[NO RECORDING] Drawing on information and exercises from the book Bringing Out the Best in Yourself at Work: How to Use the Enneagram System for Success, this session focuses on integrating spirituality when we bring the Enneagram to the workplace. While this session includes a conceptual framework for eliciting spirituality at work, its primary orientation will be experiential, providing [...]

[NO RECORDING] Those doing change work may unwittingly help people get better at what they've always done to keep themselves stuck in a box. In contrast, significant shifts can occur by moving beyond first-order change (doing something better without examining the Enneagram worldview, or "box") to second-order or transformational change (stepping "out of the box"). Participant exercises will demonstrate [...]

[NO RECORDING] This innovative presentation reveals profound insights into the fundamental fears and desires that arise in intimacy for each of the 9 Enneagram Types. Based on ongoing research, this workshop will focus on the fascinating results from an extensive 3-fold questionnaire. This research was designed to investigate the relationship between the 9 Enneagram Types, the 3 Instinctual Drives, [...]

[NO RECORDING] Anger is an incredibly constructive or destructive force in our lives. It can be used for the conversion of energy to our best self or tear our relationships apart. What is anger's function in our lives? What causes it or drives it? And most importantly how can we use anger in our psychological and spiritual development? This [...]

[NO RECORDING] This workshop provides participants with pathways of liberation from conditioning and fearful reactions to genuine awakening and Essence. Through instruction, inquiry, experiential exercises, breath, and meditations, participants are guided to states of Essence. Embodied presence of Essence dissolves the dominance of defensive structures, thereby opening pathways to build healthy psychic structures through which Essence can manifest in [...]

[NO RECORDING] The focus of this program is to present practical details of how to apply the Enneagram as both a worldview and a tool in guiding the process of personal change. The objectives are to conceptualize the process of change, to utilize the structural underpinning of the types to understand the issues underlying the client's identified need, and [...]

[NO RECORDING] Guiding An Organization Through Stress, Complexity, And Uncertainty, A Leader Is Particularly Challenged To Become A More Positive, Calming, Non-Anxious Presence. How Can Leaders Become Comfortable Within The Maddening Context Of Ambiguity, Polarized Viewpoints, And Irreconcilable Contradictions? Getting Unstuck From The Trap Of Either/Or Thinking Means That Leaders Need To See The Big Picture While Developing Confidence [...]

[NO RECORDING] Our new parenting program, "There's No Place Like Home: Intelligent Parenting for Today's Family" unites three themes: the three centers of human intelligence and what each contributes to intelligent parenting, characters from the Wizard of Oz because they are related to the three centers, and the three styles of parenting that draw upon elements of the Enneagram. [...]

[NO RECORDING] The Subject Of This Workshop Is The Integration Of Enneagram Theory With The Western Occult Or Mystery Tradition. Using Information And Wisdom Gleaned From Various Sources, Including Theosophical Writings, The Alice A. Bailey Corpus, The Egyptian Or Hermetic Tradition, And Jungian Materials, Carl Will Talk About Both The Nature Of The Soul And Its Relationship To The [...]

[NO RECORDING] The Most Efficient Way For The Enneagram To Be Embraced By The Mainstream Population May Be Through Acceptance Of The Scientific Community That The Enneagram Is A "Real" And Measurable System. Dr. Thomas Discusses Current Theories In The Biological Dynamics Underlying The Enneagram. Topics Include Current Research In The Enneagram, Personality Research In Related Areas, And Proposals [...]

[NO RECORDING] Reviewing The Events Of One's Life Is Highly Conducive To Acquiring Self-Knowledge, Which Can Lead To Self-Acceptance. With Self-Acceptance, It Becomes Easier To Connect With Other Human Beings And Have A Richer, More Joyful Life. Enneagram Study Can Play An Important Part In Life Review And Help Us See The Relationship Between Our Behavior And Our Type. [...]

