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The Sacramento Chapter of the Association for Psychological Type (SacAPT, formerly CCC-APT) is a chapter of the Association for Psychological Type International. Our members share an interest in psychological type, with some interested primarily in research and others in the practical application of type theory in everyday life. SacAPT members come from a variety of backgrounds and professions, with positions in business and industry, organizational development, religion, education, and counseling. We'd love to have you join us!
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​Next Program!
Katherine Hirsh
At Play Among the Opposites: Archetypal Energies in Animus and Anima 
​Provided by Dallas/Ft.Worth
Saturday, October 16th, 2021
8:00am-11:00am PT
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​Jung chose the inner feminine (anima) and inner masculine (animus) as key symbolic representations of the “not-me” aspects of self. They appear in our dreams, as projections, and have been linked to our typology via the Inferior Function. Given gender roles and gender identification are now seen as more about options and continua than givens or binaries, how should we re-imagine these figures for our own time? Let’s explore how we can take this idea of an energetic and evolving relationship to the “other” and ground it in concepts that speak to each of us in terms of growth, renewal, and regeneration rather than restricting or inhibiting our development.

Pre-Work:
“The animus and anima should function as a bridge, or a door, leading to the images of the collective unconscious, as the persona should be a sort of bridge into the world.”C.G. Jung, Unpublished Seminar Notes. “Visions” I, p.116 as cited in C.G. Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections, p. 392
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How do you feel you connect to the collective unconscious? How do you feel you connect to the world? Find or construct an image to represent your persona and how it connects you to the world and a second to represent your animus/a and how it connects you to the collective unconscious. You may find it helpful to use the bridge and/or the door mentioned by Jung as inspiration for creating your images.

​Upcoming Program!
Linda Berens, Ph.D.
Intentional Styles: The Fourth Lens 
​Presidential Leadership Styles
​Provided by SacAPT
Saturday, December 4th, 2021
10:00am-1:00pm PT
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From Linda Berens:
​I often wondered why someone with ISFJ preferences would look more like INTP than ISFJ. I also noticed that a person with ISFP preferences and another person with INTJ preferences seeming to ‘vibrate’ in sync in meetings. So what was up with that?
You may be familiar with the common three ways of looking at type in a multiple model approach to type—Cognitive Dynamics (aka 8 Functions), Interaction Styles, and Essential Motivators (aka Temperament). Now there is a fourth lens that will give you more ways to verify best fit, get at conflict, and increase mutual understanding and respect for yourself and your clients, friend, family, and workmates.
We will explore this relatively new typology model that can explain these similarities. Discover the essential qualities of the four Intentional Styles: Enhancing, Orchestrating, Customizing, and Authenticating so you can do more with type.
Learning Objectives
  1. Identify the commonalities of the four type patterns within each Intentional Style and why they make sense
  2. Recognize the core drives, intentions, talents, and stressors of each Intentional Style
  3. Identify ways to put this model to use in their different areas of practice, such as Coaching, Teambuilding, Career Development, and more
  4. Identify ways to use this lens to help people clarify their type
​Previous Program:
Cash Keahey
LeaderTypes in the White House:  How Type Shapes 
​Presidential Leadership Styles
Saturday, May 22nd, 2021
9:00am-12:00pm PST
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​Together we will explore the concept of leadership—and presidential leadership in particular. Using examples from Eight LeaderTypes in the White House: Discover and Leverage Your Oval-Office Leadership Style, we’ll compare them to more recent Presidents. Our discussion will hopefully uncover some of the challenges in typing public figures, as well as reveal some potential biases and preferences involved in choosing leaders. Finally, we’ll look at how type development matters, and how each President’s type—and their development—impacts their way of leading.   

​Following registration for the program, participants will receive an email with information to join the virtual presentation on Zoom.

Cash Keahey is a global leader-architect, having facilitated hundreds of workshops around the world, teaching thousands of leaders in 21 countries on six continents. Having spent 20+ years in diverse functions (sales, marketing, management, strategic planning, HR) and industries, Cash understands the fundamental challenge every leader faces: how to get things done through others. His niche is training and coaching new/emerging leaders on the front-lines of global, matrixed organizations. 

