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Links Personality Assessment & Development There is a lot of information about personality or psychological type available on the web. Here you will find our curated links to type websites and other associations of psychological types in the US, Europe and Australia. Myers & Briggs Foundation Isabel Briggs Myers Memorial Library is the largest collection of information and materials dedicated to the MBTI instrument and personality type in the world. Mary & Isabel's Library Online (MILO) MMDI Personality Test - Mental Muscle Diagram Indicator Psychology Junkie Type Academy Media Portal for Dario Nardi Personality Junkie Personality Hacker The Myers-Briggs Company (US) The Myers-Briggs Company (UK) MBTI online (take the MBTI) Type School Global Type Organisations There are several type organisations operating across the globe, with BAPT being the UK-based one. We encourage you to also explore the websites of our international partners listed below. The other type associations currently are: APTi AusAPT France

The Myers Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI) Chances are you came to our website because you’ve taken or are interested in the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator ® another psychological or personality type instrument. So what is the MBTI? The MBTI system is an indication (not a proof) of your likely psychological or p ersonality type . The MBTI instrument designed to help you identify your natural type preferences. The MBTI uses instrument items and scales to identify your preferred ways of perceiving (Sensing or Intuition), judging (Thinking or Feeling) and acquiring and using energy (Extraversion or Introversion). Myers and Briggs added a fourth pair of opposites, which they called Judging and Perceiving, identified as orientations towards the outside world. These four pairs of opposites are referred to as the preference pairs. Unlike most personality assessments, the MBTI is a preference type model, not a trait model - in other words it helps you identify your overall preferences along a series of spectrums, rather than ‘how much’ of a particular behaviour you exhibit. This is important, because behaviours change, whereas preferences tend to be more stable through life. For 50 years or so, the MBTI was the only game in town. Now there are many more ways to understand one’s type preferences - some of them very well researched and statistically reliable and valid, some of them not so much. The MBTI, like all good type instruments, is designed to be part of a conversation and exploration with a certified type practitioner or expert . BAPT maintains a register of type practitioners who can help you to discover your psychological or personality type. Our purpose here at BAPT is to help you understand and apply the insights that you have obtained through an assessment like the MBTI, and to support professional users of well-designed personality assessments using the type model. 16 Types: Key Words The 16 Types in Brief

Personal Growth ‘The Journey of a Lifetime’ Carl Jung, who developed a theory of psychological type, wrote that ‘it is the journey of a lifetime to become oneself’. For him, type was just one set of clues about how we function as human beings - and understanding your type preferences is only the beginning. True, there are only 16 combinations in the Jungian personality model. But you are unique, because your preferences interact with everything else about you - your race, gender, sexuality, family history, sporting interests (or lack of them), height, weight…everything. Personal growth from a personality perspective refers to the ongoing process of self-improvement, development, and maturation that individuals undergo throughout their lives. It involves enhancing various aspects of your personality, mindset, and behaviour to achieve greater self-awareness, better relationships with others, emotional intelligence, resilience, and overall well-being. This concept is closely linked to the field of psychology. The MBTI instrument and various other type instruments are useful tools to explore how your personality changes and evolves over time. An excerpt from James Johnston's book, Jung's Indispensable Compass. Published with permission by the author. Becoming Whole For Aristotle, 'The Middle Way', was the golden mean , the way between extremes to happiness, “the best, noblest, and most pleasant thing in the world" . Buddha, the “awakened one,” observed that undue attachments lead to suffering and that the balanced middle way of right living leads to broadened consciousness, emboldened compassion, and a vivified reverence for life. Lao Tse (Tzu) spoke reverently of the Tao (Way) as the source of harmony, a way that includes the complementary opposites yin and yang. For Confucius, the way was a balanced life of personal growth and communal responsibility. For Carl Jung, the middle way leads to wholeness - a way between the opposites that integrates and transcends