Self Defense Without Defensiveness: The Leadership Function
Self Defense Without Defensiveness: The Leadership Function
presented by
Carol Shumate
(This program has been approved for 3 MBTI Master Practitioner, APA, and NBCC credits.)
Have you even been put into a double bind where someone gives you two conflicting messages that negate each other? Or have you ever had to resort to playing tricks in order to overcome impediments to your goals. Leadership takes us into encounters with the TRICKSTER, the function that puts us in double binds or helps us to circumvent obstacles. The best leaders learn to access their Trickster defense to protect themselves and their organizations.
We can be blindsided when we rely too much on our strengths or preferred functions. We tend to be unaware of our own tendencies to manipulate. This unconsciousness creates a dangerous blind spot, one that leaves us open to deception by others and by ourselves. Paradoxically, by learning to recognize our own manipulative capabilities, we can access one of our most helpful defenses—the Trickster—without being disempowered by defensiveness. The Beebe model, developed by Jungian Analyst, John Beebe, MD, helps us identify this aspect of our Shadow by associating Trickster energy with the seventh function. If undeveloped, the Trickster function can lead us to sabotage ourselves, or leave us open to double binds. However, the Trickster function can also help us find creative solutions that enable us to stay in the game.
We will experiment with a playful exercise that emphasizes the gamesmanship of the Trickster. We will also examine an actual case where one CEO was ensnared by tricksters. We will try to find our own ways to escape his impossible bind, before learning how he successfully mustered his seventh or Trickster function in defense.
Carol Shumate, PhD, is a founding editor of the independent ejournal, Personality Type in Depth (www.typeindepth.com), and author of a forthcoming book on the Trickster function in leaders, based on interviews with CEOs and other executives. She has worked with Type Resources for many years designing and leading trainings, and is a co-author of the Function-Archetype Decoder™, a software tool that reports how each type experiences the eight mental processes in each of Beebe’s eight archetypal positions. She is a former member of the executive board of APT international, and was also the consultant on education for APTI.
New Meeting Location: Binkley Baptist Church, 1712 Willow Drive, Chapel Hill, NC 27514 www.binkleychurch.org
Directions: www.binkleychurch.org/about/directions
Date: Thursday, April 18, 2013
Time: 6:00pm to 9:00 pm
6:00 pm Gather and Network
6:45 pm Program
Members $20.00 USD/Guests $25.00 USD
Members may bring guests at the membership rate
(Bring a dish to share, beverages and workshop materials provided.)
January 12th, 2013
