Past Programs: Workshops

The Role of Psychological Type in Spiritual Experience

A Two-Day Workshop with Helen Palmer and Panel Speakers on the Nine Types

Friday and Saturday
April 23 – 24, 2010
Trinity Episcopal Cathedral – Kempton Hall
Center for Spiritual Development

The Enneagram is an historic map of the inward journey for different Types of people. Brought to fruition by 4th century monastic reports of psychological barriers to a praying state of mind, the map was recently “re-discovered” as identical to nine personality Types used in today’s counseling professions. It’s enduring value lies in naming the cognitive/emotional habits that separate the dualistic I – It reality of our personal story, from a praying encounter with the Non-Dual realities of spiritual experience.

This program brings the map to life with a vibrant ecology of mini-lectures, self-reflection exercises, contemplative practice, and the natural intimacy of meaningful conversation with Type panel speakers who can witness their inner states, and describe their barriers and breakthroughs during prayer.

Panels are integrated with short didactics about the Types, and practice periods focused on being Present to “Now”. We will briefly touch upon the way of Negation and the Affirmative way, two bodies of contemplative practice that each relax the separating barrier, commonly called “sin”, that lies between psychological and spiritual experience.

Helen Palmer is an internationally recognized teacher of intuition, and the best-selling author of five works in the human consciousness sector. Her two books, The Enneagram: Understanding Yourself and the Others in Your Life and The Enneagram in Love and Work: Understanding Your Intimate and Business Relationships are perennial best-sellers, currently in 28 languages.

She is the co-founder of Enneagram Worldwide and the Enneagram Professional Training Program offered by Enneagram Worldwide. Helen co-chaired the 1994 first International Enneagram Conference held at Stanford University, and is a founding director of the International Enneagram Association.

Helen’s work with the Enneagram was the subject of a 2003 PBS documentary entitled, Breaking Out of the Box: Discovering the Enneagram. She has also presented in a wide range of academic, business and spiritual institutions, establishing Enneagram scholarship in the United States, England, Ireland, Germany, France, Switzerland, Finland, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, Brazil, Australia, Thailand, and most recently, China. She has taught at John F. Kennedy University, Loyola of Chicago, the California School of Professional Psychology, and the California Institute of Integral Studies, and has been the Scholar-in-Residence at the Esalen Institute. In addition to being a Fellow of the Noetic Sciences Institute, Helen has been recognized with numerous academic awards. The most recent honor was bestowed by the prestigious Waldzell Institute of Vienna, Austria, where she was a presenter at the Institutes 2004 annual international conference. In attendance were recognized leaders in various fields, including three Nobel Laureates.

Introduction to the Enneagram for Couples

Saturday June 19, 2010, 9:30am-6:00pm
Healthquest at 1330 SE 39th

The co-founders of Enneagram Portland (Dale Rhodes, MS MA and Cathy Hitchcock, MSW) facilitated this workshop for those who have heard others *rave* about what the Enneagram can do to save and strengthen relationships!  The day included an introduction to personality type and the instincts, individual type assessments,  professional videos of people speaking about their worldviews and relationships, couple’s exercises and dialogue, group discussions, and more fun with other couples trying to figure themselves out too.

Two books were included: The Essential Enneagram by Daniels/Price and The Enneagram in Love and Work by Helen Palmer.

Cathy Hitchcock,  MSW, LCSW, is a psychotherapist in private practice for over 25 years. She is also a graduate of the Spectrum Training and Certification Program with Jerome Wagner, PhD.   She trained with Bob Martin, DSW, a founder of the Gestalt Institute of L.A.  Cathy leads support, therapy, retreat, and personal growth groups.  She is a breast cancer survivor and co-author of Breast Cancer — What You Should Know (But May Not Be Told) About Prevention, Diagnosis, and Treatment.

The Enneagram’s Gift to Conflict Resolution

March  6– 7 2010

Conflict affects each and every one of us. If not managed and resolved constructively, it can lead to stress, alienation, broken relationships, and missed opportunities. The Enneagram provides a powerful gift for working through conflict in constructive and compassionate ways.

