Everyone is creative. Whether a person makes their living with their art, dabbles occasionally as a hobby, or flirts with the idea of doing that creative thing that they haven't done since childhood, each of us has the capacity to process our lives and experiences through creative work. How we go about doing this is strongly impacted by our personality.
This panel brings together four people working in various branches of the arts: music, theatre, literature and visual arts. Each person has knowledge and understanding of the Enneagram. Some have made the Enneagram a direct subject of their art.
Over the course of this two hour conversation, the panelists will share their work and explore the ways the Enneagram has impacted their lives and creative output. They'll share insights about their processes. And they'll open up to all questions.
TJ Dawe is a playwright, director and performer. He's created shows that have toured the world. He's written and performed two autobiographical monologues about how the Enneagram has impacted him. He gave a talk at the 2018 IEA conference on the intersection between the Enneagram, mythology and pop culture.
John Amen is the author of several collections of poetry, including Illusion of an Overwhelm (New York Quarterly Books, 2017), a finalist for the 2018 Brockman-Campbell Award, and work from which was chosen as a finalist for the Dana Award. His poetry, fiction, and essays have appeared in journals nationally and internationally, and his poetry has been translated into Spanish, French, Hungarian, Korean, and Hebrew. He is a Staff Reviewer for the music magazines and websites No Depression, Beats Per Minute, and PopMatters. He founded and is managing editor of Pedestal Magazine. He has studied the Enneagram with Don Riso, Russ Hudson, Helen Palmer, and David Daniels, among others, and is a certified teacher in the Narrative Enneagram Professional Training Program (Palmer/Daniels). He and his wife, Thia Powers, periodically facilitate workshops on various themes.
Holly Carton is a watercolor portrait artist with a passion to capture individual's personalities and stories within their portraits. She uses the Victorian Language of Flowers, animals, and any other imagery that speaks to that person's Inner World. She also uses specific colors to describe personalities in each portrait.
Bernadette Galea is an Australian singer/songwriter, Enneagram Teacher and Registered Psychologist. Combining her four great loves of music, spirituality, psychology and the Enneagram, Bernadette has created an album of nine songs, each one from the perspective of one of the nine personality styles of the Enneagram. Each unique song takes the listener on a journey from the limitations of 'type' to the expansive experience of presence in the here and now. Bernadette is currently residing in Australia, seeing clients through her online psychology private practice, Essential Nature, and writing and recording more music with the hope of spreading love, light and higher consciousness in any way she can across the globe.