Receive our newsletter
Support Dechen Chöling
Follow us on Facebook
Menu
Home
About us
Shambhala
The path of Shambhala
Lineage
Organisation
Dechen Chöling
Practice Centre
Dharma Land of Great Bliss
Dechen Chöling Council
Community
Our Staff
Teachers
Blog
Programmes
Meditation Retreats
Contemplative Arts
Healing & Psychology
Spring Daoist Qi Gong Teachings
Family, Children, Youth
Online Practice
Local programmes
All programmes
Services
Accommodation
Catering
Translation
Shuttle service
Financial Policy
Rates, Terms & conditions
Rental
Participate
Participate in a Programme
Become a Member
Volunteer Program
Job Opportunities
Staff a Programme
Donate
English
Log in
Home
/
Test questionnaire
LinkedIn
This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.
Your name
*
1. What is your style of dress?
Flashy, colorful, and sexy
Rich, colorful, and lots of ornamentation
Simple, muted colors
Simple lines, solid colors, or geometric patterns
Plain, functional, and muted colors
If you can’t relate to the options in this question, leave it open. You can leave 5 questions unanswered. Answer at least 20 out of the 25 questions to complete the questionnaire.
2. What kind of landscape or environment do you prefer?
Great plains, deserts, snowfields, and sparsely furnished interiors
Big, busy cities and functional interiors
Gardens, flowering meadows, rolling hills, and warm, cozy interiors
High mountains or cities, and orderly interiors
Tropical jungles, dense forest, shopping malls, and richly decorated interiors
If you can’t relate to the options in this question, leave it open. You can leave 5 questions unanswered. Answer at least 20 out of the 25 questions to complete the questionnaire.
3. At what time of day do you feel at your best?
Morning
Dawn
No one particular time
Late afternoon
Dusk, twilight
If you can’t relate to the options in this question, leave it open. You can leave 5 questions unanswered. Answer at least 20 out of the 25 questions to complete the questionnaire.
4. Which sense perception is your favorite?
Smell and taste
No particular one
Sight
Touch (physical connection)
Hearing
If you can’t relate to the options in this question, leave it open. You can leave 5 questions unanswered. Answer at least 20 out of the 25 questions to complete the questionnaire.
5. What do you desire?
To just be
To do
To feel
To know
To have it all
If you can’t relate to the options in this question, leave it open. You can leave 5 questions unanswered. Answer at least 20 out of the 25 questions to complete the questionnaire.
6. Which of these activities is most natural to you?
Appreciating people and situations, hosting and embracing others
Having exciting interactions and communicating deeply
Creating and doing projects
Just being
Learning something and then teaching it to others
If you can’t relate to the options in this question, leave it open. You can leave 5 questions unanswered. Answer at least 20 out of the 25 questions to complete the questionnaire.
7. Which emotions feel most familiar to you?
Ignorance or denial fed by insecurity
Anger, impatience, and irritation with confusing situations and overly-emotional people
Clinging passion and comparison to others
Greed and pride fed by a poverty mentality
Jealousy fed by paranoia and competitiveness
If you can’t relate to the options in this question, leave it open. You can leave 5 questions unanswered. Answer at least 20 out of the 25 questions to complete the questionnaire.
8. What do you fear?
Not having enough
Emotional intimacy
Intrusion
Failure
Boredom, mediocrity, and rejection
If you can’t relate to the options in this question, leave it open. You can leave 5 questions unanswered. Answer at least 20 out of the 25 questions to complete the questionnaire.
9. What does your “stuckness” look like?
Self-pity, neediness, hunger for more, or overwhelmed
Overdrive leading to exhaustion; depletion
The mind becomes tied in knots by convoluted logic
Indifference, ambivalence, or denial
Obsession, unfulfilled desires, or addiction to intensity
If you can’t relate to the options in this question, leave it open. You can leave 5 questions unanswered. Answer at least 20 out of the 25 questions to complete the questionnaire.
10. What do you do to take care of yourself when you are upset?
Seek confirmation from others that I am lovable and feel lovable
Seek confirmation from others and reconnect to my own richness
Take some space and have patience until I come to clarity
Remember to slow down
Realize that nothing is a big deal
If you can’t relate to the options in this question, leave it open. You can leave 5 questions unanswered. Answer at least 20 out of the 25 questions to complete the questionnaire.
11. How are you most often when you are with others?
Intimate and emotional
Active, making things happen
Detached and logical
The center of attention
Spacious, simple
If you can’t relate to the options in this question, leave it open. You can leave 5 questions unanswered. Answer at least 20 out of the 25 questions to complete the questionnaire.