During this workshop we will explore how conflict resolution theory and the Enneagram’s rich and deep understandings intersect and compliment each other, and when interwoven together,  how they create a powerful and life-changing force in our lives for peacemaking and harmony. Here are the topics and the questions to be addressed:

* What specific beliefs and behaviors contribute to constructive and destructive conflict resolution?
* How does the basic structure of our Type and its embedded beliefs and behaviors keep us in repeated circles of conflict?
* What about conflict takes us out of presence?
* How do we both create and avoid or resist conflict because we believe it threatens our Type’s adaptive strategy for creating a satisfactory life?
* How can the Enneagram’s Universal Growth Process for Self-mastery help us reduce and manage conflict more constructively?
* How can we sustain our new learnings over time?
* How the absence of contingency planning can result in lost hope and alienation.
* And More!

The workshop is designed for anyone who wants to develop and deepen practices that allow you to deal with conflict in more expansive, constructive, and less intimidating ways. It’s interactive, exploratory, and intimate. We use panels, repeating questions, guided interactions, small group exercises, and some lecture.

Facilitators:

David Daniels, M.D. is a leading developer and teacher of the Enneagram with over thirty years of clinical practice in Palo Alto and teaching worldwide, is Clinical Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford Medical School. Since 1988, together with Helen Palmer, he has pioneered the Enneagram Professional Training Program. He is co-author of the best selling book, The Essential Enneagram, just updated and revised in 2009, and a developer of the outstanding DVD, Nine Paths to a Productive and Fulfilling Life” and “The Enneagram in the Workplace. For more information visit: Enneagram Worldwide

Curt Micka, J.D. — Through his business, Conflict Management Services (CMS), Curt offers individual and team conflict coaching, conflict consulting, conflict management and prevention training, mediation, and facilitation services. For the past 12+ years, he has studied the Enneagram with Don Riso and Russ Hudson, David Daniels and Terry Saracino, Ginger Lapid-Bogda, Tom Condon, Andrea Isaacs, Peter O’Hanrahan, and Anne Muree. He is a former member of the Board of Directors of the International Enneagram Association and the President of the MN Chapter of the IEA (MN-IEA). Curt is a certified user of the Conflict Dynamics Profile and the Mobius Model and has been a professional mediator for 20+ years.

Therapeutic Metaphor and the Enneagram with author Tom Condon

February 21 – 22, 2009
10:00am – 5:30pm
Holiday Inn, Portland

Therapeutic metaphor – telling stories to create change – is a powerful technique for helping yourself and others change and grow. Stories foster change so successfully because they bypass normal ego defenses and communicate more directly with the unconscious. The listener often finds fresh perspectives, solutions to problems and new resources for coping and living fully. Derived from clinical hypnosis, therapeutic metaphor has many applications in ordinary daily life and is used naturally by good communicators.

In this unique w– orkshop you will learn to:

1) create and deliver effective therapeutic metaphors as well as use anecdotes, jokes and humor.

2) apply therapeutic metaphors to the needs and dilemmas of each Enneagram style.

3) transform the existing unconscious metaphors and scripts that drive each Enneagram style.

This weekend is for anyone in the helping professions but will be valuable to any professional as well as people looking to make positive personal changes. Anyone interested in combining effective techniques for change with the diagnostic power of the Enneagram is welcome. Thomas Condon will demonstrate many useful ways to work with clients. True to its content, the workshop will offer powerful practical techniques in a highly entertaining way. Whatever your level of experience with the Enneagram, come for an fascinating weekend of personal changework and professional insight.

Thomas Condon is an internationally recognized Enneagram trainer and author. He has taught over 400 workshops in the United States, Germany, England, Switzerland, Austria, Japan, Luxembourg, Italy and France. The Director of the Changeworks in Bend, Oregon, he has been an adjunct faculty member of Antioch University and the University of California at Berkeley. He is a certified Master Practitioner of Neurolinguistic Programming and had an NLP-based private practice for 11 years. Tom is the author of over 50 audiotapes,videotapes and books.  www.thechangeworks.com

Hear a pod cast and download articles from this workshop:  click here.

