MBTI Step III: Why Go There?
What is the practical value of the MBTI Step III given that there are so many personality assessment tools on the market, including the MBTI Step I and II? What is to be gained by using this tool over…
The Importance of Owning Your Goals
This is an article about client- centered goal setting and not about health care. However, spending 25 years in the health care business taught me something about the importance of setting goals in collaboration with a client. For openers, in…
Sensing versus Intuition: An Exercise to Identify Your Preference
Perception is the lens you use to take in information. Carl Jung identified two types of perception, sensing and intuition. To illustrate these differences to college students during a workshop, I used this classic photo of dogs playing poker. I…
Introversion vs. Extraversion: The Tip of the Jungian Iceberg
The gift of introversion has been getting a lot of press lately. Susan Cain, author of Quiet: The Power of Introverts In a World That Can't Stop Talking, has brought the real essence of introversion to light. It wasn't that long…
Meditation: An Adult “Time-out”
Meditation is often associated with Buddhist monks or beautifully peaceful women on fluffy cushions. Individuals may be uninterested in exploring the benefits of meditation because they cannot relate to the meditative archetype, a transcendent and serene being. Recently, a client…
Understanding MBTI Type: The Personality Puzzle
Understanding personal strengths and cognitive style is an important part of being effective in our work, relationships, and communication. There are many tools and instruments that can be used to measure these strengths and preferences. Some measures, such as the…
Tapping Into Positive Psychology Using the MBTI
A primary focus of positive psychology is to help people identify and build on their unique strong points. Strengths are built-in capacities for certain thoughts, feelings and behaviors. Everyone possesses the full range of these assets, but the ability to draw…
What Color is Your Spark: Using Psychological Type to Energize Your Exercise Plan
It's becoming indisputably clear that exercise not only benefits the body, it benefits the brain. I just returned from the Learning and the Brain Conference in Chicago and the importance of physical exercise for learning, mood stability, and mental acuity was…
Q and A from the I-Brain Conference Part III: Exercise and the Brain
Exercise releases a substance that is "Miracle Grow for the Brain", according to John Ratey, an expert on the effects of exercise on optimal brain functioning. The release of brain-derived neuroptropic factor (BDNF), in effect, fertilizes brain cells to keep them…
MBTI Step III in a Nutshell
Many people have encountered the MBTI either at work, at a career center, or in counseling. Several online tests incorporate MBTI principles. The MBTI I describes the broad strokes of an individual personality with the goal of identifying people with…