Improvisational games (improv) are creative, courageous conversations. In their purest form, the dialogue, action, story, and characters are created collaboratively by the players and audience as the improvisation unfolds in present time. When you're "playing" in this way, you can't successfully plan ahead, worry about getting it right, try to look good or control the process. You can't do [...]

This interactive session will showcase the complementary uses of the Enneagram, DiSC, Myers-Briggs Type Instrument, and Hogan Assessment in the workplace. Participants will determine/self-assess (or review) their styles in each instrument and see how those styles are correlated and play out in each of the assessment frameworks. Break-outs will allow the participants to determine which tool might be best [...]

The Enneagram is a powerful tool for psychological integration, spiritual awakening, and innovative multi-dimensional conversations that transform important personal, societal, cultural and global issues in the 21st century. The sophistication and dynamism of the Enneagram contains capacity to create deeper multi-vectored experiential processes/practices/conversations than are often employed, thus supporting people's capacity for sustained presence and innovative collaboration. Participants will [...]

"We translate everything, whether physical, mental or spiritual, into muscular tension." ~ F. M. Alexander In this fun, active and innovative workshop we will engage in a lively conversation about the way in which core values of our Enneagram type structures show up in our minds and bodies. We will explore our own reactive patterns, discovering how our "beliefs" [...]

The basis for the Enneagram model is the idea of Ego and Essence. This is the premise for understanding how to use the Enneagram for growth. The relationship between Ego and Essence has also been central in the development of human consciousness, and has been described in myths, stories, dramas and even films throughout all times. In this workshop [...]

A new approach to gender diversity is needed in our society and in our organizations. Despite many "diversity initiatives" advancement in women's leadership continues to be stalled. People in the field are stumped about what to do. This is an issue for all of us, women and men alike, for until we live in a world where the feminine [...]

This presentation will explore the impact of instinctual energy, separate from type, on relationships. Each of us has three instincts (self-preservation, one-to-one and social), but one of these tends to be more central in our daily lives and relationships. The three major instincts have a powerful impact on our style of relating because they reflect our fundamental values. Since [...]

Bring your familiarity of your Enneagram type to link up with the principles and skill-set of Nonviolent Communication ("The Language of Life"). Through experiential exercises and discussion groups, participants will learn and apply NVC approaches to communication, including our inner language about our self. This session will explore the dynamic blend of the Enneagram and NVC, including: understanding and [...]

Have you ever watched helplessly as a colleague spouted embarrassing rhetoric or felt sucked into an argument when you asked a reasonable question? The Enneagram offers a way to understand why that can happen, how to notice your own triggers, and how you can respond more effectively. In this workshop you'll learn how to navigate the dangers of toxic [...]

This workshop provides greater clarity, confidence, connection and vitality in your relational communi-cations. Each Enneatype hears and understands key words and communications in their own special way. We provide effective and practical communication tools that enhance personal and professional relationships. Mastering communications involves more than the accuracy of your words. Clear awareness of how a "type" perceives words allows [...]

Giving and receiving quality feedback is a challenge for most of us. Framing difficult feedback in a way that it can be well received is an art. Since the Enneagram gives us powerful pathways to temper our own biases and to imagine into others' perspectives, it is an ideal framework for learning to give quality feedback. But we need [...]

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The vice to virtue conversion is a spiritual practice that joins two different levels of consciousness. The level of our brain's conditioned neuropathways that automatically repeat. And a "pure" level of consciousness that notes inner patterns as they arise. This workshop is focused on a recent convergence between spiritual practice methodology and evidence based MRI research. The science of [...]

Conscious Communication is a fundamental shift in how we relate to ourselves and others. Rather than acting from preconceived bias, it asks that we actively unearth unconscious fears assumptions and blocks and offer more awareness, attention and presence. It can radically (even miraculously) transform relationships, negotiations, brainstorming and intimacy. When consciously communicating, time slows down, allowing for deeper listening [...]

We carry on conversations with ourselves all the time. Sometimes the exchanges are encouraging; sometimes they're discouraging; sometimes they are downright nasty. Critical voices have a different form and function within each Enneagram style. Each type has particular issues to be critical about based on its character structure and idealized self-image. In this workshop we will identify and experience [...]

This practical "how-to" conversation is about using your type strengths, while allowing the vibrancy of your true nature to infuse your teaching. You will learn how to bring more presence and grounding in all 3 centers to your teaching, and how to design your classes to meet the needs of all 3 centers. You will learn to maximize your [...]

The instincts have become more popular and widely understood in the last years, with many approaches being taught and used. In this session, participants will be exposed to the Awareness to Action view, developed by Mario Sikora, on the Instincts, and will experience practical ways in which they can use the model in their work with leaders and teams. [...]

We're excited to share with you the connections we've discovered between the Enneagram's centers of intelligence and the energetic vitality of essential oils: We call it EnneaEssentials. The parallels between the worlds of center-wisdom and plant-wisdom support truly transformative internal conversation. Join us and discover, for example, how essential oils drawn from Roses, Geraniums, & Jasmine flowers, open and [...]

According to the Enneagram model of personality, for each of the nine Enneagram types, there are three instinctual subtypes. This session will describe the three subtypes of all nine types, but we will explore the three subtypes of three of the nine types in more depth, through panels of people talking about how they see their subtype at work [...]

Poet and author David Whyte says that 50% of our life is saying goodbye. This begs the question, "How are we navigating these losses?" Whether loss is related to health, shattered dreams, work or relationships, our personality style moves into patterns and stories that lessen anxiety in the moment, yet doesn't allow our grieving to flow. During this workshop, [...]

Transformation occurs in conversations when we are able to accept the resistance to change and relate to it with compassion; but speak to and bring forth the essential qualities of being that is ready and wanting to awaken to one's full potential. Non-transformational conversations can be characterized as egos (Enneatypes) arguing, placating or pumping one another up avoiding whatever [...]

Our type is a combination of habitual patterns that protect the vulnerable, playful, spontaneous, creative core of who we were truly meant to be! In type, we cannot connect to others in ways `that matter.' We are protected, guarded, and not truly present. Yet many of us hunger for interactions that truly `matter'! Sometimes we `click' with another person. [...]

Yes, anger is one of the three basic aversive emotions shared by all mammals. And yes it is about violation of our sense of worth and getting what we want and value. In addition anger relates to power and control. It dramatically influences the other. It manifests physiologically with great rapidity before any cognition takes place. Thus anger occurs [...]

Each Enneagram Type and Instinctual Type has its own unique vocabulary and way of conversing, which when understood, can be very revealing. Enhance your typing skills and learn how to recognize the distinct language of type. Discover what the 9 Types and 3 Instinctual Types say about themselves on the Enneastyle Questionnaire. Learn which images, words and phrases the [...]

I'm excited to invite an interactive dive into The Language of Life, a name affectionately and respectfully given to the process formally known as "Nonviolent Communication (NVC)." The Language of Life" is a powerful process that invites awareness of our habitual thoughts and communication, and gives us specific principles and tools to maximize connection through honesty and empathy. Founded [...]