Helping build better leaders is Cash’s mission. He believes self-awareness is key to leadership. Paraphrasing Jung, “Every leader is an exception to the rule...which requires you know the rule to which you’re an exception—your LeaderType.” With this self-knowledge, leaders build trust from the inside-out—first in themselves, and then among followers—and are thus able to leverage their natural leadership style to get results through people.

Qualified to administer the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI) in 1999 by Otto Kroeger and Janet Thuesen, Cash began immersing himself in Jung through several study groups (Centerpoint I & II, Myers-Spoto). He combined this type knowledge with research into 42 U.S. presidents, and developed eight LeaderType® profiles, finding a different dominant LeaderType in eight ‘great’ presidents. Cash received his MBA from the University of Houston, and has been a leader in the Association for Psychological Type International (APTi) for over 15 years, receiving the APTi Excellence in Leadership award in 2009. He is the proud father of 2 grown children, one a recently licensed therapist, and the other a middle school social studies teacher.
Previous Program: 
​Jane Kise, Ed.D. and ​Ann Holm, M.S.
Coaching  for Nature and Nurture via Personality Type and Saboteurs!
​​​​​Saturday, April 24th, 2021
9:00am-12:00pm PST
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Jung posed that our preferences for perception and judgment are innate. They're part of our nature. But we all know that people of each type show great diversity. The Positive Intelligence framework is a complementary way to add "nurture" for coaching. Developed by former Coach Training Institute Chairman Shirzad Chamine, the framework describes nine "saboteurs," behavior patterns we develop to ensure our needs for autonomy, belonging, and safety are met. They're a host of rotten characters such as Victim, Pleaser, Stickler and more. While type is innate, these saboteurs seem to develop in response to our environment. Take the Saboteurs Assessment in advance of the workshop. Then, together, we'll explore the Saboteurs framework and our research on correlations with personality type. Learn how a person's saboteurs might impede a client's identification of best-fit type as well as understanding of adult development pathways. And, through examples and breakouts to discuss case studies, explore how the use of saboteurs can enhance type-based coaching.

Please note:  To get the most out of this program, please complete the assessment before the program starts.
Saboteurs | Positive Intelligence

Jane Kise, Ed.D., MBA, CPQC is a past president of APTi, author of over 25 books, and a consultant with over 25 years of experience working with type concepts. Her passion involves doing anything ethical to help schools embrace type. She also does leadership coaching. 
Ann Holm, M.S., PCC, CPCC, CPQC, is a Professional Certified Coach specializing in executive, career, and personal development. She also has 25 years of experience in applied brain science, using her hands-on involvement to help her coaching clients understand how to stay focused, be engaged, and energized given the demands of the 21st century workplace. Together, they have been researching connections between type and saboteurs since 2015. Last year, they became certified as Positive Intelligence Coaches as part of the first cohort to take part in the process. Both are certified as MBTI Steps I, II and III master practitioners.
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Previous Program
Carol Shumate, Ph.D.
Type and Body Language
​​​​​Saturday, March 27th, 2021
9:00am-12:00pm PST

To see ourselves as others see us: This is the great gift of psychological type. Now, the wealth of videos available on the internet have made psychological type more visible than ever. In one of her most popular presentations, Carol uses videos to show participants how each type presents to others, as well as how to spot type clues at a glance. When we know how others view our type, our presentation style naturally moderates without effort. When we know how other types present, we can begin to distinguish between psychological type and character, which gives us a better radar for lies and manipulative tactics.

Although we develop many of our opposite sides as we mature, the physical manifestations of type tend not to change as we mature. Therefore, paying attention to facial expressions, bodily movement, and speech patterns can help us identify an individual's earliest and most natural preferences, regardless of the reported type. Carol has correlated body language with the E/I scale, the J/P scale, and the eight Jungian functions (Si, Se, Ni, Ne, etc.) in a process she developed to teach her students to assess themselves and others. She uses videos of young people who are still exploring their personalities, so their type characteristics are exaggerated. These videos will have participants laughing at themselves and their type tribes, as they spot the clues to type with the aid of a proprietary handout drawn from Carol’s new book, Projection and Personality Development via the Eight-Function Model (Routledge 2021). Participants will also have the opportunity to share their own tips and tricks for recognizing type.

