Linguistic and verbal intelligence

Our linguistic and verbal intelligence allows us to imprint words on our minds as a guide for moving forward. People with this driver installed enjoy wordplay, express themselves easily, read a lot, possess an excellent vocabulary, debate at ease, can "think aloud", and can absorb information listening to other people at lectures or seminars, on audio cassettes, and radio.

This intelligence can convey complex information using metaphors, analogies and story telling, to generate new thoughts. This role seems highly valued in business settings.

Typical roles: novelists, poets, copywriters, scriptwriters, orators, political leaders, editors, publicists, journalists, speech writers.

Mapped to the Sweet Medicine Wheel healing preferences, this preference could be a fit for water healing. A water healing or healer uses empathic and sympathetic connections. Key is being able to listen to the heart of what someone is not saying, and making empathic connections with others. As a result of that, people with a preference for this type of healing can easily burn-out.

If that is the case they can learn to build a protective shield for other people’s state of mind. This form of healing works best for family therapy.

Logical and mathematical intelligence

Our logical and mathematical intelligence allows us to discern patterns and relationships between objects and numbers. People with this driver installed like to "crunch numbers", enjoy counting and calculating, quantifying, theorizing, computers, problem solving, complex scientific tumblediving, and experimenting in logical ways.

Nonzero-sum games are mixed motive games. The interests of the players are neither strictly coincident nor strictly opposed yet generate intrapersonal and interpersonal conflicts. They are not always solvable and provide (new) insights into important areas of interdependent choice. In these games, one player's losses are not always equal to another player's gains.

This intelligence can easily locate specific examples to substantiate a general point of view and tend to follow a step-by-step approach. This role seems highly valued in market-driven cultures that value counting monies.

Typical roles: mathematicians, scientists, engineers, police investigators, lawyers, accountants.

Mapped to the Sweet Medicine Wheel healing preferences, this could easily fit technician healers. A technician healing or healer uses existing mapped out methods and values within a contextual paradigm. A connection with life force is not required for this form of healing.

Interpersonal intelligence

Our interpersonal intelligence allows us to communicate with others. People with this driver installed enjoy the company of other people, either in connection with work or socially, have empathy, understanding of human nature, awareness of goals and intentions of others, humor, team sports, several very close friends,are naturally helpful, and take the lead by discussing problems with those "led" in preference to going it alone.

This intelligence knows how to negotiate, mix well, read intentions of others and social situations, enjoys group activities and likes to cooperate. On occasion, it can be perceived as "manipulative".

This role seems highly valued in sales, marketing, politics, teaching, training, facilitating, conflict resolution, moderating, and mediating.

Typical roles that fit this intelligence well: politicians, teachers, religious leaders, counsellors, sales people, managers, esteemed colleagues, and people people.

Mapped to the Sweet Medicine Wheel healing preferences, this would fit mud healing. Mud healers and healing use a connection with own and other deeper feelings. This connection allows for the power to do without knowledge about how is done what is done.

Spatial and visual intelligence

Our spatial and visual intelligence allows us to perceive the world in three or more dimensions. People having this driver effectively installed read maps and charts, plans and drawings, jigsaws and mazes, have a good sense of direction, prefer reading heavily illustrated materials, doodle, like work that involves stripping down and reassembling components, and have great perceptual and visualisation skills.

People using this intelligence can be observed to take notes that include color and images. The intricate inter-relationships of networks and systems, the disposition of items in space, are recognised readily by individuals having a good visual-spatial intelligence. In school, this intelligence leads to a preference of geometry over algebra.

This role seems highly valued in development for maintaining overviews of what's happening and in marketing environments for imagining aesthetically pleasing products.

Typical roles: architects, painters, sculptors, navigators, scouts, theoretical physicistand battlefield strategists (mentats).

Mapped to the Sweet Medicine Wheel healing preferences, this would fit O’Larien or Shaper healing. This form can create choreographies (processes) in a masterful way because they can see patterns, timing and the big picture.

Musical intelligence

Our musical intelligence allows us to exhibit a good sense of rhythm. People with this driver installed are sensitive to pitch, melody, rhythm and tone, can sing on key, play a musical instrument, identify sounds of diverse musical instruments, recall a tune after hearing it just a few times.

This gift seems one of the oldest. This intelligence is sensitive to the emotional power of music. Music evokes emotions and images to comprise a meaningful dynamic tapestry -- that can be named identity. People using this intelligence can be observed to hum a tune and tap their feet to a beat of a melody.

This role seems highly valued in market driven environments for making jingles and catchy phrases.

Typical roles of this intelligence are performers, composers, conductors, dancers, musical audiences, recording engineers, makers of musical instruments, piano tuners, aural cultures.

