Your Favorite Room in the House
posted by agammy
Last week I shared an awesome MBTI exercise I learned from the AMA and CPP Webinar, “Practical Tips and Techniques for Using the MBTI® Assessment.” As it turns out, I wasn’t the only person who was motivated by the insights the speakers shared! If you haven’t visited the MBTI Blog recently, go check it out. The author, Breanne Potter, commented on another great take-away from the Webinar, the analogy of the type table as a 16 room house.
With this analogy, you can stop clients from thinking type is something that boxes them in, and help them think of it as a room they prefer in their house.
For example, since I am an ENTP, I wake up and start my day in the ENTP room, but if I want to balance my checkbook, I might go into the ISTJ room. If I want to do some journaling, or take a meandering walk along the beach, I go into INFP mode. I don’t stay there long, but I do what I need to do and come back.
What a cool idea!
Breanne goes into way more detail about this analogy in the MBTI Blog so if you’d like to see this idea explored in a more in depth way, check it out there.
