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CARRIE ROBERSON. North/Far North Regional Consortium Reporting Out Activity. Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. USING PSYCHOLOGICAL TYPE TO UNDERSTAND AND APPRECIATE OURSELVES AND OTHERS. MBTI. RELATING TYPE TO: Careers Relationships Counseling Parenting Business Teamwork
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CARRIE ROBERSON North/Far North Regional Consortium Reporting Out Activity
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator USING PSYCHOLOGICAL TYPE TO UNDERSTAND AND APPRECIATE OURSELVES AND OTHERS
MBTI RELATING TYPE TO: • Careers • Relationships • Counseling • Parenting • Business • Teamwork • Leadership • Education • Spirituality
HISTORY • 1921: Carl Jung, Swiss psychiatrist, Psychological Types appears in English translation • 1923: Katherine Briggs and Isabel Myers began to study the concept of individual differences and “type watch” • 1957: Educational Testing Service decided to publish the MBTI instrument (ongoing college-student study) • 1970:Introduction to Type released to explain MBTI instrument validity and reliability • 1988: CPP reported over 2,000,000,000 MBTI sold and translated worldwide • 2008: Carrie Roberson completes MBTI Certification Program (92.5%) and given certification to administer and interpret MBTI!
The NATURE of the MBTI • MBTI instrument shows us patterns of mental processing • “Type” is a dynamic organization of mental energy • Observable differences in mental functioning concerns the way people “prefer” to use their minds • Conscious and unconscious behavior • Dominant • Auxiliary • Tertiary • Inferior
MBTI does not ASSESS • Aptitude • Intelligence • Maturity • Learning • Skill • Emotional trauma • Psychological Illness • Physical Illness • Stress • “Normalcy”
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator • PREFERENCES • TENDENCIES • INCLINATIONS HANDWRITING ACTIVITY
Looking at “TYPE?” 4 PSYCHOLOGICAL PREFERENCE SCALES DIRECTION OF FOCUS- SOURCE OF ENERGY Extraversion----------------------------------------------Introversion WAYS OF TAKING IN INFORMATION Sensing---------------------------------------------------------INtuition WAYS OF MAKING DECISION Thinking---------------------------------------------------------Feeling ATTITUDE TOWARD EXTERNAL WORLD- LIFESTYLE Judgment---------------------------------------------------Perception
EXTRAVERSION • Energized by outer world • Focuses on people, things • Active • Breadth of interests • Live it, then understand it • Interaction • Outgoing
INTROVERSION • Energized by the inner world • Focus on thoughts, concepts • Reflective • Depth of interest • Understand it before live it • Privacy/ Concentration • Inwardly directed
SENSING • Facts/ data • Details • Directions • Reality-based • Actuality • Practical • Here and now • Literal
INTUITION • Meanings • Associations • Possibilities • Hunch/ speculation • Innovations • Variety/ random • Future
THINKING • Analysis • Objective • Logic • Impersonal • Critique • Reason • Criteria
FEELING • Sympathy • Subjective • Humane • Personal • Appreciate • Values • Empathize
JUDGMENT • Organized • Structured • Planned • Decisive • Control • Deliberate • Systematic
PERCEPTION • Openness/ flow • Flexible • Spontaneous • Curious • Let life happen • Surprise • Change
WORKING TOGETHER Complex tasks need the talents of different types of people! • INTROVERTS:for conceptualizing the problem and looking deeply into issues • EXTRAVERTS:for knowing situational variables, and for making the social contacts needed • SENSING:types for knowing the facts and realities needed in the planning stages and in working out details • INTUITIVE:types for seeing the big picture, for forging into new areas and coming up with new possibilities • THINKING:types for spotting flaws and inconsistencies of a plan • FEELING:types for seeing the human side and for persuasion • JUDGING:types for organization and decisiveness • PERCEIVING:types for openness/ understanding and flexibility when the system breaks down
YOUR “TYPE” • Combine your 4 preferences to create your “TYPE…” • No one is “either/ or”- everyone uses all preferences of TYPE • Individuation is a process of differentiation, with a goal of developing an individual personality TYPE • Each TYPE is valuable, with attributes that are preferred, tended to or inclined
YOU DECIDE! • REPORTED TYPE • BEST-FIT TYPE Dare to learn/ find new insights and much to reflect on as you gain a deeper understanding of yourself and your own TYPE!