Understanding
personality
attitudes - softskills - drivers

Transactional Analysis was conceived from 1958 onwards by Doctor Eric Berne, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst.

Initially, it was concerned with Transactions between people, i.e. social relationships.

Then quite quickly she turned to inner strategies, in the form of Structural Analysis.

It has benefited from a number of prestigious contributors such as Claude Steiner, Taibi Kahler, and many others.

Intelli7® uses TA both in its transactional part, in collective approaches, and in its structural part, the latter proposing an exhaustive model of the human dimension.

Paul Mac Lean was an American neuro-biologist, who originated the theory of brain evolution in the form of the triune brain.

This theory distinguishes 3 levels of brain evolution in animal species, including man:

• The reptilian brain,
• The limbic brain,
• The cortical brain,

Each of these 3 parts has its own characteristics, and influences the way we manage our daily lives.

The particularity of the human being is to have a cortical brain developed in an extraordinary way.

Roger Sperry was a Nobel Prize-winning American neuro-biologist who originated the theory of lateralization of the cerebral hemispheres: Right Brain and Left Brain.

This proposal is regularly controversial, with detractors confusing pedagogical models with neuroscience.

As in everyday life we have little opportunity to put electrodes on people's heads, we'll take the pedagogical aspect of this model, which is perfectly fair and very rich in valuable lessons for our daily lives.

Let's note that in use, this teaching is more of a Meta-program than a personality model.

Ned Herrmann was director of training at General Electric.

He synthesized the work of Paul Mac Lean and Roger Sperry, in the form of a 4-specific model of the human brain.

This model offers the undeniable advantage of easy access. It is often used as a teaching tool.

Yet it has its shortcomings, not being as exhaustive as Eric Berne's structural analysis approach.

It is integrated into Intelli7® for its pedagogical contributions, and is enriched and clarified by the structural analysis model.

Count Alfred Korzybski is the designer of General Semantics, an approach to language and systems of generalization (distortions) of the verb.

To him we owe the famous: The map is not the territory, repeated many times since.

Knowing the true origin of this formulation, the experience that gave rise to it, sheds light on its understanding.

General semantics bridges the gap with NLP, a technique which, among other things, shows how our way of using language is symptomatic of our strategies and behaviors.

Paul Grinder and Richard Bandler developed Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP).

This is a sort of compendium of the best in tools for understanding and helping humans.

It's absolutely not magic, as we often read.

Like TA, it benefits from a very large number of talented contributors.

Its contributions are fundamental.