Topic: Emotional Competency, Social Competency, Communication, Relationships
Target Population: Adults, Couples, Service Members
Sector: Community-Based, Work Site
Military Sector: Air Force, National Guard, Marines
This program is for adults, Service members, and couples.
Four Lenses®, a worksite or community-based program, is designed to enhance understanding of individual personality types to create successful learning and working environments and strengthen relationships.
No peer-reviewed publications evaluating the effectiveness of this program were located.
Four Lenses is a hands-on training workshop that includes a personality assessment and a book titled, Four Lenses Unfolded – A Deeper Understanding of Temperament Values. Participants complete a temperament assessment to discover the talents, attitudes, preferences, and needs of themselves and other individuals with whom they associate (e.g., loved ones, work partners). Results of this assessment can help participants learn to create a common appreciation for others and a shared value system that helps the participants understand how they and other individuals uniquely view the world around them. After completing the assessment, participants have the opportunity to complete online training modules, read books, and engage in an online community.
The assessment is based on the following four key temperaments from which all personality styles are derived:
By learning about these four temperaments and how they make up an individual’s personality style, participants can better understand themselves and others around them. In this way, the Four Lenses program can foster self-reflection and social awareness among participants to help them learn how to better understand people, communicate assertively, strengthen leadership skills, excel in the workplace, minimize conflict and stress, instruct difficult learners, motivate resistant individuals, create healthy relationships, and parent difficult children and teens.
In-person and virtual workshops are available. Please visit the first website in Source for more information.
The personality assessment was developed from the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and has been used around the world by millions of individuals since 1993. Workshops have been implemented among Service members of the Air Force and Marines Corps and at Yellow Ribbon events.
Any individual can facilitate this program, but facilitators must become certified in Four Lenses. Upon certification, individuals are then licensed to use Four Lenses in their organization. Online certification courses are available through Shipley Coaching. Please use details in the Contact section to learn more.
Considerations for implementing this program include acquiring participant buy-in, recruiting one to two facilitators to lead the workshop and ensuring they become certified, and finding a suitable location and time to hold the workshop.
The Clearinghouse can help address these considerations. Please call 1-877-382-9185 or email clearinghouse@psu.edu
If you are interested in implementing Four Lenses, the Clearinghouse is interested in helping you! Please call 1-877-382-9185 or email clearinghouse@psu.edu
Four Lenses is implemented as a 1-day workshop. The personality assessment takes approximately 15 minutes to complete. Time to complete other activities will vary.
The personality assessment is $19.95. The Four Lenses Unfolded book is $29.95. The Four Lenses Assessment Cards are $14.95. Please visit https://fourlenses.com/product-category/products/ or use details in the Contact section for more information on the cost of materials and ordering.
To move Four Lenses to the Promising category on the Clearinghouse Continuum of Evidence, at least one evaluation should be performed demonstrating positive effects lasting at least one year from the beginning of the program or at least six months from program completion.
The Clearinghouse can help you develop an evaluation plan to ensure the program components are meeting your goals. Please call 1-877-382-9185 or email clearinghouse@psu.edu
Contact the Clearinghouse with any questions regarding this program. Phone: 1-877-382-9185 Email: clearinghouse@psu.edu
You may also contact Shipley Coaching by mail P.O. Box 138 Riverton, Utah 84065, phone 1-877-745-1566, email info@shipleycoaching.com, or visit https://www.shipleycoaching.com/contact-us/
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