Orientation and Attitude
“You see, you get your orientation, you get your bearings, in the chaotic abundance of impressions through the four functions,...
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Podcasts
Explore our collection of Life Atlas podcasts, where we dive into conversations on personal growth, self-discovery, and the journeys that shape us. Tune in to hear insights and stories from our community and beyond, all designed to inspire and guide you along your own path.
Reading the Melody: David Bolton
Special guest, David Bolton, joins James Johnston and Anne-Liis Lääne-Sáez for a heartfelt and engaging conversation exploring his dynamic GCI Profile.
About the Show
Join Nicholas Toko, Anne-Liis Lääne-Sáez, and James Johnston as they talk about the use of the Gifts Compass Inventory (GCI) and the many important applications of psychological types. The well-validated and broadly acclaimed GCI offers a fresh approach to Swiss psychologist Carl Jung’s original eight psychological types. The GCI focuses on the personal growth and development of unique individuals. 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.
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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.
4. The Sensation Function
James Johnston, Anne-Liis Laane-Saez and Nicholas Toko talk about the sensation function, one of four “functions” of conscious experience. The other three functions are feeling, intuition and thinking.
5. The Intuition 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, thinking and sensation.
6. Reading the Melody: Kevin Lim
Special guest, Kevin Lim, joins James Johnston, Anne-Liis Laane-Saez and Nicholas Toko to consider Kevin’s unique GCI Profile. We “read the melody” of Kevin’s profile, then ask him to talk about our reading and its relation to his life experience. Kevin recently completed a PhD in physics from Cambridge University. He is also a poet, songwriter, and musician. Listen in to see if the reading can help account for those diverse pursuits!
7. Reading the Melody: René Pieterse
Special guest, René Pieterse, joins James Johnston, Anne-Liis Laane-Saez and Nicholas Toko to consider René’s unique GCI Profile. We “read the melody” of René’s profile, then ask him to talk about our reading and its relation to his life experience.
8. Reading the Melody: Frances Bolton
Special guest, Frances Bolton, joins Anne-Liis Laane-Saez, Nicholas Toko, and James Johnston to consider Frances’s dynamic GCI Profile. For this podcast, we first asked Frances to review the three experiences she used in completing the GCI. Then we related her profile to those three experiences.
9. Reading the Melody: Daniel Roura
Special guest Daniel Roura joins Anne-Liis Laane-Saez, Nicholas Toko, and James Johnston to consider Daniel’s balanced extraverted & introverted GCI Profile.
10. Reading the Melody: Jerry Gilpin
Special guest Jerry Gilpin, President of the British Association of Psychological Type, joins Anne-Liis Laane-Saez, Nicholas Toko, and James Johnston to consider Jerry’s profile of a lifelong learner.
11. Reading the Melody: Margret Roelofsen
Special guest Margret Roelofsen joins Anne-Liis Laane-Saez, Nicholas Toko, and James Johnston to consider Margaret’s GCI Profile, which merges the yearning of the heart with an inventive intellect.
12. Reading the Melody: David Bolton
Special guest, David Bolton, joins James Johnston and Anne-Liis Lääne-Sáez for a heartfelt and engaging conversation exploring his dynamic GCI Profile.
Meet the Hosts
Nicholas Toko
Nicholas Toko is a blogger and podcaster of #JungianBitsofInformation, a blog, podcast and individual and workplace transformation service dedicated to exploring the unconscious in the workplace, specifically, the dynamics between the individual psyche and the workplace. He is an organizational effectiveness consultant and currently training as a Jungian Analyst in Zurich, Switzerland where he currently lives. Nicholas was born in Uganda and grew up in London, UK. You can find out more about
Anne-Liis Lääne-Sáez
Anne-Liis Lääne-Sáez is a self awareness and mental fitness coach and works with individuals wanting to add more meaning and enjoyment to their life. Anne-Liis is from Estonia and currently living in Geneva, Switzerland.
James Johnston
Lead architect for the Gifts Compass Inventory (GCI); author of Jung’s Indispensable Compass: Navigating the Dynamics of Psychological Types. James lives in the United States currently in northwest Ohio.
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Oppositions
So the birth of personality in oneself has a therapeutic effect. It is as if a river that had run...
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Collaborations
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The Knock-down Battle
Usually this first conflict that is aroused between the auxiliary function in the conscious and its opposite function in the...
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The Potent Dumbling
But the shadow is merely somewhat inferior, primitive, unadapted, and awkward, not wholly bad. It contains childish or primitive qualities...
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The Shadow Type as a Moral Issue
The unconscious has an inimical or ruthless bearing towards consciousness only when the latter adopts a false or pretentious attitude....
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Personality is a seed that can only develop by slow stages throughout life. There is no personality without definiteness, wholeness, and ripeness. – C. G.
The Power of Social Capital
The Wind That Propels All Boats Cohesive social capital has created personal fortunes and altered the course of history. We may be familiar with the concept
What Is a “Connection to the Infinite”?
Personality is a seed that can only develop by slow stages throughout life. There is no personality without definiteness, wholeness, and ripeness. – C. G.
There are More Things Dreamt in Heaven and Earth
Personality is a seed that can only develop by slow stages throughout life. There is no personality without definiteness, wholeness, and ripeness. – C. G.