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Helping You Live Authentically
We believe everyone deserves to live a life rooted in clarity and purpose.
Our mission is simple: to help you uncover your gifts, align with your true self, and move forward with confidence and direction.
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How Life Atlas® Can Help You
Practical guidance to uncover your strengths, clarify your purpose, and pursue a life that feels truly your own.
Life Atlas® helps you clarify your gifts and unique direction. Through our suite of interactive tools, you’ll uncover your natural gifts, clarify your interests, and connect them to meaningful paths in study, work, and life. Whether you’re a student exploring options, a professional seeking new direction, or simply ready for deeper self-understanding, Life Atlas® provides the insight and support to help you live with confidence, purpose, and joy.
Life Atlas® helps you clarify your gifts and unique direction. Through our suite of interactive tools, you’ll uncover your natural gifts, clarify your interests, and connect them to meaningful paths in study, work, and life. Whether you’re a student exploring options, a professional seeking new direction, or simply ready for deeper self-understanding, Life Atlas provides the insight and support to help you live with confidence, purpose, and joy.
Especially in the first half of life, engaging your best gifts will help build your self-confidence and skill. These are the gifts that you ought to engage in your work. Follow your enthusiasm for them and let them guide you to work you can love.
The GCI will help to clarify how you are naturally gifted, but who you are, the unique person (or personality) you are, is far greater than your gifts. A central aim of life is to unify the many disparate elements of who you are. As you do, you will naturally begin to circumnavigate the whole compass of gifts.
That unification of personality—a process that Carl Jung called individuation—occurs naturally, but it helps if we are paying attention. It is easy to impede our own growth to a unified personality.
If we exalt our “ego identity”—that is become self-important about who we are or what we have achieved, then we have stalled the process of individuation. There is a big difference between a strong ego and an inflated one. If we inflate our self-importance, we will suffer for it, for it is literally true that “He who exalts himself will be humbled.”
- Identify the strengths that come most naturally to you.
- Engage your gifts to grow in work and life.
- Reframe traits like daydreaming as powerful clues.
- True fulfillment comes from integrating all parts of who you are.
- Identify the strengths that come most naturally to you.
- Engage your gifts to grow in work and life.
- Reframe traits like daydreaming as powerful clues.
- True fulfillment comes from integrating all parts of who you are.
Have you ever heard the term “opposites attract?” We often find ourselves matched with people who have opposite gifts to our own. If you follow your heart, they may follow their head. If you are imaginative, they may be explorers. It seems to be an unconscious way of drawing us into intimate relationships that “complete” us, that induce us to grow toward greater wholeness.
Our friendships are usually with those who share many of our own gifts. You will often have the same compass heading or orientation as your close friends. You might enjoy deep conversations with people who share your values if you favor the Lover Heading, or, if you favor the Explore Orientation, you may enjoy adventurous outings with friends who, like you, love to boldly experience new places and people.
In any relationship, knowing more about how you are each oriented to life experience can help you better understand each other. You can connect through your similarities and have more patience and acceptance with your differences.
Carl Jung famously noted, “No one individuates on Mount Everest.” Relationships are an indispensable ingredient to personal growth.
A career direction often starts in school. But choosing a major, or a path of continued education, can be difficult. With so many career possibilities, it can feel overwhelming to make a decision and narrow down your options.
Before investing in a focused education, invest in some important self exploration. Understand how you are naturally gifted with the GCI, and then see where your gifts can best be engaged in the world of work.
The Discover Your Passion assessment will help clarify those pursuits that are consistent with your gifts, interests, and your deeply felt aspiration. With that clear, use the “match” button in the Work Profile Database to broaden your horizon of the careers consistent with your gifts, then look at the Comparative Report to see how well your gifts correspond to the work.
We spend a tremendous chunk of our lives at work. The quality of our work lives affects our health, well being, relationships, and happiness. It is important for all of us to find work we can feel good about.