[NO RECORDING] All Subjective Experience Has A Sensory Structure, An "Inner Architecture," And Anything We Do Follows A Sequence Of Internal Sensory Steps - A Combination Seeing, Hearing, Feeling, Smelling, And Tasting. Each Enneagram Style Also Has Specific Sensory Qualities That Shape Our Enneagramatic Reactions. Whenever Someone Behaves In A Compulsive, Fixated Way From Within Their Enneagram Style There [...]

[NO RECORDING] A comparative study of the relationship between points Four and Five as artists, from the point of view of the art they produced and statements about the artist by themselves and others who knew them. This will be a slide presentation and discussion. The works of several artists, including Edvard Munch, Georgia O'Keefe, and Alberto Giacometti, will [...]

[NO RECORDING] In this workshop, we will explore the deepest fears of our type, center, and subtype, and the ways we compulsively compensate for these fears. We will look at the automatic ways we behave as a result of these compensations and describe a multi-dimensional framework, which shows the particular ways we lose our true selves. Finally, we will [...]

[NO RECORDING] This session will introduce our method of using the Enneagram with teenagers. Our "Awakening Workshop" addresses teenagers between the ages of 15 to 20, because at this stage a teenager begins to separate from his family. It goes further than information gathering or a mere personality description. We try to inculcate in them the ability to reflect [...]

[NO RECORDING] Spiritual Growth Participants will experience a mini-Appreciative Inquiry into the topic of Inspired Spiritual Growth for their Enneagram type. They will share stories about those moments when they have experienced Inspired Spiritual Growth. They will then identify the conditions that support Inspired Spiritual Growth, agree on two or three common conditions or themes that support Inspired Spiritual [...]

[NO RECORDING] Death is the only certainty in life. Despite this, the topic is generally avoided because it causes uneasiness, fear and pain. Sooner or later, everyone will be faced with the challenge of having to accompany a loved one through dying and certainly one's own death. The challenge is to reconcile oneself with vulnerability and mortality and to [...]

[NO RECORDING] An innovative approach to conflict resolution that has proven highly effective in consulting work with corporations and organizations. It combines the Harvard Law School strategy of Fisher & Ury (Getting To Yes, 1991) with insights into the Enneagram personality avoidance-defense dynamic described by Naranjo (Ennea-type Structures, 1990 & Character and Neurosis, 1994). Building on material presented, participants [...]

[NO RECORDING] During this 2-hour talk, Don and Russ will talk about the Virtues and Holy Ideas to show participants how they are actually aspects of a unified vision of Reality. They will guide participants in discriminating between the various Virtues and Holy Ideas, bringing greater conceptual clarity and recognition of these qualities in their own lives. Participants will [...]

[NO RECORDING] Given the fact that type has a biased point of view designed to protect us, it's not surprising that faced with another human being - however well intentioned - type reacts in automatic (fortunately for the purpose of growth) predictable ways. Unfortunately this is true even when we hope and long for intimacy. The moments when our [...]

[NO RECORDING] This session will provide practitioners of Centering Prayer an opportunity for a 20-minute period of morning prayer. For those wishing to participate but unfamiliar with this particular method of prayer, there will be a brief explanation and opportunity to learn this simple format. IEA members from all faith traditions are welcome. The session will begin with a [...]

[NO RECORDING] Physical exercises: No particular ability is needed, but the will to be involved is required (all attendees have to be active). The meditation involves Gurdjieff Movements in a silent journey through the consciousness of the body. Following The Cycle of Nourishing from Chinese Traditional Medicine, blocked energy will be awakened and released. The still sleeping energies of [...]

[NO RECORDING] Through the Eyes of Classic European Painters of Different Enneagram Types Art can be a tool that expresses the soul of a person and also the characteristics of the personality of the artist. This work presents two central themes of the Christian faith (Christ's birth and death) seen through the perspectives of art and of the Enneagram. [...]

[NO RECORDING] Day Three: The group who are still uncertain about their subtype will join the larger group of subtypes. The undecided group will visit each of the subtype groups related to their home type and listen to the participants' discussion. This observation will provide the information they need to determine their own subtype. The following themes will be [...]

