Date: Thursday, May 20, 2004 , 6:30-9:00 pm
Presenter:  Lise Patton, Ph.D.
Limit:  20  participants

Learning online has become a part of the culture of education and training.  Both the number of online courses and the number of online students have experienced a steady increase since 1994.  Many instructors now face the challenge of moving their courses to an online environment.  While several factors impact this transition, this workshop focuses on one key element, the instructor.   Whereas instructional objectives, teaching styles, and learner preferences are among the core factors influencing effective teaching, the element that instructors have most control over is their own approach to instruction.  This workshop uses the Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) as a framework for describing instructional strategies and how to select them based on an instructor's MBTI preferences.  An instrument for determining your instructional type, suggestions for appropriate instructional strategies, and links to resources are included in this workshop.

Dr. Patton is a Sr. Instructional Analyst with Collegis. For the past 17 years she has been helping Fortune 100 companies and higher education institutions solve performance problems using education technologies. Lise taught in the traditional classroom before beginning to teach online in 1995. Since her first online course she has designed, developed, and taught over a dozen courses. As an instructional consultant, she has helped hundreds of instructors in North and South America effectively transition to the online environment.

Directions to Collegis:
From Raleigh: Take I-40 west, take exit #284 (Airport Blvd, RDU Intl Airport), turn left onto Airport Blvd. Go approximately 1 mile and follow directions below. 
From Durham:  Take I-40 east, take exit #284A (Airport Blvd West) turn right onto Airport Blvd, go approximately 1 mile and follow directions below.  
From Airport Boulevard:  Turn right onto Perimeter Park Drive (you will see a small pond with a silver sculpture on the right). Go approximately .5 mile and turn right into Bldg 2000 (there will be a sign on the left of the entrance listing Collegis as a tenant in the bldg.)

Date: Thursday, May 27, 6:30-9:00 p.m.
Presenters:  Carol Shumate, Ph.D. (ENFP), and Ann Loomis, M.A. (ESFP)
Limit:  24 participants

Focusing on Sensing and Intuition, this experiential workshop will demonstrate some of the latest findings on brain research involving learning and psychological type preferences.  The strategies addressed are appropriate for  a variety of type practitioners, including educators, administrators, corporate trainers, and executive coaches.  The workshop will preview an education symposium that the presenters are scheduled to give at the International Conference of the Association of Psychological Type in Toronto on July 22, together with Elizabeth Murphy and Len Tallevi, the founders of the Lighthouse Schools movement.

Loomis and Shumate are co-founders of Writestyles, a writing and educational consultancy that uses the MBTI to teach writing and related educational topics to individuals and organizations, both academic and corporate.  Shumate is a co-editor of Triangle Type and has authored numerous articles for the Bulletin of Psychological Type. She has taught writing and English at Yale, the University of Connecticut , and Eastern Connecticut State University , as well as at the middle school level.  Loomis is the author of Write from the Start: Discover Your Writing Potential through the Power of Psychological Type.  She is president of the C.G. Jung Society of the Triangle Area in North Carolina, has taught at Kenan-Flagler Business School and Duke Continuing Studies, and she is Interest Area Consultant in Education for APT at the national level.

Date:  Thursday, September 9, 2004, 6:30-9:00 p.m.
Location:  Wellspring Consulting, 5313 Sendero Drive, Raleigh, NC  27612
RSVP:  E-Mail Tracey Daley or call  (919) 781-7588.

The annual porch party to review APT’s annual summer conference will be held in early September this year.  All members and friends of the RTP chapter are invited.

Directions to Wellspring Consulting: 
From Glenwood Ave (U.S. 70) across from CarMax, turn onto Ebenezer Church Road. (From Durham, rt. turn, from Raleigh, left turn.)  Go about 2 miles and turn left onto Sendero Drive; #5313 is 4^th driveway on right.  Turn before big white mailbox.  
From I-40, take exit 289, Wade Avenue. Then take Edwards Mill/RBC Center exit. Turn left onto Edwards Mill.  At major intersection, turn left onto Duraleigh Rd. Take next left, Ebenezer Church Road. Go about 2 miles and turn right onto Sendero Drive; #5313 is 4^th driveway on right. Turn before big white mailbox.

