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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
July 28 – 31, 2011
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We are constantly feeling; we are always experiencing an emotion. Thousands of stimuli present themselves to our awareness, second by second; our emotional state influences and sometimes even forces which stimuli we notice and which we overlook. We are usually unaware of this process and [...]
This session will examine whether it is possible to manage change through an intervention on Organizational Culture. After exploring and analyzing the concept of culture, it discusses the strengths and weaknesses of the Cultural Change approach and organizations' inevitable need to know and understand themselves. [...]
When you teach the Enneagram, you have to share a lot of information with your students. But that doesn't mean it has to be a long, dull lecture! Adults learn best when they are actively engaged in the learning process. And they learn even better [...]
[NO RECORDING] Where are you on your personal journey with money? Our relationships to money mirror where we are on our path from scarcity, fear, and surviving to abundance, love, and thriving. In this session, we will discuss how to have a healthy relationship with [...]
What if you viewed resistance as a crucial catalyst for individual and collective transformation? What if you cooperated with opposing forces in order to birth a third, reconciling force? Cooperation and participation require a shift in states in which we relax into resistance through three-centered [...]
The Enneagram offers a profound understanding of the fixations which underlie our motives and interactions. However, once we identify these disfiguring traits, how might we best transform them into radiant manifestations of Essence? Additionally, when no longer primarily fueled by our passions, how might we [...]
I have typed many folks over the last 6 years and I have learned some "tricks of the trade" that help serious Enneagram practitioners avoid the pitfalls of typing. In this session, I will emphasize: (1) how body language can be indicative of certain types; [...]
[NO RECORDING] Most of us live with disconnected centers -- the instincts, the heart and the mind -- which cements our type firmly in place. To move forward in life with clarity and compassion, we must re-connect and re-integrate the three centers. Physiologically, working with [...]
The Enneagram enriches Theatre with information about human behavior and Theatre offers the Enneagram tools for rehearsing real-life situations, producing high-level self-observation and reflection opportunities. Improvisation as a theatrical technique is the strategy that makes the SYMBIOSIS between Enneagram and Theatre feasible. Objective: To show [...]
What brings a client into a professional relationship with a growth-oriented professional? Hidden pain often plays an important role underlying your client's experience. How that pain has been managed contributes to the client's current experience that they bring to the coaching relationship. When ignored, desired [...]
We are at a choice-point: of crisis and opportunity; of chaos and reordering; of localism and globalism; of the individual and the collective; of regression and transformation. For this to happen, we have to be and do differently. We will either survive and thrive together [...]
[NO RECORDING] One of the great challenges facing organizations is getting all employees, from the CEO to the hourly workers, to realize that to become the best, they have to embrace Diversity. Diversity is about empowering people. It makes an organization effective by capitalizing on [...]
The basic message is clear: Bullying is a huge problem, not only in schools, but also, in all segments of our global community. Our effective anti-bullying model shows how to create a network of interdependence, bringing out the strengths of each person involved. It is [...]
This presentation will explore the impact of instinctual subtypes, separate from type, on relationships. The three major instincts (self-preservation, social, and sexual) and the subtypes which are formed by them have a powerful impact on our style of relating. Since the three subtypes have very [...]
[NO RECORDING] When a new friend, potential employer or romantic partner asks you about yourself, how do you meet the challenge of telling your story? Do you see your life as related to one of the standard story genres -- a love story, a success [...]
We all need love, and yet we know that relationships are going through a profound crisis. Divorces and infidelity are growing faster than ever! Many couples that stay together, are already emotionally divorced. But, what's the big secret to maintaining a successful and loving relationship? [...]
This fascinating presentation takes one on a profound journey revealing how the order of the Types around the Enneagram can be used for psychological transformation and spiritual growth. The order of the Types in a clockwise direction reveals both the archetypal roles each Type plays [...]
[NO RECORDING] Uranio Paes will run this experiential workshop in which he will facilitate deep transformation for volunteers, using a carpet with the Enneagram symbol drawn on it. This work involves managing the energy that the Enneagram symbol and the growth work provides and requires. [...]
As the Enneagram becomes more and more relevant and widespread in business and organizational settings, many Enneagram professionals are grappling with the challenge of languaging a secular, non-spiritual, commercially appealing Enneagram. How do we present Enneagram material in secular and business environments, as distinct from [...]
"The qualities within our own Essence are Divine Attributes. It is because the Divine Compassion exists to reveal itself to us that there exists the possibility of knowing the infinite by knowing ourselves and of knowing the particular divine Attribute we most exemplify." Living Presence: [...]
This groundbreaking session is about working with college students using the Enneagram for spiritual and personal development. As we, the presenters, live and work in South Florida, we will have the rare opportunity to bring many of our students to participate with us. The two [...]
[NO RECORDING] We need to experience in ourselves all nine types to grow and awaken. I believe that there are three stages to this work. The first stage represents a journey of self knowledge, to know thyself in all three Centers: body, heart, and mind. [...]
Over the years a number of practitioners have successfully combined the Enneagram with other existing disciplines. Many have developed new techniques for working with students and clients to address the dilemmas of each Enneagram style. In this panel we will explore the most effective approaches [...]
One in one hundred American adults is incarcerated. Though we know through the Enneagram that our personality creates a prison of our own making, ironically, as a society we collectively dismiss these human beings, and in so doing participate in an incredible waste of human [...]
The Holy Ideas of the Enneagram are in service to the alleviation of suffering and the recovery of our true nature through remembering our Essence qualities. The Holy Ideas remind us of who we truly are beyond our attachments and identification with the construct of [...]
