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Personality Training Workshop

Certification Requirement

Book Summary Instructions

The following books are required reading for certification: Your Personality Tree, Personality Plus, Come As You Are, and Wired That Way. You must summarize each book following the instructions below. Summaries should be typed. Bring your summaries to the Personality Training Workshop with you.

For the books on the required reading list, write a one-paragraph synopsis of each chapter of each book.At the end of each book’s full summary, type out your personal response to that book. What did you learn for yourself that will make a difference in your life?

Book #1: Your Personality Tree

Part 1: DISCOVER the Real You and Aim to Heal You

  1. Were you Born Like This?
  2. What Is Your Personality?
  3. What Are Your Desires and Underlying Needs?
  4. What Leads You into Temptation?
  5. What Gets You Depressed?
  6. Are You Wearing a Mask?

Part 2: UNCOVER Your Root and Protect Your Fruit

  1. What Is a Personality Tree?
  2. The Littauer Personality Tree
  3. The Chapman Personality Tree
  4. Our Personality Tree
  5. Your Personality Tree
  6. What Are Your Children’s Personalities?
  7. How Can You Bend the Twigs As They Should Go?

Part 3: RECOVER the Past with a Future That Will Last

  1. What about the Bruised Fruit?
  2. How Can You Dig Up the Old Roots?
  3. Have You a Song to Sing in the Spring?

Personal Response to Your Personality Tree. Discuss something specific from this book that you feel will make a difference in your life. What did you learn from this book for yourself?

Book #2: Personality Plus

Part 1: Personality Profile: A Quick Method of Self-Examination

  1. There’s Only One You
  2. Your Personality Profile

Part 2: Personality Potential: A Look at Our Individual Assets

  1. Let’s Have Fun with Popular Sanguine
  2. Let’s Get Organized with Perfect Melancholy
  3. Let’s Look at Our Emotions
  4. Let’s Get Moving with Powerful Choleric
  5. Let’s Relax with Peaceful Phlegmatic

Part 3: Personality Plan: A Way to Overcome Our Personal Weaknesses

Introduction: Positives Carried to Extremes Become Negatives

  1. Let’s Organize Popular Sanguine
  2. Let’s Cheer up Perfect Melancholy
  3. Let’s Tone Down Powerful Choleric
  4. Let’s Motivate Peaceful Phlegmatic

Part 4: Personality Principles: A Path to Improved Relations with Others

  1. Each Person Is a Unique Blend
  2. We Don’t Like to be Fenced In
  3. Opposites Attract
  4. We Can Recognize Differences in Others
  5. How to Get Along with Others

Part 5: Personality Power: A Source of Strength to Achieve Our Potential

  1. Personality Plus Power Produces Positive People!

Personal Response to Personality Plus. Discuss something specific from this book that you feel will make a difference in your life. What did you learn from this book for yourself?

Book #3: Come As You Are

1.Desperately Seeking Spirituality

2.Myths and Misunderstandings

3.Divine Differences

4.Different Doors

5.The Popular Sanguine

6.The Powerful Choleric

7.The Perfect Melancholy

8.The Peaceful Phlegmatic

9.Come As You Are

10.Final Thoughts

Personal Response to Your Spiritual Personality. Discuss something specific from this book that you feel will make a difference in your life. What did you learn from this book for yourself?

Book #4: Wired That Way

  1. Foundation and Background
  2. Visible Clues
  3. Strengths and Weaknesses
  4. Personality Blends
  5. Emotional Needs
  6. Marriage
  7. Parenting
  8. Communication
  9. The Workplace
  10. Spiritual Life

Personal Response to Wired That Way. Discuss something specific from this book that you feel will make a difference in your life. What did you learn from this book for yourself?