Someone's experience of their Enneagram style is multi-sensory, especially when they are reacting from the low side of their style. There is an underlying body feeling, typical emotions, a story we tell ourselves and imagery that express our self-image and unconscious picture of "the world." Working with imagery is especially useful for changing compulsive fixated reactions and outgrowing the defensive limits of your Enneagram style.
Our self-image is deeply unconscious and attached to memories, roles, habitual emotions. It even has a body location. In the trance of our Enneagram style we are attached to our image and unconsciously believe we don't exist without it. Some overdefended compulsive behavior is an attempt to maintain this historical picture of ourselves, despite the fact that the world around us keeps changing.
In this session we will explore, identify and experience how we maintain self-images related to our Enneagram styles. You will learn how to reduce their influence, evoke the gifts and strengths of your style and live more freely in the present.
Suitable for Enneagram students, coaches, counselors, therapists, as well as anyone wanting to use the Enneagram to grow and change.
Tom Condon has worked with the Enneagram since 1980 and has taught over 900 workshops in the US, Europe, Asia and Africa. He is the author of 50 products on the Enneagram, NLP and Ericksonian methods. He is founder and director of The Changeworks in Bend, Oregon. Website: www.thechangeworks.com IEA Accredited with Honor