Over the last 30 years the rate of incarceration in the U.S. has increased by 790% alongside a recidivism rate that's currently at an alarming 67%. If we want to reduce the number of people returning to prison, we must support a psychological understanding of the unconscious, conditioned responses historically displayed by both inmates and the corrections system [...]

  We developed our personality styles as strategies to protect us from getting hurt and wounded the way we were when we were young. This workshop will attempt to uncover some of those early sensitivities and the feelings that went along with them. We will explore how a part of us wants to get free from our personality shackles [...]

I've often been asked: "Now that I know my type, what do I do with it?" This session introduces a Transformational Model which presents a structured process to help you get free of your Type's fixation and get in touch with your authentic self. We will practice how to distinguish "Who is taking now" -- the Ego or the [...]

This session is an invitation to freshly explore and inquire into the nature of narrative. Narrative generates momentum and agency. We are influenced by the narrative and respond to the unfolding story's context. Narrative can have a transmitting quality to it, which our true Self, knows and recognizes as wisdom emerging spontaneously. This quality of Presence can emerge during [...]

Imagine difficult problems, self-defeating behaviors and limitations becoming doorways to learning, growing, and transforming yourself! Core Transformation is a proven NLP process that gently guides you to the depths of your being to discover (and directly access) the positive intentions behind your worst behaviors and "stuck" states. This leads to an experience of deep awareness where lasting change can [...]

This presentation takes one on a profoud journey revealing how the order of the Types around the Enneagram reveals the paths to psychological growth and spiritual transformation. This includes a correlation between the Enneagram and Joseph Campbell's `Hero's Journey', Jung's archetypes and ancient wisdom traditions combined with over 20 years of empirical research findings into the selfimage and core [...]

Did you know The Twelve Steps to Recovery are often viewed as a process to balance our instinctual drives? Yes, they even suggest the conflicts in our lives are created by what they describe as "Self Will Run Riot." The Steps guide us through a process to specifically identify both how and why our instincts became distorted. A solution [...]

The Enneagram community's historical and epistemological distance from science poses challenges in creating scientific collaborations. In this session we will discuss an ongoing multi-year collaboration (the Brain Group) which seeks to spark scientific curiosity about the Enneagram. One effort in particular has focused on identifying specific Enneagram-based hypotheses aimed at important gaps in psychological and neurobiological science. For example, [...]

Life has its `victories' and also its major challenges. No one misses out! And victorious transformations are rarely `accidental'. Prior personal growth can enhance successful transition. But how prepared are we for the inevitable dramatic life changes? With an understanding of the 9 domains the Enneagram describes, we are offering new insights to assess how our type can help [...]

Both Yoga and the Enneagram offer profound tools to help us get through life's changes, as well as give us insight on our journey of transformation. The ultimate goal of Yoga is to let go of our identification with constantly changing thoughts, bringing awareness to our true nature, Joy. The challenge is that our most deeply engrained mental habits [...]

After three days talking about transformation and change, the endnote of the 2015 IEA Conference will discuss provocative, yet inspiring questions: What is the evidence of a true inner transformation? Where am I now in my growth process, and what would be some good next steps for me? What does it really mean to say someone has been transformed? [...]

Transformation with the Enneagram means working with all three centers mind, heart and body. One of the most vital steps to changing our type patterns is recognizing our emotional habit which provides the fuel for our defenses, keeps our mental fixation in place, and infiltrates the activity of our subtype. The nine "passions" are traditionally described with the language [...]

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As a team interacts, individuals on the team naturally use different parts of their Enneagram-style and instinctual stacking. Participants will explore a new Competencies of Teams model based on integral theory, the influence of Enneagram styles and the instincts on teamwork, and Robert Kegan's "Immunity to Change" principles. This model is based on two decades of work with teams [...]

Effective leaders know how to be authentic, recognize the value of diversity, and keep humanness central to every action and interaction. In this session, we will present the foundational model for coaching high-performance leaders that includes awakening and integrating the energies of the three centers of intelligence within all of us and then focus on experientially understanding the characteristics [...]

The Enneagram typology has been around long enough now that a significant number of people are aware of its power to illuminate important elements of our character structure. Some then go a step further and learn the basic principles of self-observation upon which all real Enneagram work depends. We learn more about the real function of the Centers, how [...]

You're an Enneagram expert, not a trainer, right? But you're often put in the position of teaching the Enneagram to others. Rather than follow the ineffective methods you experienced in grade school or even college, why not use modern Adult Learning Theory and other techniques that professional trainers use? Participants learn best when they are actively involved. They learn [...]

In this provocative and interactive session, we'll examine who we are in terms of the primary Diversity dimensions race, gender, sexual orientation, physical abilities, culture/nationality, education, religion, and socio-economic class and how these different dimensions intersect with both our Enneagram type and the types of other participants. In addition, we'll explore how our Enneagram type is actually another dimension [...]

