• Posted by admin
  • October 5, 2009

Hello Saapt members,

The presentation delivered by Jack Patterson on September 23, 2009 has been posted in the Members-Only area.

Click here to view the presentation

  • Posted by admin
  • October 1, 2009

from Heather Pallas

This was my first time attending the APTi conference on Type.  The conference only happens every 2 years.   We were down in Dallas, TX for 3 days.   There was a huge menu of workshops to choose from and I chose – Brain Savvy Coaching, Leadership, Building Team Relationships and MBTI / EQ where are the connections!

One of my favorite workshops was Brain Savvy Coaching by Dario Nardi and Pam Fox Rollin.   The objective was to grasp the research-in-progress on brain-use patterns across types and understand implications for differentiating your coaching to client type.    Looking at the 8 dominate functions (Se, Si, Ne, Ni, Te, Ti, Fe, Fi) Dario walked through the research he has been doing at UCLA, how brain activity links to type and then how to coach that type.   A few interesting points – people’s brains with Ne (extraverted intuition) light up like a Christmas tree, while Se (extraverted sensing) tennis hop around the brain.   ENTJs were fast, efficient and had focused use of brain and the most efficient use.   They walked through each of the 8 dominant functions with Dario presenting what they found with the brain research, and then a discussion of how to coach that type.   We have posted the presentation on the SAAPT member’s only area – so please check it out!!   It is well worth the time to walk through the presentation.

Another of my favorite sessions was the panel on Rediscovering Jung with John Bebee, R Fitgerald and A. Spoto, all Jungian psychologists.   Much of the conversation was about the 8 functions and how we can’t have light (first 4 archetypes) without the dark (last 4 archetypes).    One of the main take-aways for me – is that your shadow material will always rise up, you can go to meet it and use these functions consciously or you can respond to it being used subconsciously, which isn’t always pretty!    A lot of Jung’s later work is about this duality of darkness and light.   A new book is being published this October on Jung’s later writings called the Red Book.   It’s due out early October and should be a very fascinating read!

We are thinking of hosting a workshop to share some of our learning’s from APTi…is this something people would be interested in attending?