Psychological Types #1: "FIND YOUR BEST-FIT TYPE"
What you'll learn
- Your likely best-fit personality profile.
- The 16 Myers-Briggs types and 4 subtypes of each, for 64 personalities total.
- The basics of personality, including history and core ideas.
- How to crack the 4-letter Myers-Briggs type code.
- Ways people use type as a short-cut to better meet life’s challenges.
- How to work from multiple data points to triangulate down to anyone’s likely best-fit personality type pattern.
- How to use the free Cognitive Processes Assessment, a highly-validated online personality questionnaire.
- Four applications for romantic relationships, problem solving, and personal growth.
- An exercise to test your skill at profiling others.
- Ethical use, research databases, and professional organizations.
- Words of wisdom from 8 professional coaches and consultants.
Requirements
- A desire and patience to really understand yourself and others.
- Willing to read, reflect, explore, and perhaps get feedback from others.
- Open to understand that personality is about people, not just theory or data.
- Able to set aside what you may have learned or heard as you engage in a thorough “triangulation” process.
- A sense of humor about our many human strengths and pitfalls.
Description
This is the 1st of four courses on the Myers-Briggs / Jungian psychological types.
You have likely heard about the 16 types in some way, such as ESTJ or INFP. The letters stand for Extraverting vs. Introverting, Sensing vs. Intuiting, Thinking vs. Feeling, and Judging vs. Perceiving. Each dimension is a preference, like how we use both our hands but favor one in a lead role. When we weigh all four preferences, we get 16 basic types.
As you will discover, “type” is not about boxes. Instead, type provides a lens to see yourself and others, a language to talk about similarities and differences, and a lever to be more productive with your career, relationships, and life in general.
Even if you come here feeling that you know your 4-letter code already, it is worth it to start with a solid foundation. You will get a professional overview from an expert with 30 years of experience, research, and publications. You will hear from eight other professionals who are coaches and consultants. Also, you will learn how to use a free, highly-validated questionnaire to help you find your best-fit type.
All of the definitions and materials are based in research studies, including over a decade of neuro-imaging. In fact, you will get the latest progress: The 4 brain-based subtypes that result in 64 variants, not just 16 types!
The course takes on a journey of three acts: 1) history and mindset, 2) finding your best-fit type and subtype, and 3) applications for careers and relationships, plus a test of your skills to profile others. The last part is of course the heart of any framework: how to apply an idea to live better.
All along the way are handouts and book excerpts for self-reflection.
Who this course is for:
- Anyone who wants to better understand themselves and others.
- Those interested in the well-known framework of the Myers-Briggs types.
- Students of “type” who want to cut through confusing Internet clutter get to pro material.
- People who are uncertain of their best-fit type (e.g. torn between two types).
- Those who want to go deeper to the 64 subtypes.
- Coaches, counselors, managers, leaders, and other professionals who work with people.
Instructors
![Yehuda Ben Jehoshua](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 64 64"%3E%3C/svg%3E){kind=avatar}
- 4.8 Instructor Rating
- 185 Reviews
- 728 Students
- 7 Courses
A prolific media director/producer, organizational meditator, and creativity life coach. He has three decades of global cultural experience in the USA, United Kingdom, Israel, Brazil, and elsewhere. He loves stories and works the power of narrative in media for individuals and organizations. During his several careers, from law to psychology to film, he has applied principles of innovation and mediation to create and enhance media products and people's lives
- 4.8 Instructor Rating
- 185 Reviews
- 728 Students
- 8 Courses
Award-winning UCLA instructor, consultant, and author, Dario Nardi Ph.D. has expertise in learning, group facilitation, and simulation. His workshops and books draw on his lab research in neuroscience, personality, and body-mind practices. His titles include Neuroscience of Personality, The Magic Diamond, Jung on Yoga, 8 Keys to Self-Leadership, Facets of Ayahuasca, and many more. He is also the author of several interactive novellas and the Radiance RPG table-top game. Dario has lived in Barbados, Japan, Norway, and the USA. He received his initial training in shamanism at the Scandinavian Center for Shamanic Studies.