My Approach and framework
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My approach
Individual approach is at the essence of the framework.
I believe investments into your personal development and growth should target primarily the aspects of your mental health, personality and potential that will provide you with the highest ROI and have the highest impact on life satisfaction.
Following advice of thought leaders, trainers and gurus can be a big hit and miss game, because the training you receive in most cases represents what worked for them, and what worked for them will be unique to their state of mental health, personality and potential.
Those that get the most value out of those training’s, are in most cases a match with the personality and or potential.
The books you read would be either a condensed subjective experience of one individual or a generalization of experiences from a vast variety of people.
The better you understand the inventory of your perception, skills and potential that you currently have, the better you will be able to accurately and effectively invest your time and resources to grow, achieve your goals, live a more satisfying life, have better relationships and make an impact on the world around you.
Unpacking Personality Framework
Three components of self-discovery work.
This framework was designed to take you through a journey of self-discovery in a practical, understandable and actionable manner.
Framework overview
Through my studies I have learned that there are three important components of our live experience that we should become at least aware of to reduce friction, frustration and stress.
They are our Mental Health, our Personality and our Potential. The sequence here is important.
We start with the scientific approach to self-discovery, our Mental health.
It helps us to create opportunities for change and to avoid the pitfalls we can face discovering the next perspective.
Where we move on to psychological perspective, our Personality.
It helps us better understand the experiences of life and to explore the blind spots in our experiences, which in it’s turn boosts our development efficiency and progress.
Then expand our perception by exploring the inborn aspect of life, our Potential, which is the most dynamic and demands the knowledge of first two to avoid the pitfalls of the topic.
Exploration of this aspect of life, gives us an overview of life scenarios that we constantly face, this in turn gives us great reflective foundation to even further enhance our Mental health.
Mental Health
Let’s discover what do we target in this section of self-discovery.
The first thing we touch in the framework is learning how our brain and emotional intelligence works.
We explore puzzle pieces of our brain and their functions.
The specific mechanics and systems in our brain that are responsible for making sense of the world around us and processing information (cognition, perception and behavior)
Here we explore:
- How perception works - the science behind the autopilot mode our brain uses to simplify life and deal with stress, change and overwhelm.
- Cognitive biases, Distortion filters, Expectations and their connection to stress and triggers
- Why mindset is not enough to create stable change if there are underlying belief systems resisting / blocking the mindset.
- Creating lasting change at work and in important relationships using scientifically approved tools and techniques
- Learn how to productively deal with stressful and triggering situations
According to World Health Organization (WHO), mental health is a “state of well-being in which the individual realizes his or her abilities, can cope with the normal stresses of life, can work productively and fruitfully, and can contribute to his or her community”.
This is exactly what we are aiming to work on with the framework.
Help you realize your potential, develop resilience to stress and productively work on sharing your talents with the world around you.
Once we work through and understand that we process the world around us in our unique way developed through our life, become aware that we formed Cognitive biases, Distortion filters, Expectations that lead to stressors and triggers.
We can now turn to discovering opportunities for growth and development through understanding our personality, that represents the core of our autopilot.
Personality
As mentioned here we discover opportunities for growth and development through understanding our personality, that represents the core of our autopilot.
There are many systems that allow us to look at different soft skills and cognitive traits that we have developed over time, for example the Big5, DISC and Myers Briggs.
The challenge with these systems is that depending on your state of mind and emotions, our perception and ability of self-regulation fluctuates, which in turn changes the way we provide answers in questioners > which leads to what we call mistyping (different outcomes of tests over time).
These systems are great to discover formed traits, but what about the underlying structure that drives the formation of specific traits?
This is where The Enneagram becomes a stand out model among systems that help you in self-discovery, growth and development.
The Enneagram system gives us an opportunity to discover the structure of the driving motivation behind why we are the way we are on autopilot (things that go without saying for us), what blind spots did it nurture and what skills did it help us to develop as a result.
Here we explore:
- Unaware “Games / Patterns” you play with people and people play with you.
- What expectations do you hold on to in your work and relationships and what impact they create.
- How you “support” yourselves in stress and why without dedicated work the same conflicts keep looping over and over again.
- Blind spots of your personality in how you receive and deliver information to and from others.
- The unique skills, perspectives and talents all of it helped you to nurture through out life and how it can be effectively applied to empower people around you and impact growth and development of your business.
- Enhancing your self-awareness
- Equiping you with specific actionable strategies for development of your emotional intelligence
- More specifically understanding own emotions
- Empowering self-regulation
- Creating the foundation for mutual understanding with the people around you
We continue the journey to explore an aspect of ourselves that I believe is worth being curious about to become more aware of the life scenarios we encounter over and over again, this aspect I like to call our inborn potential.
Potential
As mentioned in the beginning, this aspect of your life is the most dynamic and demands the knowledge of first two to avoid the pitfalls of the topic.
Exploration of this aspect of life, gives us an overview of life scenarios that we constantly face, this in turn gives us great reflective foundation to even further enhance our Mental health.
I believe the exploration of the inborn aspects of our lives, should be done with caution and proper guidance / mindset, that helps to avoid the tendencies of your personality to deploy cognitive biases, distortion filters and expectations in the process of discovery and making sense of what you find.
Just like with everything in life, as we discover in the first two steps of the framework, our mind seeks to make sense of the information we receive through automatic systems of meaning we have personally developed through life.
When we come in contact with any esoteric and metaphysical body of knowledge, the first things our brain does is look for patterns and meanings that fall in line with what you already believe to be true in life and it always twists the information it receives to serve the existing narratives of understanding the world around you.
This is why guidance is key here.
The guidance I provide within the framework, takes into account your existing mindset and personality.
I will guide you through the process of discovering your inborn potential in a way that will even further help you make sense of your life experiences and add another actionable layer of self-awareness.
Which you can use to:
- Enhance your life satisfaction
- Overcome frustrating patterns of work and relationships
- Better utilize your talents and developed skills
Want to discover what we can achieve together?
Book a complementary consultation, where we will discover am I the right guide for the current stage of your journey.