Each of four temperaments is prone to displaying particular defensive reactions, or “survival games,” in times of extreme stress. In the workplace, these negative behaviors typically lower team morale and productivity, strain relationships, and generate conflict among coworkers. When we try to help the individual, our suggestions and interventions are often ineffective or end up making matters even worse!

Learn to distinguish:

• The social/emotional factors that determine the likelihood that a person will demonstrate survival-game-playing in the workplace
• The type of mask, or idealized self-image, that is favored by each temperament
• The ways in which the different temperaments attempt to exert control over others.
  

Discover how to:

• Recognize the four survival games of Blackmail, Complain, Robot, and Masquerade
• Identify the typical stressors that are most likely to trigger negative coping strategies for each temperament
• Develop strategies to prevent survival-game-playing in the workplace
• Employ temperament-specific interventions in the workplace to stop survival-game- playing.
  

Join us for what is certain to be a stimulating day of lecture, case examples, and group exercises in which we explore new ways of helping clients summon their best during life’s most challenging times.

Dr. Eve Delunas has been using the temperament model for twenty-five years in her work as a psychotherapist, educator, and organizational trainer. She worked for over ten years with Dr. David Keirsey, co-author of Please Understand Me. Her book, Survival Games Personalities Play, describes her unique application of the temperament model in assessing and treating dysfunctional behavior. Her recent book, Breaking the Spell of the Past: Entering the Joyous Now, is a guidebook for stopping our own negative coping strategies and living more fully and joyfully in the present. Eve is known for her clear, dynamic and entertaining presentation style.