[NO RECORDING] This workshop will help you translate the Enneagram's theories into fruitful, effective practice. Tom will work with an audience member who wants to change Enneagramrelated problems, using therapeutic techniques customized to their specific Enneagram style. These demonstrations are usually vivid, entertaining and intense. Most produce a visible before-and-after difference in the client, as they shift from their [...]

[NO RECORDING] Our only problem is a belief in separation. Your personality is the chief tool in creating the illusion of separation. Personality changes reality into an illusion, the illusion that we are separate from others, the world, and even ourselves. In this session, using the type as a tool, we will map the path for each type from [...]

[NO RECORDING] Please join us as we reflect on the IEA's mission at its 10th anniversary and pay tribute to the six IEA Founders in attendance, David Daniels, Theodorre Donson, Russ Hudson, Kathy Hurley, Patrick O'Leary, and Don Riso. There will also be important announcements, a drawing for a free registration to next year's conference, and an integrative closing [...]

[NO RECORDING] Day Four: This will be the therapeutic session. Participants will act out their habitual character in exaggerated ways and alternatives to their habitual character in ways that are therapeutic. Claudio Naranjo 2004 2004 IEA Global Conference Arlington, Virginia, USA

[NO RECORDING] This session will introduce a model of marriage and family therapy derived from an integration of the Enneagram and Attachment Theory. An infant develops an attention style (personality) in order to maintain an attachment bond with its caregiver. In Enneagram-Based Marriage and Family Therapy the nine defense mechanisms are understood to be attachment-maintaining mechanisms. While an essential [...]

[NO RECORDING] Day One: Dr. Naranjo will introduce the neurotic needs essential to each of the 27 subtypes. Each one is driven by a certain thirst, excess, or passion. These neurotic needs are different than the nine primary passions (such as fear, lust, envy), and can be called satellite passions. Through a guided process, participants will identify their subtypes [...]

[NO RECORDING] Kathy and Theodorre will present a fast paced, visual, and fun experience for understanding personality through the Enneagram. Hurley and Donson have streamlined the Enneagram, expanding its potential to enhance people's lives. Most people who experience this presentation easily discover their personality style. This presentation is ideal for groups and organizations that want to apply the benefits [...]

[NO RECORDING] In the field of personality psychology there are currently six main approaches (Trait, Biological, Psychoanalytical, Behavioral, Cognitive and Humanistic) that attempt to explain personality from differing perspectives. Some of these systems are compatible while others seem irreconcilably polar. Perhaps what is missing is a unifying paradigm that is large enough and elegant enough to make sense of [...]

[NO RECORDING] in individuals and societies according to the evolution of the conditions of life. Spiral Dynamics is an open-ended model mapping levels of values and how these levels link together. Each enneatype can access each level of the Spiral, but we can be trapped in one level according to our profile. So, knowing the two systems can give [...]

[NO RECORDING] Focusing is a simple, gentle way to use the body's wisdom to get "unstuck" and change. This workshop will briefly describe focusing, demonstrate with several participants how focusing honors the "stuck" place of each person's Enneagram passion as the unique road to spiritual transformation, and present an overview of each type's spiritual patterns. Participants should have a [...]

[NO RECORDING] Sleep Talk with Enneagram knowledge is a powerful tool in building an effective bridge between parents and children. It helps children deal with various age-specific issues, allowing parents and grandparents to help children through difficult times. Sleep talk scripts affirm positive behavior while a child sleeps. This practice is mutually beneficial for parents and children. For adults, [...]

[NO RECORDING] In this session we will consider transformation as the intimate refashioning of our being -- the transformation of our pain, wounded ness, and unconsciousness into the person God intended us to be. We will consider the transformation process as accomplished not by an act of our will, but rather, as a journey to find our true self, [...]

[NO RECORDING] A cancer diagnosis temporarily stops you in your tracks and brings on a range of emotions. "Repression of expression" can be damaging to our psyche and our physical and emotional well-being. It can prevent us from moving on with our lives. We learn a simple movement vocabulary that translates emotional energy into physical energy. This is applied [...]

