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"You have a nice personality, but
not for a human being." -- Henny Youngman
It's key to note personality as a
dynamic, that is inborn, yet continously maturing as an
emergent expression of who we are...now.
Since I'm not a psychologist, or
even a professional, but as a developmentalist, I have chosen
to see and define Personality Dynamics in a narrow
frame that works for me, to help people gain some quick
traction in their subject/object relations. Without having to
use the body of dysfunctional models that have developed over
time, preferring to leave that to those trained, I've picked
some practical ways in which we can get datapoints about our
self-knowledge rather quickly.
Not having these limits has allowed
me to disgard a lot of what might bog people down without any
history of psychological models and it's past ups and downs.
As this is a realistic model of FLOW and it's important to
help people NOW, the models i chose are just stakes in the
ground-->others can choose and standardize their own models,
or put their own stakes in the ground.
I chose NOT to reinvent the wheel,
and to use models that are very popular and long-lived, even
with all of their warts and/or beautiful ideas.
In the self-knowledge process, I
think it's practical to just shift the figure and ground of
self-knowledge and self-awareness, choosing instead to give
people very easy and practical ways to begin to unravel their
self-knowledge.
My first set of thoughts years ago,
was to help people answer, the 5Ws: Who, What, When, Where and
Why, and the emergent How.
This is a simple process to get
people started and pulled away from the heady, often very
abstract models currently buoying psychology in all it's
beautiful ideas and emergent warts.
I also wanted this to be easy and
not so expensive that we couldn't scholarship people without
breaking the bank for those needing help. Currently, with my
work in emerging markets, it's not yet appropriate to be able
to sell a lot of assessments due to the prohibitive costs
involved in the west.
As time goes by, I think more and
more people will have access to these assessments which can
create quick, and reliable datapoints for conversations which
can begin to probe self-knowledge about our Personality
Dynamics.
Here are the assessments I've
chosen to be a part of this Self-Knowledge (SK) Portfolio:
What we use, and why.
In the beginning I was trying to
look for ways to answer simple questions like, who, what, why,
when, where, how...which through alchemy, I decided to use the
following FLOW-orienting Personality Dynamics:
- how we learn
using the Kolb Learning Style (LSI)
- how we manage
conflict with the Thomas-Kilmann Conflict
Mode (TKI)
- what preferences we
have identified through the MBTI-II
- who we are
identified through our unconscious desires REISS
- where strengths
emerge in Strengths Finder (SF)
- why we do what we do
as worldviews or attitudes in the PIAV
- when we are
influenced to act as in our traits in the
DiSC and Big Five
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