Workshops
The workshops below are available to help participants grow in their understanding and implementation of the Enneagram as it relates to their individual type and the types of those around them. Most workshops are four hours in length and can take place in your office, home, community center, or online. Contact me today for pricing and availability.
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Moving Beyond
An Enneagram Training and Certification Program
This 80-hour training and certification program, done in two distinct modules, provides a comprehensive Enneagram education as well as specialized content regarding the ins and outs of bringing the Enneagram to communities outside the traditional reach of Enneagram trainings. This unique blend of knowledge and practice provides for the graduate the needed experience to navigate in this pioneering space.
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The Enneagram of the Holy Ideas
Just as the Gut Center holds the Instincts and the Heart Center holds the Virtues and Vices, the Head Center holds the Holy Ideas and Fixations. We are continually living out of all three centers whether we are aware of it or not. As our awareness around these centers increase, we are invited to notice where ego has led us, and what truth calls us back to.
A Small Group
The nine Holy Ideas within the Enneagram are certainly challenging, even unsettling, but some would say they offer us freedom that is real freedom. Each Idea is connected to a particular Enneagram type which can grasp the truth held within. Over 20 ninety-minute sessions we explore each of the nine slowly and honestly, unafraid to work with our resistance in order to make real movement forward. We use Facets of Unity, The Enneagram of Holy Ideas, by A.H. Almaas to guide and support us.
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Enneagram and Work
In any organization it is the employee who delivers the service or product; investing in employees will result in the improvement of both. A very effective way to invest is by offering self-awareness training which invites employees to see themselves and understand how they impact their work environment. The Enneagram is an effective tool for creating this self-awareness and general emotional intelligence in employees. This awareness has impact beyond the improvements within a team and the organization extending to improvements in both social and family relationships. Through this workshop, your organization will gain self-awareness, increased teamwork, and retention.
Module One
This 4-hour overview includes an introduction to awareness and personality development and an overview of the nine Enneagram types. For effective use of knowledge gained through this introduction, Module 2 is highly encouraged.
Module Two
Using the foundation of Module One, we will take a deeper look at each of the nine types using the information to map out improved personal and team interactions.
Ongoing Consultation
This offering can be used following Module One or Module Two. An organization can invite any of its employees to interact with the information of the Enneagram as they explore how to approach issues and people differently.
Individual Coaching
One cannot lead where one has not been. Leadership has a trickle-down effect. Investing in the leadership of any organization has dividends throughout the organization as a whole. Individual coaching or supervision is available for executives or middle management to address specific issues of concern and for ongoing development.
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Grit to Great
Enneagram training for people in generational poverty
Generational poverty is another way of saying generational lack of opportunity. Employment has been seen as a way out of poverty, a way toward opportunity. While taking on the training for the needed soft and hard skills it is also important that those seeking to succeed first discover their natural gifts and build the internal infrastructure needed to support the addition of the soft and hard skills.
Module One
This 12-hour workshop is designed for those who have historically received far too little positive feedback or opportunity in experiencing themselves in positive and life-giving ways. Using the Enneagram, participants will identify both the natural gifts they possess which are needed in the world, and the defensive strategies they have developed over time to protect themselves. Understanding both will help as they differently navigate the world around them leading to more opportunity and more success.
Module Two
Using the self-awareness from Module One, ongoing discussions and insights into what positively and negatively drives interactions are explored in a small group setting resulting in corrections and reinforcements.
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Embracing Your True Self
Enneagram training for the homeless community
While the Enneagram is becoming well known in many communities of our society there remain many communities yet untouched. One such community is the homeless community, a community in need of the life-giving message within the Enneagram. This 14-hour workshop offers practical ways to conceptualize how personality builds and operates in day-to-day life. It explains the gifts and the defensive strategies each of the Types and includes guests of each type who join in a question answer time bringing the learning to a more tangible level. It concludes with a plan of action bringing the learning into real life. The formatting of the 14-hour timeline can be customized to the program’s needs.
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Enneagram and Education
Educators seek better ways to reach and work with their students. One effective path to understanding, and therefore better reaching students, is the Enneagram. Knowing the nine natural strengths and their corresponding weaknesses creates a useful lens through which to recognize what uniquely drives individual students of every age. With this information, teachers, faculty, and students find more efficient ways toward confidence and success.
Module One
This module includes an introduction to personality development and an overview of the nine Enneagram types.
Module Two
Using the foundation of Module One, we will take a deeper look at each of the nine types using this information to better understand how to access a student’s natural strengths in order to bring out their best.