Mapped to the Sweet Medicine Wheel healing preferences, this would fit spiritual healing. A spirituel healer or healing uses a connection with inner 18 to remain within the law. Sometimes inner 18 are referred to as previous lifetimes and/or ancestral memories. This form uses Voice, chanting, channeling and music, and invents new forms of healing in an ongoing manner.

Natural intelligence

Gardner said,

"The naturalist intelligence refers to the ability to recognize and classify plants, minerals, and animals, including rocks and grass and all variety of flora and fauna. The ability to recognize cultural artifacts like cars or sneakers may also depend on the naturalist intelligence. …(S)ome people from an early age are extremely good at recognizing and classifying artifacts. For example, we all know kids who, at 3 or 4, are better at recognizing dinosaurs than most adults."

In my perception that boils down to

the human ability to solve problems or to make something that
is valued in one or more cultures

Our naturalist intelligence allows us to focus on hierarchical categorizations, development of humanity and preservation of life on Earth.

This intelligence likes to keep pets, feels at ease with elements of nature, trees, flowers, plants, stones, animals, maintains interest in the ecological issues that seem to dominate contemporary consciousness of mankind, possesses excellent knowledge of the functions of the body, usually live healthy lives in accordance with this knowledge, and is interested in the origins of the universe and the evolution of life.

The associated roles seem highly valued in environments where power jockying is required and our ability to identify types of drivers of others quickly, by where offices are located, type of cars driven, clothes worn.

Mapped to the Sweet Medicine Wheel healing preferences, this would fit trickster healing. Trickster healers or healing uses symbols, sigils and imagery to “trick” people into healing themselves. Do not close blinds or curtains on this intelligence.

Bodily and kinesthetic intelligence

Our bodily and kinesthetic intelligence allows us to engage in sports, dancing, work and any area where agility is required. People with this driver installed enjoy trekking, swimming, sports, rough and tumble, handicrafts, sculpture and using hand gestures and stances to express themselves.

This intelligence has excellent timing, learns by moving and participation, remembers what was done rather than what was said or observed, doodles or plays with objects while listening and loves hugging.

We can observe this intelligence when we physically touch or handle something where such manipulation leads to greater understanding of the subject we have under scrutiny. This intelligence does not care much for systematically going through instruction manuals prior to entering new learning experiences.

Typical roles: Dancers, actors, athletes, sports people, mimics, surgeons, martial arts practitioners and teachers.

Mapped to the Sweet Medicine Wheel healing preferences, this would fit kinesthetic healing. Kinesthetic healers or healing uses hands to move energy. That doesn’t have to be a show, nor is it a mysterious Master or Mistress act. If done well, the body that is moved learns how to heal itself, and is not made dependent on the healer.

This preference can be stimulated by changing seats regularly; Using stories and metaphors, like in myths; Supportive tactile materials when learning, like in Montessori education; role play, improv and sculpting practices with for example Satir stances, and (re)designing and playing games.

Intrapersonal intelligence

Our intrapersonal intelligence allows us to be quiet, reflective, and happy in our own environment and company. People with this driver installed enjoy independent thinking, doing their own thing, and self development and self fulfillment rising from awareness of who they are and where they are going.

This intelligence possesses a realistic notion of its own strengths and weaknesses and self-knowledge of its sensitivities to one's own values. Goals and visions are usually clear and are attained through self-directed actions. It is a capacity to form an accurate, veridical of oneself and to be able to use that model to operate effectively in life.

Typical roles: novelists, counsellors, wise elders, white wolves, philosophers, gurus, people with mystery at their side and all around them.

Mapped to the Sweet Medicine Wheel healing preferences, this preference would fit trance or meditative healers. Trance or meditatieve healers or healing uses the matrix of a being for healing. Open Space butterflying is an excellent example of this healing form.

Existential intelligence

Our existential intelligence allows us to remember and know why we are here. It allows for women that have come to run with white wolves, to do so. This intelligence let us travel beyond our belief systems ...

Existential intelligence is the capacity to ask and try to answer Very Big Questions, like where is that restaurant at the end of the Universe?

Mapped to the Sweet Medicine Wheel healing preferences, this would fit void healing. Void healers or healing uses the two seers, existential and emotional, and can call on all other forms of healing, depending …

Emotional intelligence

Our emotional intelligence allows us to recognize emotions while experiencing them. Emotional intelligence can be perceived as a type of social intelligence that involves the ability to monitor one's own and others' emotions, to discriminate among them, and to use the information to help guide one's thinking and congruent actions.

Self-awareness (intrapersonal intelligence) and empathy and handling relationships (interpersonal intelligence) can also be perceived as dimensions of social intelligence.

Mapped to the Sweet Medicine Wheel healing preferences, the concept of emotional intelligence would be a part of void healing. Void healers or healing uses both seers, existential and emotional, and those two can call on all other intelligences (forms of healing).