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 notdoes 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

STRENGTHS & WEAKNESSES

SENSING

• Facts/ data• Details

• Directions• Reality-based

• Actuality• Practical

• Here and now• Literal

INTUITION

• Meanings• Associations• Possibilities

• Hunch/ speculation• Innovations

• Variety/ random• Future

STRENGTHS & WEAKNESSES

THINKING

• Analysis• Objective

• Logic• Impersonal

• Critique• Reason• Criteria

FEELING

• Sympathy• Subjective• Humane• Personal

• Appreciate• Values

• Empathize

STRENGTHS & WEAKNESSES

JUDGMENT

• Organized• Structured• Planned• Decisive• Control

• Deliberate• Systematic

PERCEPTION

• Openness/ flow• Flexible

• Spontaneous• Curious

• Let life happen• Surprise• Change

STRENGTHS & WEAKNESSES

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

16 TYPES

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!