Personality And Compassion
How compassionate are you? What are your compassion strengths and weaknesses? How does your personality impact your ability to practice compassion?
If you’ve ever completed a personality or strengths assessment, now’s the time to fetch your results and identify your signature strengths (and weaknesses).
Compassion requires three skills; openness, resourcefulness, and persistence. Openness creates a safe space where the real issues can be surfaced. Resourcefulness creates a curious space where creative problem-solving can happen. Persistence creates a consistent space where boundaries and principles are honored.
Each skill if necessary but not sufficient for full compassion. Our Compassion Cycle shows how these three skills work together, in order, to practice full compassion.
Here’s a list of typical personality-based strengths that correspond to each compassion skill.
Openness
- Sensitive
- Warm
- Reflective
- Calm
- Spontaneous
- Playful
Resourcefulness
- Creative
- Organized
- Logical
- Observant
- Adaptable
- Charming
- Imaginative
Persistence
- Dedicated
- Conscientious
- Responsible
- Persuasive
Comparing results from your own assessment, where is the most alignment? Where is the least alignment? What areas do you need to develop to practice fuller compassion?
The good news is that any personality type can start somewhere with their strengths. The bad news is that no personality type is singularly equipped for full compassion. So we all need to stretch ourselves and learn new skills if we want to grow in compassion.
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Thanks for sharing. A question that is asked many times in Vienna School of Negotiation PCM, LOD and Negotiation Programs. Highly appreciated 🙂
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