"In our lives we are faced with a set of core issues that resurface again and again in different settings, with different people, at different times. These issues involve our relationship with the world, with ourselves, with our Higher Power. These are our life lessons." Stephanie Covington and Liana Beckett

Groups are the recognized best method for people to gain information and acceptance from others. One of the main underpinings of AA is that all members are peers. Anyone has the opportunity to share and to be heard.

In the self-discovery model of group healing, everyone in the group is a student. The sharing of power in relationships defines the health of the relationship. No hierarchy is needed when people enter groups to help each other. The leadership of the group can be shared by all on a rotation basis.

The group members in the self-discovery group may decide to choose a rotation schedule. The main goal of the group may be short-term with the idea of splitting up to form new groups. Some people may choose to recycle--repeat the same group--before branching out to their own group. After 2-3 times recycling, the other group members may help with the formation of new group to a group member who wants to continue in her/his first group.

Self-discovery groups are easy to organize with Squidoo. Squidoo is free and is designed for any lensmaster (which you become by publishing one lens) to be able to start his/her own group. I have started this group in Squidoo open to anyone. If you have questions, post them in the Changemaker group. I have designed this group to be a central resource center for anyone interested in personal growth and/or in helping others to learn about themselves. Add your suggestions to the group discussion at the bottom of the lens.

All the Squidoo groups are listed here. Check out how other groups look and incorporate into the Changemaker group. For now, I will act as moderator so that I can answer questions. But in the near future, I will sharing leadership with anyone who wants to join.

About the Changemaker Test

Everyone has many personality labels yet most of us resist being labeled. Over a lifetime, we each will have hundreds of labels because we each have unique life experiences. The main way we learn our labels is from others. We generally resist these learnings as it feels that the labels have a negative connotation. Yet most of our labels are positive and negative at the same time.

We each love to learn about ourselves. But we pretend that we don't want to know. It is the same maneuver we use to view a group picture that includes us. While oohing and aahing over all the other group members, we are secretly gazing at ourselves.

Personality labels are personality indicators. Labels can be positive and negative at the same time. Understanding ourselves and what motivates each of us can be a powerful tool towards meeting life's challenges and personal dreams.

The Changemaker Test, which is meant as a vehicle for self-discovery, includes the labels used in NLP (neurolinguistic programming), birth order, family roles, emotional energies, and MBTI (Myers Briggs Type Indicator).

MBTI-Myers Briggs Type Indicator

featured lens Personality Profiling - DiSC - Myers-Briggs & More

In college I took a full semester course on the Myers-Briggs type indicator. It was a combination of sociology, psychology and philosophy all rolled into one. It was a fascinating course but after graduating I discovered there are a ton of these inst...

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I am an INTP person. This is who I am, and this is how you should accept me.

featured lens Personality Types: iNtuitive or Sensing

The Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is based on the work of Carl Jung. It focuses on identifying key characteristics in our personalities to help us recognize our differences and similarities -- and to use those differences and similarities to mak...

featured lens Mystic Poets and Beautiful Dreamers

This page is devoted to the INFPs of the world, the mystic poets and beautiful dreamers who walk the path of the heart. Only about 1% of the world's population shares this rare personality type that is both a blessing and a curse. We are few in number...

featured lens Books on Personality Types and Myers-Briggs Type Indicators

The concept of personality type is about the natural habits of mind we develop as we grow. For example, some may have a preference for noticing concrete reality, others for noticing abstract concepts. Or one has a preference for the external world of...

Changemaker Products List

You may purchase the following Changemaker products (available at /www.kathyberman.com/"):

(a) The Changemaker Test only (explanations included for all personality labels) ($19.00)

(b) The Emotional Eater Diet (also labeled the Changemaker Diet) ($19.00)

(c) The complete Changemaker ebook (which includes Changemaker test, explanations resources for small groups, and the Emotional Eater Diet) ($29.00)

(d) Changemaker Online (which includes everything in the ebook but it is interactive as it is a password-protected blog) ($29.00)

NLP

featured lens NLP: Neuro Linguistic Programming

NLP is the acronym for Neuro-Linguistic Programming, a personal development model, developed by Richard Bandler and John Grinder in early 1970's. NLP consist of many techniques, skills, attitudes, morals and beliefs to change yourself and others...

