By Donna Dunning
In my MBTI® Certification workshops participants respond to the instruction – “Describe your type using words, phrases, or pictures.” I find these visual representations of type preferences help illustrate individual differences.
Here is a photo of a response from a group with ENFP personality type preferences.
People with ENFP preferences tend to explore the world in a flexible, open-ended way. Notice how this illustration is loosely structured around their type code in the middle, with words and phrases scattered around the page.
The dominant function for ENFPs is Extraverted Intuition (Ne) and their auxiliary function is Introverted Feeling (Fi). Notice how their words illustrate these two functions. Words and phrases like open to new experiences, flexible, change, look at things a different way, new ideas, and talk it out capture the ENP essence. Other words like inclusive, caring, rapport, take it personally show the internal, personal Feeling side.
You may also enjoy looking at how other ENFPs have completed this illustration of type exercise.
If you are interested in seeing how people with different type preferences complete this exercise, check out the Illustrations of Type series.
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“Look at things a different way” and “take it personally” kind of contradict each other, don’t they? Either way I think this is a helpful resource. Thank you.
Yes, at first glance they may seem contradictory. I think the “looking at things in different ways” was meant to capture the NP way of seeing possibilities and options. The “take it personal” is describing the F process of evaluating situations through a lens of personal values and consideration of how decisions affect the people involved.