Personal Awareness
Understanding ourselves and others is an important aspect of
personal development and the spiritual journey.
You will need to demonstrate that
you have done some significant work in the area of personal
awareness. The
Myers Briggs Type Indicator and the Enneagram are two tools that
we have found useful. A vast amount of information is
available on the internet and you will need to be discerning.
Myers Briggs is perhaps the most widely used personality
tool. When scored, it indicates a
person's preference for different ways of gathering information,
making decisions, energizing and orienting to the outer world.
Respondents come out as one of 16 different personality Types.
These Type preferences offer profound insight into people's
strengths and weaknesses, their impact on teams, their
leadership challenges and tendencies and their paths of personal
and professional development.
Recommended Reading: David Kiersey
(1998) Please Understand Me II.
The Enneagram is about people,
how we are the same, how we are different, what makes us tick.
It presents a system of psychology, popularized by the
Franciscans, that describes nine core personality types that
people tend to favour.
Recommended Reading: Richard Rohr and Andreas Ebert (1993)
Discovering the Enneagram.
Recommended Reading: Don Riso and Russ Hudson (1999) The
Wisdom of the Enneagram.
Recommended Reading: Clarence Thomson (1996) Parables & the
Enneagram.
Recommended Reading: Robert Nogosek (1987) Nine
Portraits of Jesus.
Some have found the bestseller,
Boundaries
by Cloud and Townsend (2002) helpful in learning how to
set healthy limits with a parent, spouse, child, friend,
co-worker and even ourselves — while still being a loving
person.
