Live Workshop · Saturday, September 19 · Sept 19
Antonia Dodge, mid-conversation
Antonia Dodge

Personality or Survival Strategy?

Are you typing the person, or the adaptation they learned in order to survive?

Join Antonia and Joel for this live workshop on how to tell what is really driving someone’s behavior.

Joel Mark Witt, mid-conversation
Joel Mark Witt
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People don’t show up with clean personality patterns.

You have probably run into this already. You read someone, the pattern is right there in front of you, and something still doesn’t sit right.

You can be correctly noticing a pattern and still be wrong about what is causing it.

This gap between a pattern and its cause is one of the hardest parts of reading people. It’s also where a lot of personality typing goes wrong. So we go deeper and ask:

  • Is this personality, or is it adaptation?
  • Is this a natural preference, or a skill they had to learn?
  • Is the behavior actually evidence of the cognition we think it is?
  • What changes once we add context?
The Framework

The Personality Triangle™

Seeing all three layers of a person can increase the accuracy of your read.

BehaviorLayer One

What they do and how they do it. The actions and patterns you can actually observe.

CognitionLayer Two

How they think, feel, and observe. The Jungian cognitive processes operating underneath the behavior.

AdaptationLayer Three

How they’ve adapted throughout life through context, upbringing, circumstances, developed skills, learned roles, and survival strategies.

This layer helps us understand how life experience and shadow material may be shaping the way someone presents themselves.

The Method

Best Fit Type Triangulation

A seasoned personality profiler looks across all three layers and asks one question:

Where does the evidence converge?

This is the actual people-reading skill.

It’s not simply about spotting a behavior and matching it to a type.

It’s about comparing three layers of evidence until they begin to point in the same direction.

That’s how you move from a hunch into a read you can stand behind.

At the workshop, we’ll teach you the model, then work through real cases so you can see it applied and try it yourself.

Who this is for

  • You’re already interested in personality type.
  • You’re naturally perceptive about people.
  • You already make type reads or pattern reads.
  • You want more confidence and precision in what you’re seeing.
  • You want to move past simplistic, behavior-based typing.
Antonia Dodge and Joel Mark Witt teaching on stage at a Personality Hacker event

Questions

When is it, and how long does it run?

Saturday, September 19, 2026, from 12:00 to 3:00 PM Eastern. It runs three hours, live.

Where does it happen?

Live on Zoom. Joining details are emailed to you after you register.

Who is this workshop for?

People who are already interested in personality type, who already make type reads or pattern reads, and who want more precision in what they are seeing. If you want to move past typing someone from their behavior alone, this is built for you.

What is the Personality Triangle?

A three-layer model for reading someone accurately: behavior, which is what they do and how they do it; cognition, the Jungian cognitive processes operating underneath the behavior; and adaptation, how they’ve adapted throughout life through context, upbringing, circumstances, developed skills, learned roles and survival strategies. Best Fit Type Triangulation reads across all three layers and asks where the evidence converges.

Will there be a replay?

Yes. Everyone who registers gets the recording, so you can still sign up if you cannot make the live session.

Is this the same thing as Profiler Training?

No. This is a standalone three-hour workshop. Profiler Training is the full program where you develop the skill over time with real clients. Enrolment for the next cohort opens after this workshop.

How much does it cost?

$97.

Saturday, September 19 · 12:00-3:00 PM ET

Come learn to read all three layers

Three hours, live on Zoom with Joel and Antonia. Replay included.

$97

One workshop, one payment

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