featured lens NLP Australian Networking Group

The  meeting place for all those interested in NLP.  This is the who's who in Australian NLP, linked to international NLP entities to bring you the very best speakers from around the world. Members have the opportunity to attend dinners thro...

featured lens NLP Blogs

This is my pick of the NLP (neuro-linguistic programming) blogs out there - a great way to learn about NLP in bite-size chunks and keep up to date with what's happening. You can find NLP books on Amazon, plus my magazine recommendations, at Andy's N...

featured lens NLP : Neuro-Linguistic Programming

NLP is either an effective humanistic psychology or cult-led pseudo-scientific charlatanism. I'll try and explain the first version here (and touch on the other). For me, the central, most important idea of NLP is that we human beings all carry most...

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Personal Growth

featured lens ACOA

Do you guess at what normal is instead of reaching for emotional wellness? Do you vacillate between extreme ideas? Are you attracted to extremist organizations? Have you been told, "it's not that black and white" more than once?  You m...

featured lens Birth Order and Personality

Birth order is directly related to how children's personalities are formed. Older children usually develop into helpful, self sufficient, mature leaders. Youngest children many times develop into gregarious, free spirited, risk takers. Middle childre...

featured lens What are you thinking?

Words are very revealing, often clients only need to hear a recording of answers to questions to have an amazing change in attitude. It takes a little work sometimes as you need to accept that you are the initiator in any life situation you may find...

featured lens Personal Growth

How's life? Now, when I say this, I really do mean how is your life going in an overall sense? Are you a happy person? Is your job going well? Do you have a blast with your family and friends? Are you perfectly satisfied with yourself as a whole? The...

featured lens Take a Personality tests....

Who are we? and why do we do the things that we do?  Forward: Rob Neary I'm sure each and everyone of us has thought at one stage , "what the hell did i do that for? and why?" The way we feel and the way we act can often be attributed...

More NLP Lenses

featured lens A Beginner's Guide to NLP

Neuro-Linguistic Programming. What a mouthful, isn't it? What does it mean, and what can it do for you? If you're looking at a page called 'A Beginner's Guide to NLP', you've probably already heard enough about NLP to not know so much about it, but en...

featured lens Magic Hypnosis & NLP

This lens presents information on Magic, Hypnosis and NLP. Powerful tools for transendent self awareness, empowermant, healing and transformation. This has been my area of interest, focus and expertise since I was young. If you are interested in magi...

featured lens Why NLP Works

Neurolinguistic programming (NLP) is a set of practices that allow people to communicate more effectively with themselves and with other people. If you've ever surprised yourself - or failed yourself - you understand that you are a collection of abil...

featured lens Practical Wellbeing

I provide therapy and trainng services in Neuro Linguistic Programing (NLP) and Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) in the North East of England. I'm available for one to one work, group work and training. I'm a general practitioner of EFT and NLP, th...

featured lens The Six Best NLP Books For Business

Quite simply, this is my review of the best of the many business NLP books out there. If you know of a book that should be in this list, why not let me know at andy@practicaleq.com? Get the reviews in this lens as a PDF document when you sign up for...

Self Help

featured lens Brighter Self Improvement

featured lens Universal Self Improvement

A whole-life approach to successfully reaching your full potential, by receiving and sharing the gifts and truth of the Universe. Improve yourself - Improve the Universe. Take action and use the tools, tips, techniques, videos, resources, and lists fo...

featured lens Self-Improvement Books you HAVE to Read

I'm a self-help addict.  Don't get me wrong - I don't have weird problems that I've been in therapy for for years and years, I just love a good book that teaches you how to do something new and become a better person. This is a list of the best s...

featured lens Free Self Help

I wanted to create this lens as I know that there are some great offers out there on the internet that you don't have to spend a penny for. I wanted to create one place that I could list all of these goodies for you to download. Some of them were cre...

featured lens Mental Self Help

"A long-standing tradition of mental self-help, not directed by physicians and concentrating on overt and positive rather than covert and negative feelings, began in the late nineteenth century and was still strong in the 1950s and 1960s. This t...

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Group Discussion

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qlcoach wrote...

NLP is great but find out how I have been helping people professionally for the last 38 years. Please consider interacting with my site:
http://www.squidoo.com/emotionalsuffering
Sincerely: Gary Eby, newly published author

ReplyPosted June 29, 2008

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