Strengths, weaknesses and preferences: What makes you who you are

When exploring, reading about and, yes, discussing Type theory (as we do), you come across terms like 'Thinking', 'Judging functions' or 'Introverted Sensing', and it can all get quite complex quite quickly!

Simply put, we each have four psychological functions: two for gathering information, and another two for organising information and making decisions. While we each have all four functions, two are our preferred functions that we rely on, our strengths, while the other two are weaker. And it's different between different people, between different personality types.

What's more, the functions differ both in dominance as well as focus: whether a function is turned to the world/extraverted or turned within/introverted.

In this session, we'll discuss how our psychological functions influence how and what you perceive, and how you reason. And we'll get into some of the nitty-gritty; for example, what makes extraverted feeling different from introverted feeling.

Back in the downstairs meeting room for this one...

All welcome. Come and share with others (we typically break into small groups for discussion).

A bit of background reading...
Descriptions of types of people and systems and theories to categorise them have been around since the beginning of time - and for good reason: we recognise that we are not all alike; that some people are similar to us, while others are very different.

Type theory is based on the seminal work of Carl Jung, who observed that, fundamentally, there are two broad types of psychological functions: for gathering information, and for organising information and making decisions.

Within these categories, there are two opposite ways of perceiving - what Jung described as Sensation (Sensing) and Intuition - and two ways of judging - Thinking and Feeling - making four functions in total.

We each have all four of these functions, but they differ in dominance and focus. Which is where you see terms like introverted Sensing (the sensing function turned within, in an introspective way) or extraverted Feeling (the feeling function turned outwards to the world).

Two of our functions are strong and well-developed, but only one function is our leading or dominant function, on which we absolutely rely.

If you don't know it and would like to get an idea of your type before the session, try one of the questionnaires below...

VENUE + KOHA
We ask for a koha, or donation, to help cover the venue costs.

We're in the downstairs meeting room at Thistle Hall. Enter at the side of the building on SH1/Arthur Street (around the corner from Thistle Hall’s gallery space on Cuba St) and once inside, go straight ahead then head right along the passage by the toilets. The meeting room is at the end of that short passage (and up one step).

FINDING OUT YOUR TYPE
If you'd like to get an idea of your type ahead of the session, these questionnaires below might help. (You’ll see the results of the questionnaire - their best guess as to your type, based on your answers - and you can choose to provide your email address for more info, however, you certainly don’t have to; you might simply have to scroll down past that part or click ‘Skip this step’.)

https://quiz.tryinteract.com/#/5dab0e69919f5e0014ceba9f

https://www.123test.com/jung-personality-test

Whatever assessment you do, just be sure to remember your four letter ‘typename’ (eg INFJ or ENFP).