Personality Dynamics
Make Sense of Yourself and Others
A Jung-grounded method revealing your functional patterns, shadow dynamics, and pathway to conscious development
UNDERSTAND HOW YOUR MIND ACTUALLY WORKS
The Personality Dynamics Assessment reveals the psychological processes driving your decisions, perceptions, and patterns—how your mind actually operates.
Your core functional patterns
How you naturally process information and make decisions.
Your shadow dynamics
What you avoid, when your strengths become excessive, and how to integrate avoided qualities.
Your development pathway
Practical guidance for conscious growth using the Shadow Map model.
THE EIGHT FUNCTIONS
Carl Jung identified eight fundamental ways humans perceive the world and make decisions. Your personality type is determined by which two of these functions are most conscious and developed.
We use accessible names that bridge abstract theory and practical understanding. Each function represents a distinct way of perceiving reality or making decisions.
The Seer function sees patterns and possibilities others miss, naturally understanding how situations will unfold over time. Seers excel at meaning-making, strategic foresight, and synthesising complex information into clear insights about human potential and systemic dynamics.
In practice: Strong Seer energy gravitates toward depth over breadth, prefers meaningful work over surface-level engagement, and brings invaluable long-term vision to both personal and professional contexts.
The Caregiver function creates connection and facilitates group harmony, naturally understanding what others need emotionally and how to bring out authentic expression. Caregivers excel at reading social dynamics, creating supportive environments, and helping people feel valued.
In practice: Strong Caregiver energy builds cohesive teams, mediates conflicts with empathy, and ensures that human needs are considered in decision-making processes.
The Explorer function generates possibilities and makes novel connections, constantly exploring potential in people, ideas, and situations. Explorers excel at creative problem-solving, seeing opportunities others miss, and energising groups with fresh perspectives.
In practice: Strong Explorer energy brings innovation, adaptability, and the ability to pivot quickly when circumstances change—essential for navigating complexity and uncertainty.
The Sage function pursues logical consistency and precise understanding, constantly refining frameworks and questioning assumptions. Sages excel at analytical clarity, systematic thinking, and identifying logical flaws that others overlook.
In practice: Strong Sage energy provides critical analysis, ensures decisions are logically sound, and helps organisations think more rigorously about complex problems.
The Tactician function engages directly with immediate reality, excelling at real-time responsiveness and hands-on problem-solving. Tacticians bring dynamic energy, practical resourcefulness, and the ability to adapt instantly to changing circumstances.
In practice: Strong Tactician energy thrives in crisis situations, physical challenges, and environments requiring immediate action and tactical awareness.
The Lover function filters experiences through a personal value system, maintaining strong internal convictions about what matters. Lovers bring passionate commitment to meaningful causes, deep empathy for individual needs, and unwavering authenticity.
In practice: Strong Lover energy ensures work aligns with core values, champions causes that matter, and maintains team morale through genuine care for individuals.
The Stalwart function maintains stability through attention to detail, established procedures, and lessons from past experience. Stalwarts excel at creating reliable systems, noticing inconsistencies, and ensuring quality through thorough attention.
In practice: Strong Stalwart energy provides organisational memory, operational consistency, and the careful attention that prevents costly mistakes.
The Commander function structures the external world for maximum effectiveness, naturally seeing how to implement solutions and achieve concrete results. Commanders excel at project management, operational efficiency, and decisive leadership.
In practice: Strong Commander energy delivers results through well-designed processes, clear accountability, and systematic execution—translating vision into tangible outcomes.
HOW IT WORKS
Your Unique Functional Combination
The Personality Dynamics Assessment identifies your two core psychological functions – the processes you’ve developed most consciously for perceiving the world and making decisions. This creates your unique functional pattern, one of 16 possible combinations.
The Personality Dynamics Assessment reveals which two of the eight functions form your psychological foundation. For example, someone might lead with Seer (introverted intuition) supported by Caregiver (extraverted feeling), creating the Seer-Caregiver pattern.
The Shadow Map Framework
Understanding your core functions is the starting point. The Shadow Map reveals three additional dynamics essential for conscious development:
Power Position – How your dominant strength expresses when it becomes excessive or one-sided, creating the very problems it typically solves.
Shadow Position – The psychological qualities you naturally avoid or undervalue, often holding the keys to your next stage of development.
