Did you know...your MBTI type isn't actually decided by the test

I did my first practice MBTI assessment session this afternoon.

I've been working my way through the MBTI training long enough to understand the framework. The score from the assessment is a starting point. What follows is a conversation where the practitioner walks through each of the four preference pairs with the client, using real examples, testing what actually fits. The client lands on their best fit type. Which may or may not match what the test reported. And that final answer belongs to them, not the instrument.

What I wasn't prepared for was watching it happen in real time and feeling genuinely energized by it. Because what I watched today wasn't a practitioner delivering a result. It was a person working through their own patterns and arriving somewhere that was theirs.

That's what I'm trying to build on the color side. Not a determination handed down, but one the client can actually claim.

The best fit process works because ownership isn't given. It's arrived at.

Has a result ever felt like yours from the start, or did it take time and conversation to get there?

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Did you know...your MBTI type isn't actually decided by the test