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Transformation and Change
San Francisco Bay Area, California, USA
July 31 – August 2, 2015
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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 [...]
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 [...]
[NO RECORDING] Nero fiddled, we are told, while Rome burned. Today the Earth is burning (or going crazy-cold some places and offering up crazy-storms in others with both droughts and floods exacerbating everywhere) while much of our culture fiddles and lives in denial. Psychology and [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
[NO RECORDING] This is an experiential workshop using art making as a medium for accessing and understanding aspects of our own enneatypes, as well as the enneatypes of others. It is specifically developed for working with the Enneagram through creative process and imagery. Because imagery [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
[NO RECORDING] Gabrielle Roth founded a conscious dance practice called 5Rhythms. Participants dance their way through a wave of five musical rhythms that correlate to basic rhythms of life. She writes, "Movement is my medium and my metaphor. I know that if a wave of [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
[NO RECORDING] This workshop will explore the direct application of the Enneagram to the 12 Steps of addiction recovery and will provide a deeper clarity regarding the right use of the steps with the Enneagram. Much of the early development of AA centered around the [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
[NO RECORDING] According to pioneering Enneagram author Claudio Naranjo, for each of the nine Enneagram types, there are three instinctual subtypes, and for each of nine groups of three subtypes, there is one that is the "counter-type." Each of these nine "counter-types," appears to be [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
[NO RECORDING] How each of us experiences ourselves is intimately related to the amount of space the Inner Critic (I.C.) takes and how we engage it. While the I.C. can show up under all circumstances, it becomes particularly accelerated when we are on the path [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
[NO RECORDING] Unconsciously, we all internalize mom and dad to some degree, and take them with us wherever we go. As long as we remain unaware, we will try to re-create the relationship we forged with our parents when we were babies! We may blindly [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
[NO RECORDING] This workshop provides a beautiful opportunity to embody our dance towards health, and the visceral knowledge of how this feels. It is an experiential way to know the Enneagram, and move with the wisdom of this map. Embodying the essence of each type, [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
[NO RECORDING] Daniel Kahneman's "Thinking, Fast and Slow" popularized the idea of cognitive biases, helping people understand how structures of the mind can inhibit clear understanding of our world. Most wisdom traditions talk about how easily we fall victim to illusion. However, it is easy [...]
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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 [...]
[NO RECORDING] Even though we've all been teens ourselves and may have raised or helped raise teens, they often still remain a mystery to us. They will be less of a mystery after I interview a panel of them and they tell us how learning [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
[NO RECORDING] There are many things we can do to achieve the transformation we aim for in ourselves and the people we work with. We sometimes have breakthroughs that help us see things more clearly. These breakthroughs are helpful and necessary, but they don't always [...]
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: [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
