What makes a great leader? Is leadership excellence innate? Can it be developed? The Enneagram offers insights into these three questions that have perplexed management theorists for decades. Leaders of all nine Enneagram styles can achieve excellence, and their success often depends upon whether or not their unique gifts fit the organization's particular challenges. Leaders of all nine styles [...]

The Enneagram is part of a complex and extensive theological framework developed over 600 years as part of the Christian desert mystical tradition. The Enneagram is prone to serious misuse or misunderstanding by some modern psychological commentators who seek to excise the framework from its mystical and theological origins. This workshop will place the Enneagram within its mystical and [...]

In this experiential movement workshop we will look at the nine fixations as they manifest within the body, and techniques for releasing fixations and contacting the essence state of balance, ease, and freedom. Through gentle, relaxing and enjoyable sensing and movement practices, we will learn to sense our own subtle muscle habits, wake up our mind's vast control of [...]

The characteristics and particularities that compose each Enneagram type are commonly used in transpersonal psychology and human growth. However, the Enneagram is not frequently applied in clinical medicine or related investigations in psychology and medicine about psychotypes and specific organic disorders. This study attempts to establish the correlation between specific Enneatypes and specific organic disorders. This is achieved by [...]

This presentation will explore the impact of subtype, separate from type, on relationships. The three major instincts and the subtypes which are formed by them have a powerful impact on our style of relating. Subtype differences play an important role in personal and intimate relationships. Participants will explore a current relationship and leave the workshop with greater consciousness about [...]

Mystics of the world's religious traditions describe practices and pathways for spiritual awakening. The paths they describe are frequently difficult and not readily accessible to the ordinary person, and, at worst, can be dangerous to one's psychological and physical well-being. In this session Dr. Whittaker proposes that using the Enneagram with practices for inner observation provides effective, attractive, and [...]

We all sell. Use your knowledge of the Enneagram to sell the Enneagram to corporations, churches, community groups and clients. This session will help you: - Understand your Enneagram style's sales motivation - Learn the steps of a proven sales process from prospecting to closing - Clarify which steps of the sales reflect your style's strengths and where to [...]

The Integral Alignment Model refers to an understanding of the Enneagram that bridges and integrates personality, psychology, child development, post-modernism and spirituality into a multi-dimensional integral model. The Integral Alignment Model uses the Enneagram symbol as a horizontal as well as a vertical description of the person. The numbers viewed as personality types comprise the horizontal description. The developmental [...]

Mystics and quantum physicists say everything in existence is in relationship with everything else. Conscious committed interpersonal relationships offer possibilities for experiencing and embodying this truth. Conscious relationship can facilitate integral awakening, including the deep satisfaction of human needs. Much of what people call "love" is negotiation, contract, illusion, or grasping for certainty or a sensation of aliveness. Fixated [...]

Andrea has blended her EnneaMotion (exploring Enneagram types through movement) and Transformation through Movement exercises into a system that calls upon training and awareness of physical intelligence to increase emotional intelligence. The process integrates thinking, feeling and actions, creating an internal sense of wholeness. This is combined with brain science in a way that facilitates change. Why is change [...]

A serious Buddhist naturally asks of the Enneagram,"What sort of understanding and practice is this? What does it contribute to the end of suffering? Will this help me penetrate the illusion of `self ' in order to let go of `I' and `mine'? Is this a path in itself or merely a supplement?" To explore these questions, I will [...]

Richard will offer a concluding vision that both affirms and negates any notion of "higher'" consciousness. How is this true and how is it dangerous and delusional? Is the Enneagram merely a private spirituality, or does it have any social or political directions? Richard Rohr 2006 2006 IEA Global Conference Chicago, Illinois, USA [memberonly] [/memberonly]

Family Systems insights offer effective ways to mine the unconscious to empower personal growth. Family Systems approaches are among many therapeutic models that interface richly with the Enneagram. In this workshop participants are invited to learn about Family Systems using a genogram, or a family of origin map, with an emphasis on the structural teachings of Murray Bowen. His [...]

Teaching the Enneagram involves sharing much information, but that doesn't mean it has to be a long, dry lecture.You can engage students with creative games and interactive activities that will teach them the Enneagram better than even the most welldelivered lecture. This presentation will explore creative, nontraditional approaches to teaching the Enneagram using games and activities sure to relieve [...]

A Series of Expert Panels Examining the "State of the Art" of Enneagram-related Work in the World Today The theme of this year's IEA conference is "Spiraling out into Greater Consciousness." Spiral Dynamics offers a model through which we can understand the spiraling levels of the evolution of humanity. In this rare pre-conference day event, we will come together [...]

A Series of Expert Panels Examining the "State of the Art" of Enneagram-related Work in the World Today The theme of this year's IEA conference is "Spiraling out into Greater Consciousness." Spiral Dynamics offers a model through which we can understand the spiraling levels of the evolution of humanity. In this rare pre-conference day event, we will come together [...]

A Series of Expert Panels Examining the "State of the Art" of Enneagram-related Work in the World Today The theme of this year's IEA conference is "Spiraling out into Greater Consciousness." Spiral Dynamics offers a model through which we can understand the spiraling levels of the evolution of humanity. In this rare pre-conference day event, we will come together [...]

A Series of Expert Panels Examining the "State of the Art" of Enneagram-related Work in the World Today The theme of this year's IEA conference is "Spiraling out into Greater Consciousness." Spiral Dynamics offers a model through which we can understand the spiraling levels of the evolution of humanity. In this rare pre-conference day event, we will come together [...]

