This fun and lively, and quite meaningful, full-day workshop helps people articulate their Identity (Calling), Passion (Dreams), Purpose (life mission), and Community (People and Place). As a Purpose Project Guild member, I am trained by and affiliated with the Purpose Project™, a joint project of the University of Minnesota, Center for Spirituality and Healing and Richard Leider of the Inventure Group. Hundreds of people have been through the process created by Richard Leider and have been thrilled with their new personal insights and sense of direction and next steps to realizing a new or renewed future. Every attendee receives a personal workbook that helps capture the insights of the day.

Polarity Management is a tool created by Barry Johnson that helps leaders and teams distinguish problems to solve (where one answer among choices will suffice) and polarities to manage (where interdependent opposites–like cost-quality, centralized-decentralized, diplomacy-candor, and more–must both be managed). Many organizational problems and conflicts are, at root, polarities that require managing, and a default either/or approach doesn't solve the issues and often exacerbates the problems.

This all-day, working workshop familiarizes the participants with the Polarity Management concepts and dynamics. Using predetermined polarities relevant to the team's circumstances, the group works through the upsides and downsides of both poles, and creates action steps to maximize valuable upsides and approaches to prevent the downsides.

The MBTI is used extensively as a tool to provide people insight into their own personality preferences that impact substantively how they think and act, and into the dynamics of teams. Most people, who have been through an MBTI training receive a cursory overview, with limited nuance. As a Jungian therapist and expert in personality type, I am able to bring deeper, useful insights.

Part 1: A three-hour introduction or review of the four Step-1 MBTI scales and interactive discussion of the nuances of the theory as researched and experienced in depth as a practitioner using the instrument in clinical settings. Since invariably some group members are familiar with the instrument and the underlying theory and some are not, this session is important to insure that everyone has the same basic knowledge. Participants are tested prior to the workshop. This workshop is the prerequisite session for Part 2.

Part 2: A three-hour session that delves into what Isabel Myers called "the heart of the MBTI." This session explores the hierarchy of the functions; the dynamics of dominant, auxiliary, tertiary, and inferior function; predicable connects and disconnects between people; and the emergence of uncomfortable manifestations of the inferior function and how to manage those effects.

The EQ-i (Emotional Quotient Inventory) is one of the widest used emotional intelligence instruments used executive and team development. The EQ-i is a self-report instrument that assesses social and emotional function in fifteen competencies in five domains: Intrapersonal, Interpersonal, Adaptability, Stress Management, and General Mood. This 3-hour workshop introduces participants to the concepts and significance of emotional intelligence and the importance of developing lesser developed competencies.

This workshop does not interpret individual or group EQ-i results. That is handled first by one-on-one debriefs with each person taking the test and a separate group analysis and report.

Spiral Dynamics is the theory of Dr. Clare Graves, an industrial psychologist, who described the patterns of cultural values or memes that describe attitudes and assumptions of individuals and social groups. Drs. Don Beck and Chris Cowan expanded their mentor's model and assigned color code names to the different meme levels. This theory is invaluable as a way to understand the diversity of values in an organization and how to lead more effectively to that diversity. Dr. Beck has provided extensive consulting in South Africa and Middle East using Spiral Dynamics as a framework to bridge values meme gaps.

This workshop examines, in-depth, the understandings of Spiral Dynamics and works through relevant challenges of the team, internally, cross-organizationally, and with outside groups and cultures.

StrengthsFinder 2.0 is the instrument widely used in organizations to help people identify their top five strengths (out of a possible 34). Donald Clifton, Ph.D. developed the instrument from his Positive Psychology research. Marcus Buckingham has created extensive additional material related to identifying and focusin on strengths fro greater success.

This workshop explores the concepts and specifically examines the impacts, opportunities and challenges for the team presented by the strengths mix of the team members. Participants are tested as preparation for the workshop.

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