them; the way of individuation; the way to the realisation of the whole personality . The Middle Way to Unique Personality: A Jungian perspective.. "And so long as you haven’t experienced this: to die and so to grow, you are only a troubled guest on the dark earth". Goethe We are born predisposed to certain ego attitudes; no tabulae rasae are we. If we are born with introverted attitudes, we are initially oriented to the inner world and the contents of the collective unconscious. If we are born with more extraverted attitudes, we are initially oriented to the outer world and the contents of sensory experience. We do not choose our predispositions; we notice them. We gain ego strength from our early predispositions. Our ego’s dominant attitude becomes that of our persona, and we grow into more complex adults. We acquire our social armour to go out into the world and are more fully equipped to make our way. We are no longer so open and naive, we are streetwise and will not be as easily duped as children. We are on guard. The persona provides a personal mask to adapt and promote ourselves in a challenging world. Early in adult life, if we have been fortunate, we have discerned our best gifts and applied them successfully in the world. Perhaps we have gained acumen, acclaim, or recognition. We may have found a life partner, someone attracted to us for our best and most natural qualities. As we gain friends with values that reinforce our own, along with familial relationships, we may feel affirmed that we have found our place in the world. As our ego grows in strength, if our favoured gifts have met the world successfully, all may seem well. The first half of the lifelong drama arrives at a sort of intermission in midlife, with the theatre fully constructed and oppositions established; the audience has long been seated and the chief actors have polished their roles. A sturdy persona guards the apron of the conscious stage, positioned to defend and supplement the lead actor. A strong and confident ego plays the lead role of consciousness. Numerous complexes lurk behind the scrim in the personal unconscious, where they have been developing since early childhood. A shadowy figure has formed on the unconscious stage as antagonist. The soul (anima or animus) on the apron of the unconscious stage, having been instrumental in life-changing choices in the first half of life, now prepares to facilitate greater access to the illusive treasures that have been largely unconscious. If transformation is to extend into the second half of life, the persona must lower its defenses. The sturdy armoured comrade whose role was to support and defend the ego in the first half of life can become a prison guard in the second half. For the unique individual to find a balanced position midway between both audiences, less dependent on the lead ego attitude, the persona must give up its role, for it is too deeply identified with the one-sided ego. The persona is always identical with a typical attitude dominated by a single psychological function, for example, by thinking, feeling or intuition. This one-sidedness necessarily results in the relative repression of the other functions. In consequence, the persona is an obstacle to the individual’s development. The dissolution of the persona is therefore an indispensable condition for individuation. The ego, so long enjoying the limelight as the chief actor, must recognize the aim of the second half of life - the transformation to the true self. It becomes increasingly apparent that the ego/persona identity is a false self that must now make way for the true self at the centre. The ego has played its favoured roles, and knows them well, but is too one-sided to pilot the way of the emerging personality. Hence it is impossible to achieve individuation by conscious intention, for conscious intention leads infallibly to a conscious attitude, which excludes whatever does not fit in with it. The emerging personality will be forged in the crucible of opposing attitudes. Compensatory shadow attitudes, often opposing the ego’s favoured orientations, will seek their own integration into the life of the individual. The developing person will gain greater access to both the audience of the manifold world and the collective unconscious. If all goes as scripted, the shadow will be accepted on the conscious stage, the persona’s “personality” will relax its social mask, the soul’s “personality” will more readily mediate the contents of the unconscious, and the audience of the world will be the beneficiary of a more authentic person, attuned more fully to their collective welfare. These are the essential and recurring themes in the production to ensue. It will be a story of repeated death and rebirth in which the individual grows more whole with each resurrection. Though the elements of the process may be similar for everyone, the path and destination are unique for each individual. The process of realising one’s true personality defies generalization or full description, for