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. Dale is also a frequent presenter at 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 certification 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 city, of yourself and those around you, all from a beautifully bright top floor suite. 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 certification 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 city, of yourself and those around you, all from a beautifully bright top floor suite. You will be glad you made the connection.
2-hour Type Interview/Exploration is available one-time
or as a discounted first session for ongoing work with individuals.
Please book in-advance online. I am accepting new *individual* clients.
The 2-hour Type Interview/Exploration is open and helpful to all.
or as a discounted first session for ongoing work with individuals.
Please book in-advance online. I am accepting new *individual* clients.
The 2-hour Type Interview/Exploration is open and helpful to all.
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9 Types Panels Workshops: 2nd & 4th Monday Eves Jan 13th - May 11, 2020 6:30- 8:45pm at Portland State University's Smith Hall Browsing Lounge; facilitated by Dale Rhodes and Sam Schoenfeld, seasoned and salted certified trainers from The Narrative Tradition. Save the dates, early registration will open soon for participants of all 9 sessions. Individual Sessions
supporting those who want to understand themselves and others more fully: individual mentoring sessions as well as a discounted two-session typing interview/exploration |
"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 If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool. Carl Jung |
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 emails, the expensive out-of-town hotel conferences, the evangelical podcasts, talking-head you tubers and self-taught 'experts.' We are live, local and in-person. Open to the open; welcoming to the welcoming. 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, author of 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, coauthor of 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, author of The Nine Lenses on the World
Helen Palmer, author of 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, coauthor of 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, author of The Nine Lenses on the World
"The class combines the joy of self-discovery and expanding one's capacity for empathy with great literature and live action performances. Plus you get to hang out with really cool people." Maren Symonds, M.B.A., M.Div.
"This was an excellent means by which to engage with the Enneagram in a new light and was especially helpful in that it allowed those with deep experience and those fairly new to the study a common platform through which to engage. Dale's management of both the literary material and various viewpoints of the participants was masterful." Tim Winslea, R.N.
"Great way to explore the enneagram at more depth, and see it at work in the world beyond your own personality!" Carol Ferris, M.A.
"If someone wants to enter a community and dive deeply into the Enneagram, this is a great opportunity to be with a masterful teacher and a like minded explorative group of people." Gail Webb
"This was quite possibly the best CEU experience I have had through Lewis and Clark's Center for Community Engagement, and cannot speak highly enough about Dale’s knowledge, expertise and ability to create a welcoming and encouraging learning environment." Carly Clark, PCC staff
"This was an excellent means by which to engage with the Enneagram in a new light and was especially helpful in that it allowed those with deep experience and those fairly new to the study a common platform through which to engage. Dale's management of both the literary material and various viewpoints of the participants was masterful." Tim Winslea, R.N.
"Great way to explore the enneagram at more depth, and see it at work in the world beyond your own personality!" Carol Ferris, M.A.
"If someone wants to enter a community and dive deeply into the Enneagram, this is a great opportunity to be with a masterful teacher and a like minded explorative group of people." Gail Webb
"This was quite possibly the best CEU experience I have had through Lewis and Clark's Center for Community Engagement, and cannot speak highly enough about Dale’s knowledge, expertise and ability to create a welcoming and encouraging learning environment." Carly Clark, PCC staff
What is good about an interdisciplinary, professionally-led, vibrant community of students in Portland?
"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.