Exploring Shadow Themes in The Harmonic Triads 1/4/7 & 2/5/8 through Literature, Film & Community

An Online In Real Time Community: Seven Sessions
Orientation and Welcome December 4th and Monthly 2nd Thursday Evenings 6:00-8:00pm Pacific December 2025 - May 2026

Don't wait for Groundhog Day in February--- We hope to increase our awareness of shadow content everyday.

This program is open to all types and student levels. This is a small group exploration on two of the Harmonic Triads in depth and on shadow content, using specific literature/film characters and themes to enhance our understanding of ourselves and others. These triads can manifest an insistence on freedom and romantic idealism (1/4/7) and an avoidance of need (2/5/8).

The chosen movie/novel/play offers themes and a character who generally exemplifies values important to the type of the month, so we may better understand the type's areas of attention, motivations and life themes, vice to virtue shifts, or paths to disintegration and challenges to wholeness. Given that we are so often more than we can see in ourselves, a look into blindspots, difficulties we pose for others and ourselves, it's worthwhile exploring the other sides of ourselves through a view into all the types. We might unearth some gold from the unowned content of our ways of being.

We also ask deeper questions on meaning always found in well-crafted films. As we have all points of view relating with us and available to us, most participants find something relevant, moving and meaningful to examine in their own lives. It's also just great fun to explore character, in general!

Discover universal themes accessible and applicable to us all on the human journey. Get deeper understanding into yourself, the other types, and how you relate to their ways of being--- adaptive or maladaptive. Expand your community of friends who talk type, character development and the arts. Every session you will find something worthwhile!

Dale Rhodes, M.S., M.A. is a mentor and spiritual director with three professional certifications in The Enneagram and one in the MBTI. He has been facilitating community experiences with The Enneagram for over 25 years. If you talk type, you should join us sometime: We're The Nine Online!

Visit DaleRhodes.com to learn more about this and other courses.