12. What is your best interpersonal style with friends and coworkers?
Clear-minded
Accommodating
Direct, straightforward
Embracing and appreciative
Empathetic and communicative
If you can’t relate to the options in this question, leave it open. You can leave 5 questions unanswered. Answer at least 20 out of the 25 questions to complete the questionnaire.
13. How do you get stuck in your relationships?
By being aloof, not caring, and spacing out
By being businesslike, confrontational, and controlling
By insisting on being right; by being intolerant, opinionated, critical, and sharp
By being possessive, overbearing, and demanding too much time and attention
By being clinging then rejecting, exhibiting a love/hate dynamic, trying too hard to please
If you can’t relate to the options in this question, leave it open. You can leave 5 questions unanswered. Answer at least 20 out of the 25 questions to complete the questionnaire.
14. What capacities or mental abilities do you have?
Intuitive and able to discriminate fine points
Spacious and accommodating
Holding the overview; facility with logic and reasoning; using structures and patterns
Turning thought into action without hesitation
Comprehensive and thorough
If you can’t relate to the options in this question, leave it open. You can leave 5 questions unanswered. Answer at least 20 out of the 25 questions to complete the questionnaire.
15. What is your learning style?
Repetition using simple, basic concepts; sleeping on it; osmosis
Intuitive, using imagery, creative expression, and empathetic communication
By doing; trial and error
Intellectual, using analysis, abstractions, and general principles
Amassing information; doing research
If you can’t relate to the options in this question, leave it open. You can leave 5 questions unanswered. Answer at least 20 out of the 25 questions to complete the questionnaire.
16. What is your style of thinking and use of language?
Clear, orderly, and precise
Speedy, matter-of-fact, and pragmatic; could be manipulative
Simple, slow
Individualistic, intuitive, creative, and feeling-based, using analogy and metaphor
Thorough, circular, comprehensive, and elaborate
If you can’t relate to the options in this question, leave it open. You can leave 5 questions unanswered. Answer at least 20 out of the 25 questions to complete the questionnaire.
17. What ways of knowing do you feel comfortable with?
Seeing the big picture and its details
By just being
Retaining large amounts of information
Seeing how things work
From the heart, intuitive, and by association
If you can’t relate to the options in this question, leave it open. You can leave 5 questions unanswered. Answer at least 20 out of the 25 questions to complete the questionnaire.
18. Which of these do you concern yourself with?
Nondoing
Boundaries, making things right, and having discipline
Communication, self-image, and pleasure
Making sure things get done
Wanting to encompass everything and everyone
If you can’t relate to the options in this question, leave it open. You can leave 5 questions unanswered. Answer at least 20 out of the 25 questions to complete the questionnaire.
19. Where do you get preoccupied?
Not knowing where I stand in relationships
Wanting to possess
Needing to get it done
Trying to make things the way I think they should be
Sticking my head in the sand, getting absorbed
If you can’t relate to the options in this question, leave it open. You can leave 5 questions unanswered. Answer at least 20 out of the 25 questions to complete the questionnaire.
20. When do you feel most productive?
Making things simple
Being resourceful
Knowing the answers, being right
Planning and managing
Making relationships and genuine contact
If you can’t relate to the options in this question, leave it open. You can leave 5 questions unanswered. Answer at least 20 out of the 25 questions to complete the questionnaire.
21. When do you feel most ineffective?
Feeling incompetent; performance anxiety
Not feeling right or perfect
Feeling inadequate, inferior, and unworthy
Feeling incomplete, lonely, and depressed
Not certain who I am
If you can’t relate to the options in this question, leave it open. You can leave 5 questions unanswered. Answer at least 20 out of the 25 questions to complete the questionnaire.
22. What is your defense mechanism or coping strategy?
Shutting down; tunnel vision
Taking control
Sticking to my own view; distancing myself
Wanting to please; ingratiating
Arrogance; amassing anything spiritual or material
If you can’t relate to the options in this question, leave it open. You can leave 5 questions unanswered. Answer at least 20 out of the 25 questions to complete the questionnaire.
23. What do you like in teamwork?
More information
On-the-spot brainstorming
Speedy efficiency
Clear communication
Personal connection
If you can’t relate to the options in this question, leave it open. You can leave 5 questions unanswered. Answer at least 20 out of the 25 questions to complete the questionnaire.
24. What do you need from your supervisor?
An action plan
Independence
Networking leads
Confirmation and encouragement
Specific direction
If you can’t relate to the options in this question, leave it open. You can leave 5 questions unanswered. Answer at least 20 out of the 25 questions to complete the questionnaire.
25. What is the essential quality of your wisdom?
Insightful clarity
All-encompassing space
All-accomplishing action
Intuitive discrimination
Equanimity
If you can’t relate to the options in this question, leave it open. You can leave 5 questions unanswered. Answer at least 20 out of the 25 questions to complete the questionnaire.
