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Spiraling into Greater Consciousness, the Dynamic Enneagram
Chicago, Illinois, USA
August 3 – 6, 2006
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
[NO RECORDING] Schemas are stable and enduring patterns of thinking that develop during childhood and are elaborated throughout our life. We view the world through our schemas or lenses, which are important beliefs and constructs about the world and ourselves. Since we accept these schemas [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
[NO RECORDING] In this session, Ms. Landis will help participants learn how to read the messages their own bodies are sending them regarding the blocks and obsessions associated with the Enneagram lens that is surfacing for them in the moment. Participants will use Body Awareness [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
[NO RECORDING] The Nine-Dimensional Methodology for Innovative Thinking is a systematic approach that stimulates innovation by effectively using both sides of the brain. It is a unified approach that builds on comprehensive problem-solving knowledge from industry, business, marketing, math, science, engineering, technology, and daily life. [...]
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 [...]
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[NO RECORDING] This workshop will offer participants the opportunity to identify the strengths and challenges in their own personality and that of the relationship that they choose to work on. Through small group discussion, the interplay of vices and basic fear will be explored. Each [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
[NO RECORDING] Often the strongest, most convincing onscreen performances are the result of actors playing characters resembling their own Enneagram personality type. This is truly "typecasting." But what happens when an actor is cast to portray a person whose inherent character and motivation are ego-alien [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
[NO RECORDING] This presentation is based on a research study that was submitted for a Masters degree in Organizational Change, which explored what happened when the Enneagram was introduced to a cross-functional multi-site team of a major Bank in the UK. This session, which will [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
[NO RECORDING] This program is based on articles that appeared in the October and November issues of The Enneagram Monthly and will address the affect of the three instinctive drives on leadership and performance in the workplace. The program is based on the presenter's experience [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
[NO RECORDING] Consultants who utilize the Enneagram in their work with organizations will best serve their clients if they engage in an ongoing process of self-assessment. This selfassessment includes both the manner in which they conduct their relationships with clients--from the preliminary discussions through contract [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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" [...]
[NO RECORDING] In his famous travels, Homer's great hero Odysseus meets and experiences each of the nine ennea-types in exact numerical order, and, indeed, The Odyssey is an important source of the Enneagram. Here we'll tell the myths and adventures that underlie the nine styles, [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
"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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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) [...]
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 [...]
[NO RECORDING] Sharpen your ability to identify the nine types in real life. Our panels are composed of one exemplar of each of the nine types. We present to them an open-ended real life scenario and ask,"What do you think about this? How do your [...]
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 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 [...]
