The Five Types – MounDance

Generator

Responding

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1. Generator and manifesting generator

Share of the population: about 70%
Task: Carries projects out. This group represents the „worker bees" of society.
Special ability: Has great capacity for work and a natural liveliness.
Characteristics: Does not like waiting, keeps a foot on the accelerator. Feels good having got something done and having been able to spend energy. Finds it hard to do nothing for any length of time.
Need: Wants to be loved for being as they are, or for what they achieve.
Possible problem: In order to be loved they bend themselves out of shape, take on too many of other people's tasks, or suppress their liveliness for others.
Feature in the HD chart: The sacral center (life force) is colored in.

The generator's task is to carry things out — projects, work. This type is fundamentally open to cooperation, interaction and communication with others. Generators have a particular capacity for life and for work. They want to be occupied and to put the life force they have to use. That energy wants to be worked through and applied day by day. Being inactive for a longer stretch can leave a generator frustrated and dissatisfied. A long holiday of complete idleness — a deckchair on the beach — can be difficult for a generator. People of this type often recover better on an active holiday where they can walk, surf or otherwise be busy.

The life force is only available to a generator, though, when they genuinely feel like the task at hand. If they act out of duty or guilt, their motor supplies no energy for it and they will feel drained after a short while. It is therefore particularly important for them to find tasks that they mostly enjoy or that excite them — especially at work.

Because of that abundance of energy, generators often do too much of a good thing: they do work that is not really necessary or that nobody asked for, and then they waste their energy. This type therefore does better not to plan so much or to set things going, but to stay open and available, so as to respond to what actually turns up. The best strategy is to wait until somebody asks them to do, mend, improve or help with something in particular. And then a generator should decide very consciously whether they really want to follow that request or that impulse. There is a tendency in generators to say yes too quickly, which often leads to their doing things they do not actually feel like and that do them no good in the end.

Most generators first have to learn to say no as well. A useful indicator when deciding whether to follow a request or an impulse is the question of whether the thought of the task releases energy in them, excites them, electrifies them. The thing to check is whether the inner motor starts up at the prospect or not.

Manifesting Generator

Responding and informing

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The manifesting generator Unlike the generator, the manifesting generator has an unbroken channel from one of the three motor centers (root, sacral or solar plexus) to the throat center, which is expression. The qualities of the channels that make this connection get used particularly often, and so get trained — over time they build the particular abilities that make this type a specialist in those areas.

Manifestor

Initiating

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3. Manifestor

Share of the population: about 8%
Task: Setting things going, creating what is new, starting new projects.
Special ability: An alpha animal that can carry others along, has strength for change, is good at initiating projects. Fast and impatient.
Characteristics: A lone wolf with a warrior quality. Does not accept orders, finds subordination rather difficult, does what they want. Not well suited to teamwork. Usually not very sociable, and does not care for physical contact.
Need: Wants to have an effect and to set developments in motion.
Possible problem: Feels they could set far more going if only they were allowed to, or asked. Overwhelms others with their impatience and their pace. Often feels alone.
Feature in the HD chart: The sacral center (life force) is white and there is at least one channel from a motor center — possibly by way of other centers — to the throat center.

Manifestors have very strong energy for acting on their own and independently of others. The main task of this type is to initiate what is new. That is why they often have wonderful ideas and inspire other people to begin something.

If a manifestor feels restricted in their freedom, they usually get angry quickly. Even in childhood manifestors are often hard to tame and show a certain wildness. What frequently happens then — with girls in particular — is that parents train that wildness out of the manifestor child, with the result that this strength can no longer be lived later on and often withers.

It is very important for this type to inform other people about what they intend to do and why. If they simply try to give orders instead, they usually meet resistance, because that is no longer how people deal with one another. Orders worked well in earlier times, and many leaders, kings and rulers of the past were manifestors. Manifestors are lone fighters and usually find it hard to subordinate themselves. They hate being told what to do, and so they mostly do what they want.

A manifestor's success today depends above all on how well they manage to win others over to what they have in mind.

Projector

Being recognized

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2. Projector

Share of the population: about 21%
Task: Coordinating people and processes, keeping an overview, management, leading.
Special ability: Empathy, qualities of leadership, able to see through complex systems.
Characteristics: Sees a lot and notices a lot. Needs to be really good at what they do.
Need: Wants to be needed by others and to be successful, which they achieve above all by coordinating other people.
Possible problem: Does not have the continuous strength of the first group and needs breaks more often, or exhaustion threatens. Often taken for a know-it-all, because they see and know a great deal.
Feature in the HD chart: The sacral center (life force) is white, at least two other centers are colored in, and no channel runs from one of the four motor centers (heart, solar plexus, sacral or root) to the throat center.

As a projector you have the ability to recognize the nature and the potential of other people, and to guide them. You have great empathy and can see through others well. Your main task is to make systems more effective — to make things, processes, projects and organizations better and more effective.

As a projector you are not here to carry things out yourself or to initiate new things: for you it is about coordinating others, supporting them in using their energies well, and helping them find the way that is right for them.

It also matters that you take enough breaks, because less stamina and strength are available to you than to others. Trying to keep up with generators — and that is 70% of all people — will lead you into exhaustion.

Reflector

Mirroring

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4. Reflector

Share of the population: about 1%
Task: Observer and alarm system of society.
Special ability: Sees the larger connections. Has an objective, unfiltered perception of their surroundings. Is like a chameleon, strongly influenced by the people around them. No continuity — everything is constantly changing and there is hardly anything to hold on to. Can seem cool and detached. Stands outside the system and is therefore the only one who can observe it neutrally.
Need: To be seen by others, to be allowed to live.
Possible problem: Finds no settled place in life. Is disappointed by the world and by people. Fears trouble if they openly say the truth they see. In order to fit in, to belong or not to stand out, they put on an act instead of being open and honest.
Feature in the HD chart: All centers are white.

As a reflector all your centers are white — undefined. That means you are influenced extremely strongly by whoever you are with at the time. You can recognize the nature of people fully and without any coloring of your own. You also notice very precisely when something somewhere is wrong, because your task is to be an observer of life and of society. Nobody else has the ability to take in their surroundings with such clarity and such deep understanding.

The only constant in your life is change. Part of your task is therefore to recognize your own great openness and to accept that constant change. It is simply a matter of marvelling at life and at your surroundings, and of telling the people around you — if they want to hear it — how you see things and what you have realized, so that they can make corrections where needed.