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Dale Rhodes,
M.S.,
M.A.
Mentor & Spiritual Director
Certified Enneagram Trainer in the Narrative
Tradition of Helen Palmer and David Daniels, M.D.
Certified Spiritual
Director, Mercy Center for Contemporary Spirituality
Enneagram
Portland, LLC 1020 SW Taylor
Suite 804 Portland, OR 97205 
(503)
295-4481 DaleJRhodes@aol.com
www.EnneagramPortland.com
Office hours:
Monday & Tuesday afternoons into early evening and Thursday &
Friday mornings.
Full hour sessions $95
Reduced fee for weekly sessions
Mentoring,
Spiritual Direction and the Enneagram
Spiritual direction is the contemplative
practice
of accompanying another as he or she awakens to the spiritual in
everyday life. It is the shared intentions and supports for the
directee to have a deeper and fuller experience through the
ever-changing phases of life. This is an opportunity to carve out
space and time for a cup of tea and a reflective conversation on
meaning in your life.
Dale says this of his work with private clients:
"I work with spiritually-oriented people who are trying to experience
who they really are and who also want to understand what is really
going on. I
believe St. Irenaeus was right: The glory of God is a human
being fully alive."
Dale describes his work as support for the contemporary
contemplative. He offers attentive listening and supportive
guidance to those seeking a natural Way of living in balance and
equanimity. He journeys with seekers from all walks of life who
wish to be more grounded and present to the fullness of life as it
is. Incorporating Taoist, Zen, Naturalist and other wisdom
traditions in his work, Dale is especially helpful to those seeking
deeper practice, simplicity, connection to the Origin of Life,
attention to integrity and ethics, greater ease in relationships and
right livelihood.
Dale has a Master of Arts in Spiritual Traditions & Ethics from
Marylhurst University and a Certificate in the Art of Spiritual
Direction from Mercy Center for Contemporary Spirituality. A
spiritual director since 1998, he was a founding member of the
Interfaith Spiritual Center, one of the first interfaith centers for
spiritual direction and education in this country.
Professional certification in applying the Enneagram as a personal and
spiritual development resource enhances Dale's work as a mentor and
spiritual director. Many of Dale’s students know that identifying
and maintaining awareness of one’s worldview is a jump start to
spiritual development and good medicine for the rest of life.
Dale has studied and appreciates the many spiritual paths in life, and
finds himself a Taoist practitioner and naturalist, more than anything
else. For six years he taught T'ai Chi Ch'uan Wu Long Form with
the permission of his martial arts teacher, author Margy Emerson.
Today, he attends to his own spiritual growth through meetings with his
spiritual community, Taoist meditation, zen birdwatching, playing the
celtic harp, and other educational adventures and retreats. Dale
appreciates his very simple and sustainable life, which is car-free,
mostly carefree, and increasingly less cluttered with
unnecessaries. His partner, cat, compost bin, and time in the
natural world are some of his most important life teachers today.
After thoroughly enjoying his naturalist’s training at Wilderness
Awareness School, Dale happily completed Nature University to be a
volunteer with Metro Parks and Regional Spaces. He provides
education and support at group nature experiences for kindergarteners,
first- and second-graders who are fortunate to experience the natural
wonders of Smith and Bybee Lakes in North Portland.
Dale has
also been initiated into the ManKind Project's New Warrior
Training Adventure - The
ManKind Project
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If
I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come.
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Organizational
Training
Dale also provides direction, training and
consultation for organizations, particularly nonprofits. He has a
Master of Science Degree in Human Services Administration from Spertus
Institute of Jewish Studies and has extensive management experience in
the mental health and public health arenas. Dale is a
Certified Professional Enneagram Trainer in the Narrative Tradition
through authors Helen Palmer and David Daniels, MD. His training
also includes work with NLP/Enneagram author Tom Condon and Emotional
Intelligence/Enneagram author and corporate consultant Mario Sikora.
Dale can be reached through
phone at 503-295-4481, or via email at DaleJRhodes@aol.com.
Would you like individual guidance identifying your
Enneagram Type?
Identifying
the lens through which you see the world can be difficult to do
alone. On-line tests are seldom helpful and can actually keep
people searching longer than necessary.
Dale Rhodes has professional certification to offer one-to-one typing
interviews to guide you through the process of discovering your
type.
The first meeting is a formal interview that assesses your type, and
the second interview is scheduled a week or two later to explore what
you have discovered about yourself related to type in the
interim. For both sessions, a book and handouts, the total cost
is only $175.
Back to Enneagram Portland, LLC
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Symphony
To live content with small means,
to seek elegance rather than luxury
and refinement rather than fashion,
to be worthy, not respectable,
and wealthy, not rich,
to study hard, think quietly,
talk gently, act frankly,
to listen to stars and birds,
babes and sages, with open heart,
to hear all cheerfully,
do all bravely,
await occasions,
hurry never---
in a word, to let the spiritual,
unbidden and unconscious,
grow up through the common.
This is to be my symphony.
William Ellery Channing (1780-1842)
Lost
Stand still. The
trees ahead and bushes beside you are not lost. Wherever you are
is
called Here, and you must treat it as a powerful stranger, must ask
permission to know it and be known.
The forest breathes. Listen. It answers, I have made this
place
around you. If you leave it, you may come back again, saying Here.
No two trees are the same to Raven. No two branches are the same
to
Wren. If what a tree or a bush does is lost on you, you are
surely
lost.
Stand still. The forest knows where you are. You must let
it find you.
-- David Wagoner
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Oh, Tao!
Giving to all beings what they require, without claiming to be
equitable;
Eternally performing good works, without claiming to be charitable;
Existing before the beginning, without claiming to be venerable;
Embracing and supporting the universe,
without claiming to be powerful.
It is in You that I move.
--- Xu You
Summons
Keep me from going to sleep too soon
Or if I go to sleep too soon
Come wake me up. Come any hour
Of night. Come whistling up the road.
Stomp on the porch. Bang on the door.
Make me get out of bed and come
And let you in and light a light.
Tell me the northern lights are on
And make me look. Or tell me clouds
Are doing something to the moon
They never did before, and show me.
See that I see. Talk to me till
I'm half as wide awake as you
And start to dress wondering why
I ever went to bed at all.
Tell me the walking is superb.
Not only tell me but persuade me.
You know I’m not too hard to persuade.
--Robert Francis
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