Before you launch your next job search, put in the time for self exploration. Developing career aspirations grounded in your best gifts, strongest interests, and most deeply felt aspirations will pay off with lifetime rewards. Expect higher job satisfaction and overall well being as you shape a career path consistent with who you are at your core.
The Life Atlas Program can help you understand your gifts, explore careers that use those gifts, and move forward with a renewed sense of purpose. Don’t waste time doing unfulfilling work. You have gifts to share with the world. It’s time to do the work that you were meant to do.
Do you feel bored or dread going to work? You are not alone. Studies show that more than 60% of people feel dissatisfied in their jobs. Persistent boredom or ongoing stress may be signs that your work does not align with your natural strengths. The Life Atlas Program helps you reconnect with your gifts and rediscover what energizes you. Through the Gifts Compass Inventory (GCI), you will identify the talents that come most naturally to you and explore how they can guide you toward more meaningful work. When your work reflects who you truly are, enthusiasm returns and purpose becomes clearer.
Clarify your strengths and walk in with confidence.
It is crucial to be able to talk about your strengths in an interview. The GCI can help clarify where you are most gifted and provide language needed to talk about those gifts. With that self-knowledge, you can go to any job interview feeling confident about the value you could bring to the work.
Be prepared and get that job!
The Gifts Compass Inventory (GCI) will help you find your “super power”—those gifts that come most naturally to you.
Especially in the first half of life, engaging your best gifts will help build your self-confidence and skill. These are the gifts that you ought to engage in your work. Follow your enthusiasm for them and let them guide you to work you can love.
Your gifts are clues to the life you are being called to, but they can be a bit like water to a fish. They have been with you so long, you may hardly know they are there. Daydreaming, for example, may distract you from getting practical things done and can therefore be seen as negative. But did you know that daydreaming is an indication that you likely possess highly creative and imaginative gifts? J. K. Rowling was daydreaming on a train one day and saw the whole idea for Harry Potter in her imagination. If not for her daydreaming, we may never have learned the difference between a wizard and a muggle!
A job loss turns your world upside down. It can be hard to see through the fog to see your next step. You are probably asking yourself a lot of questions.
The Life Atlas suite of tools will help you identify your strengths and then see where they can best be applied. You might find that the field you are in now is only one of your options for employment. Take your first step in a new direction with Life Atlas.
Know How You Are Gifted * Do What You Love
Our Tools
Gifts Compass Inventory®
The Gifts Compass Inventory® (GCI) is an online self-assessment that identifies your best gifts. Derived from C.G. Jung’s original model of psychological types, it is used by psychologists and counselors world-wide.
Discover Your Passion
This assessment will walk you through a series of steps to clarify the work that is consistent with your strengths, your interests, and your heartfelt values.
Work Profile Suite
Assess the gifts needed in any work, or the work you are doing now, to see how well you are suited for the work. Browse our free Work Profile Database to see which gifts are used most in your potential careers of interest.
Empowering Growth Across Life & Work
Supporting Growth in Life & Work
Higher Education
Life Atlas® assists students in discovering their natural talents, clarifying their purpose, and advancing personal growth through a dynamic suite of online tools that build self-awareness, resilience, and direction. By fostering a shared sense of understanding of individual strengths and psychological diversity, Life Atlas® enhances relationships across campus, strengthens the community through alumni-student connections, and cultivates a more compassionate, purpose-driven culture.
Faith Communities
Life Atlas® fosters a culture of growth, belonging, and purpose, helping people live out their faith through the authentic expression of their gifts. We help congregations nurture deeper self-understanding, strengthen relationships, and inspire meaningful service. Members gain clarity about how their unique strengths can contribute to the life and mission of the community, while leaders can guide others with greater insight and compassion.
