Professional Practitioners

We offer in-depth training in the applications of Carl Jung’s original eight psychological types. We do not put people in “personality” categories. Rather, the training promotes Jung’s core concept of individuation—the fuller development of unique personality.

Our training programs offer benefits for many professionals, among them:

Psychologists

Understand Jung’s original model of psychological types thoroughly. Understand the integral and inseparable relationship of the types with depth psychology. More thoroughly understand a person’s unique developmental path. Gain important insights about the type dispositions embedded in complexes that retard personal growth and development.

Psychologists

Pastoral Counseling

Understand the importance of a person’s inclinations toward either the inner life or world at large shape that person’s biography. Learn why one-sidedness in either direction can produce an unhealthy life. Learn more about the unification of personality as a central pathway to spiritual growth and a living, fruitful relationship with God.

Marital and Relationship Counseling

Help people communicate better with their partners through understanding each person’s natural gifts. Learn how those often opposing gift sets can engender harmony rather than conflict. Gain important insights about the complexes and shadow dispositions that can disturb harmony in a relationship.

Career Counselors

Help students identify careers best suited to their gifts, interests, and values.

Life Coaches

Develop a more thorough understanding of your clients’ elan vital—the central urges that shape and form a person’s biography. Gain important insights about how your clients are gifted. Learn how an overly one-sided disposition toward introversion or extraversion can destabilize a person’s life and stifle the emergence of unique personality.

Executive Coaches

Know how your clients are gifted, where they will need to supplement their aptitudes, with whom they will best collaborate, and with whom they will most likely have conflict. Help them to navigate the personal “minefields” of the workplace and to develop fruitful and productive relationships.

OD and HR

Optimize the value of the people in the organization and build the social capital that serves as a “rising tide” that raises the fruitful capabilities of the whole organization. (Please see the Organizations page)

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.

Gifts Compass provides a highly developed and theoretically well-founded tool that allows for an understanding of typology which is far more accurate than other typology models. 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.

Having both helped to edit Jung’s Indispensable Compass and used the Gifts Compass Inventory in my analytical practice, I fully appreciate the sincerity and rigor with which James Johnston has stayed as true as possible to Jung’s intentions and the help this offers my analysands in deepening their understanding of the individuation process

The reading and lectures have helped me appreciate how clearly Jung wrote about the unfolding, individuating personality at the centre of his psychic model, and that the psychological types and functions are key to its exploration. . . As someone who does not enjoy the purely conceptual, watching film and discussing it with a group, has enlivened the training and made it so much more fun for me than pure guided reading.

The elaboration of typology resolves a lot of the problems my colleagues and I had in trying to apply it. I loved sessions 5 and 6, as well as the Reading the Melody practicums. They're great! This is the first time that I feel I understand Jung's model.

. . . describes the essence of each of the eight types, clarifies some misconceptions of most post Jungian interpretations, and contributes with new insights for a better comprehension and application of typology . . . . The training revolutionized the way I work with typology and its importance on my research and practice.

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 changes within the psyche and also in relationships in the outer world.