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Life… Energy… Growth: The Evolving Enneagram
Atlanta, Georgia, USA
July 31 – August 3, 2008
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[NO RECORDING] Schema therapy is an integrative extension of cognitive therapy fusing elements of cognitivebehavioral, psychodynamic, and gestalt approaches. (So, okay, it's also in your heart and body as well as in your head.) Schemas are patterns we impose on reality to help us explain [...]
[NO RECORDING] Our presentation will be a practical introduction and a real experience of what the Arica School -- our common school of knowledge -- has to offer. It is the roots of wisdom of the ancients and a new scientific approach based on trialectical [...]
[NO RECORDING] Conflict management theory: an introduction Why dealing with conflict is so hard when it involves those close to us Sources of conflict and implications for how to manage it The Conflict Cycle: the interplay between thoughts/beliefs, emotions, and behaviors The Conflict Dynamic Profile [...]
[NO RECORDING] We have presented our original work at both the IEA (2007) and the NCIEA. As the first Enneagram teachers to apply biological evolution to explain the origins of personality, we have developed an exciting approach to understanding and applying the Enneagram to diverse [...]
[NO RECORDING] Dianne Collins is the creator of QuantumThink(R), a groundbreaking new system of thinking that blends the genius of modern science with ancient spiritual knowledge into practical wisdom. Collins is a visionary thinker, writer, and producer who is passionate about showing people new ways [...]
[NO RECORDING] Conflict affects each and every one of us and is often more painful and more prevalent with those that are close to us. The Enneagram is a powerful tool to help us work through conflict in a constructive and compassionate way. During this [...]
[NO RECORDING] Understanding that the single individual owns a great part of the responsibility for the team's wellbeing, the team-members--and not solely the team leader--can create the most successful team. This presentation will demonstrate team-related use of the Enneagram focusing on the interrelation between the [...]
[NO RECORDING] Somehow we seekers fell into a trap as we started to pull apart spiritual transformation. The trap is that we talk about it rather than embodying it. The trap is that when we gather, we intellectualize the process rather than opening to divine [...]
[NO RECORDING] This presentation proposes the perspective/theory that at the center of the development of personality types in general, and Enneatypes specifically, is each individual's ultimate awareness of and confrontation with his or her own mortality, and that this occurs at an early age. And [...]
[NO RECORDING] Often the strongest, most convincing onscreen performances are given by actors playing characters of their own Enneagram type. (This is called typecasting.) But what happens when an actor is cast to play a person whose inherent drive, motivation and temperament are alien or [...]
[NO RECORDING] Derived from Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP), Meta Programs are unconscious, deep-rooted patterns by which we filter our experience and shape our perceptions. Like Enneagram styles, Meta Programs help us create and sustain our subjective reality and maintain our personal narrative. Meta Programs overlap with [...]
[NO RECORDING] The intent of this presentation is to put forth the Holy Ideas as the antidote to the ego-fixations and to elucidate the "oneness" of all that is through non-dual perception of reality. Through spoken word, three crystal singing bowls,Tibetan brass bowl, small bells [...]
[NO RECORDING] The perspective that will be demonstrated in this workshop has at its centre the belief in personal agency, free-choice, and the responsibilities and accountability inherent in these notions in the shaping of our psychic lives. Anyone who wishes to lead a truly fulfilling [...]
[NO RECORDING] The intent of this lively interactive coaching dialogue is for participants to experience real time quantum leaps in awareness that translate into life enhancing results. In the quantum world "context is everything." How do we view our immediate opportunities and intentions from the [...]
[NO RECORDING] The innate truths of the struggles and triumphs of the human condition can be found within the many myths of both the ancient world of legend and the contemporary world of literature. The commonalities between these myths and the journey of the archetypal [...]
[NO RECORDING] It is possible to experience an event, situation or relationship from several different perspectives: from your own "first person" perspective, through the eyes of a second person, or from the perspective of an independent observer. Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP) calls these Perceptual Positions. The [...]
