Psychological Types #4: “NEUROSCIENCE OF PERSONALITY”

Better understand personality in terms of recent neuroscience discoveries.

Created by: Yehuda Ben Jehoshua
Creative Director / Personal Coach

Created by: Dario Nardi
instructor, author, and consultant

What Will I Learn?

• What neuroscience says about personality type today, based on over 500+ brains.
• How a brain-imaging session typically goes (when trying to broadly stimulate people.)
• Brain basics including functional regions, brain waves, and neural networks.
• How people tend to use their brains differently (over time and across activities).
• In lieu of a brain scan, one’s possible favorite brain regions (using a coloring poster).
• Neuro-diversity on teams.
• The clear scientific support for Jungian concepts like extraversion/introversion and judging vs. perceiving functions.
• Descriptions of the 8 Jungian functions based on brain-imaging results.
• Emotional dynamics in the brain. Emotions are intertwined in everything we do.
• How the brain shifts with a person’s age, biological factors, career, culture, organizational roles, and personality.
• Analytic vs. Holistic styles, with a deep dive into 4 developmental types: Dominant, Creative, Normalizing, and Harmonizing.
• Body-mind practices (e.g. breathwork, yoga) and the role of the ANS (autonomic nervous system).

Requirements

• Ideally, you’ve completed the basics course, "Find Your Best-Fit Type", so that terms are more familiar and the ideas more personal.
• Interest in learning how your own brain works.
• A desire and patience to understand people in terms of processes, not just behavioral traits.
• Open to learning new terms and concepts. While the technical stuff if not terribly thick, it requires attention.
• Open to understand that personality is always about people, not just theory or data.
• A sense of humor about our many human strengths and pitfalls.

Target audience

• People who want to know the latest science behind personality "types".
• Anyone with a particularly scientific focus.
• People who value cognitive diversity and want to better understand what that means.
• Those who are interested in the "developed self": how upbringing, career, and other factors influence us.
• Those who want to add emotions and subtypes to the Jung / Myers-Briggs framework.