Your Ni Dom

Social Norms and Social Distancing

In this reflection I use the Thanksgiving holiday to talk about social norms we have around personal space and social interactions. [Note: I also integrate science as a religion, Enneagram EIGHT drama, and gratitude and thankfulness into the conversation.]

Leadership, Power, and Organizational Culture

In this reflection, I use my enneagram type (EIGHT) to explore the different ways I engage in leadership (within organizations). [Note: I ultimately discuss leadership and power as concepts/intellectual ideas. Check it out and let me know your thoughts at www.yournidom.wordpress.com.]

Reciprocity and Boundary Setting

In this reflection I continue to think about relationships and reciprocity. However, in the reflection, I also talk about relationships where reciprocity should not be required. In all, I explore relationship health and the role boundaries play in keeping them healthy. [Note: concepts such as self-indulgence, self-absorption and power are also discussed.]

Friendships as an INTJ Woman

In this reflection I talk a lot about being an INTJ agitator and how this agitation impacts (positively and negatively) emerging friendships. I also mention my experience being with other NT women at a recent conference I attended and about another INTJ woman actually trying to agitate me.

Authenticity as a Double Decider

In this reflection I talk about TeFi as my decision making apparatus and my journey in resisting Fi (my tertiary function) to respecting it. This reflection starts with an expressed interest to talk about friendship (and there is a pocket in which I do) but it mainly is about exploring Te when it is connected to Fi versus when it tries to deny Fi.

The Pressure Point

This reflection explores introverted feeling (Fi) as a data point for extroverted thinking. It also explores success as a journey filled with complications and lessons (referenced as the squiggly line). Finally it explores friendship (briefly) in terms of scope and mutual need.

Post Interview Reflection

In the sixteen hours since the interview, I have had two short, but definite, outburst of tears. Analytically, I could not understand the emotion but knew enough about my tertiary function (Fi) to respect it as a data point. In this reflection, I make sense of the emotion as an internal truth that has been trying to surface all week. Last night's interview/program about being an NT woman and having faith in myself as an NT woman was the vehicle in which this truth became clear. This reflection is ultimately about that clarity. [Note: In this reflection, there is a little talk about family violence, leadership and school reform.]

Being Interviewed as an INTJ woman

Occupation vs. Vocation

Much of this reflection is about understanding the power dynamics around teaching and me confronting the threats that my vocation as a teacher places on my occupation as a teacher. In this conversation you will also hear me process the internal versus external value of my PhD, the concept of authority, control and influence, and the introverted tax of dealing with people.

Nuance and Recalibration

In this reflection I talk about the dance between head and body (using the Enneageam system), about attempting to default the human experience and about recalibrating as we mature. Note: this reflection also mentions, gender, race, Enneagram EIGHT and FIVE, and talks around integration and disintegration.