When Dr Dan Siegel introduced the Interpersonal Neurobiology (IPNB) approach to the world, therapists all over the world rejoiced at their newfound ability to help clients develop their minds, heal their trauma, and enhance their relationships.

Building on over two decades of ongoing exploration, scientific synthesis and clinical insights, he now presents an exciting new model, constructed through the lens of the IPNB framework and much more…

…that will empower you to guide, support, and empower your clients in exciting and effective new ways.

Personality is universal. We all have one - the unique combinations of tendencies that drive our lives, direct our choices and determine our futures ways of being in the world.

So why are most therapists so frequently taught nothing about working with personality, outside of the extreme examples we label “Personality Disorders”?

Because until now, no science-based, neuroscience-informed developmental approach to working with personality existed.

But today, everything can change.

Working with four other scientists over twenty years, Dr Dan Siegel has applied his unique gift of combining multidisciplinary theory with extraordinary insight to produce the world’s first developmental neuroscience-based theory of personality...

...with practical applications that will enable you to:

1. Identify your client’s motivations and needs to set attainable goals quicker than ever
2. Effectively tailor and refine your approach based on their PDP pattern for optimal progress
3. Achieve the #1 indicators of successful therapy - deep trust and rapport - in a short span of time
4. Confidently guide them towards their own self-realisation and “aha” moments

The applications of this framework are universal, so no matter your clients' unique circumstances or presenting symptoms...

...you can help heal wounds and change lives in a way that wasn’t previously possible!

From the Window of Tolerance and Wheel of Awareness to the Hand Model of the Brain... Dr Dan Siegel has given us some of today's most vital psychotherapy concepts and tools, using his unique ability to turn complex ideas into easy-to-understand, intuitive knowledge with practical applications. And now he uses his extensive synthesis of multiple disciplines including neuroscience, attachment, temperament, personality and more...

... to provide a revolutionary way of integrating personality types into practice for faster, more focused and more effective clinical outcomes than you ever thought possible.

When you internalise the groundbreaking PDP framework, you’ll feel like you have the foundational code to build fast trust and deep rapport with absolutely anybody – rooted in genuineness, truth and self-realisation.

You won’t just be able to competently help your clients address the issues they sought therapy for, but if they wish, you’ll have the ability to go a step further...

...and equip them with the self-knowledge, direction and purpose they need to grow and prosper not just in the short-term, but for the rest of their lives.

Using this exciting new and practical PDP framework of personality, you’ll be able to help…

“Move personality from being a prison of chaos and rigidity to a playground of connection and possibility”

- Dr Dan Siegel

Over two days of intense and illuminating deep dives into the nature of temperament, attachment and personality, you’ll explore new ways of understanding the mind and the development of mental health in this workshop led by Dr Dan Siegel. Come join in on this exciting immersive experience to discover how to:

• Master and benefit from the revolutionary Patterns of Developmental Pathways (PDPs) model of personality
• Quickly identify your clients PDP pattern and tailor your approach for each client for optimal clinical outcomes
• Spot the aspects of temperament and attachment that shape a person’s nature and adaptive strategies to give you a clear therapeutic direction
• Determine what aspects of a person’s experience are therapeutically resolvable so you can target your treatment for maximum effectiveness
• Confidently monitor your client's progression through therapy with clear, step-by-step guidance on what to do next e.g. assessment, stabilisation, integration, emotional processing and more
• Guide clients towards knowledge of their motivations, behaviours and adaptive strategies for groundbreaking self-realisation and long-lasting results
• Create tangible, integrative changes in your client's brain through neuroplasticity using PDP insights, mindfulness and other techniques that can facilitate life-long positive changes
• Discover the specific ways your client’s (and your own) mind may be especially vulnerable to burnout, and powerful ways to reignite one’s life
• And so much more!

You’ll leave this workshop with a panoramic practice roadmap that will help you accomplish faster, easier and more effective outcomes either by itself or in conjunction with any other modality.

This is the next step forwards in psychotherapy – and you can join Dr Dan Siegel to be one of the first leading the charge!

Dear Colleague,

As a scientist and as an individual, I’m wary by nature. So, when I was invited to a retreat to explore a theory of personality based on anecdotal evidence alone, I had my reservations.

As the group of fifty or so of us began to share our stories and be placed into categories, I had even more intense, mixed feelings. Where was the science behind this? Was it all a sham... even worse, a cult?

It was no surprise to me when my “Enneagram type” was revealed as being a “Type 6: Loyal Skeptic”. But what did surprise me was when I heard other “Type 6’s” talk.

Their wants, their motivations, their life experiences... it was as if they were reading my mind.

I was thoroughly shaken. I listened to other “types” talk, but none of it resonated with me like my own pattern did. And as the retreat drew to a close, I felt even more strongly that there was something distinctly concrete and undeniably true about these personality patterns—the enduring ways we experience emotion, thought, and behavior that persist across situations and stages of life.

Pulling from my own research, I applied the Adult Attachment Interview model with the participants to see if there was a link between learned attachment stances and Enneagram types... but I didn’t find what I was expecting to.

Shocked but spurred on by what I was observing, I began to envision a clear path forward:

What if by identifying the neural mechanisms that fuel the different Enneagram groupings, it might be possible to create the first ever evidence-based, developmental neuroscience backed theory of personality with real world applications that would optimise therapeutic progress and broaden life's possibilities for all?

After decades of research and collaboration with my colleagues (the PDP Group), I am proud to announce that we have finally achieved what we set out to do.

This exciting new perspective helps understand how personality forms from deep brain structures responsible for our temperament. We then develop adaptive strategies to those inborn and persistent propensities of our nervous system, intensified—but not created—by our attachment experience, that then form our emerging personality. That adaptive strategy includes our beliefs and our emotional propensities that shape our behaviors. These thoughts, emotions, and behaviors—our personality—can be a prison in our lives leading us to chaos or rigidity in repeating, infuriating, and often baffling ways.

But now we can help clients—and ourselves—to deeply understand how temperament and attachment contribute to the adaptive strategies that form our personality across a lifespan. With these exciting new insights, as therapists we are given the tools to help move our clients, and our own, personality patterns from the prisons they may have become into a playground of connection, possibility, and even amusement.

The PDP framework will empower you to help clients in deep and lasting ways that will support any school of therapy you may be trained in and applying in your approach, working with a wide range of clinical challenges and presenting issues for our clients.

It is my pleasure to invite you to join me and discover the far-reaching power of the Patterns of Developmental Pathways (PDPs) model.

Yours,

Dr Dan Siegel
Founder and Director of Education
Mindsight Institute
Dan Siegel