[NO RECORDING] An individual coaching program for senior executives would be more effective if it included group work with his/her team. Likewise, an in-company workshop would work better as part of a more complete cultural transformation of the whole organization. In other words, personal, small group, and institutional work with the Enneagram can be integrated in change management programs [...]

[NO RECORDING] No matter how old you are, how much you weigh, what gender you are, or what Enneagram type you identify with, you live in an absolute miracle of nature, your very own human body! Unfortunately the fixation process teaches us to suppress natural instinctive responsiveness. When a person spends a lifetime manipulating expression, the body gets literally [...]

[NO RECORDING] How do you blend spiritual growth with business success? Explore the techniques and language coaches use to introduce the Enneagram and spiritual development into corporations. Learn the Deep-Level Change Coaching Model and integrate it with the Enneagram to shift your clients' core belief structures. Recognize the appropriate depth at which to intervene with clients. Practice coaching another [...]

[NO RECORDING] Thinking styles are forms of mental selfgovernment. According to Robert Sternberg the kinds of government we have in the world are not arbitrary but are mirrors of the mind. They reflect different ways in which people can organize or govern themselves. For example, both minds and governments have various functions (legislative, executive, judicial), forms (monarchic, hierarchic, oligarchic, [...]

[NO RECORDING] Core Transformation is a gentle, yet profound method for facilitating deep, lasting personal change. It offers an easy-to-follow process for transforming unwanted behaviors, thoughts, and feelings by embracing them and offering them a path to discover their deepest longings. As such, it offers those parts of us that are stuck in unfulfilling or symptomatic expression a path [...]

[NO RECORDING] Matthew Fox 2004 2004 IEA Global Conference Arlington, Virginia, USA

[NO RECORDING] Homoeopathy is part of the field of holistic medicine that sees the human being from a global point of view, where physical, emotional, social, environmental, psycho spiritual and energy aspects are considered. The basic premise is that our impulses, our erroneous mental and emotional programming, and the failure to adapt to external stimuli create an alteration in [...]

[NO RECORDING] This session explores the nature and process of human creativity in the business environment and describes how the fixations of personality are the most robust barriers to organizational and personal creativity. Companies want to gain competitive advantage using innovation and improvement, and employees want to engage their creative abilities as a way of finding meaning and significance [...]

[NO RECORDING] The session will describe how teams develop and how working with the Enneagram will help create highly efficient teams. The session will cover the following topics: the phases of team development, the manager's role, the team member role, the team under stress, and indications of strength and weakness of specific teams. The Enneagram is used as a [...]

[NO RECORDING] Sexual difficulties from clinical cases in the field of sex therapy will be used to reveal the power of the Enneagram in resolving certain complex dilemmas. Specific dysfunctions cannot be predicted solely by the Enneagram. However, the Enneagram does uncover the patterns of individual responses and how the personality perpetuates problems under stress. We can see how [...]

[NO RECORDING] So you know the 9 types. But how do you really consult with the Enneagram? This session introduces an immediately useful approach for consulting to groups and organizations, centered on the Virtues, and working the dynamics of the Enneagram beyond the 9 types. Michael Goldberg wrote the bestselling The 9 Ways of Working. He consults with the [...]

[NO RECORDING] How can a person in Twelve-Step recovery benefit from knowing about the Enneagram? In many ways and respects, the program Bill Wilson and Bob Smith created nearly 70 years ago has many parallels in the spiritual aspects of the Enneagram. Both are ways of balancing areas of instinctual life through spiritual practice and self-examination. This session will [...]

[NO RECORDING] Genetics is the scientific study of inheritance. The CenterTheory of the Enneagram postulates the heart, the head, and the gut as centers of human intelligence. This presentation (1) demonstrates the genetic basis of the center theory; (2) highlights the phenotypic expressions using music; (3) emphasizes the role of culture in shaping behavior and the role of genetic [...]