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Widening our World with the Enneagram
San Francisco, California, USA
August 12 – 14, 2005
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The Enneagram has been "endlessly described but never explained." The emergence of the nine types, wings theory, and especially the distinctive irregular pattern of the arrows: all have so far been"taken on trust."In this workshop Michael Hampson offers the Enneagram community - for the first [...]
Among the great virtues of the Enneagram system are its holistic view of human beings and its holistic approach to personal and spiritual development. The wonderful, and still evolving, psychological knowledge of the types provides support for self-awareness and mindfulness, best exercised by a reliable [...]
[NO RECORDING] Bert Hellinger's systemic family constellation therapy often produces profound shifts in the minds and hearts of the client and the audience after witnessing the representatives Bert selects to constellate the reconciliation process. A psychodramatist's awareness of the Enneagram type of both the client [...]
In this three-hour workshop, we will explore the Enneagrams of Passions and Virtues and find out what guidance they can offer for our personal growth and spiritual transformation. As we will see, the Passions are the emotional atmospheres and motivating drives that inform our consciousness [...]
This afternoon we will look into the structure of ego-type using the classic Buddhist teaching of dependent coorigination. This perspective, which the Buddha considered the heart of his teaching, looks at the causal processes by which we give birth to ourselves as egoistic beings, and [...]
[NO RECORDING] This program is for therapists, counselors, spiritual directors, coaches, nurses, caregivers and managers of teams -- anyone who is in a professional one-on-one relationship with others. The Enneagram can be a useful interpreter of people, showing how we need best respond to others [...]
Spiral Dynamics is a system that describes and highlights the unfolding of the eight levels of human consciousness. Dr. Clare Graves, the originator of SD, states, "What I am proposing is that the psychology of the mature human being is an unfolding emergent, oscillating, spiraling [...]
Enneagram professionals bear responsibilities similar to those mentioned in the Hippocratic Oath and the Oath of Maimonides. Their opportunities to misuse their power parallel those of physicians. This presentation will address such ethical issues facing Enneagram professionals as confidentiality, accuracy, respect for persons, and fiduciary [...]
[NO RECORDING] The world of work is comprised of interpersonal relationships operating on many different levels of complexity and meaning. These relationships occur in different arenas as well, from intra-organizational to inter-organizational communities and networks. Through leadership development and coaching, these relationships are harnessed to [...]
According to Enneagram theory, changes occur in our core personality style during times of personal security as well as times of risk or stress. It is also well known that our stress and security points do influence us both positively and negatively. The Enneagram makes [...]
Carl Jung taught us that the greatest gold is discovered within us by relating to our shadows consciously and bringing them into the light. So too, by consciously revealing our instincts and developing ongoing awareness of them, we will expand our inner resources for responding [...]
[NO RECORDING] In Homer's Odyssey, a source of the Enneagram, Odysseus meets each of the 9 enneagram types in their exact numerical order. The types are clear to those who know the Enneagram. These mythic teaching stories expand and deepen our understanding of the ennea-types. [...]
It is known that we as human beings only live at 10% of our potential. We limit our possibilities for authenticity in life out of fear, suffering and a lack of healing or being awake. Being stuck in our addictive natures is a confined place [...]
This presentation will build on Part I and II material presented Friday and Saturday mornings by Tom Condon. This afternoon we will focus on some common "negative trances"- problematic aspects of our Enneagram styles - and what to do about them. The workshop will include [...]
[NO RECORDING] Just as the Enneagram illuminates the architecture and dynamics of the personality, the field of organization development provides a powerful framework for understanding the architecture and dynamics of teams. This highly interactive session integrates the insights of the Enneagram with the theory and [...]
We all do it. All day every day. Like it or not, negotiation is the human condition. Whether we are buying a new car, merging two Fortune 500 companies, or arranging dinner out, we do a dance as choreographed as Prairie Chickens in mating season. [...]
For Intermediate and Advanced individuals and couples In working with couples, each person does his or her own work of self-exploration and changing patterns. The couple relationship is like a hothouse for the fixated behavior; it brings out the best and the worst, providing many [...]
[NO RECORDING] The Arrows within the circle of the Enneagram symbol are a later addition to Enneagram theory. Claudio Naranjo said they were a momentary insight/doodle used to answer a student's question. Many authors, including this presenter, use them to explain progress and regression in [...]
Join us for this unique opportunity to meet, learn from, and network with Enneagram practitioners and enthusiasts from different parts of the world. Learn more about our various cultures, and discuss the role of national culture in the study and teaching of the Enneagram. Through [...]
In his role as a forensic psychologist and expert witness, Carr has used the Enneagram in many well-known trials that have contributed to important precedents in South African Law. While Carr has not explicitly named the Enneagram in court, he has used his knowledge of [...]
In this innovative approach, the Enneagram simultaneously describes the spiral dynamics of evolution and the multifaceted timelessness of our essence. The Enneagram, like a prism, helps us see the white light of our Being differentiated into nine essential qualities. Modern theories of evolution will be [...]
[NO RECORDING] This two-hour presentation is entirely experiential. Major sources are Bowen, Bradshaw and Naranjo. The participants will first form an Opening Circle. They will do a Visualization with Music in which they return to their childhood home where they will allow themselves to re-experience [...]
The map of the Enneagram is a design that can unlock the secrets of reality on any of its dimensions of existence or experience. With the correct alignment and understanding of the map it can work as an access to the wisdom necessary on these [...]
The Enneagram may be the most profound and practical way to know ourselves and others. This knowledge of personality, orientation, character, and attentional habit forms a cohesive, predictable pattern of who we are and points a light to who we can be. The Enneagram, on [...]