Organizations
Life Atlas® helps organizations bring out the best in their people by aligning individual gifts with roles where they can thrive. Our validated tools provide deep insight into strengths, motivations, and communication styles. This understanding enhances teamwork, leadership development, and employee engagement while reducing turnover and burnout. Life Atlas® helps create workplaces where people contribute their natural talents and find meaning in what they do.
Practitioners
Life Atlas® provides practitioners with a comprehensive framework for guiding personal growth and vocational clarity. Built on C. G. Jung's foundational insights, our tools help clients identify their natural gifts, deepen self-understanding, and align their lives with greater purpose. Whether used in counseling, coaching, ministry, or organizational development, Life Atlas® enhances your professional practice with validated assessments, clear interpretive models, and a supportive community of peers. It equips you to help others not only understand who they are, but also become who they are called to become.
Testimonials
What People Say About us
Your Life Atlas® gave me the structure I needed to reconnect with my values. For the first time, I feel like my goals truly reflect who I am.
Sarah M.
Gifts Compass’ has the outstanding merit of staying close to Jung’s original intention of
linking psychological type theory to the individuation process. It is a brilliant contribution to the
field of typological theory and practice. Of all the attempts to apply psychological type theory
to models of counseling and coaching, this is by far the best.
Murray Stein
Ph.D., Analytical Psychologist, author of Jung’s Map of the Soul, former President of the International Association of Analytical Psychology
The Gifts Compass Inventory is comprehensively based on Jung’s writings and follows his
psychological understanding of inner and outer characteristics, which implies a necessary
understanding of often contradictory preferences. Especially the link to Jung’s theories of the
individuation process provides a dynamic model which is highly useful when considering
developmental processes.
Misser Berg
Analytical Psychologist. Director of Training at the C.G. Jung Institute, Copenhagen.
I have worked with CEOs and other organizational leaders for over 40 years and used a variety
of assessments to help them along their developmental journey. Nothing compares to the Gifts
Compass Inventory (GCI) for revealing the underlying patterns for both strengths and shadow.
The GCI offers insights into how to help them develop and mature as persons and leaders in
ways no other instruments have.
Norman Wolfe
Organizational Development Consultant, Author of The Living Organization
In the Gifts Compass, I have found a highly creative and differentiated advancement of C.G.
Jung's original ideas on psychological types. Being an image-based, user-friendly model, it
appeals to the soul and the imagination, to professionals and laypersons alike. Unlike other
models I have worked with, it avoids the sense of "boxing in'' or stereotyping as it illustrates
unrestricted type preferences and the possibility for individuals to hold preferences that seem
contradictory or paradoxical. Perhaps most critically, the Gifts Compass remains true to
Jung's idea of the individuation process, reminding us that psychological type does not
constitute the personality as a whole, and that in-depth work with types necessarily involves one's active engagement with the realities of psychological one-sidedness, the shadow, and the unconscious.
Stacy Wirth
Analytical Psychologist, Switzerland
The GCI is a powerful instrument both in assessment and treatment. It is a dynamic tool and
one can take the GCI along the analytical journey to see the changes within the psyche and
also in relationships in the outer world.
Gunilla Midboe
Analytical Psychologist, Sweden
The GCI Provides a very clear overview of a person’s psychological makeup, in terms of types,
on both the conscious and unconscious sides of the psyche. The overview is quite helpful for
understanding the tension of opposites at work in the client’s individuation.
Vanessa Prins
Analytical Psychologist, Belgium
The GCI provides important insights into how to develop one’s natural talents and how to find
greater fulfillment in life, both professionally and personally. It is a holistic tool that enables a
clearer understanding of the need for personal growth at different stages of life. I love using
the Gifts Compass with my coaching clients on their personal journeys of discovery.
Magdalena Poradzka
Leadership Coach, Poland
The GCI is extremely valuable for working with clients, since it accurately characterizes their
strengths and flaws, preferences and dislikes, which reflect the way they typically relate with
themselves and the world at large. All of this is precious information for practitioners and
clients during the journey of self knowledge and self-development.