it is an experience beyond the domain of purely ego consciousness. We know when we are caught in the paralysing tension of opposites, and we know when we have been liberated from that tension, but these are experiences that can hardly be explained objectively. Analogies, like the ones Jung used, help to describe what the “coming to birth of personality” actually feels like: “It is as if a river that had run to waste in sluggish side-streams and marshes suddenly found its way back to its proper bed, or as if a stone lying on a germinating seed were lifted away so that the shoot could begin its natural growth”. Within the human psyche is a latent drive to become whole. Unconscious contents are seeking consciousness as the essential personality seeks realisation. It is a teleological movement toward authentic individuality. Jung himself felt this urge intensely: "My life is a story of the self-realisation of the unconscious. Everything in the unconscious seeks outward manifestation, and the personality too desires to evolve out of its unconscious conditions and to experience itself as a whole". ( Prologue, Memories, Dreams, Reflections) That path to authentic individuality may at times seem unpredictably erratic, aimless, or even retrogressive. It can be like walking on a labyrinth: the path may not seem to make logical sense or have any purposeful direction, yet in its roundabout way it delivers the individual to the centre. There are no dead ends on a labyrinth, but there are also no shortcuts. Once on the labyrinthine path, as circuitous and confusing as it may seem, the destination at the centre is secure. If the ego stubbornly goes its own way, with a one-sided resistance to individuation, the path could become like a maze. Unlike the labyrinth, there may be many shortcuts, but there are also many dead ends. Crucially, there is no centre. A Labyrinth A Maze Jung’s close associate Marie-Louise von Franz spoke of the pathway to wholeness as a spiral. As the spiral ascends, the individual becomes more real. "It is a spiral not a circle. The movement does not go in circles; it goes forward in spirals". This means that you always return to the same point but on a higher level. For instance, if you meet a person who has individuated, you can say: “Oh, this is still old John Smith" - completely, in the true sense of the word. He is still the good old John Smith I once knew, but he is on a higher plane. There is something more mature, more conscious, more calm, and whatever he was is more intensely there and more real. This higher consciousness is something you feel about another person. You have a feeling that this is the same old person but somehow he is more worthy, more intense, more real, more himself. But it is something you can only feel. The process of individuation, as Jung articulates it, is quite extraordinary: the outcomes are not readily predictable. The spiralling up is not so much an additive process as a process of a transformational integration. The union of opposites in one individual engenders greater “wholeness” and a sense of becoming more real , more true to oneself. One may have the feeling that “I used to be different, but now I am the same”. In his book Transformation: Emergence of the Self , Jungian analyst Murray Stein likens the process of individuation to the formation of a butterfly that astonishingly transforms from caterpillar, to pupa, to butterfly. Each form is a manifestation of the same creature, but none follows logically from the other or is at all predictable. Yet the latent pattern for the fully formed butterfly is already present in the caterpillar. The final destined form as a butterfly is the imago - an underlying pattern of ultimate potential present in each of the creature’s manifestations. Similarly, individuals have a kind of imago - a unique personality that may not begin to emerge until after the “chrysalis” of midlife, when the ego-centred identify defers to the emerging whole personality. In this transformative journey of individuation, the types become progressively engaged, more as a collateral consequence of individuation than as an aim unto themselves. Attempts to develop and exercise the shadow types build ego strength and may help an individual to become more adaptable and versatile; yet that exercise is like growing the size and strength of the caterpillar. Consciously developing the shadow types is an ego-driven exercise. But the ego does not guide individuation: the unpredictable transformations of individuation are directed by the archetypal Self. Knowing your type is the beginning of a journey to understand and manage yourself. It can be a key tool to help you develop emotional intelligence - the ability to manage yourself and your relationships creatively and courageously. Check out our resources for all sorts of articles and insights here . We have a range of resources available to help you explore your development from a personality perspective. Or find a type practitioner who can help you reflect and grow here .

