9 a.m. to noon: Brain-Savvy Use of Type

1:15 to 3:15 p.m.: Brain-Savvy Coaching

Is it possible to track brain activity to type functions?

What does the mind-blowing field of "brain science" have to offer type practitioners and enthusiasts alike?

Participate with Dario Nardi--a national leader in applying the exciting new field of neuroscience to our understanding and use of personality type--in learning practical applications to popular type models.

MORNING PROGRAM: Brain-Savvy Use of Type: Insights and Applications from Neuroscience for the Effective Use of Type

• Discover new insights on a range of everyday behaviors, empathy, lying, artistic expression, and more that relate to the 16 types or the eight Jungian functions.
• Learn behavioral cues and activities that appeal neurologically to people according to their type preferences.

Accurate and insightful knowledge of people improves everything we do. Many of us who study human behavior like and use the 16 types framework derived from Carl Jung and Isabel Myers. Through proven brain research, we will learn what modern neuroscience says about personality types.

UCLA professor Dario Nardi shares slides of key results and enticing anecdotes from his lab research. In the lab, he views brain activity in real time as college students engage in everyday activities from signing one's name to playing a speed dating game. The results are clear: Type matters!

The morning program gives you specific "must know" points for each of the eight Jungian processes, and demonstrates how people of each of the 16 types can achieve "flow"--a state of total creative engagement. Several hands-on activities also illustrate key lessons such as how to evoke the effective use of extraverted intuition.

A brief overview of the science will be presented, but this is a nontechnical presentation that focuses on daily applications to people and type.

AFTERNOON PROGRAM: Brain-Savvy Coaching Using the Eight Jungian Functions

Professor Dario Nardi's brain research offers provocative implications for work in the helping and human resources professions, such as counseling, coaching, training, and consulting. In the afternoon session he will give specific examples of how to connect more powerfully with clients and to manage ourselves as we help others.

About Dario Nardi, Ph.D.

Dr. Dario Nardi (INTJ) is a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, and a founding faculty member of UCLA's Human Complex Systems minor degree program, a blend of social science, systems theory, and computing. He is also a research faculty member with Interstrength Associates under the leadership of Linda V. Berens, Ph.D. Dario is the author or coauthor of numerous books on personality, including 8 Keys to Self-Leadership (drawing on Jungian theory) and 16 Personality Types: Descriptions for Self-Discovery (drawing on temperament and systems thinking). His interests and courses cover a wide range of topics including group dynamics, computer modeling of social systems, fieldwork methods, game design, linguistics, artificial intelligence, and social neuroscience.

Join us on April 24 for either or both of these lively and practical introductions to neuroscience and typology. You may not look at, or converse with, your colleagues, clients, or companions in quite the same way ever again.