Connect2® Personality Mapping
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You, your friends and associates are people that want to know more about yourself: who you are, how you got here, what's in your way. You want to understand yourself, your family, and your relationships.
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Connect2® Personality Mapping
Connect2 Personality Mapping is a powerful guided process designed to explore the layers of the physical and psycho-emotional Self. It is a way of illuminating an individual’s intra- and inter-personal relationships, which may include one’s own-- and often previous generations’--unfinished business.
During childhood we create maps for ourselves that frame our realities and shape our behaviors, often for the rest of our lives. These early maps are grounded in our genetic predispositions and shaped through our earliest childhood experiences, including interactions with parents, grandparents, siblings, and other significant people in our lives. They carry important information on what is acceptable and what must be hidden in our lives. 1
As we grow into adulthood, these personality maps are carried into our personal and work lives, affecting how we express ourselves, interpret our emotions, and interact with others. If they are distorted by a difficult upbringing, they can become roadmaps for unhappy relationships and skewed views of reality.
But we now know that the brain retains neural plasticity throughout life (Cozolino, 2002), and we can learn to respond differently once we understand our own circumstances. The purpose of Personality Mapping, then, is to examine the maps that direct our feelings, to explore how they affect our behaviors and relationships, and ultimately, to integrate these maps into our adult awareness so that we are able to make better choices. Simply put, the end-goal is to alter the maps, transform the brain, and reframe our feelings and responses so that they become rich, appropriate and authentic.
1 Kurtz (1990) calls them maps. Fisher (1992) refers to them as character strategies. Jung used the term personality types.
Connect2 Personality Mapping for Individuals and Couples
Connect2 Personality Mapping for Clinical Professionals
Connect2 Personality Mapping for Corporate Teams
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| Myers-Briggs tells you what your personality style is -- Personality Mapping shows you how you got here, highlights where you want to go and what might be slowing you down. The goal is to develop tools to live a successful, authentic life, and change your brain along the way. |
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I received a wonderful letter about my presentation on Personality Mapping from Barry M. Panter, M.D. ( Founder and Director of The American Institute of Medical Education, Emeritus Clinical Professor Psychiatriatry USC School of Medicine; Training and Supervising Analyst, Southern California Psychoanalytic Institute; Fellow, American Psychiatric Association), and I'd like to share it with you:
THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL EDUCATION
3255 Cahuenga Blvd W #111
Los Angeles, CA 90067
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Chandrama Lynne Anderson, MFT
667 Lytton Ave.
Palo Alto, CA, 94301
September 1, 2010
Dear Chandrama,
Thank you for your excellent presentation at our conference Creativity and Madness, Psychological Studies of Art and Artists, in Santa Fe this past August.
The comments about your presentation from our questionnaires were uniformly laudatory. Your content and presentation style gave us a very interesting and clinically useful technique and information.
I practiced psychiatry and psychoanalysis for 30+ years, using the traditional psychoanalytic technique. This was helpful for many patients, but unable to help many patients delve into material that was too emotionally dangerous for them. I wish that I knew of your technique of Personality Mapping. It is a wonderful avenue into this material for many patients who cannot be reached by traditional techniques.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge and experience with us and bringing this clinically exciting material to our attention.
With best regards,
Barry M. Panter, M.D.
And from Doris O'Neal, LCSW, Training Coordinator, Family Service Agency of San Mateo County:
"Thank you so much for your excellent presentation . . . on Personality Mapping. I have heard a great deal of positive feedback from various staff members about your presentation. It is particularly helpful and useful in assisting us in developing a new mental paradigm in conceptualizing our work with individuals, couples, and families. The staff responded well to your experiential exercises . . . All of those in attendance learned something from your presentation, and expressed the feeling that they have some new tools and strategies to use in their work with individual clients, couples, and families. It is my hope you will be willing to come again at a future date and do another training."
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