Your Ni Dom

Teachers Needing to Lead

Most of this reflection is a response to some YouTube content on teacher challenges and the current mass teacher exodus. In it, I both advocate for teachers and challenge them (to organize and push for change). I also share my story of being a school leader who has returned to teaching (and seeing a real gap in leadership across the board!). While I deviated from my typical focus in this episode, I still ended it with a personal growth assignment for all (regarding leadership).

Family Structures and Development

Main Themes: Seven types of toxic family structures; five mothers who can't love; and eight stages of psychosocial development.

Ready Ready

In this reflection I talk about finally being ready to do trauma healing work. To assist in this process, I will be using two frameworks: 1) Erik Erikson's Lifespan Development and 2) seven types of toxic family systems. There will be a part 2 to this reflection.

Eight Cognitive Functions

In this reflection I talk about visiting family for the holidays (after taking a 12 hour road trip to get here). Main themes: A Six Function Theory; Creativity in Functions 5 and 6; Existential utility in Functions 7 and 8; The subservient nature of Function 2; The priming of Function 1; and The obedience of Function 4.

Alignment

Main themes: Liability of knowing the self; Liability of Introverted intuition; Supervision; Positionality; Downward growth as a concept: and Use and preservation of energy. Type references: Ni, Te, Si, Fe, Fi, Se, Self preservation Type 8 and Type 5.

Risk, Drive and Safety

Main themes: Rapport; Competition; Organizational structure, positions and power; and Ambition, pay and skill building. Type references: Ni vs Si; Te vs Fe; Sexual instinct (and intensity)

Faith, Fear and Flow

In this reflection, I tell a story about my work week and the inner-storm that it created. Main themes: Spirituality; Te Recovery, Instinctual Stack; Power; Self-preservation

Difference

In this reflection, I respond to YouTube content from Maria McMahon and Joyce Meng (about personality theory and trauma). Main themes: Being different; having role models; identity and sense of self; time travel; the real world vs what is imagined; family trauma and having a complicated father. Type references: Ni, Se, and Si

Se Maturity

Major themes: Physical Space and Conceptual Maps. Typology: NiSe Axis; Ne opposition; Trickster function; and Demon function.

Movement and Resistance

Main themes: Personality theory and liberation work; Te patterns at the margins; and Ti serenity (with Te dominance). Supporting themes: Holonomy (which I mispronounced in the recoding 😳); Five States of Mind; classroom management; and Dr. Ruby Payne and class.