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 the anxiety and suffering produced by ego-birth. Many of the terms used by the [...]

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 responsibility. We shall work interactively, asking how our own ideals and our sense of [...]

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 to life with the grace, strength, spontaneity, flexibility, attunement, joy, truth, beauty, love and [...]

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 a variety of therapeutic methods and techniques as well as creative"homework assignments"in order to [...]

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 opportunities for freedom and true love. When the Enneagram is used for liberation or [...]

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 used to illuminate the Enneagram's scientific validity while articulating a step-by-step model of systemic [...]

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 nourishment, to let you know when it is time to rest. Somatics refers to [...]

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 these types. For example, the basic basic "Eight" genre is the western, war story, [...]

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 shift from their Enneagram"fixation"to greater freedom and choice. The demonstration will be followed by [...]

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) to the modern world in a teaching he called"The Fourth Way"--a method of approaching [...]

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 very resistant to change. To the extent that our schemas represent reality fairly well, [...]

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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 and friendly inner observer. This knowledge starts in the mind, but it can also [...]

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 us aware of tendencies and predictions, but we can also use the map to [...]

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 dimensions of reality. The original use of the Enneagram is to access the wisdom [...]

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 brain all contribute to the development of personality. Drawing on years of experience as [...]

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 in a compulsive, fixated way from within their Enneagram style, there is both a [...]

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 our developmental paths? How can they contribute to healthy relationships that allow for attunement, [...]

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 Kathy and Theodorre to bring the Enneagram into his entire company. He put his [...]

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 running your whole life. The Enneagram shows us the precise structure of the knot [...]

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 main causes of this return to our familiar perspective is the superego or [...]

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 inherent to their Enneagram type. When understood, this leads to deep insights into the [...]

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, Wachovia embarked on the development of an Executive Coaching Practice in support of several [...]

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 time - a detailed logical and rational explanation for each aspect of the Enneagram [...]

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 when we are identified with our personality or ego. While one particular Passion is [...]

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 process, marked by progressive subordination of older, lower-order behavior systems to newer, higher-order systems [...]

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 interviews and dialogue, we will explore whether and how Enneagram teachers adapt their teaching [...]

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 where we become powerless and limited. We stay in"life stories"that no longer match our [...]

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. The steps are immutable, but the grace of their execution is in our own [...]

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 the Enneagram to explain personality and the psychological dynamics and motivations that were at [...]

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 its own, however, does not have inherent strategies, techniques, or procedures to produce change. [...]

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 muscles, nerves, and tendons of the body. The thinking and feeling patterns that [...]

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 doing more damage to ourselves than to others. More than a single act, forgiveness [...]

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 underlying nature and purpose of the Enneagram. Monocles will be interviewed by Gayle Scott [...]

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 similar acceptance as a tool for organizational growth and health. This Panel will provide [...]

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 the Enneagram describes them in a deeper way. Each Enneagram style is anchored by [...]

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 in neuroscience help explain the nature of emotional reactions and provide insights into strategies [...]