[NO RECORDING] Every book published with Enneagram in its title begins with a synopsis of the author's understanding of the origins and/or history of this theory of personality. This seminar attempts a more systematic analysis of the evolution of the ideas that constitute the Enneagram [...]
[NO RECORDING] People who experience chronic pain frequently feel as though they live in a separate world. What is this world like? And how is this world experienced by the different personalities? How do they cope? And, how do others, inclusive of their healthcare practitioners, [...]
[NO RECORDING] The Enneagram diagram's internal lines and arrows contain important secrets for human development. In any kind of Enneagram work (coaching, therapy, training, consulting, etc.) and for our personal growth, the correct understanding of the dynamics of the arrows has the potential to take [...]
[NO RECORDING] Noticing in rudimentary ways that there is movement throughout the heavens has in turn moved human beings to build ancient structure after ancient structure (i.e. Stonehenge) to track this movement for the sake of understanding seasons and rituals, the confluence of outer and [...]
[NO RECORDING] The power of personal metaphor in change work is presumed; the question raised is how to better elicit the most powerful of these metaphors--those of the client's own creation. Theatre exercises will reveal participants' own improvisational style, exploring this as a subset of, [...]
[NO RECORDING] What have been some theories and empirical research regarding the relationships among Jung's types as measured by the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and Enneagram types? What have we thought? And what have we found? Does 9 really go into 8? or 16? It doesn't [...]
[NO RECORDING] Self-Mastery means truly accepting who you are at this point in your development journey, then working toward even higher levels of self-development and growth. This session involves assessing your selfmastery level based on the self-mastery model from the chapter "Strive for Self-Mastery"in Ginger [...]
[NO RECORDING] Throughout history, human beings have yearned to be one with their True Nature. To this end, they have created many practices to reach their full potential, and to integrate their deeper realizations into daily life.Yet, for all the beauty and wisdom of these [...]
[NO RECORDING] There is a powerful awakening that occurs when a person first hears and understands that their whole life has been orchestrated by a fixated pattern of behavior. Often this understanding is accompanied by the awareness that there are many others with the same [...]
What factors actually determine how some relationships are strengthened and sustained, even during profound crises, while others crumble and dissolve? This workshop will take a serious look into the meaning and importance of lovemaps for establishing and especially maintaining long-term love relationships. The Enneagram will [...]
[NO RECORDING] In this experiential movement workshop, we will look at the ancient art, science, and philosophy of yoga, and how it relates to the teachings of the Enneagram. Through gentle and relaxing mind, breath, and movement practices-- pranayama, tratak, and asana--we will become aware [...]
[NO RECORDING] Nowhere is the evolution of the Enneagram more evident than in its application to leadership development within organizational and business settings. Consultants and coaches who understand and appreciate the value of the Enneagram in business are on the cutting edge of new territory. [...]
[NO RECORDING] The word "satsang" comes from the Sanskrit for "sat," which means "highest truth" and "sanga," which means "company / community." Thus, at its simplest, a satsang is a gathering of people who are Seekers of Truth working with the guidance of a teacher [...]
Enneagram theory and discussions briefly acknowledge levels of emotional health as healthy, average and unhealthy, but do not significantly address how to facilitate movement from one level to a healthier level. Even Riso and Hudson's Nine Levels of Development, as helpful as they are, are [...]
[NO RECORDING] This presentation will compare the Enneagram as pre-birth temperament styles with the theory of post-birth character structures and armoring from body psychotherapy. Wilhelm Reich, Alexander Lowen and others have developed a general theory of psychological stress from early childhood which is harbored in [...]
[NO RECORDING] This work was first presented by Delbar as a research project in one of the schools that trains eduators in Iran. School is the second home of each child and the support given to them brings motivation to learn and to enjoy. The [...]
[NO RECORDING] Jane Austen's vision of the power of personal relationships to shape our lives is eloquently expressed in her great novel, Sense and Sensibility. As Austen describes the quest of two sisters for appropriate husbands, we witness their struggles with the constraints of their [...]
