The Lumina Spark Portrait An Introduction

Lumina Principles

oSelf Knowledge

oBuilding Rapport

oValuing Diversity

oCo-Creating Results

o A catalyst for meaningful dialogue to drive

personal goals

o Creates a powerful understanding of individual

and team behaviours

o Demonstrates the value of diversity

o A next-generation and innovative assessment

tool

o Based on the latest Big5 and Jungian research

o High accuracy, validity and reliability

Consider this:

What is a Portrait ?

What is a Portrait ?

• Representation of a person

• Expression is dominant

• Intent: - display likeness, personality

and emotion/mood

• Outward and inner likeness

The Lumina Spark Portrait

The Lumina Spark Portrait is the foundation of all Lumina programmes; a personalized psychometric assessment which helps individuals explore their own personality, increase their self-awareness and adapt behaviours to improve personal and business relationships and assist in creating effective teamwork.

The Lumina Spark Portrait is unique to each individual and gives a colourful and personalized framework for better self-understanding and improved working relationships with others.

In a facilitated process the portrait highlights individual strengths and possible limitations, individual diversity, possible blind spots, and provides powerful action-based learning that enhances interpersonal skills.

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Lumina Spark measures personality and

preference at three different levels:

4 color energies

8 psychological types

24 behavioural traits

The Four Colours

A Four Colour Lens

Organised. Observing. Reliable. Objective. Evidence Based

Intimate. Collaborative. Evolving.

Empowering. Calming

Sociable. Spontaneous. Imaginative. Cheerful.

Demonstrative

Purposeful. Direct. Bold. Competitive.

Takes Charge

Sometimes we overplay our strengths

Suspicious. Bureaucratic. Stuffy. Bogged down in

data. Indecisive. Analysis Paralysis

Reliant. Unassertive. Can’t say

“no”. Dependent. Passive

Excitable. Impulsive. Easily Distracted.

Disorganised. Social Butterfly

Driven. Aggressive. Controlling.

Lacking compassion. Dis-empowering

The Four Colour Energies

No order of colours is better than any other

Each combination offers unique qualities and

strengths

Everybody is capable of reading others and building

colourful rapport

We must never use knowledge of the colours to

“excuse-away” our over-extended behaviours

Everything that irritates us about others can lead to the understanding of ourselves.

– Carl Jung

What’s the BIG idea?

The Lumina Spark model is based on what has become

termed – the Big5 research paradigm. This research

represents the latest and most scientifically grounded

thinking on how to model personality.

Used in concert with the best thinking of Jung’s

model, the Big5 emerges from a vast arena of empirical

research and stands up to the test of time.

Lumina and The Big5

A total of five factors are used to define

personality.

These five factors are measured in bi-polarity to

form “normal” distribution instead of an “either-

or”.

The choice is not forced.

Within each of the factors are sub-factors

(“qualities”) that are scored on a continuum.

All factors are measured directly from the

questionnaire – nothing is assumed.

Lumina AND Jungian Attitudes and Functions

Expanding from 4 Colours to 8 Aspects

Introverted – Extraverted

Inspiration Driven – Discipline Driven

People Focussed – Outcome Focussed

Big Picture thinker – Down to Earth

Introverted – Extraverted

Inspiration Driven – Discipline Driven

People Focussed – Outcome Focussed

Big Picture thinker – Down to Earth

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Inspiration

Driven Adaptable

Flexible

Spontaneous

Discipline

Driven Purposeful

Structured

Reliable

Extraverted Sociable

Demonstrative

Takes Charge

Introverted Observing

Measured

Intimate

Big Picture

Thinker Conceptual

Imaginative

Radical

Down to

Earth Practical

Evidence Based

Cautious

People

Focussed Accommodating

Collaborative

Empathetic

Tough

Competitive

Logical

Outcome

Focussed

Score each of the 8 aspects between 0% and 100%

Note - opposite aspects do not need to add up to 100%

The Lumina Colour Mandala

The Four Colours and the Eight Aspects

Expanding from 8 Aspects to 24 Qualities

One of the unique elements of Lumina is that it investigates personality to the level of 24 qualities.

This allows learners to investigate specific qualities that can be found in each of them.

This precision and specificity fosters focussed questioning and deeper understanding of individual strengths and limitations.

This allows detailed insight into preferences and effort.

Each of the 24 qualities is

aligned to its opposite and in

doing so creates 12 pairs of

qualities.

The polarity and duality of

these qualities is helpful in

explaining the influence of

and the adapting to different

situations and context.

Understanding the balancing

of the sets assists in

analysing behaviour and

planning for continued

development.

The Three Personas

Another unique part of the Lumina

model is the designation of the three

personas – allowing learners three

different “views” of their personality

and assisting in understanding how they

are displayed in different situations.

Your Underlying Persona

o This is who you are at your most

natural

o This is what you do with your energy

when you are just “being”

o Not everyone will know this part of

you

o What qualities do you have a natural

strength in?

Your Everyday Persona

o These are the qualities that you make

a conscious effort to use

o This is the “you that you approve of”

and how you like to be seen by

society, work etc.

o This is what you choose to do with

your energy when you are aware of

others being around

Your Overextended Persona

o This is who you are under pressure

o This is where you put your energy

when you are stressed

o Are there any qualities here that show

up as greater than in your everyday or

underlying personas?

o How could you harness these qualities

sooner?

Summary and Overview:

o Body language

o Surroundings and working environment

o Choice of words and tone of voice

o Greeting and meeting

Speed Reading:

Valuing Diversity

o Teams are made up

of lots of different

kinds of individuals.

o Lumina Spark

recognises the value

that all of these

different individuals

bring to a team’s

effectiveness.

o Teams also have

their own identities

(notice the larger

circle)

Lumina Spark is:

• Personal

• Practical

• Collaborative

• Effective

• Empowering

• Inspirational

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