Building Blocks of Personality Type: A Guide to Using the Eight-Process Model of Personality Type

Take the next step in understanding Jung’s mental processes!

Building Blocks of Personality Type provides a simple and direct route into the heart of personality type. Authors Leona Haas and Mark Hunziker bring to life a simple and practical understanding of the underlying theory of the personality type code—first brought to life by Isabel Myers with the creation of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® instrument—the eight Jungian mental processes. Whether you are exploring personality type for the first time or are interested in taking personality type to the next level, Building Blocks of Personality Type is the essential element you need to get there.

Highlights . . .
- Complete introduction to personality type
- Dedicated chapter for each mental process
- Glossary of terms for greater clarity

- Beyond the basics with applications to . . .
- Managing Conflict
- Making Decisions
- Improving Communication
- Managing change and transition
- Parenting and education
- Career Development

Leona Haas, MS, is a principal of Consultants of the Future. An accomplished organizational needs assessor and instructional designer, she is experienced with a multitude of instruments. Leona has many years’ experience coaching leaders and facilitators in organization change and transition, team development, and conflict management. She has been coaching executives, conducting team-building off-sites, and using the MBTI® Step II as a crucial part of her coaching as well as correlating the MBTI® instrument to the Gallup Strength Finders and various 360-degree evaluation instruments. Leona has earned an international reputation as a pioneer in the use of the eight-process model. She has made presentations at many chapters of the Association of Psychological Type (APT) and at international conferences on the practical uses of type. She was given the Innovations in Training and Education Award for the APT XV International Conference. Her workshop “Using the TKI and M! BTI® in Conflict Management,” presented in April 2002 to the Chicago chapter of APT, was awarded the Outstanding Chapter Program for the APT XV International Conference. She co-authored Journey of Understanding and Introduction to the Eight Functions and Type.

Mark Hunziker is a teacher and consultant and principal of Wellness Resources of Vermont. He works with individuals, teams, organizations, and communities to restore their natural state of balanced wellness. Since all human systems have evolved with tremendous resources for self-adjusting and healing, Mark sees his job as primarily one of helping clients remove the barriers to these powerful natural processes—to “get out of their own way.” The consultant’s function is simply to provide the information, support, guidance, process facilitation, or tools needed to enable the system to self-correct.
Working from a paradigm of integration of the physical, psychological, and spiritual dimensions of the whole self, Mark has always found that an understanding of type provides an invaluable foundation for identifying issues and guiding intervention. His work can take the form of providing leadership counseling, guiding team development, administering and interpreting organizational assessments, hosting and facilitating workshops and retreats, or providing access to resources and technology that promote personal wellness.