Pedro Mendes
Jungian Analyst, Switzerland
During these challenging times, I have found GCI to be a useful and objectively nonthreatening way to describe a subjects’ psychological typology with the particular focus on
projection and shadow or opposing typologies. This allows for a natural segue into a
discussion of individuation. Grounded in Jungian Analytical Psychology, I highly recommend
GCI to anyone who would wish to understand their own restlessness and gifts as well as how
to effectively apply this knowledge to clinical work.
Kathleen Moreau
M.A. , Diplomate – Jungian Analyst – C. G. Jung Institute, Küsnacht, Switzerland
The Discover Your Passion process helped me quickly identify the place where my passions
and talents truly align. I am spending this year honing my skills and building new relationships
and I plan to launch my new journey next year. Best of all, I have a new spring in my step every
morning when I jump out of bed.
Midlife Career Changer
As a mid-career professional looking to make a change in my career trajectory Life Atlas
turned out to be the perfect tool to define my natural inclinations and proclivities which allowed me to make a more informed decision about my next steps. I could not recommend Life Atlas
more highly if you plan to shift your career goals.
Frankie P.
I've done the Myers-Briggs and the Enneagram personality assessments before, but I found
this one really pushed me to think about myself and what truly makes me happy in ways the
others did not.
Mark C.
Before, I had little idea what my gifts were or how they correlated with the future I have
planned. After doing the Discover Your Passion consult, I now know what steps to take next
toward my career. I can use the knowledge that I have learned and apply it to the choices I
make . . . I can “look before I leap” so that I don’t get stuck in something I have no interest in!
College Junior
I have an aptitude for dreaming inwardly and also outwardly dreaming big—I want to make big
changes in the outside world, not just within my own little circle. The Visionary, Aesthetic, and
Idealistic Gifts include my talent for poetry/artistry, and my Idealistic and Social Gifts team up
as a devotion to maintaining and enhancing a sense of Community wherever I am living. This
is such an exciting combination of gifts because it allows me to be a really spectacular member
of society as well as an artist!
College Junior
I entered college as a biology major. At the end of my freshman year, I felt neither happy nor
successful. Feeling lost, with no sense of clear direction, I completed the Discover Your
Passion assessment. It gave me a renewed sense of purpose and direction. I changed my
major to marketing, and I made the dean’s list. Now, I am doing better than ever in school; I
enjoy the work and my new friends. I feel that I have found a course of study that matches my
gifts and passion well. I would highly recommend the Gifts Compass to any incoming college
student.
College Junior
"Your Life Atlas® gave me the structure I needed to reconnect with my values. For the first time, I feel like my goals truly reflect who I am."
Sarah M.
Gifts Compass’ has the outstanding merit of staying close to Jung’s original intention of
linking psychological type theory to the individuation process. It is a brilliant contribution to the
field of typological theory and practice. Of all the attempts to apply psychological type theory
to models of counseling and coaching, this is by far the best.
Murray Stein
Ph.D., Analytical Psychologist, author of Jung’s Map of the Soul, former President of the International Association of Analytical Psychology
The Gifts Compass Inventory is comprehensively based on Jung’s writings and follows his
psychological understanding of inner and outer characteristics, which implies a necessary
understanding of often contradictory preferences. Especially the link to Jung’s theories of the
individuation process provides a dynamic model which is highly useful when considering
developmental processes.
Misser Berg
Analytical Psychologist. Director of Training at the C.G. Jung Institute, Copenhagen.
I have worked with CEOs and other organizational leaders for over 40 years and used a variety
of assessments to help them along their developmental journey. Nothing compares to the Gifts
Compass Inventory (GCI) for revealing the underlying patterns for both strengths and shadow.
The GCI offers insights into how to help them develop and mature as persons and leaders in
ways no other instruments have.
Norman Wolfe
Organizational Development Consultant, Author of The Living Organization
In the Gifts Compass, I have found a highly creative and differentiated advancement of C.G.
