INTRAPERSONAL INTELLIGENCE

The third intelligence in our series from Professor Howard Gardner’s ‘multiple intelligence’ model, we hope you are finding this series useful for your design and delivery work using accelerated learning? If you want to know more remember we offer train the trainer courses too!

Likely personal traits:
Self-knowledge
Deeply aware of one’s own feelings
Has a well developed sense of self
Very private person
Wants to be different from mainstream
Intuitive ability
Sensitivity to one’s purpose in life
Aware of own strengths and weaknesses

Careers:
Novelists
Counsellors
Wise elders
Philosophers
Gurus
Mystics

Typical statements:
“I consider myself to be strong willed”
“I would prefer to spend a weekend alone in a cabin in the woods rather than at a fancy resort with lots of people around”
“I keep a personal diary to record the events of my life”
“I regularly spend time alone to meditate or reflect”
“I have attended counselling sessions or personal growth seminars”
“I see myself as a loner”
“I have a hobby that I like to keep pretty much to myself”

In your training delivery incorporate such exercises as:
Debrief activities
Teach questioning techniques
Listen to your intuition
Do independent study
Permit freedom to be different from the group
Use personal growth activities to break learning blocks
Take time for inner reflection
Have personal heart to heart talks
Reflect on your thinking