Both the Enneagram and Chi Kung have mathematical origins, and were originally taught as a means of understanding how the universe works. Both stress the foundational significance of threes, use…
Through the use of a Personality Indicator, video, Q&A, self-reflection and general discussion, participants come away from the session identifying their qualities as parents and/or educators and translate that knowledge…
This presentation serves several purposes in the context of the conference: 1) An introduction to the Enneagram for newcomers; 2) A master class for teachers who seek alternative ways of…
This session will introduce our method of using the Enneagram with teenagers. Our “Awakening Workshop” addresses teenagers between the ages of 15 to 20, because at this stage a teenager…
Those doing change work may unwittingly help people get better at what they’ve always done to keep themselves stuck in a box. In contrast, significant shifts can occur by moving…
The Enneagram, Pair Bonding, and Intimacy
An Exploration of the Fears and Desires of the 9 Enneagram Types in Intimacy
This innovative presentation reveals profound insights into the fundamental fears and desires that arise in intimacy for each of the 9 Enneagram Types. Based on ongoing research, this workshop will…
Anger is an incredibly constructive or destructive force in our lives. It can be used for the conversion of energy to our best self or tear our relationships apart. What…
Journey to Essence
The Enneagram, PsychoSpiritual Transformation, and Jung's "The Great Work Which Goes Against One's Nature"
This workshop provides participants with pathways of liberation from conditioning and fearful reactions to genuine awakening and Essence. Through instruction, inquiry, experiential exercises, breath, and meditations, participants are guided to…
The focus of this program is to present practical details of how to apply the Enneagram as both a worldview and a tool in guiding the process of personal change.…
Guiding An Organization Through Stress, Complexity, And Uncertainty, A Leader Is Particularly Challenged To Become A More Positive, Calming, Non-Anxious Presence. How Can Leaders Become Comfortable Within The Maddening Context…
Our new parenting program, “There’s No Place Like Home: Intelligent Parenting for Today’s Family” unites three themes: the three centers of human intelligence and what each contributes to intelligent parenting,…
The Subject Of This Workshop Is The Integration Of Enneagram Theory With The Western Occult Or Mystery Tradition. Using Information And Wisdom Gleaned From Various Sources, Including Theosophical Writings, The…
The Most Efficient Way For The Enneagram To Be Embraced By The Mainstream Population May Be Through Acceptance Of The Scientific Community That The Enneagram Is A “Real” And Measurable…
Reviewing The Events Of One’s Life Is Highly Conducive To Acquiring Self-Knowledge, Which Can Lead To Self-Acceptance. With Self-Acceptance, It Becomes Easier To Connect With Other Human Beings And Have…
All Subjective Experience Has A Sensory Structure, An “Inner Architecture,” And Anything We Do Follows A Sequence Of Internal Sensory Steps – A Combination Seeing, Hearing, Feeling, Smelling, And Tasting.…
A comparative study of the relationship between points Four and Five as artists, from the point of view of the art they produced and statements about the artist by themselves…
Transmuting Fears and Healing Soul Wounds
The Energy of Type, Center, Subtype, and the Essence Process
In this workshop, we will explore the deepest fears of our type, center, and subtype, and the ways we compulsively compensate for these fears. We will look at the automatic…
Drawing on information and exercises from the book Bringing Out the Best in Yourself at Work: How to Use the Enneagram System for Success, this session focuses on integrating spirituality…
Spiritual Growth Participants will experience a mini-Appreciative Inquiry into the topic of Inspired Spiritual Growth for their Enneagram type. They will share stories about those moments when they have experienced…
Death is the only certainty in life. Despite this, the topic is generally avoided because it causes uneasiness, fear and pain. Sooner or later, everyone will be faced with the…
An innovative approach to conflict resolution that has proven highly effective in consulting work with corporations and organizations. It combines the Harvard Law School strategy of Fisher & Ury (Getting…
During this 2-hour talk, Don and Russ will talk about the Virtues and Holy Ideas to show participants how they are actually aspects of a unified vision of Reality. They…
Given the fact that type has a biased point of view designed to protect us, it’s not surprising that faced with another human being – however well intentioned – type…
This session will provide practitioners of Centering Prayer an opportunity for a 20-minute period of morning prayer. For those wishing to participate but unfamiliar with this particular method of prayer,…
Physical exercises: No particular ability is needed, but the will to be involved is required (all attendees have to be active). The meditation involves Gurdjieff Movements in a silent journey…
Through the Eyes of Classic European Painters of Different Enneagram Types Art can be a tool that expresses the soul of a person and also the characteristics of the personality…
Day Three: The group who are still uncertain about their subtype will join the larger group of subtypes. The undecided group will visit each of the subtype groups related to…
This workshop will help you translate the Enneagram’s theories into fruitful, effective practice. Tom will work with an audience member who wants to change Enneagramrelated problems, using therapeutic techniques customized…
Our only problem is a belief in separation. Your personality is the chief tool in creating the illusion of separation. Personality changes reality into an illusion, the illusion that we…
Please join us as we reflect on the IEA’s mission at its 10th anniversary and pay tribute to the six IEA Founders in attendance, David Daniels, Theodorre Donson, Russ Hudson,…