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In this episode, Joel and Antonia introduce Dr. John Beebe’s Eight Function Model of Personality and discuss its usefulness for personal growth.
In this podcast you’ll find:
- The value of coaches – Joel explains why he and Antonia sought out personal coaching from John Beebe on his Eight Function Model Of Personality.
- Antonia’s plan for how this model will make its way from their personal growth journeys into the personal growth content they produce.
- How do you identify your shadow-function stack? Check out our article on The Car Model as a base to learn about your first four functions.
- Introducing the concept of topos – viewing the 8 functions as archetypal energies, based on their position in the stack.
- What are the names John has given to each of the 8 function positions?
- Understanding the interplay of the 8 functions through the “axis of self versus the axis of relating”.
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Diving into the energy and role of each of the 8 functions:
- The Driver (dominant) function: The Hero – thinking of this as the function we use to save the world.
- The Copilot (auxiliary) function: The Parent – understanding the mother/father energy this brings, and its relational qualities.
- The 10-Yr-Old (tertiary) function: The Eternal Child – why this function is insecure and seeking validation, in spite of skill development.
- The 3-Yr-Old (inferior) function: The Anima/Animus – learning to understand the amplification this function is seeking.
- The shadow functions: understanding them in terms of their “choreography” rather than “development” – and what you need to consider when exploring them.
- The 5th function: The Opposing Personality – the avoidant nature and multiple faces of this function.
- The 6th function: The Senex/Witch – the role of withering authority.
- The 7th function: The Trickster – why this function uses child-like tricks to attempt to get its needs met.
- The 8th function: The demon – why this function can embody both darkness and light.
- Questions to ask yourself to identify when a shadow function may be presenting itself.
- Some final thoughts on the messages we receive from our shadow functions.
Dive deeper into John Beebe’s work on The Eight Function Model in his book: Energies And Patterns In Psychological Type: The Reservoir Of Consciousness
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As a great man once mused “Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.” This seems to scream for an 8 function approach.
I listened to the entire podcast twice and parts of it several more times. Thank you! Although it is a stretch at this time, I think it will be really useful!
You asked for specific examples, so here’s what I’ve got:
As an ENFJ, I’ve realized for years that I hide my own preferences from myself. I’ve been working hard to remedy that, and my work as a Style Coach uses a specific methodology to help clients connect to their own aesthetic preferences.
An area of focus for me has been musical preferences. It feels like I didn’t even have permission to have my own until recently. So I have been working on my own Pandora stations and changing the car radio when I don’t like the song, etc.
But I’m not always that grownup about it. And I don’t think I should have to ask more than once. Recently, my partner was playing his station that really gets on my nerves; apparently, when I asked him to change it, he invited me to choose whatever I wanted; instead, I went and got my headset and started listening to a podcast.
This is how passive/aggressive opposer energy showed up for me in this case.
Thanks again for all the good info! I’m looking forward to future exploration of the topic in more specifics.
I enjoyed this episode and am glad you are highlighting this typology system. I have been blogging about Beebe’s model for a couple of years to try and help make it more understandable for people.
I appreciate what you do to try and bridge the divide between Jungian typology and modern typology.
Hey Antonia and Joel,
I really liked how you went through the different attitudes of the shadow functions. Lots of new information for me that I hadn’t heard of before.
Nonetheless it was kinda hard to translate the abstract explanations to my concrete 4 shadow functions.
Could you maybe in the future do some in depth podcasts, where you go into the shadow of all 16 types and talk about how each of the functions manifest in each of the shadow slots?
That would be super helpful!
All the best from Germany!
Thank you for explaining the last three awful and confusing years of my life:) nailed it!