The Nine Online:
Exploring The 9 Points of View
in Literature, Film & Community
This program in in progress and closed to new registrations. Please join the general email list to be notified of additions to program calendar.
Now in its 8th year, this program explores the themes described in the Nine Points of View, along with a novel or films each month. Along with one evening teaching session, these are small group explorations on the Nine Types in depth, using specific literature and film to enhance our understanding of ourselves and others. The book or movie may offer a character who generally exemplifies an Enneagram type's values, or it may explore themes that relate to an Enneagram type's area of attention, motivations and life themes, vice to virtue shifts, or paths to disintegration and development. Because we have all points of view available to us, most participants each month find something relevant, moving and meaningful to examine in their own lives.
We go well-beyond the simple "What type is this character?" We ask the deeper questions on meaning found in good art, film and literature. Discover universal themes accessible and applicable to us all on the human journey. Get deeper understanding of the types and how you relate to their ways of being. Expand your community of friends who talk type, character development, arts and literature.
Deep learning and change happens over time in a continuous supportive learning community. This is a tried and true community exploration on The Humanities, using the Enneagram as its foundation and direction. The map of The Enneagram and experience with The Arts can deepen our understanding of universal life themes and meaningful existence. Join for this and all the other benefits of community membership. Every month you will find something worthwhile!
We go well-beyond the simple "What type is this character?" We ask the deeper questions on meaning found in good art, film and literature. Discover universal themes accessible and applicable to us all on the human journey. Get deeper understanding of the types and how you relate to their ways of being. Expand your community of friends who talk type, character development, arts and literature.
Deep learning and change happens over time in a continuous supportive learning community. This is a tried and true community exploration on The Humanities, using the Enneagram as its foundation and direction. The map of The Enneagram and experience with The Arts can deepen our understanding of universal life themes and meaningful existence. Join for this and all the other benefits of community membership. Every month you will find something worthwhile!
Introductions/Orientation for All Participants
Wednesday Sept 27th 6.30p-8.00p Pacific
Teaching/Type of the Month Panel for All Participants
1st Weds Oct thru June 6.30p-8.00p Pacific
(lesson recorded, panel not recorded)
Monthly Small Groups Oct thru June
2nd Wednesdays or Thursdays 6:30p-8:30p; 2nd Wednesdays or Fridays 10a-Noon
New! Classmate 1-1 Chats in Nov/Feb/May
You are assigned one different classmate each season (3) for a single zoom-chat or in-person visit on that month's content.
You have the option to request a 1-1 each month with a different student from those requesting the same.
Current Student SCHEDULE IS HERE
New! Optional: Type-Affinity Lunch Bunch
If you are the type-of-the month, you're invited to pop-on to an hour Zoom Lunch Bunch with others of your type for a teaching, meet-and-greet and stump-the-chump with Dale or a guest qualified Enneagram teacher. 12p-1p Pacific Time on the First Wednesday of the Month starting with Type 2s in October. Great time to learn more about your own type from Dale and from one another, and it's great prep for the panel evening the same night! Literature/Film/Community Members only.
Wednesday Sept 27th 6.30p-8.00p Pacific
Teaching/Type of the Month Panel for All Participants
1st Weds Oct thru June 6.30p-8.00p Pacific
(lesson recorded, panel not recorded)
Monthly Small Groups Oct thru June
2nd Wednesdays or Thursdays 6:30p-8:30p; 2nd Wednesdays or Fridays 10a-Noon
New! Classmate 1-1 Chats in Nov/Feb/May
You are assigned one different classmate each season (3) for a single zoom-chat or in-person visit on that month's content.
You have the option to request a 1-1 each month with a different student from those requesting the same.
Current Student SCHEDULE IS HERE
New! Optional: Type-Affinity Lunch Bunch
If you are the type-of-the month, you're invited to pop-on to an hour Zoom Lunch Bunch with others of your type for a teaching, meet-and-greet and stump-the-chump with Dale or a guest qualified Enneagram teacher. 12p-1p Pacific Time on the First Wednesday of the Month starting with Type 2s in October. Great time to learn more about your own type from Dale and from one another, and it's great prep for the panel evening the same night! Literature/Film/Community Members only.
