
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 your core communication style, directing or informing, on a continuum and learn to blend approaches based on role and relationship.
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 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 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 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.
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.