9:00-10:00am AEDT PLENARY | Dario Nardi Dario Nardi, Ph.D. is a renowned author and researcher in neuroscience, personality, and body-mind practices. He won Distinguished Teacher of the year in 2011 while at UCLA. His books include Neuroscience of Personality, 8 Keys to Self-Leadership, Jung on Yoga, The Magic Diamond, and other titles. He created the Personality Types iPhone app and the Cognitive Processes Assessment of 8 Jungian functions. Since 2006, Dario has conducted hands-on brain research, utilizing insights of real-time EEG technology. Dario was certified in type since 1994. | Four Flavors of Type We explore 4 flavors of the types, based on neuroscience, careers, and other data. Are you more the Dominant, Creative, Normalizing or Harmonizing flavor of your type? And your clients? Knowing the flavors helps get past type stereotypes to best-fit type and career advice. |
10:15-11:15am AEDT DUAL | Terri Connellan Terri Connellan is a creative transition coach, author, teacher, accredited psychological type practitioner and current AusAPT President. She specialises in creativity, personality and self-leadership, especially for midlife women in transition to a life with deeper purpose. Terri works globally through her creative business, Quiet Writing, and her books Wholehearted: Self-leadership for women in transition and the Wholehearted Companion Workbook were published in September 2021 by the kind press. | What Type Can Teach us as Writers How can insights from type help us grow as writers? Using frameworks from type, creativity and writing, we look at writing identity, strengths and growth opportunities to increase writing productivity, creativity and enjoyment. |
10:15-11:15am AEDT DUAL | David Pool David Pool has a Bachelors degree in psychology and multiple type certifications. He is enrolled in the Depth, Jungian and Archetypal studies doctoral program at Pacifica Graduate Institute in Carpenteria California. This viewpoint into Jungian studies, the Type community, and mainstream academia grounds David’s viewpoint in three separate disciplines. David’s thesis is that an underlying psyche stands at the center of these three streams, his mission is to unite the different approaches while exercising a critical analytical approach | From Type to Psyche, Self and Soul Psyche, self, and soul are all aspects of Psychological Type according to Carl Jung. Typological classification into categories can be accomplished based on Jung’s model of the psyche. How do these ideas relate? How do Jungian PhD programs frame these issues? Come find out! |
11:45am -12:45pm AEDT PLENARY | Roger Pearman Managing Partner, TalentTelligent, LLC; Researcher, Writer, and Practitioner of psychological type; Past President APTI; former Qualifying/Certifying Faculty for APTi and www.qualifying.org; Books and materials: I’m Not Crazy, I’m Just Not You; YOU: Being More Effective in Your MBTI Type; Introduction to Type and Emotional Intelligence; People Skills Handbook: Action Tips for Improving Your Emotional Intelligence; Pearman Personality Integrator (Published by MHS, Inc); Career Roadblock Finder (published by HRDQ). | Type Development: 10 things you must do if you are serious Type development is about knowing your type pattern and being able to identify and access those functions on which you don’t regularly rely. While identifying these functions (Si, Se, Ni, Ne, Ti, Te, Fi, Fe) is cognitively easy, accessing and using them requires more work. |
1:30-2:30pm AEDT DUAL | Fusae Harada Fusae Harada is an author, life coach, counsellor, and co-founding director of ICET (Inter-Cultural Education Today), an industry-recognised specialised program for Japanese students studying in Australia. Over thirty years she has worked with hundreds of students and parents, establishing a unique education program focused on language learning, as well as cultural understanding and personal development. Her coaching seminars guide families in strengthening their relationships and building happiness, especially with teenagers. | Type Development and Spirituality of Japanese Culture Japanese culture is considered unique. But what makes it so? And what insights can typology provide about the character and historical development of this unique culture? |
1:30-2:30pm AEDT DUAL | Tim Van Milligan Tim Van Milligan (ISTJ) is a business owner, entrepreneur and conference speaker based out of Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA. He is also an author of several books on copywriting and marketing, including the books: “Selling by Personality Type,” “Emotional Copywriting Revealed,” and “Selling Yourself: Advanced Strategies for Landing Your Dream Job.” He endorses the practical application of personality temperament to the world of sales and marketing, showing how to meet the customer’s needs by engaging their natural personality. | Increasing your Sales using Personality Type Ever consider using personality to help you sell more? Learn the step-by-step process of rapid typing and then adjusting your conversation to the temperament of your prospect. Also discover how to generate quick rapport, and the role that emotions play in the sales |
2:45 – 3:45pm AEDT PLENARY | Mary McGuiness Mary McGuiness ENFP has 30 years experience teaching personality theory and training professionals to use the MBTI instrument and the MajorsPTI. She currently offers certification in the MajorsPTI instrument. Mary is Director of the Institute for Type Development, a national training organisation established in 1986. She served on the National Committee of AusAPT for 10 years, with two years as National President. Mary is author of several books and resources including the best-seller, You’ve Got Personality, and is a regular speaker. | Stress and Resilience in the World of Covid-19 Over the past 18 months Covid-19 has impacted on every aspect of our lives. Type theory suggests that each type will experience the stress differently and will respond differently. Let’s explore the changes to see if personality type really does make a difference. |
4:15 – 5:15pm AEDT DUAL | Peter Geyer Peter Geyer has thought about type for over 30 years, researching, writing, presenting, teaching, training and advising in that time. He is a former MBTI and Majors accrediter and consultant, an occasional university lecturer/tutor on type themes, has been a columnist for AusAPT publications, contributed to Typeface and the APTi Bulletin and was an APTi Research and Theory Consultant. Now retired he is the custodian of the Type Research and Practice Collection, an archive and library on behalf of AusAPT. | Musings around Psychological Type: a personal perambulation Musings around C.G. Jung’s typology, from what he said, to what others have made of it, whether as model, application or label, including criticism and other claims. |
4:15 – 5:15pm AEDT DUAL | Vicky Jo Varner As an individuation coach, certified PCC by the International Coach Federation, Dr. Vicky Jo enjoys coaching people to identify and develop their natural typological strengths. With her PhD in Depth Psychology, she teaches Jung’s work at L.A.’s Philosophical Research Society. | Gottman, Beebe and Jung – Some correlations Join Dr. Vicky Jo in an experiential session exploring the correlations between John Gottman’s contemporary research into relationships, John Beebe’s model, and Jung’s archetypes. Bring paper and a few art supplies (nothing fancy). |