Dale Rhodes, M.S., M.A. is a professional mentor and guide with a private practice in Portland since 1998. Along with Master's Degrees in NonProfit Administration ('91) and Interdisciplinary Studies/Spiritual Traditions & Ethics ('99), Dale is thrice certified in the Enneagram, certified in the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI®) and in the Art of Spiritual Direction. He is core faculty at the People's Organization of Community Acupuncture and Willamette Valley Development Officers' Executive Leadership Academy, and a frequent presenter for Lewis and Clark College's Center for Community Engagement and many creative businesses and nonprofits.
If you are going to explore the benefits of the Enneagram, it is best to find an experienced professional with formal training and certifications in the system. Make the smart choice to work with Portland's leading personality specialist.
Consider individual sessions or group explorations with this powerful tool for positive transformation. Expand your views of our world, of yourself and of those around you, all with one of the best guides available. You will be glad you made the connection.
If you are going to explore the benefits of the Enneagram, it is best to find an experienced professional with formal training and certifications in the system. Make the smart choice to work with Portland's leading personality specialist.
Consider individual sessions or group explorations with this powerful tool for positive transformation. Expand your views of our world, of yourself and of those around you, all with one of the best guides available. You will be glad you made the connection.
Individual Sessions
Supporting those who want to understand themselves and others more fully: online or phone full-hour individual mentoring sessions as well as a discounted two-hour typing interview/exploration...
Supporting those who want to understand themselves and others more fully: online or phone full-hour individual mentoring sessions as well as a discounted two-hour typing interview/exploration...
- The 2-hour Intro-to-Enneagram / Type-Interview - Exploration is available one-time or as a discounted first session. It can also be used as a gift for someone with whom you would like to share the system.
- You may also purchase four one-hour sessions for ongoing work a significantly discounted price here.
Enneagram Portland was created in 2002 as the city's primary resource for individual explorations, local community education and interdisciplinary experiences with the 9 Points of View. Enneagram Portland Programs link you to professionally-led experiences and explorations with the Enneagram and Portlanders who love it. The Enneagram is about being with 9 Types of People exploring unique and universal territory that we can all access best together. We know you can move beyond the cumbersome online tests and daily marketing emails, the expensive out-of-town hotel conferences, the evangelical podcasts, talking-head you tubers and self-taught arm-chair 'experts'...
And because some folks at this time are looking for connection more than just listening as audience on a webinar, we will continue to focus on small group live interactive explorations.
If you talk type, you should be with us!
And because some folks at this time are looking for connection more than just listening as audience on a webinar, we will continue to focus on small group live interactive explorations.
If you talk type, you should be with us!
"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, The Enneagram in Love and Work
"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., Stanford Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, The Essential Enneagram
"Dale Rhodes is a very knowledgeable Enneagram presenter and a wonderful host for guest workshop presenters. Enneagram Portland is one of the bright lights in the Enneagram galaxy."
Jerome Wagner, Ph.D., Loyola University, The Nine Lenses on the World
Helen Palmer, The Enneagram in Love and Work
"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., Stanford Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, The Essential Enneagram
"Dale Rhodes is a very knowledgeable Enneagram presenter and a wonderful host for guest workshop presenters. Enneagram Portland is one of the bright lights in the Enneagram galaxy."
Jerome Wagner, Ph.D., Loyola University, The Nine Lenses on the World
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"A lake evaporates upward and thus gradually dries up; but when two lakes are joined they do not dry up so readily, for one replenishes the other. It is the same in the field of knowledge.
Knowledge should be a refreshing and vitalizing force. It becomes so only through stimulating intercourse with congenial friends with whom one holds discussion and practices application of the truths of life.
In this way learning becomes many-sided and takes on a cheerful lightness, whereas there is always something ponderous and one- sided about the learning of the self-taught."
Hexagram 58, The Lake, The Joyous; The I Ching (The Taoist Book of Changes)
If you talk type, you should be with us.
"A lake evaporates upward and thus gradually dries up; but when two lakes are joined they do not dry up so readily, for one replenishes the other. It is the same in the field of knowledge.
Knowledge should be a refreshing and vitalizing force. It becomes so only through stimulating intercourse with congenial friends with whom one holds discussion and practices application of the truths of life.
In this way learning becomes many-sided and takes on a cheerful lightness, whereas there is always something ponderous and one- sided about the learning of the self-taught."
Hexagram 58, The Lake, The Joyous; The I Ching (The Taoist Book of Changes)
If you talk type, you should be with us.
"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view… until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.”
- Atticus Finch in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird
- Atticus Finch in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird
If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.
Carl Jung
Carl Jung