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     You may have heard of the MBTI, or the Myers-Briggs Personality Type Indicator, or Personality Type. The MBTI is the most popular and widely used personality tool in the world. It is used by colleges, corporations, businesses, churches and more to help people understand their own personality type and its implications for many things including leadership styles, career interests, team building, relationship building, and spirituality issues and many more. There is no good or bad personality type-just different ones, each with its unique gifts. Each personality type perceives reality and arrives at decisions and conclusions in a slightly different way than the others. The important thing is to understand your type and the type of others in your immediate community. Taking the MBTI is a wonderful adventure in self-discovery. You can learn things about yourself and others that can be very helpful for communication and relationship growth. You will grow to appreciate the wonderful, unique miracle God created you to be.  The MBTI is used to help individuals determine their basic personality type based on preferences in four different areas or scales of personality.  It's a wonderful tool for self-discovery and how we relate to others.

THE FOUR SCALES:

What is your preferred world?  What Energizes You?
E- Extraverted-  (world outside self)
I - Introverted-   (inner world)

How do you primarily perceive reality?
N-   Intuition - (tend to see possibilities)
S-    Senses  - (tend to see the hard, empirical data)

What mechanism do you employ to make decisions?
T-  Thinking, (logical mechanism) 
F-  Feeling, (person centered values mechanism)

How do you orient to the outside world?
J-   Judging, (like closure, order)
P-  Perceiving,  (tolerate loose ends and a certain amount of chaos)

Each person has a preference to use one over the other in each category.  Your four preferences helps determine your personality type.  

For example I am an INFP  (introverted, intuitive, feeling,  perceiving)  Each individual preference and the dynamics between the individual preferences can have a myriad of implications for my personality.    My type partially determines my preferred leadership style, the way I interact with people, what excites me;  how I prefer to pray, read the scripture, do Bible Study, preach sermons, etc.

Once your type is established it can be very helpful in exploring everything from career interests, interpersonal dynamics, team building, leadership style to spirituality issues and much more!   

It can be a very helpful tool for pastors, staffs, councils and individuals. 

Pastor Joe Holub is authorized to administer and interpret the MBTI (Myers-Briggs Type Indicator)   If you or your group are interested in personality type, live in the FRONT RANGE area, and wish to take the indicator, contact Joe through his e-mail.  Joe leads workshops on:
             Introduction to Type 
            Type and Team Building 
            Type and Marriage 
            Type and Spirituality.

One-Day Workshop Fees:  $35/person, minimum of five   Next Workshop

Individual Consultation:  $100 for 3 hours  (Includes the MBTI inventory, resource material,  explanation and interpretation)

Couple Consultation:  $150 for 3hours  (Includes the MBTI inventory, resource material,  explanation and interpretation)

revmtnjoe@spiritualtrails.com

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