In this interactive workshop we will explore the following questions: What do we actually mean when we talk about presence? What are the many ways we can define this? What does it mean to be Conscious? Awake? Does this look differently depending on Enneagram type and level of consciousness? Does culture impact presence? How do times, places, problems and [...]

Parenting is a multi-faceted endeavor and families are complex systems. Using work that is underpinned by Riso and Hudson's Nine Domains Jacqui, Margaret & Tracy will expand the nine universal principals that must be present and operating with the individual and the family for each member to survive and thrive and become a well functioning unit. Each of the [...]

George Kelly's Personal Construct Theory of Psychology asserts that we humans develop sets of mental representations to view reality, predict and anticipate events. If a "Personal Construct" proves ineffective, one can shift to a construct that more accurately reflects the situation and predicts its outcome. In Kelly's terms the Enneagram personality styles would be nine different but related hierarchies [...]

What are the present challenges in educational and vocational guidance ? The previous model of choice, based on school results and skills, is completely overtaken. The scientific validation of an instrument based on the Enneagram since 2008 has opened new perspectives. The HPEI has been cross-referenced with existing tools and the Enneagram turned out to be the missing piece, [...]

What is conflict? How do our personalities and past experiences help create conflict? Developing the skills to recognize and to constructively interact with the different lenses through which we all perceive reality is what participants in this session will learn, in order to understand the core of what lies underneath conflict and to help us better resolve these conflicts. [...]

The Enneagram community has embraced Clare Graves' Model of Human Development (also known as Spiral Dynamics(TM)), but there are many misconceptions about the model, which is often taught in a simplistic way. We all know of the subtleties that lie within the Enneagram, and the same is true of the Clare Graves' model; just as people are not merely [...]

A unique day expanding the Enneagram's power by merging it with three complementary paths to transformational change. Russ Hudson, Marion Gilbert and Tom Condon will each present their different perspectives and methods for increasing presence, opening to what is beyond your personal self and living a full life. Using panels, group exercises and demonstrations the three presenters will offer [...]

How do we access ourselves in the place where we have built such strong defenses with early neuro-pathway tracks protecting us from harm or danger, perceived or real? ~Can we recognize the part of ourselves that became hidden behind these very effective defensive patterns reinforced by repetition? ~What is the way to reconnect with this aspect of self that [...]

Arrow theory recently emerged as a key question raised by participants at the 2014 IEA World Cafe group discussion session. Also known as Integration /Disintegration or the Ascent/Descent perspective, the arrows advise a move toward security while moving away from stress. But here's the question: Does a map for enhancing qualities that make us feel secure while diminishing those [...]

Based on the Quaker Clearness Committee process of discernment though questions and silence, the Enneagram Perspective Circle allows participants to experience the perspectives of their resource points (wings and connecting lines) as they consider a particular problem for discernment. This unique and advanced workshop creates a space to grasp more fully the complexity and dynamics of the Enneagram by [...]

The Enneagram describes complex psychological dynamics for each type. Separately, with just a few simple concepts and principles, Nonviolent Communication (NVC) provides an insightful account of our emotional experience. Through practicing NVC, individuals develop greater fluency in identifying what is important to them in each moment, in terms of their feelings and needs. In this session, we as a [...]

How can the Enneagram be a path to genuine love, to healthy relationships and hence to a fulfilling life? What does this require of us? We will explore how the Enneagram's understandings through the true process of integration which is characterized by full presence in the moment, by an indelible imprint in memory in all the senses, by the [...]

I will share with you new and creative ways of talking of the Enneagram to people that dont know the Enneagram. How to get them interested, how to explain it for the first time. The Dos and Don'ts when talking to new people. I will share some creative ways of preparing a radio show, a youTube video, or a [...]

Forget what you think you know about the origin of the Enneagram theory of personality! The author of the very first Enneagram textbook will share his extensive research, experiences and relationships with almost all of the original thinkers who evolved the theory. Drawn from nearly half-a-century of studying and teaching the Enneagram, O'Leary will present a step-by-step analysis of [...]

Recent neuroscience and leadership research show us that striking a balance between work-focused goals and the needs of other people is critical to being a successful leader... and is extremely challenging given the demands of complex business climates and our complex personalities. In this interactive session we will explore new brain science about social motivations combined with the Enneagram. [...]

Change Your Enneagram Style - Well, not completely, but using Modeling methods from NLP you can deeply enter the subjective experience of other people and their Enneagram styles. The purpose is to discover what it's like to be someone else - especially when they are at their best - and to acquire some of their strengths in the process. [...]

The experience of stepping into someone else's shoes is the closest we get to finding out what it's like to be them. EnneaMotion is an experiential approach to learning the Enneagram. By experiencing the energy of the different types, we gain insight and increase our compassion. Additionally, we can actually change the brain by creating new neural pathways which [...]