The 16 Personality Types: Descriptions for Self-Discovery
 The 16 Personality Types, Descriptions for Self-Discovery is an invaluable tool for users of personality type instruments. These descriptions present a living systems approach to describing the 16 types. Dr. Berens and Dr. Nardi have captured the essence of the 16 type patterns and crafted descriptions to be used by individuals to clarify their best-fit type. The booklet provides the user with an interactive process to help individuals clarify their own best-fit type. Worksheets to help individuals better understand themselves and others are provided for basic application.
This booklet provides the user with . . .
- an interactive process to help individuals clarify their own best-fit type.
worksheets to help individuals better understand themselves and others.
- a brief description of the themes for each type pattern
- a snapshot for each type pattern
- a full page Portrait for each type pattern--written in third person
- a full page Self-Portrait-the long awaited Self-Discovery Descriptions - written in 1st Person
- appendices for a brief overview of temperament, interaction styles, and type dynamics and development.
Table of Contents
From the Authors
What Is Personality
Personality has Several Aspects
Understanding Personality
What is Personality "Type"
Knowing the "Self"
Ways to Describe Personality
Traits and Parts
Processes and Parts
Systems
How to Discover Your Best-Fit Type
What is Best-Fit Type?
Personality Instruments
The Self-Discovery Process(SM)
Descriptions for Self-Discovery
The Sixteen Personality Type Descriptions\
Expeditor Promoter ESTP
Analyzer Operator ISTP
Motivator Presenter ESFP
Composer Producer ISFP
Implementor Supervisor ESTJ
Planner Inspector ISTJ
Facilitator Caretaker ESFJ
Protector Supporter ISFJ
Strategist Mobilizer ENTJ
Conceptualizer Director INTJ
Explorer Inventor ENTP
Designer Theorizer INTP
Envisioner Mentor ENFJ
Foreseer Developer INFJ
Discoverer Advocate ENFP
Harmonizer Clarifier INFP
Understanding Yourself
Relating to Others
Now What?
Appendix A: Essential Qualities of the Patterns
Appendix B: Notes for the Facilitator
Appendix C: References
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What people said...
"By far the best type descriptions written!"
--Laurie Duckworth
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"These are the best type descriptions I have seen."
--Franklin Brown
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"After 10 years of working with psychological type, I have finally read a description of myself I could have written."
--Karen Welcome
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"The best I have read. Well written, easy to understand and very user friendly."
--Stephen Hulsey
About the Authors
Linda V. Berens
Linda V. Berens is the founder of Interstrength® Associates (formerly known as Temperament Research Institute), a corporate consulting and training organization. She is the author of Understanding Yourself and Others®: An Introduction to Temperament, Understanding Yourself and Others®: An Introduction to Interaction Styles and Dynamics of Personality Type: Understanding and Applying Jung's Cognitive Processes and the coauthor of The 16 Personality Types: Descriptions for Self-Discovery and Working Together: A Personality-Centered Approach to Management. She is an organizational consultant and has spent over twenty-five years teaching professionals as well as helping individuals and teams recognize their strengths, transcend their weaknesses, and work together better. Linda is recognized internationally for her theoretical contributions to the field of psychological type and for developing user-friendly training materials for practical application of understanding individual differences.
Dario Nardi, Ph.D.
Dario Nardi, Ph.D., is currently an adjunct assistant professor of mathematics at the University of California, Los Angeles, in the department's Program in Computing. He is the author of 8 Keys to Self-Leadership, Multiple Intelligences and Personality Type: Tools and Strategies for Developing Human Potential and Character and Personality Type: Discovering Your Uniqueness for Career and Relationship Success and co-author of The 16 Personality Types: Descriptions for Self-Discovery and Understanding Yourself and Others®: An Introduction to the Personality Type Code and has authored several papers on type research with students. He has been intimately involved in innovative product development with the Temperament Research Institute for nine years. Dario received his degree in systems science from the State University of New York at Binghamton's Watson School of Engineering. His background in systems thinking, linguistics and artificial intelligence, undergraduate curriculum design, and writing has led him to breakthroughs using multiple methods and models for getting at the "true self," as well as for restructuring academic courses to suit all learning styles. His Web site is www.darionardi.com.
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