Podcast - Episode 0405 - Personality Type And Our Persona Masks

In this podcast you’ll find:

• Joel and Antonia commemorate 9 years of marriage as they reflect back on the NLP conference where they met, and learned the concept of “be not me”.
• What does it mean to “be not me” and how does this teach us about the plasticity of the mind?
• How did the “be not me” message impact Joel and Antonia at the time?
• Examining the need for behavioural consistency, what this signals to others, and how this relates to ego, persona, shadow and self.
• The John Beebe 8 function model of personality – how do the 4 shadow functions in John’s model relate to the broader concept of our shadow?
  • Check out our previous episode on John Beebe’s model here.
• Why type isn’t synonymous with self.
• How the two introverted judging functions, Authenticity (Fi) and Accuracy (Ti) can be a powerful tool for accessing our internal world.
  • Becoming aware of their tendency towards self-rationalization.
• How the two extraverted judging functions Harmony (Fe) and Effectiveness (Te) can over identify with their mask.
• Viewing the persona or mask as scaffolding – what happens when life circumstances cause this to break down?
• How do the perceiving functions feed into our internal narratives?
• Linking behavioural consistency to the FIRM model.
  • Check out our podcast episode where we unpack the FIRM model here.
• How a mask can turn into a caricature – the 2 dimensional way we view politicians and others in the public eye.
• Why we all need to show a mask to the outside world and how we can develop a healthy awareness of this.
• Antonia posits a take-away question to ask yourself on this topic.