The power of intrapersonal and interpersonal intelligence.
According to Howard Gardner, we should learn to distinguish intra-personal from inter-personal intelligence. These two types of social intelligence complement each other: the first type of intelligence focuses on self-knowledge, while the second type focuses on understanding others. Both are essential for building harmonious relationships and for personal development.
Interpersonal intelligence is based on a core capacity to notice distinctions among other people, particularly regarding their moods, temperaments, motivations, and intentions. In more advanced forms, this intelligence allows a skilled individual to understand others’ desires and intentions, even when they are hidden.
Intrapersonal intelligence, on the other hand, enables a person to understand and work with themselves, gaining access to their own emotional life, recognizing and naming a variety of emotions, and using them to understand and guide their own behavior.
At Human Logic Academy, we work intensively on both dimensions. We delve into self-knowledge – which requires intrapersonal intelligence – as well as into social versatility which requires interpersonal intelligence.
The foundation of our training- and coaching initiatives is a comprehensive questionnaire identifying each participant’s unique combination of behavior style and social versatility.
To achieve meaningful results, a self-assessment alone is not sufficient. Therefore, we rely on feedback from six peer raters chosen by the participant, who will assess each participant’s unique combination of behavior traits.
Based on these observations, we generate a detailed 150-page report that serves as the starting point for a journey into deeper exploration of both intrapersonal and interpersonal intelligence. This methodology provides a comprehensive and well-founded perspective, enabling real and applicable development in daily life.