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The Power of Personality: Submit a Proposal to Present Can you contribute to our two major events in 2025? We invite ideas now – read on to find out how to submit your proposal. We are excited to be offering: a one-day virtual conference on Saturday 5th April 2025, 1pm-8pm UK time. an in-person event on Friday and Saturday 13th-14th June 2025, jointly hosted in Copenhagen with the Centre for Leadership. We would love to receive your proposal to speak at either event – the deadline to submit is 15th November. Find out more below. Online Conference In-Person Conference Virtual Conference - The Power of Personality: EQ Unlocked Personality type and emotional intelligence are a powerful combination. An ability to manage our own emotions and understand the emotions of people around us undoubtedly helps us to live happier and better lives. Do you have practical tools or inspiring insights you would like to share? We are interested in exploring: How Type knowledge can help us be more emotionally intelligent? What’s been your experience of using Type to unlock EQ for yourself or clients? What are the tools and techniques you have found most helpful? The BAPT conference offers an opportunity to present to a friendly and inquiring audience who share your interest in Psychological Type. We welcome your expertise and participation. Please submit your proposal using the form below by 15th November. If you would like to discuss it first, please contact our Events Director, Catherine Stothart . BAPT ONLINE CONFERENCE 2025 - Presenter Application First name* Last name* Email* Country of Residence* Presentation Title* Presentation Detail (max 1500 characters)* Presentation Summary (max 350 characters)* Level the session is aimed at* Beginner Intermediate Advanced Brief biography (max 350 characters)* Please upload your photograph* Upload File Type related qualifications Submit In-person Event – The Power of Personality: Growing Emotionally Intelligent Leaders Joint BAPT and CfL event. EQ is as important as IQ in today’s world. Put simply, emotional intelligence is the ability to understand and manage your own emotions, as well as recognise and influence the emotions of others. This in-person event in Copenhagen is a perfect opportunity to explore the crucial role of personality and emotional intelligence in effective organisational leadership. We’d love to have your proposal to run an interactive session for industry leaders, experts and consultants. Topics of Interest: We welcome submissions that address, but are not limited to, the following questions: How do personality and emotional intelligence influence: Leadership style Workplace dynamics Organisational behaviour Mental health Stress management What training and development interventions are effective in improving emotional intelligence and leadership across different personality types? How does personality influence attitudes towards equity, diversity and inclusion? What are the best practices for assessing personality, emotional intelligence, and leadership qualities? How can new technologies (eg AI) and developments in neuroscience be utilised to enhance our knowledge in these areas? The BAPT/CfL conference offers an opportunity to present to a friendly and inquiring audience who share your interest in Psychological Type. We welcome your expertise and participation. Please submit your proposal using the form below by 15th November. If you would like to discuss it first, please contact our Education and Special Projects Director, Sue Blair or Mette Babitzkow Boje . BAPT/CfL IN-PERSON CONFERENCE 2025 - Presenter Application First name* Last name* Email* Country of Residence* Presentation Title* Presentation Detail (max 1500 characters)* Presentation Summary (max 350 characters)* Level/s the session is aimed at* Beginner Intermediate Advanced Brief biography (max 350 characters)* Please upload your photograph* Upload File Type related qualifications Submit

< Back Sue Blair Director of Education and Special Projects ESTJ BAPT.education@personality-type.uk Sue brings a wealth of knowledge in Psychological Type having been involved with Type communities around the world for over 20 years. She has a professional background in sales and management. She was Business Development Manager at the technology subsidiary of British Airways before leaving to raise a family in New Zealand. Unsurprisingly, life changed considerably at this point. Raising children is predictably challenging, time consuming and thought provoking with stress, exhaustion and joy thrown into the mix. The parenting role was definitely a massive training ground with a steep learning curve which continues, no matter how old your children are. A love of Type developed as it became the golden thread through the parenting journey that helped each of her family members to thrive. After completing the MBTI qualification programme she set up her own company, Personality Dynamics. For the past twenty-four years she has worked as a coach, presenter and facilitator in a wide range of situations; starting with parenting courses and going on to work with youth development, careers advisers, educators at all levels and also going back to corporates running team building and leadership programmes. Her work has always centred around Type. She is also the creator of The Personality Puzzles, these are coaching card resources now used worldwide by coaches and therapists to create meaningful conversations whilst supporting learning about Type. There are versions of the cards for adults, teens and educators. Her interest area whilst working on the BAPT board is Education. She admits that it is quite a challenge trying to get time with educators and build a working understanding of Type. When it does happen the rewards, both personally and professionally, are huge. She would like to open up conversations with anyone who is involved and/or interested in Education. She would like to invite anyone who has experience in this field to be in touch. If we can help one child, one family, one teacher or one school then it is worth the effort. Please be in touch to share your experiences. It would be great to build a community of people who can support and resource each other. She looks forward to being in touch with anyone who shares her enthusiasm or desire to create a better environment for our young people and those who care for them.