EnneaMotion
with Andrea Isaacs
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! See a photo of the elated participants.
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. EnneaMotion.com
Where: First Unitarian Church of Oregon, 1011 SW 12th (at
Salmon), Portland, OR 97205
When: Friday, March 7, 2008, 7pm - 9pm, Saturday, March 8, 2008, 10am - 5pm, Sunday, March 9, 2008, 10am-5pm
What others say of Andrea Isaacs’ work:
If you take the Enneagram seriously, then you need to consider that
there are different ways of knowing. In her workshops, Andrea Isaacs
honors the body's way of knowing. If you want to get a felt-sense for
what the Enneagram styles are like, take Andrea's workshop.
— Jerry Wagner, Ph.D. , Clinical Psychologist and Psychotherapist,
Author, The Enneagram Spectrum of Personality Styles
Andrea’s synthesis of the Enneagram and physical movement is a new way
of directly understanding how emotional habits are formed and is a
powerful tool for breaking free of their ineffectual conditoned nature.
Her work guides participants through an investigation which helps
liberate and transform people from some of the deepest aspects of their
fixation. Her contribution to the Enneagram and inner Work is
significant and constantly growing. She combines sensitivity,
heartfulness and good humor with warmth and elegance. Her work has to
be experienced to be fully appreciated; it goes deep and is
transformative. — Don Richard Riso, co-author Wisdom of the Enneagram and Personality Types
The Enneagram is a work of three centers: head, heart, and body. Yet
body-based approaches to this work have been few and far between.
Andrea Isaacs is a visionary pioneer in this area, and has developed a
profound and integrative method for learning the nine types through
movement and body wisdom. Her work is highly moving, impactful, and
transformative. To experience her is to experience a true master at work. — Russ Hudson, co-author, Wisdom of the Enneagram and Personality Types
Andrea's workshop is one of the best Enneagram workshops I've
attended. It works well because she has put so much thought and care
into organizing it, has a deep understanding of the Enneagram on an
intuitive level, and has figured out a way for us to personally
experience the types through the way we move our bodies. In studying
the Enneagram, we try to walk in one another's shoes. I felt I came
very close to doing this literally in Andrea's Enneamotion workshop. — Elizabeth Wagele, author Are You My Type, Am I Yours?, and The Enneagram of Parenting
Andrea's creation is a delightful synthesis of the Enneagram and
wisdom about the body. It is an interesting and helpful somatic
approach to resolving the inner conflicts that the Enneagram
describes. — Kathy Hurley and Theodorre Donson, authors What's My Type, My Best Self, and Discover Your Soul Potential
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The Spiritual Perspective of the Enneagram
with Jerry Wagner, PhD
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}.
Jerry Wagner, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist, therapist, 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 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 10 years. Jerry was on the Board of
Directors of the International Enneagram Association and is currently
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This workshop was organized around the following inquiries:
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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.
The event was held at:
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Loyola Jesuit Center
3220 SE 43rd Avenue in Portland
Maria della Strada Conference Room |
"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
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Monthly Intensives on the Nine Types
Will Hornyak performed at the monthly programs in 2006 program.
 This
is our most popular program, sometimes bringing out over forty people
who find the Enneagram to be one of the most transformative tools for
personal growth. It is the
core student community meeting time, with a participatory experience
for every type each term. This year we will explore how energies
of the connecting points (sometimes call stress and security/relaxation
points) provide each of us with tools and experiences for growth.
When we are doing well and when we are under stress, we may have access
to the gifts and challenges of both our connecting points, often
showing us our growing edge. We'll hear from participants
themselves (a three-points panel) on how they experience and access
these other points energies. Meditations, teaching, live panel
dialogue, questions and discussion. All points particpate in each
session. We encourage students to learn about all types by
attending all the classes. To encourage this, a significant
discount is available for year-long pre-registration.
 In one of the 2006 programs, professional storyteller Will Hornyak offered us another kind
of narrative and oral tradition, specifically on Enneagram type and
development.
"Storyteller par excellence! Takes listeners across a spiritual threshold..." The Oregonian newspaper
Storyteller Will Hornyak draws from myths, legends, fables and
folktales from many oral traditions around the world to educate,
entertain and inspire. He has performed and offered workshops for the
United States Forest Service, the Oregon Department of Human Resources,
the Washington State Employers Council and at numerous schools,
churches, saloons and worse. Will teaches storytelling at
Portland State University and Marylhurst University and performs
throughout the United States. For more information, please visit:
www.WillHornyak.com
If
you focus on people's foibles and not their qualities, you will find it
difficult to find a single good person in the whole world. There
is no one who does not have shortcomings. It is the human
condition. -- Lao Tzu
Focus of Panel Discussion
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Additional Dialogue Participants
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Type 8
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Protector
| Relating to Types 2 Giver and 5 Observer
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Type 9
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Mediator
| Relating to Types 3 Performer and 6 Loyal Skeptic
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Type 1
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Perfectionist
| Relating to Types 4 Romantic and 7 Epicure
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Type 2
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Giver
| Relating to Types 8 Protector and 4 Romantic
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Type 3
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Performer
| Relating to Types 9 Mediator and 6 Loyal Skeptic
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| Type 4
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Romantic
| Relating to Types 1 Perfectionist and 2 Giver
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Type 5
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Observer
| Relating to Types 8 Protector and 7 Epicure
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Type 6
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Loyal Skeptic
| Relating to Types 9 Mediator and 3 Performer
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Type 7
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Epicure
| Relating to Types 1 Perfectionist and 5 Observer
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The Interfaith Spiritual Center and The Enneagram Community of Portland presented
Buddhist Perspectives on the Enneagram
This event was sponsored by The Interfaith Spiritual Center &
The Enneagram Community of Portland
on February 5, 2004 at the First Unitarian Church, Salmon Street Sanctuary.
 Santikaro Bhikkhu is a Chicago born Buddhist monk. After graduating from
the University of Illinois in 1980, he went to Thailand, where he served
as a Peace Corps volunteer and rural school teacher for 4 years. He
ordained as a monk in 1985 and began studying with Buddhadasa Bhikkhu, a
well-known teacher and reformer of Theravada Buddhism. In addition to
teaching Buddhism and meditation, Santikaro Bhikkhu translates the work
of Buddhadasa Bhikkhu, writes on socially engaged Buddhism, works with
various Thai and Asian NGOs, and makes prison visits.
After learning about the Enneagram in the mid-90s, he studied with Helen
Palmer and David Daniels, eventually certifying in their professional
training program. He oversees Enneagram work in Thailand, where he and
friends explore its application to Buddhist teaching and practice. He
returned to the USA's Midwest in 2001 and is working to build Liberation
Park, a new community for Buddhist monastic training & Dharma study in
the Chicago area.
More at www.liberationpark.org
The Buddhist path of ending suffering involves reflective and
contemplative investigation of how clinging to "me" and "mine" occurs.
The Enneagram enriches this work by illuminating the 9 styles of ego
concoction. Buddhist mindfulness practice fosters a deeper, clearer
seeing of these processes and insight practice offers tools for relaxing
and letting go of the boxes that personality creates. The 9 ego styles
also interact with these practices such that understanding them helps
free our meditation from the common distractions, preoccupations, and
dilemmas of personality. Finally, Enneagram teaching points to Virtues
that each type can utilize in crossing over to the other shore. Ven.
Santikaro's talk touched upon these and related issues.
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