Linda Berens and program participants will review significant developments in understanding individual differences and the importance of addressing major shifts in what the world needs from type practitioners:

• Ethics in the digital world
• PowerShifts and the importance of owning our own power
• Shifting from “social engineering” to collaboration and inclusion

Some key points we will cover:

• Examples of how using three separate, but integrated lenses can improve the usefulness of type and increase accuracy
• Examples of ethical issues that cause harm and get in the way of doing good
• Roadblocks and pathways to a developmental approach to type
• Ways to better meet the needs of understanding diversity to foster inclusion

Linda V. Berens, Ph.D. serves as co-founder, lead architect of certification, model development and transformational change programs for InterStrength. She is a human and organizational development practitioner who has been teaching professionals since 1982 as well as helping individuals and teams recognize their strengths, transcend their weaknesses, and work more efficiently together. After founding Temperament Research Institute in 1983, a corporate consulting and training organization dedicated to individual differences, she turned her attention to developing a more complete and integrated look at individual differences through the Integral framework. Linda is recognized internationally for her theoretical contributions to the field of psychological type and for developing user-friendly training materials for practical application of understanding individual differences. She is the author or co-author of multiple books and training materials. In addition to holding a license as a California Marriage and Family Therapist and a doctorate in psychology, she also holds certification as a Holacracy Facilitator and in Integral Transformative Leadership from Pacific Integral and the LIOS Graduate College at Saybrook University.

Linda is the developer of a multiple lens approach to understanding individual differences. She also is the developer of the Interaction Styles lens to understanding how people tend to interact and influence. In 1994, she innovated experiencing the 8 Jungian functions to fully understand the type code during an MBTI® Qualifying program and has been on the leading edge of type since 1985.