and relationship.
Identify how we set the pace and tone when meeting others, choosing between initiating (extroversion) and responding (introversion) to energize interactions.
Explore focus dynamics in interactions and collaborations, comparing quick and achievable outcomes with best possible outcomes, and learn how each dynamic aligns with different interaction styles to chart the course.
Compare two potential patterns to find your best fit interaction style. The guide narrows four variations within each style using the essential motivator model to reveal your best fit result.
Explore how personality arises from patterns rather than isolated traits. Discover how interrelated parts form a whole self-organizing system and establish type preferences as the natural default for development.
Explore Linda Burns's essential motivators model and identify which statement resonates; align goals by being strategic, building bridges, honoring individual differences, and responding to needs in the moment.
Explore the improviser pattern, staying in the here and now and seeking impact. See how talents, values, and needs shape action, aesthetics, and roles in solving problems or training others.
Explore how stabilizers seek belonging and preserve social groups through rules and duties, driving change by building structures, ensuring reliability, and aligning with past practices.
Explore how theorists pursue excellence and objective knowledge to understand the universe, solve problems, and seek timeless truths. They value autonomy, strategic thinking, and continual critique aimed at improvement.
Explore the catalyst pattern, a quest for personal identity and meaning through empathy, diplomacy, and connection, seeking to be unique, loved, and part of something greater.
Explore your natural language dynamics to see if you think in abstract concepts or concrete details. Abstract language aligns with theorist patterns, while concrete language supports stabilizer and improviser tendencies.
Explore role dynamics between affiliative and pragmatic styles, identify your innate preference for following rules or acting quickly, and learn how catalist, stabilizer, theorist, and improviser patterns shape group results.
Explore attention dynamics by weighing how versus why, learn how structure focus creates security and competence while motor focus reveals what is going on and how to act.
Translate interaction, style, and motivator insights into the four-letter type code, mapping ENTJ and SFP patterns to how your type shows up in relationships.
Conclude your self discovery by exploring personality type theory, interaction style, and motivational patterns, using a nonjudgmental framework to foster growth, empathy, and appreciation of diversity and personality type code.
In this class
We will explore personality type as a journey of self discovery, using Dr. Linda Berens' Interaction Styles™ and Essential Motivator™ models. We focus on building awareness around a topic you are already very familiar with: you!
What you will learn:
A brief history of Psychological Type
How to get into the "best fit" mindset
Introduction to four Interaction Style™ patterns
the dynamic processes of communication, roles, and focus
the different energies, appearances, and decision-making styles
Introduction to four Essential Motivator™ patterns
the dynamic processes of language, roles, and attention
the different talents, values, and deep-seated psychological needs
Why take this class
Have you taken a Personality Type quiz online, but it didn't feel quite right? Or maybe you are going through a life transition and want to make sure you go forward honoring who you really are at your core.
We come into the world with a predisposition to use our brain in a certain way. This class helps you look at how those preferences shape your thinking and your behavior. It also gives you a non-judgmental vocabulary to describe where you are today, while pointing out opportunities of development for the future.
By the end of this course, you will have a better understanding of your own best-fit Type pattern, and maybe even that of those close to you.
This class is for you
Whether you're embarking on a new career, a new relationship, or a deeper connection with your own sense of self, this class invites you to take time and get to know yourself better. Start looking at yourself as a complex and holistic system, with inherent talents, strengths, values, and needs.