NINE LENSES ON THE WORLD:

USING COGNITIVE THERAPY TO CHECK OUR ENNEAGRAM PRESCRIPTIONS      with author Jerry Wagner, Ph.D.

Saturday/Sunday March 3rd & 4th, 2012   9:00a-5:00p

Holiday Inn Northwest   2333 NW Vaughn, Portland Oregon 97210

 

Schemas are stable and enduring patterns of thinking that develop during childhood and are elaborated throughout our life.  We view the world through our schemas or
lenses, which are important beliefs and constructs about the world and ourselves.  Since we accept these schemaswithout question, they become self-perpetuating and are very resistant to change.  To the extent that our schemas accurately represent reality, they clarify our vision and are useful and self-serving. If our schemas are out of date, they distort reality and end up being self-defeating.

We’ll discover some adaptive or useful schemas for each Enneagram style and what are some typical maladaptive not-so-helpful schemas for each type. Schemas exert their influence on our behavior and strive to ensure their own survival through three processes of schema maintenance, schema avoidance, and schema compensation.  In this workshop we’ll consider how these processes operate in the nine Enneagram styles.

We’ll see how our schemas maintain themselves by exaggerating information that confirm them or minimizing data that contradict them.  We’ll discover how we cognitively, emotionally, and behaviorally avoid triggering our maladaptive schemas to escape the negative emotions they stir up.  And we’ll investigate how we compensate for these schemas by doing the opposite of what they suggest so we can evade triggering the pain  they cause.

Finally we’ll learn how to recognize and challenge our maladaptive schemas and replace them with more adaptive ones.

This workshop will involve input, personal reflection, small group sharing, and large group feedback.

 

 

Biography

Jerry Wagner, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist, therapist, supervisor, and consultant in private practice, and is a faculty member in the
Department of Psychology and the Institute of Pastoral Studies at Loyola University, Chicago.  He is the author of Nine Lenses on the World: the Enneagram Perspective and The Enneagram Spectrum of Personality Styles: an Introductory Guide; the Wagner Enneagram Personality Style Scales (WEPSS); and Two Windows on the Self: the Enneagram and the Myers-Briggs.  Jerry has been researching and teaching the Enneagram for over 30 years and has offered the Enneagram Spectrum Training and Certification Program nationally and internationally for the past 15 years. Jerry was on the Board of Directors of the International Enneagram Association, was recently named a Founder of the IEA, and is co-editor of the Enneagram Journal.  He was the keynote speaker for the 2010 IEA Conference.

 

 

Limited seating available.  As of January 15th, 35 of 60 seats were taken.

$195.  Ceus for professionals are an additional $10.