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Multiple Natures is a psychological model developed by American educator and researcher, Steven Rudolph. It attempts to account for people’s natures and personality traits that lead to particular behavioral patterns, especially with respect to their work and learning. It seeks to explain why certain people are drawn more toward certain activities and careers.

In total, Rudolph has identified nine such natures (Multiple Natures) that are possessed by each person. These include: Protective, Educative, Administrative, Creative, Healing, Entertaining, Providing, Entrepreneurial, and Adventurous.

Rudolph’s Categories of Multiple Natures

Protective Nature

People with strong Protective Natures have the tendency to protect themselves, others, bodies, ideas or practices from harm, damage, injury, or loss. They think first and foremost about others’ safety and security. They are lovers of justice, and are the first ones to raise their voices when they see anyone being wronged. People with a strong Protective Nature can be successful as defense personnel, police officers, security guards, lawyers, judges, critics, journalists, talk show hosts, environmental activists, social activists, politicians, software security experts, etc.

Educative Nature

People with a strong Educative Nature have the tendency to acquire knowledge, skills, or experience to teach, instruct, guide, or inform others. They find immense pleasure in teaching others and their greatest satisfaction comes from helping someone understand something. People with a strong Educative Nature can be good as teachers, tutors, corporate trainers, music teachers, spiritual masters, etc.

Administrative Nature

People with a strong Administrative Nature have the tendency to focus on details, organize and get work accomplished, and delegate responsibility. They have an innate urge to make plans and goals — and to see them through to completion. They are concerned with the details, and are great task masters — creating to-do lists, schedules, and managing people effectively. People with a strong Administrative Nature do well as managers, coaches, diplomats, receptionists, human resource managers, secretaries, personal assistants, public relations professionals, etc.

Creative Nature

Renowned British author, Sir Ken Robinson, defined people with a strong Creative Nature as 'the ones who have the tendency to generate original ideas or works that have value.’ They are always full of ideas and engage themselves in activities of innovation and invention. They are great in brainstorming sessions, and make excellent problem solvers. People with a strong Creative Nature usually work well as artists, writers, graphic designers, fashion designers, R&D professionals, interior designers, architects, advertising professionals, etc.

Healing Nature

People with a strong Healing Nature have the tendency to guide others to recover from physical, mental, emotional, or spiritual imbalance, or pain. They get their greatest pleasure from helping others stay healthy and fit. On hearing about a problem, they are eager to search for the cause as well as for a solution. People with a strong Healing Nature work well as doctors, nurses, massage therapists, counselors, psychologists, Reiki practitioners, etc.

Entertaining Nature

People with a strong Entertaining Nature have the tendency to amuse others or attract, focus or maintain people’s attention on themselves or their work. They love to entertain others, creating experiences that evoke emotions. They crave being the center of attention — making jokes, singing songs, acting, mimicking, and so on. People with a strong Entertaining nature will find themselves serving as singers, musicians, dancers, actors, comedians, models, radio jockeys, magicians, etc.

Providing Nature

People with a strong Providing Nature have the tendency to invest their time or interests to help, assist or care for others. They have a built-in drive to serve others. They take pleasure in helping others be happy and assisting them in achieving their goals. People with a strong Providing Nature can be good as chefs, waiters, airline hostesses, real estate agents, farmers, housewives, social workers, etc.

Entrepreneurial Nature

People with a strong Entrepreneurial Nature have the tendency to take up projects or create opportunities of a commercial or humanitarian nature, using a high degree of independence, where the reward may be monetary or involve self-satisfaction. Their greatest pleasure comes from creating financial value. Entrepreneurs think in numbers and figures, and are constantly on the move to bring together people, concepts, and capital in a way that generates money. People with a strong Entrepreneurial Nature work quite well as owners of companies, sales people, marketing professionals, traders, investors, etc.

Adventurous Nature

People with a strong Adventurous Nature have the tendency to seek out unusual challenges or place themselves far outside the space of what an average person would consider normal or safe. They enjoy putting their minds and bodies to the test to see what is possible. Adventurers get a high from surfing the edge — from exploring the boundaries of life, and their own capabilities. People with a strong Adventurous Nature find themselves as athletes, astronauts, explorers, researchers, etc.

Origin of Concept

Rudolph worked extensively on Howard Gardner’s Theory of Multiple Intelligences to create curriculums that foster personalized learning experiences and guide children towards careers that are ideal for their Intelligence types. However, he found that career choices were too diversified to be comfortably categorized into the Intelligences proposed by Gardner. Rudolph analyzed a number of other models and through observation of different types of behavior, identified different categories of Natures.

Core Applications

Rudolph’s Multiple Natures model has been applied to parenting, teaching, career guidance, and self-discovery. It has implications for classroom teaching and can help teachers understand their students better and design learning activities based on specific interests of each child. Jiva Public School, Faridabad, is the first school where the Multiple Natures model has been successfully incorporated into the core curriculum.

Multiple Natures also has implications for the corporate sector. It can help organizations find the right people for the right job by identifying employees’ closest Nature types and assigning them the work profile that best suits their interests.

External links

• Jiva Education Jiva Education Website
• Jiva Public School Jiva Public School Website
• What's My Nature Multiple Natures Website