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Social Styles and Interaction Styles

Posted April 1, 2010 - 4:37pm by Linda V. Berens

Most of my research on Social Styles is from the books by Bolton and Bolton. The Tracom website has a nice animated explanation so I see that it is very similar to the general sense of Social Styles that I know about.  more »

Getting the Most Out of the Type Code

Posted February 10, 2010 - 2:30pm by Linda V. Berens

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® self-report assessment was developed by Isabel Myers to help individuals find their best-fit type. In order to develop the assessment, the J-P dichotomy was added. Now the four-letter type code that results from her work has become a standard for referring to the 16 types no matter how you arrive at determining the best-fit.  more »

Adult Development and Typological Look-Alikes

Posted February 2, 2010 - 5:51pm by Linda V. Berens

For many years, I scoffed at the idea of stages of adult development as being artificial and somewhat arrogant, as if one who is more developed is better than others at earlier stages. I observed development in the physical realm and these did not bother me in the same way as in the psychological/personality realm.  more »

Agendas for Change

Posted October 26, 2009 - 6:49pm by Linda V. Berens

Connections have been made to temperament and change in Donna Dunning’s book, Quick Guide to the Four Temperaments and Change 3.0 and these really make sense to me. I’ve been puzzling over what the Interaction Styles model would predict about change.  Then it hit me…the movement tendency that is favored by each Interaction Style would give us some insight.  more »

Change: Lessons from the Body

Posted October 2, 2009 - 1:26pm by Linda V. Berens

You can't force a change without a lot of pain. The system will work very hard to maintain itself  more »