Autumn: A Focus on Connections and Needs
October 2023 The Connector 2
WATCH: Cyrano (2021 Film with Peter Dinklage)
October 2023 The Connector 2
WATCH: Cyrano (2021 Film with Peter Dinklage)
November 2023 The Protector 8
Recommended *READ*: Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
Option to Watch: Olive Kitteridge (2014 HBO Miniseries)
Recommended *READ*: Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
Option to Watch: Olive Kitteridge (2014 HBO Miniseries)
December 2023 The Observer 5
WATCH: Her (2013 Film)
WATCH: Her (2013 Film)
Winter: A Focus on Core Human Development through Union, Divergence and Individuation
January 2024 The Peacemaker 9
WATCH: Last Holiday (with Queen Latifah, the 2006 Wayne Wang film only) AND
WATCH: The Banshees of Inisherin (2022 Golden Globe Winner by Martin McDonagh)
January 2024 The Peacemaker 9
WATCH: Last Holiday (with Queen Latifah, the 2006 Wayne Wang film only) AND
WATCH: The Banshees of Inisherin (2022 Golden Globe Winner by Martin McDonagh)
February 2024 The Loyal Skeptic 6
WATCH: Norma Rae (1979 Academy Award Best Actress Sallie Field, film by Martin Ritt)
WATCH: Norma Rae (1979 Academy Award Best Actress Sallie Field, film by Martin Ritt)
March 2024 The Performer 3
WATCH: You Hurt My Feelings (2023 Film directed by Nicole Holofcener)
WATCH: You Hurt My Feelings (2023 Film directed by Nicole Holofcener)
Spring: A Focus on The Pursuit of The Ideal
April 2024 The Epicure 7
Recommended *READ*: A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles (2016)
Option to Watch: A Gentleman in Moscow (Paramount Plus Miniseries 2023)
April 2024 The Epicure 7
Recommended *READ*: A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles (2016)
Option to Watch: A Gentleman in Moscow (Paramount Plus Miniseries 2023)
May 2024 The Romantic 4
WATCH: Ladybird (Greta Gerwig's Golden Globe Winning 2017 Masterpiece)
WATCH: The Rachel Divide (Netflix: Laura Brownson's 2018 documentary)
WATCH: Ladybird (Greta Gerwig's Golden Globe Winning 2017 Masterpiece)
WATCH: The Rachel Divide (Netflix: Laura Brownson's 2018 documentary)
June 2024 The Idealist 1
Recommended *READ*: The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro (1989 Booker Prize for Fiction)
Option to Watch: The Remains of the Day (1993 film w/ Emma Thompson & Anthony Hopkins)
Recommended *READ*: The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro (1989 Booker Prize for Fiction)
Option to Watch: The Remains of the Day (1993 film w/ Emma Thompson & Anthony Hopkins)
This course assumes general familiarity with the Enneagram system, but you gain plenty with handouts and a lesson each month. We will hear from the type of the month panelists each 1st Wednesday at the community teaching. Small group class time will be more focused on how the literature/film/themes relate to us all, not just to the type of the month. Students might find it helpful to have one Enneagram text to refer to before reading the selection of the month. Buyer beware of Enneagram teachers with little or no formal training in the system and who may have unnamed agendas.
Highly-recommended classics are listed below and click here for the bibliography of recommended authors on the website.
A warm thank you to my very special teachers and friends who are inspiration and support for these classes, specifically:
Judith Searle The Literary Enneagram: Characters from The Inside Out
Tom Condon The Enneagram Movie and Video Guide
Highly-recommended classics are listed below and click here for the bibliography of recommended authors on the website.
- William Schafer's Roaming Free Inside the Cage: A Daoist Approach to the Enneagram and Spiritual Transformation
- Jerome Wagner's Nine Lenses on the World: The Enneagram Perspective
- Helen Palmer's The Enneagram in Love and Work
- Beatrice Chestnut's The Complete Enneagram
A warm thank you to my very special teachers and friends who are inspiration and support for these classes, specifically:
Judith Searle The Literary Enneagram: Characters from The Inside Out
Tom Condon The Enneagram Movie and Video Guide
Self-Study In Your Nest: Self-Preservation Skills
Each month on your own, you will review a handout and brief videos on the month's type along with Dale's reflections on the novel/film. You also arrange to experience the chosen book/film which are often available for free through public libraries, streaming sites to which you are already subscribed. Plan to search google/bing or IMDB.com the title for film streaming options. A few prepared questions are available for your self-reflection and for use in your one-to-one and group discussions.
Pairs in A Pear Tree: Two Choices: One-to-One Skills
You also commit to meeting with an assigned different member (assigned only 3x: November/February/May) at a time of your choosing in order to further explore content, reflections and responses to the class sessions. Your 1:1s can be in-person if you are local, or on phone or video. This is a great interdisciplinary way to expand your understanding of the Nine Points of View in your own life. And it is a way to explore personality and humanities with people from different points of view. Many students say that the one-to-ones are the most meaningful part of the year's experience. Because we connect this way, we do only a brief check-in at groups--- mostly we get right to the content on type themes and the literature/film selection. And if you miss a session, you are in a buddy system for the term to keep you connected. At registration, if you enjoy 1:1s you may request to have one monthly with folks from the larger community.