Jung's original ideas on psychological types. Being an image-based, user-friendly model, it
appeals to the soul and the imagination, to professionals and laypersons alike. Unlike other
models I have worked with, it avoids the sense of "boxing in'' or stereotyping as it illustrates
unrestricted type preferences and the possibility for individuals to hold preferences that seem
contradictory or paradoxical. Perhaps most critically, the Gifts Compass remains true to
Jung's idea of the individuation process, reminding us that psychological type does not
constitute the personality as a whole, and that in-depth work with types necessarily involves one's active engagement with the realities of psychological one-sidedness, the shadow, and the unconscious.
Stacy Wirth
Analytical Psychologist, Switzerland
The GCI is a powerful instrument both in assessment and treatment. It is a dynamic tool and
one can take the GCI along the analytical journey to see the changes within the psyche and
also in relationships in the outer world.
Gunilla Midboe
Analytical Psychologist, Sweden
The GCI Provides a very clear overview of a person’s psychological makeup, in terms of types,
on both the conscious and unconscious sides of the psyche. The overview is quite helpful for
understanding the tension of opposites at work in the client’s individuation.
Vanessa Prins
Analytical Psychologist, Belgium
The GCI provides important insights into how to develop one’s natural talents and how to find
greater fulfillment in life, both professionally and personally. It is a holistic tool that enables a
clearer understanding of the need for personal growth at different stages of life. I love using
the Gifts Compass with my coaching clients on their personal journeys of discovery.
Magdalena Poradzka
Leadership Coach, Poland
The GCI is extremely valuable for working with clients, since it accurately characterizes their
strengths and flaws, preferences and dislikes, which reflect the way they typically relate with
themselves and the world at large. All of this is precious information for practitioners and
clients during the journey of self knowledge and self-development.
Pedro Mendes
Jungian Analyst, Switzerland
During these challenging times, I have found GCI to be a useful and objectively nonthreatening way to describe a subjects’ psychological typology with the particular focus on
projection and shadow or opposing typologies. This allows for a natural segue into a
discussion of individuation. Grounded in Jungian Analytical Psychology, I highly recommend
GCI to anyone who would wish to understand their own restlessness and gifts as well as how
to effectively apply this knowledge to clinical work.
Kathleen Moreau
M.A. , Diplomate – Jungian Analyst – C. G. Jung Institute, Küsnacht, Switzerland
The Discover Your Passion process helped me quickly identify the place where my passions
and talents truly align. I am spending this year honing my skills and building new relationships
and I plan to launch my new journey next year. Best of all, I have a new spring in my step every
morning when I jump out of bed.
Midlife Career Changer
As a mid-career professional looking to make a change in my career trajectory Life Atlas
turned out to be the perfect tool to define my natural inclinations and proclivities which allowed me to make a more informed decision about my next steps. I could not recommend Life Atlas
more highly if you plan to shift your career goals.
Frankie P.
I've done the Myers-Briggs and the Enneagram personality assessments before, but I found
this one really pushed me to think about myself and what truly makes me happy in ways the
others did not.
Mark C.
Before, I had little idea what my gifts were or how they correlated with the future I have
planned. After doing the Discover Your Passion consult, I now know what steps to take next
toward my career. I can use the knowledge that I have learned and apply it to the choices I
make . . . I can “look before I leap” so that I don’t get stuck in something I have no interest in!
College Junior
I have an aptitude for dreaming inwardly and also outwardly dreaming big—I want to make big
changes in the outside world, not just within my own little circle. The Visionary, Aesthetic, and
Idealistic Gifts include my talent for poetry/artistry, and my Idealistic and Social Gifts team up
as a devotion to maintaining and enhancing a sense of Community wherever I am living. This
is such an exciting combination of gifts because it allows me to be a really spectacular member
of society as well as an artist!