Note: Not all 16 types can be presented in the time allotted, so the presentation will be limited to the types of the first dozen individuals to register, unless there is time for more. However, Carol will take requests if they are made ahead of time. Also note that some but not all of these videos were shown in February 2020 at a presentation for the San Diego APT.

Carol Shumate, PhD (ENFP), teaches the course “Psychological Types” at Pacifica Graduate Institute, where she uses film and video to help students assess their own types. She is a founding editor of the journal Personality Type in Depth,  https://typeindepth.com/authors/carol-shumate/  whose mission is to bridge psychological type and depth psychology. Her book Projection and Personality Development via the Eight-Function Model (Routledge 2021) shows how John Beebe’s eight-function/eight-archetype model of personality type can be used to provide a trajectory of development for each of the sixteen Myers-Briggs® types. 
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Previous Program
John Beebe and Adam Frey:
​​​Type, Archetype and
The Emergence of Consciousness
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December 5th, 2020
​9am-12pm PT
​John Beebe sees Jung’s work on psychological type as a guide to learning to know ourselves in depth. For each of us, all eight of the function-attitudes that Jung differentiated (introverted and extraverted intuition, sensation, feeling, and thinking) is somewhere in our psyche, even from birth. Some of these eight types of consciousness are more conscious for us, others are more in shadow, tending to emerge more when we are under stress. The function-attitude that we choose to express, for example, extraverted feeling or introverted intuition, correlates to what part of ourself is in charge at that moment. We can each wonder, for example, “Where is extraverted sensation in my consciousness? What character or posture do I take on when I encounter or use that function?  How do I feel, think, and act when I am focused on extraverted sensation matters?” 

In this three-hour, live, online seminar, John Beebe and Adam Frey will explain Beebe’s eight-function, eight-archetype way of understanding psychological types and demonstrate how to apply it to learning to understand ourself and others. They will look at how this way of using type can be useful in developing integrity and resilience and in nurturing relationships with others.

Note: This presentation is advanced in that it presupposes some familiarity with Jung’s eight function-attitudes, but it does not presume prior knowledge of relating types to archetypal human roles. 
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John Beebe is the creator of the eight-function, eight-archetype model of psychological types. A Jungian analyst and past president of the C. G. Jung Institute of San Francisco, he is the author of Energies and Patterns in Psychological Type: The Reservoir of Consciousness and co-editor, with Ernst Falzeder, of The Question of Psychological Types: The Correspondence of C. G. Jung and Hans Schmid-Guisan. John has spearheaded a Jungian typological approach to the analysis of film and has written the preface to the Routledge Classics edition of Jung's 1921 book, Psychological Types.  ​
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Adam Frey, an MBTI® Master Practitioner, has been studying Jung’s theory of psychological types for more than 35 years. A past president of the Bay Area Association for Psychological Type, Adam has published articles in Personality Type in Depth and the Bulletin of Psychological Type and has taught types to psychology students, human resources professionals, and the general public in the United States and China.
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​​Previous Program
Linda Berens, Ph.D. Presents
Type in Today's World: Ethics, Power, and Development

October 3rd, 2020
​9am-12pm PT

Linda Berens and program participants will review significant developments in understanding individual differences and the importance of addressing major shifts in what the world needs from type practitioners:
  • Ethics in the digital world
  • PowerShifts and the importance of owning our own power
  • Shifting from “social engineering” to collaboration and inclusion
Some key points we will cover:
  • Examples of how using three separate, but integrated lenses can improve the usefulness of type and increase accuracy
  • Examples of ethical issues that cause harm and get in the way of doing good
  • Roadblocks and pathways to a developmental approach to type
  • Ways to better meet the needs of understanding diversity to foster inclusion
Following registration for the program, participants will receive an email with information to join the virtual presentation on Zoom and links to other free resources.