"It's not that we need to form new organizations. It's simply that we have to awaken to new ways of thinking. I believe it makes no sense to spend a lot of time attacking the current realities. It is time to create the new models that have in them the complexity that makes the older systems obsolete. And to [...]

Spiral Dynamics and The Enneagram are two distinct systems that successfully stand alone. In this workshop, participants will have an integrative experience of the Spiral and The Enneagram in a way that contributes to the development of individual consciousness. Don Beck, Ph.D. (see Keynote Address) Deborah A. Ooten, Ph.D. is the founder/director of the Conscious Living Center. She has [...]

A workshop to help you translate the Enneagram's theories into fruitful, effective practice. Tom Condon will offer two unique, solution-focused approaches to applying the Enneagram's insights. The techniques will benefit anyone using the Enneagram for personal or professional growth as well as those who use the Enneagram to promote change in others. We will begin with a group demonstration [...]

Most of us have pondered questions regarding what makes for really fulfilling relationships. How do we sustain and grow relationships over time? How do we respect and appreciate each other? What are the key ingredients? What is the mechanism of healthy conflict resolution? What is the role of spirit, sexuality, and sensuousness (contrasted to sensuality) in loving relationship? And [...]

This seminar demonstrates how leaders of businesses and organizations can use the Enneagram to quickly analyze the causes of interpersonal friction between "negative" staff and their colleagues. Seminar will present a positive Enneagram focused on the gifted assets and attendant limitations of each type. A person becomes "negative" by misuse of his/her type's asset in an unsuitable situation. The [...]

The Passions ("capital sins") and resulting Fixations of the nine personality types of the Enneagram are well-known and relatively easy to understand since they are such a central part of our daily experience. This is generally not true of the Holy Ideas and the Virtues since they are experienced only when we are free of our personality. In this [...]

What business behaviors "buffalo" you in the workplace? Bullies, rule mongers, rule flouters, divas--we all recognize our business bete noirs. Whether a boss, employee, or team member, interpersonal challenges can keep us from accomplishing goals-- from concluding a successful project to receiving a promotion--and enjoying our work. Drawing on a combined 60 years of experience in employment law, negotiation, [...]

Object Relations theory is the major theory in Western psychology that describes the development of a human from birth to adulthood and offers many insights into the formation and operation of personality. By integrating Object Relations theories with the Enneagram system's map of personality, both views of human personality are expanded and refined. In this presentation, we will explore [...]

We offer a day of quiet retreat, meditation, and reflection for a deepening of our inner experience of awareness, body, breath, and type. Santikaro, a Buddhist teacher who trained as a monk in Thailand for many years, will lead a day of practice drawing on Buddhist tradition and adapted to Enneagram studies. Our primary activity will be sitting meditation [...]

I have a method for teaching young children the Enneagram using materials I have developed. I've tried them out in the classroom and with individual children and would like to share my ideas with conference attendees. My materials are most appropriate for teaching children from age 6 to 12. In some cases, they can be used for ages 3 [...]

This workshop will offer the participant an overview of spiritual practices in Judaism. It will also provide insight into the connection between these Jewish practices and the Kabbalistic Tree of Life. And by taking participants through an experience of a few of these practices, Hannah will provide an understanding of how to use these practices in Enneagram work. Hannah [...]

The Enneagram is becoming increasingly popular in organizations. However, many Enneagram practitioners still question how to work with the Enneagram in the business setting. What are the possible approaches and how are they perceived? How to adapt the Enneagram teachings to the business agenda? What do organizations expect? To what extent are organizations ready for this work? Rather than [...]

Today, when there is a need for international cooperation, business people typically learn about superficial differences among various countries, like "take your time for lunch in France" or "be aware of skepticism in Germany." In achieving real cooperation with people from other countries, however, something completely different is required: intercultural competence. Intercultural competence consists of recognizing one's own process [...]

Shakespeare's Hamlet is one of the most vivid and intriguing characters in literature, and his complexity provides an acid test of any personality typology. This presentation uses extensive film clips to illustrate the transformation that takes place in this Social subtype Six tragic hero. We see how Hamlet's development over the course of the story traces shifts from his [...]

Awareness combined with action does create dynamic change and healing. The Enneagram gives us a powerful way to observe the personality, patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving. Many of us have grown in our relationships through the profound awareness and understanding available through the Enneagram. However, we may still find ourselves stuck in habitual patterns because the patterns themselves [...]

Tom Condon will work with two audience members who want to change Enneagram-related problems, using therapeutic techniques customized to their specific Enneagram styles. Tom's demonstrations are usually vivid, entertaining and intense. Most produce a visible before-and-after difference in the client, as they shift from their Enneagram "fixation" to greater freedom. The goal of the morning will be to offer [...]

Move from "consciousness becomes you," to "consciousness becomes you." The work of consciousness is not instantaneous. As the Dalai Lama has said,"The person who seeks instantaneous consciousness has experienced an inner collapse." Carl Jung, George Gurdjieff, Maurice Nicoll, the Dalai Lama and most of the great spiritual teachers say that having an original, spiritual, personal vision for your life [...]

Interviewing is more than matching candidates to a list of necessary job skills. It should be an opportunity to allow the interviewee to demonstrate his/her best qualities and how they will be maximized in the position requested. An insightful interviewer chooses the very best candidate for the job. This seminar presents a strategy to increase the quality of the [...]

The Levels were not part of the original Enneagram teachings by Oscar Ichazo and Claudio Naranjo; indeed, they did not even make the basic distinction between "healthy,""average," and "unhealthy" functioning within type. First to do this was Don Riso in 1977 and he went even further and discovered nine distinct "Levels of Development" (a map of the whole spectrum [...]