Author Helen Palmer
says about Dale Rhodes:
Dale Rhodes shares his professional experience, formal training, and
education to make a most effective consultant and teacher. His
intention to bring about positive change through employing the
Enneagram is matched by his abilities to skillfully apply the system in
many different arenas, including individual mentoring and
organizational training. His work will offer you delight and great
benefit. --- Helen Palmer, author of The Enneagram in Love
and Work
David Daniels, M.D., Stanford University Clinical
Professor Department of Psychiatry says about Dale Rhodes:
Dale Rhodes, with his professional backgrounds in nonprofit management
and spiritual direction, brings maturity and a freshness to teaching
the Enneagram. He offers mentoring, spiritual direction, panel
interview workshops and retreats for a wide variety of students.
Participants are delighted and enriched by the perspectives that
Dale brings to the potential for positive change in relationships, work
and spirituality. I am pleased to support this highly qualified
and caring Enneagram Teacher in the Narrative Tradition.
-- David Daniels, M.D., coauthor of The Essential Enneagram
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How
is the Enneagram useful in groups & organizations? The
Enneagram
helps people intentionally relate to each other by understanding what
motivates
themselves and others. Common problems caused by
miscommunications,
hurt feelings, and other misunderstandings often result from people
assuming
that others see, or should see, the world the way they do. The
Enneagram
puts organizational members on the fast track to improving their
working
relationships. With knowledge of the Enneagram, one can respond
and
interact in a manner that results in deeper understanding, better
communication,
and a more skillful use of energy toward achieving mutual goals.
With this common understanding and vocabulary among members, groups and
organizations can be positively transformed.
Dale works with
individuals in his private practice:
- Individual Spiritual Direction
- Mentoring and Consultation
- Interviews to assess your type
- Sessions to explore your type
See
his webpage for a description of his private
practice.
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Dale works with groups
and organizations:
- Public Workshops, Classes and Retreats
- Board and Staff Development Workshops
- Workshops for Counselors, Therapists, Spiritual
Directors and Mentors
- Couples workshops
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Contact Dale
about individual mentoring sessions or training for your
organization. He will work with you on creating something
tailored to your needs.
Dale Rhodes
1020 SW
Taylor Suite
804
Portland,
Oregon 97205
(503)
295-4481
DaleJRhodes@aol.com
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What people say of learning the Enneagram with Dale:
Thanks for the wonderful training you offered our Campus
Rec staff at Portland State. I was very struck by your ability to
link our personality types to our working environment and how my staff
reacted so postiviely to something with real substance. While
there is value in some of the "hot" leadership theories, the timeliness
and the substance of the Enneagram really impacted my staff. We
will definitely be in touch as our staff grows and we look to build a
strong, unified, caring, and compassionate team. Thanks
again!
-- Alex Accetta, Director of Campus Recreation at Portland State
University
Dale did a wonderful job of leading a day and a
half workshop for my team of managers. He brought the
Enneagram to life by modeling its lessons in their teaching
style. By the end of the workshop, my team had a good feel for
how to use the Enneagram to understand their own personality styles and
to interact more effectively with their peers and
subordinates.
-- Andrew Ginsberg, Oregon DEQ Air Quality Administrator
Though it has been months since
you spent half a day
with us at the beginning of our academic year back on that hot day in
August, the effects of your time with us have persisted. Your
work with us provided a great start that helped us have our most
productive and cohesive year yet. Although our specific
references to the Enneagram are not frequent, the self-appraisal
process and related discussions led to more open communication and
collegial relations for us; that certainly was an outcome that I was
hoping for and so I feel the process was successful... The delay
does give me a better perspective on the effects of your workshop with
us and allows me to comment on the more lasting effects of the
work.
--- John A. White, Jr., Ph.D., OTR/L, Program Director
and Associate Professor, Pacific University School of Occupational
Therapy
Dale did a great job of introducing the Enneagram
to staff, board members and consumers at disAbility Resources.
