Are you more actively interested in people and the world around you, or drawn to the inner world of ideas? Does your spouse stick to-just the facts-or look for an underlying pattern? Is there tension at work because coworkers can't seem to agree on the best way to approach a task? Of the many explanations of why people differ from one another, the concept of psychological type has proven to be one of the most reliable and accurate. Millions of people have taken the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator instrument so they can learn more about their personality through psychological type. So what do your four letter type preferences mean for you, as well as for those with whom you interact every day? Looking at Type: the Fundamentals serves as the perfect resource to help answer these questions. Its clear presentation of basic concepts will acquaint you with: The dynamic model of personality and lifelong development Rich and detailed descriptions of all sixteen types A unique path for your personal growth and development Applications of type in daily life, including its role in relationships, communication, and problem solving Looking at Type: the Fundamentals opens the door to the idea of the constructive use of differences. By developing a better understanding of yourself and others, you will create more satisfying relationships, learn to capitalize on your natural strengths, and find more personal success, with a heightened sense of self-worth and personal competence.

Looking at Type: The Fundamentals Using Psychological Type To Understand and Appreciate Ourselves and Others

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Charles R. Martin

Psychology & Counseling

Myers & Briggs Foundation, Inc.

Written for both students and teachers, this book helps gain insight into personal learning styles in order to develop more effective study and test-taking strategies and help teachers facilitate learning. Discusses strengths, key motivators, and blind spots for different preferences and provides guidelines to assist teachers in curriculum development and delivery.

Looking at Type and Learning Styles

Gordon D. Lawrence

God never intended that your personality be a handicap but an endowment. He has entrusted you with your own special talents and characteristics. When you recognize these gifts and offer them back to Him you will find your true identity in a relationship with Jesus Christ. The author, an ordained minister, analyzes various personality types with actual case studies from scripture. He also offers biblically based guidelines to managing vulnerabilities and affirming strengths, all with the goal of spiritual growth.

Your Personality and the Spiritual Life

Reginald Johnson

Religion & Spirituality

Author/artist Diane Farris uses spectacular, innovative photography to illustrate four charming tales about canine friends Millie and Momo. Written for children grades one through five, these engaging stories address type in a way children will understand. By following Millie and Momo's daily adventures, children learn about the differences in our personalities. Type Tales is an excellent learning tool for families, teachers, and counselors. Helpful teaching suggestions, discussion questions, and a list of resources are included.

Type Tales: Understanding and Celebrating Diversity Through Type

Farris, Diane

Author/artist Diane Farris uses spectacular, innovative photography to illustrate four charming tales about canine friends Millie and Momo.  Written for children grades one through five, these engaging stories address type in a way children will understand.  By following Millie and Momo's daily adventures, children learn about the differences in our personalities.  Type Tales is an excellent learning tool for families, teachers, and counselors.  Helpful teaching suggestions, discussion questions, and a list of resources are included.

Type Tales : Understanding and Celebrating Diversity Through Type

Education & Teaching

Diane Farris

Schools & Teaching

Is there conflict in your life? That’s normal — even unavoidable according to conflict resolution expert Sondra Van Sant. In her new book, Wired for Conflict, Van Sant reveals that the inborn roots of conflict are hardwired into our brains and that this same "wiring" holds the keys to resolution of conflict. Using personality types as a basis, Wired for Conflict shows you how to transform miscommunication, misunderstanding, and potential hostility into a collaborative process of creative problem solving and opportunities for personal growth. As practical as it is profound, Wired for Conflict is an indispensable guide for successfully negotiating everyday life.

Wired for Conflict: The Role of Personality in Resolving Differences

Vansant, Sondra S.

