[NO RECORDING] The Enneagram comes alive when it is between two people. None of the types exist by themselves. At its core, the Enneagram is a tool to focus and frame contrasting positions, so it is a natural approach for mediators, therapists and consultants immersed [...]

[NO RECORDING] Breathing is the first and last thing we do in life. Therefore it supports the connection of consciousness / essence / spirit to the body. This Breathwork session is offered so participants can access non-ordinary states of consciousness to more clearly hear and [...]

[NO RECORDING] This presentation will illustrate two experiences of social work case studies utilizing the Enneagram. The first will describe the positive results in an educational center for youth (ages 18-21), and the second will highlight the success in an aboriginal village among leaders. The [...]

[NO RECORDING] With case studies, practical examples and new approaches, this presentation aims to answer the following questions: How can the Enneagram be used in organizations as a tool that goes beyond the more usual applications? What is "conscious business" in terms of the Enneagram [...]

[NO RECORDING] Learn how the nine different Enneagram styles interact in the work setting by participating in a work-based simulation, then analyzing how the styles relate to each other at their best and when the dynamic is less productive. The session's emphasis will be on [...]

[NO RECORDING] Margaret will present the results of a study that looked at the relationship between personality type and health-related behaviors and disorders. The study is a quantitative and qualitative study of clinically assessed individuals. The quantitative research is a survey of the members of [...]

[NO RECORDING] The deeper truths about relationship dynamics and the ways people resolve real problems are most apparent in a couple's upsets, fears, and fights. Coates will present actual cases from her clinical practice and offer workshop participants an opportunity to discuss and debate the [...]

[NO RECORDING] The Enneagram describes three types of intelligence: Cognitive Intelligence (IQ), Emotional Intelligence (EQ) and Instinctual Intelligence (CQ). As a result of a general lack of understanding of these three equally valid ways of knowing, basic pedagogical practice has been based on a flawed [...]

[NO RECORDING] Many of us in the Enneagram community have been studying the Enneagram instinctual subtypes for years. In 2004, Claudio Naranjo presented an updated description of the 27 subtypes. Through lecture, group discussion and exemplars, we will discuss this version of the instinctual subtypes, [...]

[NO RECORDING] What gets in your way of being happy and at one with your true nature? The frustrations of a day, over-reactions to another, disappointment in plans gone awry are surely not what life is about. Explore how our Enneagram fixations block us from [...]

[NO RECORDING] The Meta Model is a powerful language model that has many intersections with the Enneagram. The Model helps you recognize and respond to the language patterns of different Enneagram styles and offers linguistic distinctions that will help you communicate better with each one. [...]

[NO RECORDING] Understanding and accepting cultural differences is essential if you want to work around the world and experience working life in different countries. Changing the workplace culture is an ongoing and never-ending process. Knowledge of the Enneagram can bring the understanding of a culture [...]

[NO RECORDING] In this workshop, we will explore how each type has characteristic ways of perceiving stress as either crisis or opportunity. We will examine the core essential qualities of the types as resources for optimally flowing with the challenges our lives present, thus transforming [...]

[NO RECORDING] Approaching conflict and difficult conversations can represent a significant challenge in the best of circumstances. In this session, each of the four expert panelists will offer a short presentation related to using the Enneagram to manage conflictual or high-risk conversations. This will be [...]

[NO RECORDING] Transformational Coaching with the Enneagram helps clients change behavior and reach goals, but it doesn't stop there. You can also help people understand the deeper drives that move them, and transform themselves in the psychological and spiritual realms. Transformational Coaching's Deep-Level Change Model [...]

[NO RECORDING] What happens when you combine leading-edge brain studies, modern learning psychology, spirituality, one's purpose in life and the Holy Ideas and the Virtues of each Enneagram type? This is a wonderfully uplifting workshop for all of us Enneagram enthusiasts. It allows us to [...]

[NO RECORDING] Elizabeth Wagele and Ingrid Stabb have uncovered the most important requirements of each type for career satisfaction, based on dozens of interviews over the past two years. Cartoons on the Enneagram and careers will provide a stimulating and necessary ingredient for a successful [...]

