Strength Deployment Inventory (SDI) Personality Profiling with Steve Wood

Welcome to the World Extreme Medicine podcast….. In this conversation we are talking with Steve Wood the vice president of Delivery for Personal Strengths (UK) and is a facilitator, trainer and senior manager within the core strength group. He has extensive experience of developing and facilitating training focusing on leadership, team dynamics, conflict management and personal development. Steve has worked in partnership with a number of the UK's largest organisations in developing and delivering programmes that provide a lasting difference to both individuals and the business. We will start with the history and background of the SDI which originated from Prominent psychologist Elias Porter a peer of Carl Rogers. Elias was the author of ‘Introduction to Therapeutic Counselling and Manpower Development’ and developed the ‘Relationship Awareness Theory’ which is one of the pivotal theories used by the SDI. We will examine some of his key influencers those of Sigmund Freud, Erich Fromm, Karen Horney, Erik Erickson, Kurt Lewin and, Carl Rogers. In this conversation we are going to examine, why personality profiling – why and how is it useful? What the SDI is and how it can help increase self-awareness, and how it can benefit us imm every domain of life.