On a good day you access your gifts and strengths developed through years of playing to your strong suits.
On a bad day your overplayed strengths can become weaknesses, and you suffer these pitfalls in the form of relationship difficulties and misguided approaches.
Often you are blind to what is really going on. You have created your very own Matrix!
When you have a map for understanding Character Structure you can more successfully manage yourself and interact with others. The 5 Character Structures (5CS) is just such a map. It provides a deeper level of psychological insight for today's leaders.
American physician and psychotherapist Alexander Lowen, developed ‘Bioenergetics’ based on Wilhelm Reich’s breakthrough work on embodied character. Re-purposed for business, The 5 Character Structures offers a kind of X-Ray Vision for understanding yourself and others.
It provides the keys for building better relationships with anyone. Most personality models deal with how people act, 5CS also deals with why you react. It is a body-mind based model of personality (rather than a psychometric instrument), which helps you understand why you do what you do, and why others do what they do. It requires no questionnaire or evaluator.
You are made up of emotional, mental and physical parts that operate as a unit and influence each other.
Life involves experiencing things and events that are threatening.
You adjust to these events by ‘armouring’ yourself physically, mentally and emotionally
This armouring is initiated in childhood during 5 stages of development, each with needs to fulfil. Over time, the repeating patterns of this armouring become your Character Structure. There are 5 primary ways that people will armour, and each of these 5 ways has predictable behaviours and corresponding physical, mental and emotional attributes.
On the one hand, 5CS is about how you protect yourself and the strategies you employ to keep yourself safe. On the other hand, it is about how that same armouring created a unique you, complete with strong suits and gifts.
With a little knowledge of 5CS you can deepen your self-awareness, and unlock the keys to building better relationships with anyone.
It provides knowledge and resources for staying present in your gifts, and escaping the prison of your patterns.
In short it helps you to get you out of your own way so you get better results and a more fulfilling experience in leadership and life.