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NURTURING POTENTIAL

in Education, Personal Growth, Health, Relationships, Business and others 


Volume 1 - No. 3 - Autumn/Winter 2002


Leading Article

Understanding personality can help us communicate and interact with others.  If we are able to establish why people act and think as they do, and why they behave differently, we are better able to harness those differences.  This can be of real value in such areas as team formation, personal growth, and physical and mental health.  

Therapy and the four levels - by John Rowan

The process of psychotherapy generally covers the personal and some of the transpersonal.  The four-column chart is a brief and perhaps oversimplified diagram of how this theory impinges on counselling and psychotherapy.

Get out of your box - by Amanda Knight

My Myers-Briggs profile says I am an idealist, whereas the Herrmann Brain Dominance Indicator suggests I have the ideal decision making profile for a top executive …  And what’s going on with my Belbin profile ~ a plant and a completer/finisher?  At first pass, these comparisons would appear to be incompatible.  So which one is the real me?

An Astrologer looks at Myers-Briggs - by Lionel Snell

Faced with the distinction between sensation and intuition, between thinking and feeling, the astrologer is at once on familiar ground.  The problem begins when we firm up these descriptions from being descriptions of qualities to being descriptions of types.

Measure for measure - by Rosie Harrison

It all started with Sir Francis Galton, a man disappointed by his failure to achieve the highest academic honours. In 1859 his reading of Darwin's On The Origin of the Species provided him with an explanation - the higher achievers must possess innate and inherited characteristics for superior performance.