Type and Culture
Using the MBTI® Instrument in International Applications
By Nancy Barger
Presented by the Rocky Mt. Association for Psychological Type
March 23, 2007 from 9am – 1pm
Students (full time graduate student)-$39 includes one year student membership
Please join us for this very exciting and timely workshop on Type and Culture, presented by one of Type’s best known and most successful qualifying and applications trainers, Nancy Barger.
Nancy Barger is a thorough professional with a wealth of experience. She excels at creating energizing learning environments. She is a past president of the Association for Psychological Type, and a member of the International Faculty for APT’s Qualifying Training Program. She has facilitated countless Type training programs internationally. Her background in career and work issues includes ten years as Executive Director of the Career Development Center. She received her Master’s degree in Human Development Counseling from the University of Denver.
Whether we teach Type in countries other than the U.S., or within the U.S., these days we all need to understand the effect that culture has on Type – on our own training style and on the audience’s learning style, and on the cultural filters each person’s brings to the session. Most of our individual clients and teams these days include representatives of many cultures.
Nancy Barger, who is one of the three authors of the recently CPP-published book, “Type and Culture,” will graciously spend a half-day with us helping us to understand many aspects of this important and timely topic, including:
Cultural Values and Its Effect on Individuals
Cultures Effects on Type Development
Filters that Hinder Type Practitioners’ Understanding
Type, Culture and Stereotypes
Use of MBTI® Preferences in Cross-Cultural Training
Hofstede’s and Trompenaars’ Well-Accepted Cross-Cultural Models Applied to Type
Culture’s Valuing of Certain Preferences
The Effect of Culture on our Own Training Styles
Practical Adaptations for Training Internationally
And much more!
This workshop will help us understand how to use the MBTI instrument with clients from cultures different from our own, and with mixed cultural groups. We will learn how to be sensitive to the differences, to be clear from the beginning about the processes we will use and about our expectations of participants, and to explicitly employ the MBTI ethic of constructive use of differences.
The authors tell us there is good reason to teach Type internationally since, “Our consistent experience using the instrument with mixed cultural groups is that type forms a bridge between participants from highly distinct cultural backgrounds.”