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A LifeApp Colors Masterclass not only helps you identify your colors, it is a fun and engaging opportunity to expand your understanding of both your own personality type as well as the unique personalities of others. A Colors Masterclass is approximately 4 hours, highly interactive, and focused on practical applied learning.

The Colors system for understanding personality distills complex temperament theory into practical tools and actionable steps. By utilizing four colors — Orange, Gold, Green, and Blue — it distinguishes between the four primary personality types. These colors provide a useful and engaging way to identify and understand personalities. Colors equips individuals with personal and professional development skills, while at the same time fostering relational excellence through increased engagement, enhanced communication, and improved teamwork at home and in the workplace.

The Four Primary Personality Colors

ORANGE

GOLD

GREEN

BLUE

The temperament and personality typing methodology of Colors has been used by many training organizations, leaders, corporations, non-profit organizations, educational institutions, and government entities. From Fortune 500 companies like Amazon, META, Google, Ford, Kraft, Oracle, Marriott, to individuals and communities.

The practice of personality typing and temperament theory dates back to Hippocrates, the father of modern medicine, who lived around 460 BC. He was the first to observe the diverse nature of people and developed terms to describe these variations. During an era of mystery and superstition, Hippocrates identified four different temperaments based on bodily fluids: Sanguine, Melancholic, Phlegmatic, and Choleric.

In 1921, Carl Jung, a Swiss physician and student of Sigmund Freud, made a significant contribution to personality typing with his book "Psychological Types." His work delved into the theory of psychological types and aimed to categorize individuals according to various personality patterns. Jung's theory also emphasized four fundamental psychological functions.

Katherine Cook Briggs and her daughter, Isabel Briggs Myers, further advanced personality typing in the 1940s-50s with the development of the MBTI indicator type, which encompasses 16 personality types. Their model focused on the dichotomies within a person's temperament, such as energy, information processing, decision-making, and life structuring.

Dr. David Keirsey later developed another influential temperament model in his book "Please Understand Me," co-authored with Marilyn Bates. He identified four fundamental temperaments in humanity: the Artisan, the Guardian, the Idealist, and the Rational.

Building upon Keirsey's work, Don Lowry created the True Colors model in 1978. Lowry recognized that other models were too complex and challenging for people to apply in their everyday lives. He was the first to apply the color metaphors of Orange, Gold, Green, and Blue to the four temperaments, coining this methodology as True Colors.