Delightful Doodling

This summer, two of my team members and I took a class for credit to put towards our next round of teaching certifications. We learned very valuable information in the class, one of which has really stuck with me.

We had the opportunity to do the Gregorc Style Delineator--or personality test. I found out that I am ABSTRACT RANDOM! (For those of you that really know me, you're already smiling because you agree!)

Here are the characteristics for Abstract Randoms:
Abstract world of feelings and emotions, viewing time as artificial and restricitive, living in the moment, emotional, psychic, perceptive, holistic, having an inner guidance syster, creating emotional attaachements, having strong relations, caring and good memories (this one doesn't fit me!), strong imagination, likeness for the arts, does not like when people represses feelings, criticism, dogmaticsts, lies, restriction, likes to be in an enviornment that is emotional, rich, active, open and colorful, uses lanugage that is metaphoric, vibrant and lots of body gestures.

With every positive, there must come a negative...here are the negatives about my personality: spacey, wishy-washy, irresponsible, indiscriminate, lazy and revengeful.

I agree with pretty much all of those.

Another team member was the same as I was. It's a pretty accurate account.

The third team member that teaches with us is opposite, in the Concrete Sequential catagory. Just listen to some of these and try to figure out how in the world we all work together so well and love one another so much!

Characteristics of Concrete Sequential: Likes the concrete world of the physical senses, likes step-by-step linear progression, thinking process is instincitive, methodical, deliberate, does not like theories, mixed signals, broken promises, clutter, likes the environment to be neat, clean, quiet, practical, orderly, stable and controlled.

We laughed for quite some time when we all took this test together, figuring Jen and I must drive Kendra absolutely insane.

Here's proof that our personality tests didn't lie. This week, we had our kids get a piece of paper and doodle on it for 10 seconds. We didn't tell them why. After the time was up, they had to pass their paper to another person, and it was that person's job to make something out of the doodle. We had 7 legged elephants, Dr. Suess's World, clouds, bumble bees, anything you can think of. Jen and I were amazed, pleased, awed. Kendra...well, she threw hers away. She thought they were lame, didn't make sense and boring.

I guess that just goes to show you that living outside the box is a lot more fun that looking out from the inside! :0)