Your body is a profoundly intelligent, biologically programmed miracle of nature that comes equipped with the instinct to bond and the ability to love. It has the innate wisdom and power to respond brilliantly when you are in danger, to tell you when you need [...]
[NO RECORDING] This presentation is adapted from the book, From Awareness to Action: The Enneagram, Emotional Intelligence, and Change, by Robert Tallon and Mario Sikora. It is based on the presenters'experience using the Enneagram as a tool for executive coaching and team building in Fortune [...]
In this keynote address Dr. Siegel will introduce the field of interpersonal neurobiology, an approach to understanding how the brain and relationships help shape the mind. Using the lens of interpersonal neurobiology, he will then share his insights about how attachment patterns, temperament, and the [...]
This program uses an experiential approach to explore the relationship between personality and the body. Personality--including inner thoughts, feelings, and motivations--will be translated into simple movement concepts of space, time, and energy. Neuron pathways are the channels through which information travels between the brain and [...]
The Enneagram is unique among personality typologies in showing a picture of process, which is the essence of any story. Certain basic literary forms share assumptions about reality (world views) with certain Enneagram types, and the protagonists of these stories tend to be people of [...]
[NO RECORDING] This special introduction to the Enneagram personality types will provide a window into the attentional patterns and personality dynamics of each of the nine types. The experience of each type will be communicated vividly through`panels'of representatives who will discuss, through stories and real-life [...]
All subjective experience has a sensory structure, an"inner architecture,"and anything we do follows a sequence of internal sensory steps - a combination of seeing, hearing, feeling, smelling and tasting. Each Enneagram style also has specific sensory qualities that shape our Enneagramatic reactions. Whenever someone behaves [...]
We cannot live without suffering, but we cannot suffer without hoping or healing. Many people are hurting and getting sick because of their inability to forgive. Being able to forgive is not so much a gift to others as to ourselves. Ultimately, not forgiving is [...]
Carol and Tom will work together with an audience member who wants to change an Enneagram-related 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 aim of the ceremony is to facilitate a pause in the normal unceasing activity of the conscious mind in order to create the spaciousness to experience other aspects of existence and consciousness unavailable until this moment. George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff emphasized that dance [...]
How do we develop healthy and secure attachments between parents and children? How do we create lasting bonds between all of us, regardless of age? What do the two perspectives of the Enneagram and Attachment Theory have to offer us in our parenting and on [...]
Dr. David A. Rapkin channeling "Monocles" interviewed by Gayle Scott During this presentation, Dr. David Rapkin will be channeling Monocles, a nonphysical collective entity or consciousness, who has the clarity and capacity to witness and illuminate deep intuitions that many of us have about the [...]
Most of us originally discover the Enneagram as a typology, but more profoundly, it is a map of wholeness and a way of recognizing and investigating different aspects and dimensions of our inner experience. George Gurdjieff brought the Enneagram symbol (and many of its principles) [...]
Chad Jorgensen is Managing Director and CEO of Nu-Ear Electronics, a company that manufactures and distributes top quality digital hearing aids across the U. S. With two of his key people, he attended a Hurley/Donson Enneagram training program in October, 2004, and then contracted with [...]
Using the Enneagram to enhance organizational life is much talked about but still a rare event in actuality. While a number of businesses have sponsored workshops that introduce individuals to the growth potential for individuals inherent in the Enneagram, it has yet to find a [...]
We view the world through our schemas, which are important beliefs about the world and ourselves. Schemas are stable and enduring patterns of thinking that develop during childhood and are elaborated throughout our life. Since we accept these schemas without question, they become self-perpetuating and [...]
Each one of us is here on earth to wake up to our true nature. This is the fulfillment of the human potential. To be established in the truth of yourself, you must be willing to see the lies and false identity that have been [...]
Another way to think about an Enneagram style is as a kind of narrative. Our personality trance is held together by a story we tell ourselves, and the main skill we practice within our Enneagram style is storytelling. In popular psychology, these stories are called"scripts,"although [...]
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Anyone who has done serious spiritual or psychological inner work encounters a discouraging phenomenon: having experienced new states of freedom and expanded consciousness, after a few days (or hours) the old personality patterns reassert themselves as if the profound experience had not occurred. One of [...]
The Enneagram offers powerful pathways for developing Emotional Intelligence (EQ), and EQ work is a useful entry point for introducing the Enneagram to corporate audiences. Together we will explore the link between the Enneagram and Emotional Intelligence from three perspectives. - "Brains": How recent findings [...]
[NO RECORDING] The more that we are grounded in a solid self-concept and motivated by self-confidence, the more of ourselves and our presence we can bring to our roles as leaders and coaches. Leading is about envisioning a better future and believing with every fiber [...]
Based on over a decade's worth of research, testing, and data from over 4000 Enneastyle questionnaires, this presentation reveals the secret"word use patterns and archetypal images"that reveal our Enneagram type. Research suggests that each Enneagram type has a specific visual presentation and word use preference [...]
This workshop focuses on the Enneagram as a dynamic map which can be used to illustrate and discern the natural, life-giving directional movement of any unfolding project or process. Every process in which we are engaged reflects and expands our sense of Self. Each project [...]
[NO RECORDING] Spanish-English Translator: Fernando Puyol Investing in human capital has become an innovative tool that shows results and gives organizations a competitive advantage. The development and implementation of programs of inner growth and the training of leaders, also known as coaching, has permitted organizations [...]
The Ennneagram is alive and well in Wachovia, the nation's 4th largest financial services institution. Organizationally, the application of the Enneagram was first introduced into the system in 1994 and has continued to thrive as a foundation for developing individuals, leaders, and teams. In 2002, [...]