[NO RECORDING] The InnovationCircle is the basis for Egowise Leadership in organizations. Its foundation is the Enneagram, with its nine creative and talented personalities. When all nine personalities are fully present in the here and now, they show the way to greatness in leadership and [...]
Historically we have understood the Enneagram to be part of an ancient spiritual system. Many of the ideas considered elemental in Enneagram work, such as the sacred geometry and meaning of the diagram itself, the three centers, self-observation, presence and self-remembering, were part of a [...]
Tom Condon will work with several audience members who want to change an Enneagramrelated problem, using therapeutic methods customized to their specific Enneagram style. Tom's demonstrations are usually vivid, entertaining and intense. Most produce a visible before-and-after difference in the client, as they shift from [...]
The Enneagram is a superb diagnostic tool to use in conjunction with whatever other techniques one uses in coaching. It does not displace other approaches, but refines and specifies what motivations and unconscious agendas are probably also at play. When coaching techniques and strategies are [...]
[NO RECORDING] Based on the Enneagram's personality typologies, we will submerge ourselves in a world of wisdom that allows us to identify what type of information we must take into account to make a faster transition from our limitations to a fuller life. This is [...]
Change is the only constant; nothing stays the same. Even as we maintain our inner view of the world, the outer world keeps changing. We move away from home, fall in love, start families, make careers. Children are born, friends die, we change jobs or [...]
Because 99% of processed sales occur via meetings, telephone conversations, letters or emails, sales in fact is communication. Thus to be successful in sales, communicating clearly is essential to inspire confidence and motivate customers to buy from you. The Enneagram can be invaluable in sales [...]
The adaptive value of human violence is rapidly disappearing. Only the unexamined root causes and cure keep humans hostage to violence. How by expanding our moral imagination can we become peace makers in real time? In our daily lives? Here we will present John Paul [...]
[NO RECORDING] Storytelling is not dependent on any form; a story can be painted, danced, written, staged or mimed. But, all stories are dependent upon having a structure; every story has one, every story must have one. In the commercial, how-to world of story development, [...]
[NO RECORDING] Carl Jung taught us that by fully embracing the shadow in ourselves or in a situation we can liberate the energy that is imprisoned in the disowned parts of us. Doing this creates a more energized, actualized, and integrated self or situation. As [...]
Leadership is as much art as it is a science. There are no perfect formulas and no complete lists of leadership qualities or competencies; leadership is far too complex an undertaking for such easy prescriptions. This program will cover three sets of leadership attributes that [...]
The interaction, used in some of the EPTP trainings, is a valuable development instrument to help people improve their understanding of themselves and their important relationships. It involves the person verbally interacting with a representative of the same Type as the person with whom they [...]
[NO RECORDING] The workshop is designed to give you an opportunity to experience the sensation of the 9 types in your own body, in the healthy, average and unhealthy levels. We use acting techniques, meditations and dance. As a choreographer, my job is to work [...]
Although some believe the Enneagram's spiritual aspects are split off from the work we do with the Enneagram in organizational settings, this session will directly debunk that duality myth. Engage, learn and practice a series of activities that explicitly access the spiritually transformative aspects of [...]
In this workshop we will explore the 9 specific illusions that separate us from truly knowing that we are connected to all and everything. The Enneagram of Personality is a constricted view of the Truth that creates an Illusion of Separation. Through experiential practices we [...]
As everyone is aware, we are constantly bombarded with more and more information--although we usually have no way to make sense of things or to see relationships among elements. The ever-mounting cascade of data does not usually result in real understanding of what is happening, [...]
[NO RECORDING] Everything started by doing a trivial question. I can't understand the reason why I don't like some advertising. Could be that my Enneagram type rejects them? Since then the initial and trivial question turns into an inquiry. With my pupils of the creativity [...]
Each Enneagram style has sweet spots where there is a clarity of vision, an intuitive edge. We look for what we value, what is important to us. Each style also has blind spots, some aspects of ourselves, others, and the world that we overlook but [...]
EnneaMotion is an experiential approach that helps us embody the strengths of all personality styles. It repatterns the brain and creates new neural pathways throughout the body. New pathways are new patterns to new, healthier behaviors. This increases our choices: responding like a Two, Four, [...]
In this workshop, participants recall experiences from their childhoods that bother them. It may not have entered their minds to imagine their attitudes or responses as having been otherwise because habits have become so engrained since the event, and the usefulness of doing so may [...]
[NO RECORDING] In Hollywood it is the exception, rather than the rule, when movie characters are explicitly written and performed true-to-type - Enneagram type, that is. It is even less common to see film characters who faithfully represent and embody clear and distinct Type and [...]
• Learn a proven sales process to build a profitable practice/ business. • Understand your style's sales motivation and how to maximize it. • Set realistically audacious goals and begin a business development plan. • Become comfortable addressing objections and discussing price. • Leave knowing [...]
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 35-year clinical practice, describing the natural blind spots and biases of each client's Enneagram type [...]
When you eat when you are not hungry, a familiar Enneagram habitual pattern or habit is working to sabotage you. Enneagram eating habits can be difficult to conquer but you can change. This fun presentation will identify the habitual triggers of unhealthy eating for your [...]
[NO RECORDING] As our nation works to emerge from the Great Recession, individuals and organizations from many quarters are working to understand the dynamics that created the crisis. But just as important -- and undeniably timely -- is the pressing need to acquire knowledge about [...]
