2008-2009 Season:

 

Saturday, September 27, 2008

 

The Enneagram and Relationships: 

Loving Self, Listening to the Other

with

Polly Cherner

When we are fully present to ourselves, our relationships blossom.  So, what keeps us from this state?

Moving around the Enneagram circle, we find blaming, manipulating, exaggerating, idealizing, withdrawing, projecting, moving on, controlling and agreeing.  We are not loving ourselves when we are caught in these actions, nor are we able to listen well.  

Yet when we are wise, generous, accomplished, creative, sensitive, loyal, inspiring, supportive, and peaceful, relationships flow with ease and grace.

In this workshop, we will look at how we show up in relationship, first with ourselves, and then with the other.  We will address how we access emotional balance, mental clarity, and natural instinct as vital components for satisfying relationships.  Through Enneagram stories, small group dialogs, guided meditation, and mini panels, we will explore how loving ourselves, and listening to the other both empower and inspire the territory of relationship.

 

Polly Cherner has been immersed in the study of the Enneagram for the last four years. Certified in 2005 with the Enneagram Professional Training Program, she currently leads Enneagram Panel Evenings, beginning classes, study groups, and holds individual Enneagram Conversations with folks interested in discovering where they fall in this insightful system. She and her husband, Randy, live in San Anselmo, California, where they have raised three sons.

 

Saturday, January 17, 2009

 

Your Enneagram Tritype:

Exploring the Hierarchy of Your Three Centers of Intelligence

with

 Katherine and David Fauvre

 

Tri-Type means three Enneagram types. The Enneagram is a trialectic system, therefore, you use not just one, but three Enneagram types — one in each center: head (5,6,7), heart (2,3,4) and gut (8,9,1).  Each type represents a strategy to negotiate life, relationships and work.  Although one is your preferred strategy, acting as the CEO, you also use the strategies of two other types in preferred, descending order.  The use of these three Enneagram types in a specific order is called your Tritype.

After years of research, through interviews, coaching and statistical analysis of thousands of tests and questionnaires, we have found that understanding your Tritype helps develop critical self-awareness.  It also explains why individuals of the same type and instinctual subtype can be so different from one another.

With the use of visual aids and group participation, this workshop will focus on how we repeatedly use the same three types, in a preferred order, to insure our survival.  Attendees will receive a code to take the testing instrument online to determine their possible Tritype. 

Katherine and David Fauvre are co-founders of Enneagram Explorations. They conduct research, teach and consult on the application of the Enneagram. Katherine, a former member of the Board of Directors of the IEA, is a published researcher and author on many facets of the Enneagram. She is a certified teacher with Palmer-Daniels, Riso-Hudson, Hurley-Donson, and has studied with Condon, Naranjo, Wolinsky, Ichazo and Jaxon-Bear.  David holds a Masters in Counseling Psychology, is certified by Riso-Hudson, and has studied at the Barbara Brennan School .  He pioneered Enneachat, a program that brought the Enneagram to the Internet, in 1997.

 

Saturday, March 21, 2009

 

 A Somatic Approach to the Enneagram:

 An Expert Panel Reports On Their Work

 

Facilitated by Johanna Putnoi

Panel to be Announced

 

The Enneagram fixations and passions fluster the body's natural energies, often causing us to feel uncomfortable inside our own skin.  A return to natural instinctive responsiveness requires understanding the body of natural design, and then using embodiment practices to hasten the process of disengaging from both our cognitive and physical imbalances.  The somatic approach has been shown to be invaluable to this ongoing process.

 

Over the last twenty years, professional body therapists and educators have employed the Enneagram, in combination with the Somatic approach, as a tool for establishing a more centered, embodied life.

 

What is the research showing?   What conclusions can we draw about the effectiveness of this partnership?  What are the real life stories?

 

In this unique format, we’ll hear from a panel of experts who have used the Enneagram to deepen their work with clients. Each will present their own research and findings followed by a panel discussion focusing on the future of incorporating embodiment practices into the Enneagram work, and vise versa.  

 

 

Saturday, May 16 2009

 

Parenting Your Child Within: How to Use the Enneagram

 for Being Gentler On Yourself and Those Around You

with

Elizabeth Wagele

 

Most of us are primarily aware of ourselves in relation to our own Enneagram type as adults.  In this workshop, we will think about experiences from our childhoods, or other past experiences, that are important to us today.  How did these experiences reflect our Enneagram type?  What if you had reacted differently to that incident back then? It may never have entered your mind that an attitude or response might have been otherwise, because our habits are so engrained in us from an early age.  What can we do with this information?  Other people modeling this can be helpful.

 

I've found that reliving past experiences as I would like them to have been has been of great benefit to me and helps me live the present in a new, more positive way.  When you parent your child of the past, you can become a stronger person and a more sensitive parent.

 

Elizabeth will present an experiential workshop including some drawing and sharing of stories.  No aptitude for art is at all necessary.

 

Elizabeth Wagele gives occasional Enneagram musical presentations and talks on her books. Most of her time these days is spent writing, playing the piano, and drawing cartoons.  She is the author of Finding the Birthday Cake - Helping Children Raise Their Self-Esteem, an Enneagram book for children with colored drawings; The Happy Introvert - A Wild and Crazy Guide for Celebrating Your True Self; The Enneagram of Parenting; and The Beethoven Enneagram CD.  She is the co-author of The Enneagram Made Easy and Are You My Type, Am I Yours?