Nijmegen, Netherlands - October 20, 2012 - MindSonar is a new on line system measuring how people think and what they find important. Technical terms for what is measured are: NLP meta programs and Graves (Spiral Dynamics) value systems.

Imagine you had an apparatus that could measure how people think, how would you use it? How would you use it to help people develop themselves? How would you use that machine to develop groups and organizations? MindSonar is a new web based psychological method that measures the building blocks of people's thinking style. It does not measure what someone thinks, it measures how someone thinks. It measures things like ‘towards’ (a focus on goals) versus ‘away from’ (a focus on problems) or 'structure' (a focus on how things fit together) versus 'concept' (focus on principles and essentials). Your thinking style is a combination of meta programs: different meta programs working together. Your meta programs often determine how you feel and what you do.

Who uses MindSonar?
MindSonar is being used all over the world by coaches, trainers, consultants and organizational developers. MindSonar helps them get to the heart of their clients thinking. They use MindSonar in prestigious organizations like the Dutch military (leadership development), a top German car brand (sales), a National sports federation (the selection of new jury members), an Olympic team (team building) and one of Europe's premier banks (marketing). And there are non-commercial applications of MindSonar as well; it is also used in volunteer groups, day care centers and schools.

A Different kind of Test
MindSonar is different from almost all other psychological tests. Personality tests will say what you are like as a person; always and everywhere. Most people feel limited and confined by these tests. Some earlier personality tests will even say how sick or healthy your personality is in psychiatric terms. Fortunately, MindSonar is not like that. It measures how you think in a given situation. MindSonar assumes that you may think in different ways in different situations. So you are not ‘put in a box’ or ‘pinned to a type’. MindSonar does not assume that certain thinking styles are good or bad. MindSonar assumes that all thinking styles have their time and place were they can be useful.

Professional use only
You will not find MindSonar as a do-it-yourself test on the web. MindSonar is offered exclusively through a network of trained and certified MindSonar professionals. There is an important extra value in the guidance that a trained MindSonar professional can offer. The combination of the the professional and the measurement is much more powerful that just the measurement by itself.

About MindSonar
An X-ray machine for the mind. This site is about MindSonar. A psychological test that measures how people think. MindSonar is for human thinking what the x-ray machine is for the human skeleton. Do you think you know how someone thinks? With MindSonar you can be sure. I like to joke about this: “First we built pyramids, then we put a man on the moon and now we are measuring human thought”. So, if you had an x-ray machine for the mind, what would you do with it?

Website:
http://www.mindsonar.info