Therapeutic Metaphor and the Enneagram with author Tom Condon
February
21 & 22, 2009
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 workshop 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
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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
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The Enneagram for the Contemporary Contemplative:
Exploring
what we all know of the Essential Qualities, Wholesome Mindstates,
Holy Ideas, Virtues and Ethics
September 10
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Introduction to the
Material
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October 8
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Point 9
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Love and Right Action
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November 12
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Point 6
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Faith and Courage
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December 10
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Point 3
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Hope and Honesty
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January 14
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Point 1
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Perfection and Serenity
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February 11
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Point 4
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Origin, Idealism, and
Equanimity
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March 10
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Point 2
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Freedom in Universal
Will and Humility
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April 14
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Point 8
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Truth and Innocence
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May 12
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Point 5
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Omniscience and
Non-Attachment
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June 9
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Point 7
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Holy Work,
Constancy, Sobriety and Moderation
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This is Enneagram Portland, LLC’s core meeting time and its most
popular program for the continuing student community, often drawing
over fifty students each evening. This year’s 2nd Mondays advanced
class focused on the spiritual perspective of the Enneagram, and how
the nine Enneastyles manifest the essential spiritual qualities and
holy ideas specifically associated with each type. We explored the
following questions:
When we relax the compulsions of our style, what are the
essential qualities that naturally arise?
What spiritual experience on life may one type come to know more fully?
What are the ethics and virtues that we bring to situations based on
our Enneagram lens?
What are practices that support each type in knowing their core
spiritual essence?
How can all types know more of these wholesome ways of being?
All types encouraged to attend all classes, which are
experiential and participatory.
The class was
held in a large comfortable room and included meditation, music,
movement, type panels, reflections and process. In addition, there were
stories from various world cultures presented by professional
storytellers Will Hornyak and Concetta Antonelli. They will
deepen our understanding of the transformation from passion to essence.
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Concetta Antonelli has
been a Bodyworker for 24 years and is in training to be a Hakomi
Therapist and Psych-K Facilitator. She has
been telling stories since the late 90’s, and is particularly
interested in the healing and transformative potential of Storytelling
as an art form.
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
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Applying
the narrative tradition in professionally-led panels, we will hear from
the types themselves how they have come to develop and live out the
essential spiritual qualities that are associated with their style.
Recommended reading materials:
New
Students:
Palmer, Helen (1988). The Enneagram: Understanding
Yourself and the Others in Your Life. San Francisco:
HarperCollins.
Riso, Don Richard and Russ Hudson (1999). The Wisdom of the
Enneagram: The Complete Guide to Psychological and Spiritual Growth for
the Nine Personality Types. New York: Bantam Books.
Wagner, Jerome (1996). The Enneagram Spectrum of Personality
Styles: An Introductory Guide. Portland, OR:
Metamorphous Press.
Experienced Students:
Almaas, A. H. (2000) Facets of Unity: The Enneagram of Holy
Ideas. Boston: Shambhala Publications. (Diamond Approach)
Maitri, Sandra (2000). The Spiritual Dimensions of the
Enneagram: Nine Faces of the Soul. New York: Jeremy P.
Tarcher/Putnam. (Diamond Approach)
Maitri, Sandra (2005). The Enneagram of Passions and
Virtues: Finding the Way Home. New York: Jeremy P.
Tarcher/Penguin. (Diamond Approach)
Rohr, Richard (2001) The Enneagram: A Christian
Perspective. New York: The Crossroad Publishing
Company. (Christian Perspective)
Zuercher, Suzanne (1991 ). Enneagram Spirituality: From
Compulsion to Contemplation. Notre Dame, IN: Ave Maria Press
(Catholic Perspective)
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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:
- 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
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Relating to
Types 2 Giver and 5 Observer
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Type 9
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Mediator
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Relating to Types 3
Performer and 6 Loyal Skeptic
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Type 1
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Perfectionist
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Relating to Types 4
Romantic and 7 Epicure
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Type 2
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Giver
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Relating to Types 8
Protector and 4 Romantic
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Type 3
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Performer
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Relating to Types 9
Mediator and 6 Loyal Skeptic
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| Type 4 |
Romantic
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Relating to Types 1
Perfectionist and 2 Giver
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Type 5
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Observer
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Relating to Types 8
Protector and 7 Epicure
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Type 6
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Loyal
Skeptic
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Relating to Types 9
Mediator and 3 Performer
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Type 7
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Epicure
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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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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.
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