2: Types
The Defined and Undefined Centers in your Bodygraph influence your Type.
Each of the following Types has its own Strategy to assist with decision-making and managing energy, as well as Themes to look out for. One is positive (a reinforcement that you’re living your design) and the other is a signal (a shadow side that may nudge you to make adjustments).
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Strategy: To Inform
Themes: Peace <> Anger
Population: 9%
Tip: Share your ideas and visions as they come to you, and work with the other types to make them a reality.
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Strategy: To Respond
Themes: Satisfaction <> Frustration
Population: 31%
Strategy: Honor what your gut tells you in response to any of life’s questions. You will get a clear “yes” or “no” from your Defined Sacral Center.
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*This type is a hybrid of the two types, and follows both Strategies, Tips, and Themes.
Population: 37%
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Strategy: To Be Invited
Themes: Success <> Bitterness
Population: 22%
Tip: Be on the lookout for invitations to share your insights, visions, and plans. When you master the correct timing and your audience is receptive, you can have maximum impact.
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Strategy: To Let the Answers Reveal Themselves
Themes: Surprise <> Disappointment
Population: 1%
Tip: Talk to me! 🤭
Insight: The Types on Creative Teams
I love a good practical analogy when learning something new — so this is how I believe the Types would work well together on creative teams.
Manifestors are meant to Inform, so I see these individuals doing well in roles where they are set up to initiate for their teams. Perhaps they’re the Strategist who is giving the brief, or maybe they’re a Creative Director who setting the vision. They may also find their Peace in being an entrepreneur where they dictate their days.
Generators have incredible energy to create. They might be Art Directors, Writers, or “doers” in any other medium. These people like rolling up their sleeves and getting into it. They might experience Frustration if their focus is too heavy on logistics/dynamics/people, feeling in their best flow with action and output.
Manifesting-Generators are a hybrid of the two Types above, possessing a great ability to multi-task and switch gears. Some days, they might want to be a visionary — while other days, they might want to be the ones doing and creating. They should honor that juggling-ability and give themselves permission to switch it up.
Projectors are often referred to as the Seers — they are good at forecasting into people and situations. If they are in a role where they’re invited to share their insights and wisdom, they may feel great Success. I see them doing well as Managers of groups where they are empowered and in charge of' “guiding” for everyone’s benefit.
Reflectors mirror any of the Types above, so every day can look a little bit different depending on their surroundings. These individuals might do well with a flexible, jack-of-all-trades role that allows them to move throughout a team and contribute to various causes. Or perhaps as a Consultant who make seasonal contributions.
My Experience
A person shouldn’t feel “locked in” with the info about their Type. Projectors can Generate. Generators can Project. But I do think it’s interesting to have awareness, and keep tabs on how you feel and function day-to-day.
As a Reflector, I’ve experienced Disappointment with my inconsistent and changing energy at work, but lately I’ve embraced the shape-shifting. I absolutely honor that I am never going to have the consistent stamina of one of the Generator types.
My dad is a Generator, who spent his career as an individual contributor in Sales with his quota as his success metric. He would often get encouraged to step into a Manager role, but he knew he found the most Satisfaction in “the doing.” So, he stayed in his role with zero regrets. A Projector, on the other hand, may find the “seeing and guiding” involved with Manager roles to be more rewarding.
Oftentimes, a person’s trajectory is to start as an individual contributor and work their way up to a Manager. I tend to hear that people relate to my dad: they wish they could go back to “the doing!” And this checks out, considering 70% of the population are Generators with their Sacral Center defined.
After learning the Types of my closest family and friends — it’s so affirming. Whether it’s traveling, work, social gatherings: each person is naturally interested in different facets of the experience.
All roles are vital.
It’s been so fun to experience people learning their design. I find a lot of people say, “Um, doesn’t everyone operate this way…?” Or, “Wait, how does someone operate that way, that does not resonate with me at all…”
Always curious to hear about experiences.
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