The workshop encouraged people with disabilities to reflect on some of
the patterns in our lives, understanding what motivates us and what
areas we may want to change. In addition, it gave a better
understanding of basic personality types as we advocate for individual
needs as well as for systematic change.
-- Jim Baker,
Executive Director, disAbility Resources of Southwest Washington
Dale Rhodes facilitated one of our weekend
retreats last year for 70 Jesuit volunteers and staff. Dale
worked thoughtfully and cooperatively with staff in preparing the
retreat to meet the needs of the volunteers. Dale's wonderful abilities
as a presenter and facilitator enabled the volunteers to grasp an
overview of the Enneagram and then carefully explore each Enneagram
type, identifying their own type and considering how different types
impact and are impacted by their community members. I highly recommend
Dale for individual and group work as he is clear, insightful,
engaging, and his passion for the Enneagram and its helpfulness in our
lives is infectious.
-- Jeanne Haster, Executive Director, Jesuit Volunteer Corps: Northwest
Dale is such a
wonderful teacher and facilitator. All feedback has been
positive. Even the skeptics thought the time was well spent and
meaningful. We really appreciated how well he listened to each of
us and helped us in the process of discovering our type without putting
us in a box or judging. We also felt that the narrative tradition
provided an opportunity for us to really listen to each other in a
deeper way than we’ve experienced with other tools such as the
MBTI. We could not have been more satisfied.
-- Beth Towle, Director,
Admissions and Communications, Catlin Gabel School, Portland Oregon
Consider
this a note of sincere appreciation for your highly interactive
presentation and profile session. We discovered our Enneagram
Type and with your case histories and encouragement, identified paths
for change. Thanks to your dynamic style, we benefited in
depth. In discovery,
-- Jim Shorr, Adult Programs Committee, First Unitarian Church of
Portland
Last year was terrific! I have 180
hours of course work beyond my MA degree — and I never
looked forward to coming to class with as much enthusiasm previously or
since.
-- Kent Layden, Second Wind Consulting
Everybody
in our company loved the workshop. And I do mean everybody. It
made it much easier to communicate amongst ourselves by appreciating
how others communicate. We all left the workshop with newfound
respect of each other, and with a deeper understanding of each other's
strengths and weaknesses. We just like each other more, and in a small
business, that's priceless.
--- Skip Van Meter, Working Class Acupuncture
Thank you for your presentation to Westminster's retreat
about the enneagram. I found the information interesting and
helpful. I especially was drawn to the notion that our virtues
and our vices are connected, and that our strengths and weaknesses may
be somehting like two sides of a single coin. I have not been a
big fan of Myers Briggs, though I think it certainly has its
place. I found the spiritual resources of this richer.
Thanks for introducing me to this ancient idea. I also got
good feedback from others who attended. And your manner and
style made you easy to listen to and enjoyable.
--- Rev. David Hutchinson, Associate
Pastor, Westminster Presbyterian Church in Portland
The Enneagram
gives me a great deal of insight into myself and into how other people
think and move through the world. It is invaluable to me, not just as a
tool for personal growth, but as a way of spiritual depth and
transformation. Dale is a gifted teacher and facilitator who has great
passion for the Enneagram as a tool for such growth. He has led an
introductory class in my congregation, and I already see changes in how
we create community together. Folks want him back to go
deeper!
--- Rev. Dana Worsnop, Atkinson Memorial Church, Unitarian
Universalist, Oregon City, OR
Dale Rhodes
brings his professional expertise in psychology and spiritual direction
as he explores and deepens clients' awareness of the spiritual
dimension of healing using the Enneagram as a teaching tool. He offers
hope for potential change, for those struggling with addiction, as
clients are introduced to a deeper understanding of their “type”.
-- Jacky C.
Johnson, MA, CADC II, Spiritual Care Counselor
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