Antidote – The specific integration practices that create balance, helping you develop avoided qualities without abandoning your natural strengths.
This framework transforms personality typing from static description into a practical development roadmap.
MORE THAN JUST A PROFILE
Functional Understanding
The eight personality functions use recognisable names – Seer, Caregiver, Explorer, Sage – demystifying personality theory. You’ll see how your mind processes information and makes decisions, not only which letters describe you.
Shadow Work in Practice
Understand when your natural strengths become limitations, recognise the shadow qualities you typically avoid, and develop the integration practices that cultivate genuine psychological wholeness and maturity.
Type-Specific Development Practices
Actionable exercises and integration practices designed for your specific type, rooted in the Seven Habits of Individuation. Practical guidance for working with your cognitive dynamics and shadow patterns.
Deepen Relationships
Understand how to communicate and collaborate effectively with people of all types. Strengthen workplace teams, improve personal relationships, and build genuine connection with all personalities.
Six Meaning Pathways
Discover your core areas of development leading toward authentic expression and meaningful contribution. Your personality dynamics become a map for growth serving as a lifetime reference guide.
Human-AI Alignment
Navigate your relationship with technology in ways that free you to be more fully human. Learn to use AI tools to enhance rather than diminish your development and authentic expression.
ALREADY KNOW YOUR TYPE?
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If you already know your personality type and want to go straight to your comprehensive report, you can purchase directly:
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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
WHAT IS THIS ASSESSMENT BASED ON?
The Personality Dynamics Assessment is grounded in Carl Jung’s theory of psychological types from ‘Psychological Types’ (Collected Works Vol. 6). The assessment is delivered by a Type Pro certified practitioner, using Jung’s functional framework with accessible naming – Seer, Caregiver, Explorer, Sage, etc. – to make the theory practical whilst preserving its depth and accuracy.
WHAT MAKES THIS TEST UNIQUE?
The PDA is grounded in Jung’s original theory and designed for the individuation journey. You’ll receive complete Shadow Maps™, type-specific integration practices rooted in the Seven Habits of Individuation™, relationship guidance across all personality types, and Human-AI alignment strategies for conscious development.
WHAT WILL I ACTUALLY LEARN FROM THE FULL REPORT?
You’ll understand how your unique personality functions, how your two core functions work together and potential blind spots. You’ll also see your type’s complete Shadow Maps showing your strengths, shortfalls and shadow dynamics, discover your six Meaning Pathways, and get specific integration practices based on the Seven Habits of Individuation™. The report also includes guidance for recognising and working with all personality types, Human-AI alignment strategies, and personality guidance grounded in Jung’s original theory.
HOW ACCURATE ARE THE RESULTS?
Your results include Clarity Scores for each preference pair (E/I, S/N, T/F, J/P), showing how clear your test results are as percentages totalling 100%. For example, you might score 75% Introversion / 25% Extraversion, showing a clear preference for introversion. While no test is perfectly accurate, higher percentages indicate stronger patterns in your responses; lower percentages (closer to 50/50) suggest the results were less definitive and may benefit from further reflection or discussion with a Type practitioner. The assessment is grounded in Jung’s original functional theory, which reveals how your mind operates rather than only describing behaviours.
WHAT IF MY TYPE DOESN'T QUITE FIT?
You ultimately get to decide your type, not a test. The assessment provides a starting point based on your responses, but you know yourself best. If the type doesn’t resonate after reflection, contact us for a replacement report at no charge. For deeper exploration of the nuances, a Type Clarification session with a practitioner can help you work through which pattern truly fits. In the end, your type is designed as a tool for self-knowledge and a pathway toward greater development – it is not a definitive prescription of who you are.
CAN I USE THIS FOR TEAM DEVELOPMENT?
Yes. The report provides practical workplace guidance including how to recognise and collaborate with all personality types, communication strategies fitted to your type, your path to meaning and purpose at work, and Human-AI alignment guidance. It forms a starting point for MiC’s organisational development offering and informs team dynamics and shadow work in professional contexts.
HOW SOON CAN I GET MY REPORT?
Your complete Personality Dynamics Assessment is delivered immediately after purchase as a PDF you can download and keep for life.
DISCOVER YOUR PERSONALITY DYNAMICS
Take the free assessment to understand your cognitive strengths, natural tendencies, and personalised development pathway.
Based on Carl Jung’s theory of psychological types.
