Famous Projects

Here are some showcase examples of how consultants and trainers use MindSonar to help organizations solve problems and achieve goals. Professionals using MindSonar can help any organization understand exactly how key people like managers, employees and customers think. Read more

What Is MindSonar?

If you had a magical machine that could measure how people think, what would you do with it? MindSonar is like an X-ray machine for the mind. It is a psychological test that enables consultants and trainers to measure people’s thinking style (metaprograms) and their criteria (what they find important). Read more

Seven ways to drive yourself crazy with metaprograms

MindSonar metaprogramsMost people are pretty good at crashing relationships and goofing up communication. Different people have different thinking styles (different metaprograms). And people often do not handle that very well. Look around you, and you will see plenty of irritation, misunderstanding, anger, Continue reading

MindSonar is a layered cake

MindSonar is really a two-layer system. Layer one is measuring metaprograms and values. Layer two is finding out which thinking style works in a given situation. MindSonar is adapted to the situation it is used in. This is a major difference with other psychological tests. Continue reading

Great MindSonar Day!

MindSonar metaprograms matchingWhat struck me at the MindSonar users day, in September, was how great the atmosphere was right from the beginning. It was like coming to a party. Everybody seemed so happy to see each other again. ‘Inspiring’ and ‘together’ were two words I heard a lot. There were presentations about important MindSonar projects, special applications, about how to sell your MindSonar products plus a nice experiential closure at the end of the day, that had us apply Continue reading

MindSonar Gathering Coming Up

Here in Holland, our yearly Gathering is coming up. From all over Holland and Belgium, people are coming to the MPA Users Day. In the future we want to make this an even more international event.

What is happening this year? There’s quite a few things going on.

To begin, I will give an overview of the past and the upcoming year. What have we been working on? Lots of things. Setting up a research module enabling us to – automatically – research new metaprograms. It will also enable us to research

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Hi everybody!

Welcome to the new MPA MindSonar site!

As you can see, we are still in the first stages of building it. So you are actually one of our first guests! Later, when you are a grandfather or a grandmother, sitting by the fire with your grandchildren, you can tell them: “Yes, my darling children, I actually was one of the first people ever to visit the MindSonar site!” “Get out of here, Grandpa (or Grandma)”, they will say, “you are joking, right?”

So go ahead and read some of the pages. Best place to start: Famous MindSonar Projects. And leave a comment or a post or a reply or whateverit’s called. I would really appreciate it!

All the best!

Jaap Hollander

Metaprograms in MindSonar

The concept of metaprograms

Metaprograms and working with people