Business & Money

Discover your own hero's journey and how to encourage others on their paths to self-understanding. In Depth Coaching, author Pat Adson explores the skills and attitudes needed to assist people in developing their full potential. As a detailed guide for therapists, life coaches and any one interested in helping others on the journey, this book provides the tools for an intense study of personal developmental issues. Based on the work of Carol Pearson, co-developer of the Pearson-Marr Archetype IndicatorÂ® instrument, Depth Coaching emphasizes the practice of positive psychology based on development rather than disease. Each section of the journey contains a workbook. Initially resisting the call to become a life coach, author and psychologist Pat Adson discovered the rewarding benefits of helping others explore paths to meaning and balance. She notes, however, that this is a vocation undertaken only after one has fulfilled his or her own journey. Inspired by Carol Pearson's work with self-development through archetypes, Adson set out to explore her own "hero's journey." The result of her exploration is this step-by-step guide created for all who wish to take the journey or to coach others on their paths. "Coaching as a discipline," Adson tells readers, "is a client-centered way of working with individuals to help them achieve their goals, balance their lives, and attain fulfillment. Coaching focuses on clients' lifelong development rather than the remediation of past wounds. The coach and client collaborate as partners or peers in a relationship that is symmetric rather than paternalistic. Therapists, educators, and spiritual leaders will find Adson's methods useful in developing their own strengths as well as encouraging clients toward embarking on their personal journeys. Individuals and anyone who wishes to support themselves or others through growth and development will also find this work enlightening and helpful.

Depth Coaching: Discovering Archetypes For Empowerment, Growth, And Balance

Patricia R. Adson

Every student learns differently. The Chemistry of Personality is every teacher's invaluable guide to a powerful and simple method of understanding such diversity, exploring a positive approach to personality differences with their students, and using effective teaching methods that reach and engage every young mind.  Based on years of research on psychological type (the underlying structure for the world's most widely used personality assessment, the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® instrument), this guide for teachers provides a detailed blueprint for incorporating type into classroom instruction and the learning process.  Teachers will find The Chemistry of Personality will help them:  Learn the simple but powerful four key dimensions of type-based learning.  Understand the different ways each student takes in and processes information in words that have meaning to them.  Teach tolerance and better understanding of the impact of personality diversity.  Understand their teaching style and its impact on students.

The Chemistry of Personality: A Guide to Teacher-Student Interaction in the Classroom

Elizabeth Murphy

People's behavior often seems randomly varied but according to Carl G. Jung, behavior actually follows patterns. Jung called these patterns, psychological types, and he wrote extensively about these types. Isabel Briggs Myers brought Jung s concepts into the mainstream through development of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator instrument which helps a person figure out his or her psychological type. People Types &amp; Tiger Stripes has rightfully earned its best-selling status as being an outstanding book about type and how it works in everyday life, especially in the world of teaching. The newly released and redesigned fourth edition marks the 30th anniversary of this pioneering work. This book includes two essays by Isabel Myers and provides a detailed explanation of the theory and practice of using type in the education process. Filled with understandable charts, practical exercises, and helpful explanations, People Types &amp; Tiger Stripes is a wonderful resource for anyone who is interested in the learning process and designing curricula that capitalizes on knowledge of type preferences, for both students and teachers.

People Types and Tiger Stripes: Using Psychological Type to Help Students Discover Their Unique Potential

Every day teachers are faced with a sea of expectant faces each with a different way of seeing and learning. How can we motivate and empower every one of these young people to reach their highest potential? In Great Minds Don t Think Alike education experts Diane Payne and Sondra VanSant provide the ultimate lesson plan for transforming classrooms into places where every child becomes engaged in the learning process. Some of our greatest thinkers make illustrative appearances inside, including Einstein, Aristotle, Earhart and Caldecott, demonstrating and reinforcing the value of diversity in the highest standards of thought and action. Presenting a variety of paths to success allows students to take responsibility for their choices, and yields a love of learning that will stay with them for life. The authors practical insights into psychological type and distinct learning styles are accompanied by a comprehensive library of reproducible handouts, exercises, and support materials on the included Resource CD-ROM. 
 Teachers, principals, administrators, and parents will appreciate this book as a lens that reveals the power of diversity in learning styles and relationships this book elucidates, inspiring everyone to help each of those faces to do their best!

Great Minds Don't Think Alike: Success for Students through the Application of Psychological Type in Schools

Diane Payne

Sondra VanSant

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