[NO RECORDING] We absorb our basic structures about reality from our parents and society as belief. We interpret reality through those early childhood beliefs. The more unexamined beliefs or structures we hold about reality, the more we are asleep, acting in an automatic, robotic way, [...]

[NO RECORDING] This interactive, information-packed workshop will introduce the latest research findings on the Tritype. In this session, we will focus on the fascinating descriptions of the 81 Tritype combinations. With the use of visual aids and group participation, we will explore how we use [...]

[NO RECORDING] The appropriate and effective use of power is critical to leadership success in organizations and many other areas of life, but few people handle power well. Many leaders tend to overuse or underuse power, both of which can lead to ineffective leadership. Leadership [...]

[NO RECORDING] Using experiential learning techniques from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, we will explore practices for cultivating and enriching our awareness of the here and now, using each of our three centers of intelligence -- head, heart and body. We will also explore [...]

[NO RECORDING] Understanding that a single individual owns a great part of the responsibility for a team's wellbeing, team-members - and especially the team leader - can create together a most successful team. This presentation will demonstrate team-related use of the Enneagram focusing on the [...]

[NO RECORDING] Khristian Paterhan proposes to the international Enneagram community what he calls "Enneagram mapping", allowing each person to discover the traces / main types in each Center - Physical, Emotional and Intellectual - and also work with those traces that seem somewhat secondary or [...]

[NO RECORDING] Lissa Friedman will talk about freedom beyond fixation. Since we cannot be released from the hold of the fixation by working on the level of the fixation, we must find a way to get beyond it. There is a core belief that lives [...]

[NO RECORDING] The presentation looks at nine of the works of Paulo Cuelho, author of "The Alchemist," through the lens of the Enneagram and discovers lessons for each Enneatype. Judith MacBrine is a 28-year veteran of California State Government where she earned a reputation as [...]

[NO RECORDING] Kerena will talk about Claudio Naranjo, a Gestalt therapist, who brought the Enneagram to the United States. We will review some of his contributions to the field of Gestalt and The Enneagram. Kerena Gordhamer, LCSW has a private practice in Santa Cruz, California. [...]

[NO RECORDING] Is the Enneagram just another psychological model, or is there reason to claim that it is scientifically more fundamental than other models? We make a case that the Enneagram is based on a fundamental ordering rather than a multidimensional map. We suggest that [...]

[NO RECORDING] Andrea Isaacs will talk about Increasing Emotional Intelligence with Mudras and Mantras for the Nine Types. Living a conscious life requires emotional flexibility so we can to respond to life in whatever way best serves the moment. This could mean responding like a [...]

[NO RECORDING] The symbolic and archetypal language that is characteristic of each type guides us toward transcending the ego and becoming more conscious of ourselves in everyday experiences. Life is "the Art of Relationship." Human beings are not made of matter but of interactions, an [...]

[NO RECORDING] Tom will work together with an audience member who wants to change an Enneagramrelated problem, using Ericksonian methods customized to their specific Enneagram style. Such demonstrations are usually vivid, entertaining and intense. Most produce a visible before-and-after difference in the client, as they [...]

[NO RECORDING] The use of the Enneagram will be presented as a personality profile by learning to effectively use the interdynamics of all nine types in addition to reading the instincts from the same profile. The personality results will then be shown in usable ways [...]

[NO RECORDING] This panel of experts will examine different business practices that might be usefully improved through the use of the Enneagram. Business activities such as communication in meetings, decision-making, and executive coaching can all benefit from the integration of knowledge from the Enneagram. Through [...]

[NO RECORDING] This year's Pre-conference offers new research on key questions that have never found a satisfying answer: Where does the Diagram come from? Why just nine? Why the peculiar star with a hole at the bottom? Why that specific order of passions around the [...]

[NO RECORDING] To have an energetic fun -filled life we need to identify where our energy is being drained. We all want to achieve balance in life, but each Enneagram type has different roadblocks, particularly in the areas of work, relationships, emotional and physical health, [...]

[NO RECORDING] What tickles your funny bone? Laughter is universal, yet the type of comedy that triggers this gut reaction in each of us has clear connections to the things we habitually pay close attention to. At previous IEA Conferences Judith has discussed the relations [...]