Fleet and Family lighting way for NAS JRB New Orleans through Four Lenses
BELLE CHASSE, La. – The Fleet and Family Support Center (FFSC) is a lighthouse for many families and individuals who call Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base (NAS JRB) New Orleans their haven and harbor. As is the case with any beacon, the light provided by FFSC requires calibration to provide guidance through the unique circumstances that bring individuals to them. One of the tools used in this calibration is the Four Lenses workshop, which the FFSC staff attended Sept. 15 onboard NAS JRB New Orleans.
The purpose of the course is to raise awareness of one’ s inner strengths and values to increase their awareness of the strengths and values of others around them, says Chaplains Religious Enrichment Development Operation (CREDO) Southeast Cmdr. Jim Rutan.
“There isn’t anything you can do to make a team stronger than making a team better understand each other,” said Rutan. “When you understand yourself better, you begin to know what your preferences, strengths and needs are, and you get a window into what other people need as well. This multiplies your strengths”
The course is designed to help individuals learn more about their own personality types to enhance their interpersonal relationships. Adapted from the Meyers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), it simplifies complex personality profiles into four distinct, easy-to-remember color profiles, or “lenses”: gold, orange, green and blue.
According to Four Lenses, blues value relationships and empathetic connections, golds value structure and responsibility, oranges value spontaneity and creativity and greens value logic and systemic planning.
Participants formed groups during the workshop based on their personality types and discussed their values, joys, strengths and needs.
“They’re building a stronger team, a stronger base and stronger command, which makes for a stronger Navy,” said Rutan.
Fleet and Family Support Center Director Lasha George encourages this workshop to any department or tenant command that might seek training for team cohesion and self-awareness.
“When we can take care of ourselves and are full in ourselves, then we can serve others in the capacity that they need us to be present in for them,” said George. “We serve the military community; therefore we want to be present for them and be available. When we are self-aware of who we are and how much we can offer is when we can serve others.”
NAS JRB New Orleans is home to 33 active-duty and Reserve tenant commands from the Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, Army and Coast Guard. As a premier military training destination with direct access to Gulf of America airspace, the air station operates two active runways to support joint-force combat readiness and homeland defense missions.
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