Isabel Briggs Myers

About Myers-Briggs (MBTI)

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is an excellent tool to facilitate individual and relational growth. It is the most widely used personality inventory in history. Last year alone, two million people gained valuable insights into themselves, their families, coworkers, and friends. By distinguishing 16 different personality types, the MBTI explains how and why different people think, behave, and feel as they do. Knowing what makes each type tick, increases self acceptance, enhances performance, and improves communication in marriages, parenting, friendships, and workplace relationships.

Currently, the MBTI is the most widely used personality instrument throughout the world. It has been translated into 16 languages and is used extensively internationally. 89 Fortune 500 companies, as well as small businesses, churches, synagogues, schools, and non-profit organizations use the MBTI to increase team camaraderie, personal performance, and increased productivity.

Counselors use the MBTI with individual clients to increase self understanding, improve communication, and determine career direction. MBTI is frequently used in pre-marital and couple’s counseling to facilitate understanding and improve relationship skills.

Myers-Briggs Workshops

Wholeheartedly embracing the vibrancy that Myers-Briggs theory brings to individual and relational life, I absolutely love teaching it. Having witnessed time and time again how knowledge of type impacts a person’s self acceptance, performance, authentic expression, spirituality, career choice, and satisfaction, it is a pleasure to introduce MBTI to others.

I value the improved relationships, ability to relate “across type”, and the increased productivity that inevitably occurs through teaching MBTI in corporate, civic, school, church, and retreat settings. Below are descriptions of Myers-Briggs: Pathways to Excellence workshops. Please contact me if you would like to discuss offering a workshop for your group.

Introduction to MBTI

This workshop can be used in any setting: corporate, church, synagogue, non-profit organizations, and school settings.

Each participant will receive their personal MBTI assessment.

 

 

 

 

Participants learn:

• Their MBTI type and a description of their personality profile
• Working knowledge of all 16 personality types
• Communication styles of each type
• Each type’s strengths and weaknesses
• Conflict management styles for each type

Participants gain:

• Tools to communicate with co-workers, committee members, family, and friends
• Appreciation for personal uniqueness and gifts
• Understanding and respect for the styles of others
• How to handle differences
• Ability to work effectively with different types

Dream Teams With MBTI

This workshop can be designed to fit the particular needs of any team, be it in organizational, school, synagogue, church, or non-profit setting. Each participant will receive their personal MBTI assessments.

Participants learn:

•  To recognize and utilize styles and skills of different types
• To work together more effectively
• To evaluate strengths, blind spots, and potential for improved teamwork
• Produce strategies for effective individual and team growth

Participants will gain:

• Improved productivity and effectiveness
•  Improved morale and satisfaction among team members
• Attainment of organizational goals through better working relationships

Building Better Relationships

This workshop is perfect for couples or families who want to improve communication and relationship skills. Each person will receive their personal MBTI assessment.

Participants will learn:

• Their own MBTI types
• MBTI type of spouse or family members
• To identify their own and family member’s style for taking in information and forming conclusions
•  Communication styles according to personality type
• To identify their own and family member’s style for taking in information and forming conclusions
• To listen and understand what different types are saying
• To express oneself to those of differing types and be understood
• To use differences in type to enhance relationship instead of destroy it
• To express oneself to those of differing types and be understood
• Recognize differing styles of time and money management
• How type effects socialization styles

Participants will gain:

• Satisfaction at home
• Living well with those you love
• Improved ability to work and play together
• Better communication skills
• New ways to manage conflict
• Understanding of self and other

Free To Be: MBTI For Teens

This is a unique workshop designed for teens. It can be offered in school, church, synagogue, or retreat settings.

Middle and high school kids often question:

• Who am I?
• Why don’t my friends understand me?
•  Where am I going in life?

These years are times of self discovery. They are exciting years, but often confusing. The dynamic and interactive workshop Free to Be uses the Myers-Briggs Personality Indicator to help middle or high school students better understand themselves as well as their friends, teachers, and families.

During this workshop, each student will gain a better understanding of his/her unique personality with its particular strengths and challenges. A Myers-Briggs Type assessment and profile, which can remain confidential, will be provided for each student. Supporting materials, including a book on Myers-Briggs Type, will be provided for continued exploration and learning.

This knowledge enhances a student’s ability to:

• Value self and others
• Relate
•  Communicate
• Manage conflict
• Communicate
• Choose best fit in career and curriculum

"The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are."   Joseph Campbell

Painting by: Mary Ghesquiere

Myers-Briggs For Moms

MBTI assessments will be offered to each participant, as will training on all 16 types.