Free Lecture: October 18, 2004, 6:00-9:00 pm
Workshop:  October 19, 2004, 9:00 am – noon (limit of 50 places)
Location: Peace College, Raleigh

Together with Peace College, the RTP chapter will co-sponsor an evening lecture and morning workshop by Elizabeth Murphy, Ed.D, M.Ed. (INFP) . Dr. Murphy is co-author of the highly regarded Murphy-Meisgeier Type Indicator for Children (MMTIC) and the author and co-author of several books on the MMTIC, elementary education, and child development. Her books include The Developing Child, I am a Good Teacher, A Teacher's Guide to Type, MMTIC Manual, and Make Them Reach When You Teach but Test for the Best. In 1993 she won the Gordon Lawrence Award for contributions to type in education.  Currently a psychologist with a school district in Texas, Dr. Murphy helps teachers and administrators structure curricula that respond to children’s developmental needs, special gifts, and talents.

Dear Typie,

I am in business with an ENTP who is extremely slow in paying his share of the bills. He's a wonderful guy in some ways, has a lot of people skills, but he's very manipulative, and he has a rebellious streak.  At the partners' meetings, he gives lip service to decisions to make certain hires that involve upfront payments, but then he refuses to pay his share. Lately, he has begun to simply refuse to cough up the money.  Now the really weird thing is, he has offered to cover one of the other partners' share when she had a hysterical meltdown at the meeting about her finances.  He moved in to rescue her, but he didn't mention that I have been covering HIS share. This has me really steamed.

We need his money, but we are at wits' end as to how to get it without triggering his automatic rebel stance.

Yours, 
ENFP

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Dear ENFP:

This may not be a Type issue.  It sounds as if this person is passive-aggressive (PA) and controls the rest of you by being such.  His rescuing of the “damsel in distress” may be indicative of his need to be needed. You say you need his money and he knows that, but if that is all you need from him he may be angry that he’s only included because of his wealth.

There are three ways to deal with PA:

• Ignore it—the PA person will get angry because you are not falling into his trap.

• Confront it—this does not always work because the PA person may just deny his/her actions and feelings.

• Become PA yourself but know you are doing it.  What if you all chose at the next meeting to complain about your individual finances and have a team hysterical meltdown?

NT’s do strive for competency, but they may fear they are incompetent. This person may be acting out to keep you from seeing his incompetence.  He may not be incompetent but if he fears he is, he will create diversionary tactics to keep you from discovering it.  

Dear Typie,

I have some folks who believe their MBTI preferences have changed from previous periods. I have asked them to think about the questions from a work and personal perspective. Do people change or are they always the same?  I was trained that Jung would say the preferences are hard-wired, but I can see where life events influence your profile and can push someone to slightly different areas.

What's the latest thinking on this?

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Dear Friend:

I believe that Jung was right—that we are hardwired for type.  That does not mean we cannot explore and use the other functions and attitudes which often happen in our later years. Even life changing events do not change our personality. They may change our orientation and what we consider to be important, but we are still the same person we were.  For example, the Apostle Paul was converted on the road to Damascus and became the most powerful and important person only second to Jesus in Christianity.  Before his conversion, Paul was a dogmatic, unyielding, intellectual Pharisee who upheld the letter of the law.  After his conversion he was a dogmatic, unyielding, intellectual Christian who demanded from others total obedience to Jesus Christ.  Paul’s personality did not change. What changed was his orientation and the object of his devotion.

I once heard Millard Fuller, the founder of Habitat for Humanity, tell of how he started this great ministry.  He told us how hard he was working in Corporate American and how detrimental it was to his family and to his health. But Habitat gave new life to him and his family.  What impressed me was that this man was working no less for Habitat than he worked for Corporate America.  He was the same hard-driving, committed executive. The only difference was that now he had meaning in life.  I mentioned this to a colleague who is a personal friend of Fuller’s and he confirmed my impression.