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Houston APT February Program

**please note time change**

The Neurology of Type

Dario Nardi
Presenter (via Internet)

Saturday, February 18, 2012
Bilingual Education Institute
6060 Richmond Avenue
**9:15—10:00   Registration (guest fee $5)
& Continental Breakfast
**10:00—12:00        Program
BYOL at nearby restaurant
(Buy Your Own Lunch)

For many years, the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator(r) has provided tools for understanding self and others through the dynamics of the 16 personality types. Today, the emerging field of neuroscience is validating Jung’s pioneering theory of the eight cognitive functions. Ongoing brain research supports Jung’s model and brain imaging literally paints a rich picture of diversity among individuals.

At the intersection of neuroscience and psychology, UCLA professor Dario Nardi has discovered that people of different psychological types don’t merely rely on different brain regions. They use their brains in fundamentally different ways.

Using colorful anecdotes, hands-on activities, and brain imagery, Dr. Nardi shares tips for healthy personality development across the 16 personality types.

Learn what current brain research reveals about

• How different psychological types get into a state of creative flow
• How to use Jung’s 8 cognitive processes to improve productivity, flexibility and competence in work and daily life.

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Dario Nardi, PhD teaches social science and computing at the University of California (Los Angeles). He has worked with the 16 Myers-Briggs types since 1993 and is author and coauthor of numerous books including “8 Keys to Leadership”, “The 16 Personality Types: Descriptions for Self-Discovery”, “Quick Guide to 16 Types in Organizations”, and “Neuroscience of Personality: Brain Savvy Insights for All Types of People”. He created the apps “Personality Types” and “Love Therapy” for the Apple iPhone/iPad. Dario chaired the 2009 Dallas conference for Association of Psychological Type International and is a keynote conference speaker. He is founder and CEO of Radiance House, a publishing company (www.radiancehouse.com). Presently, he conducts experiments using EEG brain-mapping technology to better understand personality and offers a 3-day certification program for professionals to better include the brain in their work.

Functional Pairs and Work

Saturday, January 21, 2012
Bilingual Education Institute
6060 Richmond Avenue
9:00—9:30   Registration (guest fee $5)
& Continental Breakfast
9:30—12:30        Program
BYOL at nearby restaurant
(Buy Your Own Lunch)

Do you understand the relationship between how you like to make decisions and the type of work you prefer? Our program this month is about understanding the middle two preferences of your Myers-Briggs four letter type and how they impact the work that is a good fit for you.

In this session you will learn:

-         how each of the functions (S,N,T,F) basically determine the type of work preferred,

-         how the functional pairs (ST, SF, NT, NF) translate into skills and competencies,

-         what the J and P preferences bring in terms of work,

-         what the E/I preference means,

-         what type development adds to work preferences.

Phoebe Clark (ENFP) is a Career Counselor and owner of Type Interventions. Phoebe’s focus for her work with type is in helping people move beyond crisis management toward self-directed, sustained personal and professional development.

Join us for our second annual presentation

‘Type as Applied to Gift-Giving’

Saturday,
December 10, 2011
Bilingual Education Institute
6060 Richmond Avenue
9:00—9:30   Registration (guest fee $5)
& Continental Breakfast
9:30—12:30        Program
BYOL at nearby restaurant
(Buy Your Own Lunch)

With the gift-giving season in full bloom, questions inevitably arise regarding which gifts might be well-received (nice) and which might be ill-conceived (naughty) choices.  What do you give an ENTP?  An ISTJ?  What about an INFP?  Find out as we discuss gift-giving in relation to type.  Gift suggestions based on appeal to each of the 8 functions (courtesy of Type Resources, Inc. www.type-resources.com) will be presented, and our illustrious chapter members will provide input, as well, guiding us to the perfect gift.

Don’t miss this mostly informal gathering, just in the nick (pun intended) of time for those last minute purchases.

Saturday, November 19

Bilingual Education Institute
6060 Richmond Avenue
9:00—9:30 Registration (guest fee $5)
& Continental Breakfast
9:30—12:00 Program
BYOL at nearby restaurant
(Buy Your Own Lunch)

Please plan to join us on Saturday, November 19 for

What Is Your Best Fit Type?

About This Program

If you’re a newbie to Type, we will offer the Majors PTI** to give you a starting point for finding your best fit, with Temperament and a bit of Jung’s psychological type theories thrown in for good measure, followed by interactive exercises to determine your Interaction Style.

**Arrive by 9am if you would like to take the Majors PTI Assessment**

If you’ve had questions about one of your scales, you might find some of these exercises helpful in clarifying the issue.

If you’re a practitioner and don’t use this process for helping clients determine their best fit type, you’ll enjoy watching this methodology in action.

About The Presenters

Barbara Brown (INTJ) will administer the Majors PTI and follow up with Temperament and Jungian cognitive processes and Joy Jones (ESFP) will clarify further with Berens’ Interaction Styles concepts.

Houston APT October Program

**Please note special time**
Beyond Type to Integral Type
Saturday, October 15, 2011
Bilingual Education Institute
6060 Richmond Avenue
**10:00—10:30 Registration (guest fee $5)
**10:30—1:30 Program and Lunch

About This Gathering

Recipient of the 2011 APTi Award for Innovation, Linda Berens, Ph.D. has always been on the leading edge of type. Now she takes us further into the possibilities of how our work with type can contribute to personal, organizational, and global transformation.

What does the world need from typology now? More applications? More growth? More evolutionary development? How can type users avoid the typology pitfalls that get in the way of transformational development and increased agility? How can they actively promote development and adaptability? Integral Type™ is a holographic approach to type that is integrative and growth promoting. Typology models such as Jung’s Psychological Types, Keirsey’s Temperament, Berens’ Interaction Styles can be used in a utilitarian way to influence, persuade and get others to change. Or they can be used in a way that is Integral. Find out how to get I.T.

In this web-based session, Dr. Berens will provide an overview of Integral Type followed by a deeper dive into Interaction Styles, Temperament, and Cognitive Dynamics. You will have the opportunity to get your questions answered as well as see how to use these models in your work with type.

Speaker Bio

Linda V. Berens, PhD, has worked with theories of personality type since 1975. She has been training change and growth professionals and helping individuals and teams recognize their strengths, transcend their weaknesses, and work together better since 1983. Author or coauthor of numerous books on personality, she is also the recipient of the 2011 Association for Psychological Type International Award for innovations in theory and applications of psychological type.

After founding Interstrength® Associates (formerly known as Temperament Research Institute), a corporate consulting and training organization, she has turned her attention to developing a more complete and integrated look at individual differences through Integral Typeworks, LLC. 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. She is the author or co-author of multiple books and training materials and just finished her latest book, Interaction Essentials: 3 Keys to Effective Relationships in the Workplace and Beyond. Find her at http://www.integraltype.com/integral-type.