This short program will require 2-1/2 to 3 hours to complete. To get the most out of this experience, schedule our visit within a month of completing both inventories while everything is fresh in your mind.

A Gifts Compass Inventory (GCI) Personal Profile (30-60 minutes). in 1921, Carl Jung’s groundbreaking work Psychological Types introduced concepts like “introversion” and “extroversion.” It was subsequently condensed and repackaged in several iterations as instruments to identify personality types. This made some of his ideas more widely available but at the cost of diluting essential features, including what he meant by psychological type. The GCI returns to Jung’s original conception and renders a much more nuanced picture of the array of psychological attitudes (or types) each of us has. This array can provide insight into where our energy resources and interests are richest. It can also provide insight into why some aspects of work are more depleting than others and point the way for making even subtle changes that have the potential to significantly shift your day-to-day experience and satisfaction.

A Gifts Compass Inventory Work Profile (30 minutes). This inventory asks you to value three things you consider essential to successful performance in your profession (your specialty) and then asks questions that help associate which psychological types (or functions) are more or less important to achieving them. This is presented in a graphic form (a work profile compass). The process provides a chance to step outside the framework of core competencies and into what your lived experience is of the requirements of your work. A composite view created by superimposing the personal and work compasses creates a powerful tool for reflecting on work satisfaction, exhaustion, and the extent to which you experience yourself as well-matched with your specialty. Importantly, the composite view can also point the way to finding greater meaning and fulfillment in your work.

Our one-to-one session (60 minutes). We’ll use your personal profile, your work profile, and the composite view to reflect on your experience, guide our discussion and interpretation, and consider strategies for deepening the rewards of your practice.

I will draw on my ongoing studies of Jung’s work, my study of these assessment tools, decades of experience in clinical practice and medical education, and my investigation of the culture and dynamics of medicine that began when I wrote my master’s thesis in medical school and has continued through the years culminating in several projects in the last 10 years. Please note that while I am a doctor, I am engaging as a guide and knowledgeable companion in this process but not as your physician or psychologist. It is my intention to be a close listener to your process and to put some new tools in your hands (or old tools offered with a fresh perspective) to empower you to take more control of your experience as a human being and a doctor and to be the example of that for your own patients. I offer perspective and novel educational materials I think are vital for physician practice and well-being, and I fill a gap between coach and primary physician or therapist. In this work, I happily and regularly suggest additional resources I trust for delving more deeply into particular matters that emerge in my work with physicians.

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