College Junior
I entered college as a biology major. At the end of my freshman year, I felt neither happy nor
successful. Feeling lost, with no sense of clear direction, I completed the Discover Your
Passion assessment. It gave me a renewed sense of purpose and direction. I changed my
major to marketing, and I made the dean’s list. Now, I am doing better than ever in school; I
enjoy the work and my new friends. I feel that I have found a course of study that matches my
gifts and passion well. I would highly recommend the Gifts Compass to any incoming college
student.
College Junior
Resources
Knowledge for Growth
Oppositions
So the birth of personality in oneself has a therapeutic effect. It is as if a river that had run...
Read More
Collaborations
The unconscious functions likewise group themselves in patterns correlated with the conscious ones. Thus, the correlative of conscious, practical thinking...
Read More
Introducing the GCI
The GCI offers a fresh approach to Swiss psychologist Carl Jung’s original eight psychological types, the well validated and broadly acclaimed gifts. The GCI focuses on the personal growth and development of unique individuals. This is our inaugural podcast and we are so excited to share our understanding of type with you. We are passionate about type, and our aim is to help you understand type, how to use type to better understand yourself, to have better relationships at home, in a social setting or in the workplace.
The Feeling Function
James Johnston, Anne-Liis Laane-Saez and Nicholas Toko talk about the feeling function, one of four “functions” of conscious experience. The other three functions are thinking, intuition and sensation.
The Thinking Function
James Johnston, Anne-Liis Laane-Saez and Nicholas Toko talk about the thinking function, one of four “functions” of conscious experience. The other three functions are feeling, intuition and sensation.
The groundbreaking, indispensable guide to rewarding work and a fulfilling life—more than ten million...
Why do lovers of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings trilogy return to it again and again throughout...
Agile Unemployment offers a fresh, empowering perspective on navigating career transitions and the challenges...
No consultants found.
No one-hour debriefings found.
Life Atlas Consultant Training
Our immersive training programs go far beyond theory. They bring you into the heart of Carl Jung’s
original model of psychological types—not just as a theory, but as a living framework.
Resources
Knowledge for Growth
Orientation and Attitude
“You see, you get your orientation, you get your bearings, in the chaotic abundance of impressions through the four functions,...
Read More
Oppositions
So the birth of personality in oneself has a therapeutic effect. It is as if a river that had run...
Read More
Collaborations
The unconscious functions likewise group themselves in patterns correlated with the conscious ones. Thus, the correlative of conscious, practical thinking...
Read More
1. Introducing the Gifts Compass Inventory® (GCI)
The GCI offers a fresh approach to Swiss psychologist Carl Jung’s original eight psychological types, the well validated and broadly acclaimed gifts. The GCI focuses on the personal growth and development of unique individuals. This is our inaugural podcast and we are so excited to share our understanding of type with you. We are passionate about type, and our aim is to help you understand type, how to use type to better understand yourself, to have better relationships at home, in a social setting or in the workplace.
2. The Feeling Function
James Johnston, Anne-Liis Laane-Saez and Nicholas Toko talk about the feeling function, one of four “functions” of conscious experience. The other three functions are thinking, intuition and sensation.
3. The Thinking Function
James Johnston, Anne-Liis Laane-Saez and Nicholas Toko talk about the thinking function, one of four “functions” of conscious experience. The other three functions are feeling, intuition and sensation.
The groundbreaking, indispensable guide to rewarding work and a fulfilling life—more than ten million...
Why do lovers of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings trilogy return to it again and again throughout...
Agile Unemployment offers a fresh, empowering perspective on navigating career transitions and the challenges...
No consultants found.
No one-hour debriefings found.
Life Atlas Consultant Training
Our immersive training programs go far beyond theory. They bring you into the heart of Carl Jung’s
original model of psychological types—not just as a theory, but as a living framework.
Begin Your Journey
All of our tools and resources are founded on the Gifts Compass Inventory® (GCI). The GCI will show you how you are individually gifted.