How can the experience of loss of loved ones or our own impending death open the opportunity for growth and transformation? What are steps in the grief process? What are prevalent misunderstandings about the grief process? How do life and grief operate concurrently? What do [...]
[NO RECORDING] This presentation will contribute to a greater understanding of the role played by Enneagram types and centers in conflict and conflict conversations. Conflict conversations follow a pattern. There are prevailing patterns of conversation that lead to effective and satisfactory resolution. Heart types like [...]
[NO RECORDING] There is a quarter of a second between the time your brain has an impulse to do something, and the moment you do it. That means you have a "magic quarter second" during which you could stop yourself from an emotional response you [...]
[NO RECORDING] Far more compelling and consequential than the nine types, the Enneagram is a system which describes and prescribes personal and organizational change. The Enneagram is most profoundly a paradigm buster: it suggests counterintuitive paths of inquiry, paradoxical interventions and serendipitous outcomes. Here we [...]
Through lecture, group discussion, and panels, this session will describe the distinct characteristics of the 27 Enneagram subtypes as articulated by Claudio Naranjo. While many studies of the subtypes focus on the generic nature of the three instinctual tendencies, self-preservation, social, and one-to-one, or the [...]
[NO RECORDING] Participants will work from both a case study and from direct experience. This is an interactive workshop going between individual learning and integration, practice, small group exploration, and large group learning harvests. First, all participate in a "warm up" in which they'll identify [...]
[NO RECORDING] Herb will demonstrate live how he works with couples and ways that any type combination can work together to have more fun, respect, compassion, and more satisfying communication. Even couples' conflicts can be used for personal development and relationship intimacy. He will also [...]
[NO RECORDING] Last August when I came back to Brazil after having participated as a speaker at the International Enneagram Association Conference in Redwood City, California, with the topic of "Global Unity Enneagram; a Proposal for Applying Enneagram in Programs of Education, Social Responsibility and [...]
This workshop opens individuals to explore their personal, political and cultural relationship to money. Individuals will identify the specific roadblocks that are present in their prosperity consciousness. Enneagram panels, dyads, and subtype groups, along with meditation, are used to explore each person's core habits and [...]
[NO RECORDING] This workshop will help people begin to think about how their Enneagram type and instinctual stack come together to impact their relationship to money, their financial attitudes, decisions, and behaviors. Specifically, we will explore how type and instinct come together to affect one's [...]
[NO RECORDING] Our personal instinctual focus has a major impact on our daily choices; in the way we act, think, feel and ultimately express ourselves. It is also clearly demonstrated in our body language. And that in itself has a direct effect on the ways [...]
The concept of having not just one, but three primary Enneagram types, referred to as your `Trifix' was first introduced by Ichazo and has been extensively researched by Enneagram Explorations. Each Enneagram type represents a strategy to negotiate life, relationships and work.Although one is your [...]
[NO RECORDING] In antiquity Geometry and Arithmetic constituted two of the four major intellectual disciplines that comprised a classical education (The other two disciplines were Astronomy and Music/Harmony). They were considered by philosophers to be a bridge between the visible and invisible worlds and the [...]
[NO RECORDING] Shamans are the religious specialists among indigenous societies who sustain themselves with hunting or horticulture. While their methods vary, they have in common an understanding that travel beyond the world of ordinary consciousness is both possible and beneficial. Anthropologist Felicitas Goodman discovered that [...]
Alone, the Enneagram is a valuable map of the unconscious, but as the key to venerable and more enlightened ways of consciousness, its value is beyond price. The Enneagram diagram is like a valuable antiquity revealed in the desert. The Enneagram is a fragment of [...]
[NO RECORDING] All of the spiritual traditions of the world incorporate meditation and contemplation as part of their spiritual practice. They do so in the belief that the journey of personal development cannot be undertaken in the absence of such a practice. This workshop will [...]
[NO RECORDING] See how the Enneagram can "fuel" a proven trust development model. Too often relationships between individuals and teams are damaged based on lack of trust. There are three critical components to trust, and different styles stack those elements differently. So often the trust [...]