EnneaMotion with Andrea Isaacs

Friday, March 7, 2008, 7:00 – 9:00pm
First Unitarian Church

In 2008, First Unitarian Church of Portland  and Enneagram Portland, LLC presented EnneaMotion with Andrea Isaacs, The Enneagram of Emotional and Physical Intelligence Simple Physical Exercises for Positive Change for All Types. This proved to be very popular!

Learn how to trust, train and strengthen your body’s intelligence in a way that will increase your emotional intelligence. EnneaMotion, based on the Enneagram, is a way of using movement to explore the energy of the different Enneagram personality styles. In addition, you will—

* Deepen your insight about the Enneagram
* Learn a technique to help you access the healthiest attributes of all Enneagram styles
* Learn physical antidotes to different shades of the blues

Brain science explains the neuron pathways that manifest and express our inner states. Recognize and tame your fixation — the old habits that no longer serve you, the pathways that are over-developed, such as anger, impatience or anxiety, and train and strengthen neuron pathways that capture new alternatives, such as confidence, patience and courage.

This technique increases your emotional intelligence and integrates you (makes you whole, connects you with) — your body, your head, your heart, your spirit, enhancing your capacity for joyful living.

About Andrea Isaacs

Andrea has been exploring the relationship between personality and the body for three decades. She combined her dance career with the Enneagram, meditation, Transpersonal Psychology and neuroscience to develop work in the field of Emotional and Physical Intelligence. She is a faculty member for the Riso-Hudson Enneagram Professional Training program, and has been a frequent guest teacher for Ginger Lapid-Bogda’s The Enneagram in Business Training Program and at the Institute for Transpersonal Psychology. An award-winning speaker, she is an International Enneagram Association (IEA) board member and co-founding editor/publisher of the Enneagram Monthly. She has published several articles, teaches workshops, coaches and sees private clients internationally. She has also certified with the Riso-Hudson and Palmer-Daniels professional training programs.  Visit here website.

The Spiritual Perspective of the Enneagram with Jerry Wagner, PhD

Held at Loyola Jesuit Center, Portland, Oregon

In 2007, Enneagram Portland, LLC and the Jesuit Spirituality Center of Portland hosted a Spiritual Insights of the Enneagram program, taught by one of the Enneagram world’s “favorite fives:” author and trainer Jerry Wagner from Loyola University in Chicago www.enneagramspectrum.com.

This workshop was organized around the following inquiries:

• When do you feel spiritual? And when do you feel not-so-spiritual? How do you know when you are acting from your personality/ego or from your authentic self/essence?
• What keeps you from being spiritual and triggers you to go in a not-so-spiritual direction?
• How do you stay connected to your inner judge? And to your outer judges? What are you afraid will happen if you don’t follow your should’s or others’ expectations?
• What resources do you need to allay these fears?
• In what way does the not-so-spiritual in you represent a dark spot that hasn’t yet come to the light? What aspect of God wants to come out in you, but you’re afraid to let it?
• What are you passionate about?  What do you feel called to?  Or what divine aspect is God calling or inviting out in you now?

These questions were engaged from the spiritual insights of the Enneagram perspective.

“A central psychological challenge for anyone serious about the spiritual journey is facing our attachment to instinctual needs for survival and security, power and control, and affection and esteem…    The main instinctual drives-for survival and security, affection and esteem, and power and control-become energy centers as we depend on them beyond what they are meant to do for us.  They are necessary for survival, but since infants lack any rational, reflective faculties to moderate them, the infant tends to see gratification of one or all of those instincts as happiness.  These then become exaggerated, entrenched, substitutes for what leads a mature person to true security, happiness, and freedom-which of course is the experience of God…  We all have instinctual needs, but when these develop into energy centers they can become life projects which impose demands that can complicate our relationships with God, other people, and ourselves.  The unloading of the unconscious is a way of diminishing the amount of energy we put into sustaining those emotionally based projects.”       Thomas Keating, OCSO
From Presence: An International Journal of Spiritual Direction
Sept 2005 Volume 11 No. 3