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Enneagram and Students
The call to educate our students is broad and includes how they conduct themselves in the world. Adding self-awareness to a quality education helps students go the distance. The Enneagram is an effective tool for developing this needed self-awareness. This workshop is designed for high school and college aged students who want to grow in self-awareness and understanding about both the gifts they bring and the defensive strategies they have developed and why. With this greater awareness comes greater options as to how to live out their best self.
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Enneagram and Parenting
As parents we want the best for our children but are often unaware of our own assumptions regarding what that best is. Exploring the nine personality types of the Enneagram opens up for parents the gifts and corresponding defenses that drive a child’s approach to the world. This can be very helpful in guiding a parent’s approach to cultivating their children’s best.
Module One
This module includes an introduction to personality development as well as insight into how the nine Enneagram types are lived out in a child’s processing and operation in the world.
Module Two
Using the foundation of Module One, we will take a deeper look at each of the nine types using the information to better understand a child’s perceptions and needs.
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Wine and Enneagram: In Vino Veritas
Observing human interaction can intrigue us, frustrate us, and even delight us. However, this observation affects you, it can be helpful to learn that there is rhyme and reason to all we observe. Exploring the Enneagram is a particularly useful way to make this rhyme and reason clear. An evening of Wine and Enneagram allows participants to explore the nine different personality styles in the company of friends and family.
Module One
Up to 12 friends can join to explore the Enneagram, powered by spirits: in vino veritas! (“In wine there is truth.”). This informal gathering is an opportunity to grow in self-awareness with friends, colleagues, and family.
Module Two
Awareness gained through an introduction to Enneagram is often followed by a curiosity to explore further. Additional training is available for participants who want to dig deeper and understand more about their type and the types of those around them.
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Out of Judgement, Into Love Through the Enneagram
The Enneagram invites us to see what is happening inside of us and then outside of us. This is only possible through the lens of Love. Without being aware, we more often use the lens of judgment which impedes our seeing accurately. In this workshop we will explore and wrestle with Love and Judgment as competing forces that influence the degree to which we are able to be self-aware.
Module One
This two-hour session requires participants to have a prior overview of the Enneagram. The powerful dynamic of judgement will be made clear and the counter-offering of Love will be explored.
Mini Workshops
These 90-minute workshops are designed to be interactive in three parts: teaching, small group discussion, and large group sharing. Not all workshops available are listed, so if there is a topic you are interested in exploring, please contact me to discuss further!
How Fear and Love talk through our Enneagram Types
Our basic response to life and all we encounter come from either a place of Love or a place of Fear. What does it mean to respond out of Love? What does it mean to respond out of Fear? Knowing this enables us to choose our response with more awareness.
Using Our Wings to Balance and Fly
The Enneagram does not suggest there is just one way a type is expressed in the world. Along with our core type we have access to the gifts and defensive strategies of our wings. Learn how to do so for the best results.
Living In The Now
Right now. This is what we have, this is where we are. We are in a time that is unprecedented. In this workshop, we find new ways of coping as we explore the wisdom of the Law of Three and The Law of Seven, found tucked within the Enneagram symbol.
Using our Arrows to Construct the Best Plan Forward
What we bring to our moments of stress and what we have access to as our best selves can powerfully affect how we operate and make a significant impact on our day-to-day experiences. Exploring how to use the types represented by our arrows to help us we determine what we need in order to move forward in the best way.
Why and How We Protect Ourselves by Throwing Others Under the Bus (and Finding Something New)
Manipulation, controlling, and other fearful responses plague us and others and rarely lead to peace. But how do we let go of these temptations? We will explore the forces that attempt to convince us of our need to be the “last one standing,” and what it requires to find a new way.
Naming Our Fear of the Dark; Jumping Over the Poison River
We, in partnership with our ego, work overtime to avoid the dark, what we believe threatens our safety. As these beliefs become entrenched the result has us moving about in very limited spaces. The Enneagram continually invites us to both consider these beliefs anew and then expand our territory. We will explore what this invitation asks of us and what it offers us.
Busting the Myths We Believe that Hold Us Back
Because we began young and small so many of our beliefs were born of immature thinking and believing. While this is to be expected the resulting thinking and believing does not need to be forever supported. We are able, in the present, to re-visit them and search further to find truths that enlarge space and opportunity for us.
Honoring and Learning from the Other Types Series
In this series we will open ourselves to each of the types and allow each to share what they know and we may have missed.
- Caring to Do Things Well While Practicing Serenity from Type One
- Allowing Ourselves to be Inconvenienced from Type Two
- Loving the Work from Type Three
- Learning from Pain from Type Four
- Taking Time to Notice from Type Five
- Being Courageous from Type Six
- Fearless Dreaming from Type Seven
- Stepping Forward from Type Eight
- Allowing Life to Unfold from Type Nine