The world tells you you need to be a very particular thing, a tiny little box you're supposed to squeeze into, because of the color of your skin, because of what's between your legs, or how big your body is. This starts from before you enter the world, and to resist often means punishment and having to wander an uncharted wilderness alone. A lot of people who are confused about who they might be get into personality typology to get a sense of who they might be, to feel put, yet again, in another tight restrictive box. Holistic Typology aims to help people see the variety and beauty in the rich varied kaleidoscope of who they are. Both getting to know some of the  consistent aspects of self that repeat across their life, and the unique spontaneous ways these can rearrange and transform moment by moment to face new contexts.

The three core principles of Holistic Typology are viability of self knowledge, the importance of consistent inconsistencies, and Foundational Balance.

• Viability of self knowledge means that we believe people are able to discover their own truths and deserve the creative freedom to enact their own self-actualization. That people can  know and live authentically within their authentic preferences given basic safety, a map of their full options, information about these options realistically entail in our society, and room to play, dream and experiment. As an extension of this we believe that people deserve to be able to live their felt truth, barring considerations of realistic harm to others, even if it is deemed strange or off putting to others. We also believe that totally personal liberation is not possible, and that part of knowing oneself is understanding how society has shaped you and the ways that others' subordination constrain your own freedom. 
• Consistent inconsistency  means that we believe that people act in seemingly contradictory ways, but instead of saying there is no preference of pattern there. instead that people exist in a dance with personal and cultural experience, internal urges, and preferences that exist in particular ratios or across specific contexts and not other. Mapping out this terrain of subtlety can lead to a much richer and keen understanding of who one is and might become.
• Foundational Balance is an argument that people need to engage and develop across the many different contexts and domains of life in order to fully actualize, effectively address their life challenge, and most efficaciously actualize their dearest wishes. One example that illustrates is the authority chain which is comprised of two ends, the Foundational End which is aligned with the Innocent aspiration in Aesthetics Aspirations Personality Typology, innocent is soft and needy, and the Executive End which is aligned with aligned with Sovereign, which is commanding and authoritative. There are people who in Holistic Typology are very strongly innocent or sovereign in their personality, they wou ld be still guided towards seeking balance and integration of the full spectrum of who they might be including the opposite end either before or while exploring the expression of their personality. This integration into one's regulation and balance is vital to real knowledge of and healthy expression of preference. Without this people get turned into a dysfunctional caricature of who they are or who society wants them to be. 
  
  It can be a vulnerable and challenging process to untangle oneself from narratives forced upon oneself and begin to act in more alignment with oneself. We recommend taking it slowly and to use insights about self to find supportive loving community and safety to  integrate self-knowledge within joy, rest, connection, and coregulation.
  
  

To begin with Holistic Typology we recommend beginning with this Foundational Balance test here, and reading about Foundational Balance here. To supplement this I recommend reading these other resources that offer resources and perspective about your unique place in society.

After taking that we recommend the Simplified Aesthetics Aspiration Personality Test here and simplified Need for Stimulation Typology Test here. After taking this I recommend reading about the generative and exploitative paths here. 

With that context you'll have more context to enter the library and get into the 3 Contexts of Self and more advanced models of Need for Stimulation typology test here. You can read about a fictional example of someone being typed in the layered models here

You can look into the other systems here, as well as read about what AAPT and Stimulation Typology interact with them.