This workshop is designed for the Mom of any age and stage who:

• Wonders what planet her child is on
• Hears “Mom, you just don’t understand me!”
• Wants to relate better with her child
• Wants to help her child to relate better with others

She will learn to:

• Listen so he will talk
• Talk so she will listen
• Assess the personality type of her children
• Parent her particular child
• Encourage healthy self esteem in her child

Wellness Through Meditation is offered in two formats:

• Full Day Workshop
• Eight 1 & 1/2 hour sessions

This workshop is perfect for anyone who is seeking to better manage stress, anxiety, and stress related physical conditions. It is also ideal for those simply desiring to create more peace of mind. This training is an ideal referral source for physicians who wish to support their patients’ well-being through mind/body techniques.

The American Institute of Stress states that 75 to 90% of primary care visits are stress related. Stress is an inevitable part of life; it is “The brain’s response to any demand”. (National Institute of Mental Health). When unmanaged, chronic, or excessive, stress becomes “distress” and contributes to physical and emotional disturbances such as anxiety, depression, colitis, IBS, autoimmune disorders, high blood pressure, heart disease, and many more.

Through meditation we can learn ways to shift “distress” into “eustress”, or positive stress. The mind and body then respond to challenges in ways that support healing and a sense of well being.

Guided imagery is a form of meditation that has been shown to have a positive effect on health, creativity, and performance. It is easy to learn and master. Therefore, I have chosen this type of meditation as the basis for this workshop.

Participants will learn:

• How stress effects the mind and body
• How meditation can reduce stress and increase relaxation and well-being
• How to meditate through guided imagery
• How to incorporate guided imagery meditations into daily life

Participants will experience:

• The art and science of guided imagery meditation
• Increased relaxation

Photo by: Thomas Jackson

“Poetry is to prose - As dancing is to walking.”

John Wain

Welcome to the dance lesson.

“Stories in themselves have a special power. They compel us to hear and attend and listen in a way that other forms of speech do not. Public speakers, from pulpit to politics, know how an anecdote can make an audience’s ears perk up.

Master teachers use stories to help students absorb, understand, and remember effortlessly. “

Fran Stallings

"Dr. Milton Erickson, that great genius of hypnotherapy, used anecdote as metaphor to effect what often seemed to be miraculous cures. His innovative use of storytelling has opened up limitless possibilities for effective psychotherapy.”

Lee Wallas, Clinical Social Worker

Story is poetic prose; a dance through which teller and listener engage. For millennium, people have used story, anecdote, and metaphor to educate, entertain, transmit values, inspire, and offer healing.

This workshop is designed to empower communicators who wish to increase their effectiveness and impact on their audiences in the classroom, church, synagogue, therapy office, or retreat venue.

This workshop is designed for you if you are a:

• Teacher
• Preacher
• Rabbi
• Therapist
• Workshop or Retreat Leader
• Storyteller
• Public Speaker

Participants will learn:

• Why story is a powerful form of communication
• How to use it in teaching, preaching, storytelling, therapy
• How body language, words, and voice contribute to effective impact
• How the brain responds to and integrates story
• How to create the "story-listeners trance"
• The Hero's Journey pattern in all story and how to craft it in yours

Participants will experience:

• The joy of story
• The power of practicing a few easy skills
• Excitement in building new and easy to learn methods
• Empowerment to engage with audiences with more confidence, authority and motivational impact.

Painting by: Mary Ghesquiere

Come and play with us. We are certain you will be glad you did!  Marsha Needham and Martha Tate

"Sometimes the simplest and best use of our will is to drop it all and just walk out from under everything that is covering us, even if only for an hour or so." Mark Nepo

Full Day PlayShop to help you:

• Re-kindle Creativity
• Re-Experience Joy
• Re-Juvenate Spirit
• Re-Vision

Remember in childhood being:

• Captured by fun
• Lost in the Moment
• Exhilarated with joy
• Fully engaged in life and play

You were also building:

• Creative potential
• Ability to problem solve
• Happiness quotient
• Vision for your future

Where the Power of Play will delight you into a healthier, happier you.

• Learn why and how companies like Google are playing their way into success and how you can too
• Experience the rejuvenating power of breath and guided movement
• Enjoy walking mediations in a beautiful, natural setting
• Play safe, fun and nurturing games

Photo by: Jim Freeman