About Linda Berens
Linda V. Berens, Ph.D. serves as co-founder, lead architect of certification, model development and transformational change programs for InterStrength. She is a human and organizational development practitioner who has been teaching professionals since 1982 as well as helping individuals and teams recognize their strengths, transcend their weaknesses, and work more efficiently together. After founding Temperament Research Institute in 1983, a corporate consulting and training organization dedicated to individual differences, she turned her attention to developing a more complete and integrated look at individual differences through the Integral framework. Linda is recognized internationally for her theoretical contributions to the field of psychological type and for developing user-friendly training materials for practical application of understanding individual differences. She is the author or co-author of multiple books and training materials. In addition to holding a license as a California Marriage and Family Therapist and a doctorate in psychology, she also holds certification as a Holacracy Facilitator and in Integral Transformative Leadership from Pacific Integral and the LIOS Graduate College at Saybrook University.
Linda is the developer of a multiple lens approach to understanding individual differences. She also is the developer of the Interaction Styles lens to understanding how people tend to interact and influence. In 1994, she innovated experiencing the 8 Jungian functions to fully understand the type code during an MBTI® Qualifying program and has been on the leading edge of type since 1985. 

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Previous Program:
Eve Delunas, Ph.D.
Survival Strategies of the Four Temperaments
During Stressful Times
​​​​​January 23rd, 2021
​9am-12pm PT

​During times like the ones we are currently living, it can be helpful to recognize the different ways each of the four temperaments cope with extreme stress. In this program, we will review the range of survival strategies that Improvisers (SPs), Stabilizers (SJs), Theorists (NTs), and​ Catalysts (NFs) ​use when life feels overwhelming and there appears to be no relief on the immediate horizon.

Come learn how and why individuals may turn to Blackmail, Complain, Avoidance, and Masquerade, and what we can do to help those who are in the "survival mode."
Dr. Eve Delunas has over 40 years of experience in using the temperament model in clinical and organizational settings. She is the author of Survival Games Personalities Play, which describes how to use the temperament model to design and implement effective mental health treatment interventions. Her latest book is New Science, New Brain, New You—a do-it-yourself guidebook for clearing subconscious limiting beliefs and igniting your goals. Currently, Eve offers classes and individual sessions to identify and dissolve subconscious limiting beliefs, increase self-love, awaken intuition, and attract greater abundance of every kind. She can be found online at: evedelunas.com
Previous Program
Do You See What I See?
Understanding Reality Throughthe
Lenses of the MBTI and Enneagram 

Presented by Pat Wyman
Author of "Three Keys to Self Understanding" and "The Jesus Myth, Quantum Theory and Your Inner Child"

Saturday, October 24th, 2020
We all think we know what reality is. We can see it, touch it, hear it and, in some cases, smell and taste it. However, psychologists and philosophers have long asserted that there is no objective reality. We know that multiple people can view the same event and have conflicting interpretations. But beyond that, various parts of ourselves can view the same event differently. If we are in an emotionally defended position, we will perceive a person or event differently from how we might experience that same person or event if we are emotionally grounded. This program will explore how the differing lenses of the MBTI® and the Enneagram shape our reality.
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Previous Workshop:
Virginia (Gina) Thomas, PhD
How To Be Alone: Solitude During a Pandemic
​​​​​Saturday, February 27th, 2021
9:00am-12:00pm PST
 
 
Choosing to be alone generally makes an experience of solitude enjoyable. However, the COVID-19 pandemic has forced many of us to be alone far longer than we’re used to. For others, the irony is that lockdowns have eliminated opportunities to be alone, as some of us are now “trapped” in close quarters with the people we live with. How can we successfully navigate this unique time and meet our competing needs for time alone and time with others?
Join this workshop to learn about psychological research that outlines the skills people use to engage in positive solitude, defined as time spent alone that is rich in meaning and enjoyment. The workshop will include discussion around the experiences, opportunities, and challenges we each have when it comes to being alone, and we’ll explore how Type may be shaping our attitudes and behaviors around spending time by ourselves.
 
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Bio:
Dr. Virginia (Gina) Thomas is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Middlebury College in Vermont. With training in depth psychology and developmental psychology, Gina studies social and emotional development throughout the lifespan, focusing on the inner lives of individuals. Her current research explores the role of solitude in identity development and psychological well-being, and investigates the skills necessary to use solitude constructively. Gina publishes her research in academic journals and writes a blog about all things related to solitude for Psychology Today: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/solitude-in-social-world

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