To help create better acceptance and understanding of oneself and others, the book includes the Keirsey Temperament Sorter, a short questionnaire to help readers determine their personality type. The four-letter result will look familiar to anyone who has taken the Myers-Briggs.
In Please Understand Me: Character and Temperament Types, authors David Keirsey and Marilyn Bates discuss the differences people display in their thinking, beliefs, desires, and emotions. However, rather than simply recognizing and accepting these differences in others, we tend to pathologize them: “Seeing others around us differing from us, we conclude that these differences in individual behavior are temporary manifestations of madness, badness, stupidity, or sickness.” Having viewed others this way and experienced this kind of treatment myself, I can relate to the authors’ claim that, “our attempts to change spouse, offspring, or others can result in change, but the result is a scar and not a transformation.”
To help create better acceptance and understanding of oneself and others, the book includes the Keirsey Temperament Sorter, a short questionnaire to help readers determine their personality type. The four-letter result will look familiar to anyone who has taken the Myers-Briggs.
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We sit in a close knit circle, the lights dim yet bright enough to read by. We listen to a version of the fool's journey and it is hard to believe that we are nearing the end of our own journey as a collective. Tonight we will feast on words we've written, reading from a book of potery that we've created individually and as a group.
Learn new skills in a safe, supportive environment, be facilitated in art making and embodied awareness as part of emotional regulation skill building. No prior art experience needed. Emotion Regulation is the module in which we learn to understand how our emotions work, and the skills we need to manage our emotions instead of being managed by them, to reduce how vulnerable we are to negative emotions, and to build positive emotional experiences. Recently I attended an ecstatic dance class encouraging embodied awareness. I walked into the class feeling upset after a difficult day at work, but during the class I became present rather than obsessing over things that bothered me. It was a relief to let go, follow the music, and do whatever felt good. It was safe to be authentic. Within the first half hour of the class, I was feeling much better. My experience of improved mindfulness is common among those who participate in embodied expressive arts practices and I was interested to learn that Real Caring Integrative Therapy has programs in place that combine therapeutic expressive arts with evidence based therapies like Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), commonly used to treat trauma and Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). Mindfulness can be enhanced through art therapy and embodied practices. “In the DBT group we’re really working a lot with embodied mindfulness,” Shannon Simonelli, PhD, ATR, said. “We’re filling out the experience of mindfulness and connection with “wise mind” to include somatic perspective and somatic orientation. We’re teaching people how to check in with and language their observations from a body-based perspective.” Nancy Long Foster, APRN, PhD is from the Aniwodi Cherokee clan. The Aniwodi clan were historically known as prominent medicine people. Dr. Foster is founder of Therapeutic Lifestyle Center of Utah where she practices psychiatric medicine. This June, Dr. Foster will be passing along wisdom from native ancestors through her series Walking on the Wind: Teachings for Harmony and Balance. Each week, there will be a teaching about key traditions and philosophies that have guided the Cherokee for many years. It is an honor and a privilege to receive these teachings as there are few Aniwondi Cherokee people left to pass them on. Sessions are held on Thursdays 6:30 - 7:30 from June 2 - 30. The cost for each session is a $25 offering. |
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