Feathers Flock Together: Social Skills
At the 1st Wednesday all-community evening teaching sessions, Dale will provide a short teaching on the type of the month and engage participants in type-of-the-month panels to explore facets of the type and introduce relevant themes found in that month's novel/film. The teaching section of that session is recorded and made available to students who miss; the panel is not recorded to support confidentiality.
In the 2nd _ of the Month small groups, we have 45 minutes for any who may want to share their own reflections without crosstalk, we take a 10 minute comfort break, and afterwards move into open lively dialogue! There is plenty of time for reflections, reactions, questions and deeper delving amongst the participants. Dale Rhodes facilitates each group session.
OPTIONAL: Those who are the type of the month are invited to join 1st Wednesdays at Noon for an hour's online LUNCH BUNCH to meet folks of the same type, learn a bit, play "Stump the Chump" with questions for Dale or a guest Enneagram teacher; an invitation not an expectation. No recording, restricted to class members only. Meet your same-type buddies!
Each month on your own, you will review a handout and brief videos on the month's type along with Dale's reflections on the novel/film. You also arrange to experience the chosen book/film which are often available for free through public libraries, streaming sites to which you are already subscribed. Plan to search google/bing or IMDB.com the title for film streaming options. A few prepared questions are available for your self-reflection and for use in your one-to-one and group discussions.
Pairs in A Pear Tree: Two Choices: One-to-One Skills
You also commit to meeting with an assigned different member (assigned only 3x: November/February/May) at a time of your choosing in order to further explore content, reflections and responses to the class sessions. Your 1:1s can be in-person if you are local, or on phone or video. This is a great interdisciplinary way to expand your understanding of the Nine Points of View in your own life. And it is a way to explore personality and humanities with people from different points of view. Many students say that the one-to-ones are the most meaningful part of the year's experience. Because we connect this way, we do only a brief check-in at groups--- mostly we get right to the content on type themes and the literature/film selection. And if you miss a session, you are in a buddy system for the term to keep you connected. At registration, if you enjoy 1:1s you may request to have one monthly with folks from the larger community.
Feathers Flock Together: Social Skills
At the 1st Wednesday all-community evening teaching sessions, Dale will provide a short teaching on the type of the month and engage participants in type-of-the-month panels to explore facets of the type and introduce relevant themes found in that month's novel/film. The teaching section of that session is recorded and made available to students who miss; the panel is not recorded to support confidentiality.
In the 2nd _ of the Month small groups, we have 45 minutes for any who may want to share their own reflections without crosstalk, we take a 10 minute comfort break, and afterwards move into open lively dialogue! There is plenty of time for reflections, reactions, questions and deeper delving amongst the participants. Dale Rhodes facilitates each group session.
OPTIONAL: Those who are the type of the month are invited to join 1st Wednesdays at Noon for an hour's online LUNCH BUNCH to meet folks of the same type, learn a bit, play "Stump the Chump" with questions for Dale or a guest Enneagram teacher; an invitation not an expectation. No recording, restricted to class members only. Meet your same-type buddies!
Membership: Yearly for Access to 20 Online Sessions: $550 Total
Pay $550 total by Check (Enneagram Portland PO Box 10603 Portland OR 97296), Venmo (Dale-Rhodes-2) or charge on this site.
Attend 1st W Eves 6:30p - 8:00p Pacific, your small group, and a different one-to-one chat quarterly or monthly. Option for type-specific lunch bunch session.
Membership: Quarterly for Access to 20 Online Sessions: 4 Payments $150
Pay $150 Deposit by check (Enneagram Portland PO Box 10603 Portland OR 97296), Venmo Dale-Rhodes-2, or charge on this site.
Then pay $150 for each quarter due: October 1st, January 1st and April 1st via check or this website's payment page.
Attend 1st W Eves 6:30p - 8:00p Pacific, your small group, and a different one-to-one chat quarterly or monthly. Option for type-specific lunch bunch session.
Pay $550 total by Check (Enneagram Portland PO Box 10603 Portland OR 97296), Venmo (Dale-Rhodes-2) or charge on this site.
Attend 1st W Eves 6:30p - 8:00p Pacific, your small group, and a different one-to-one chat quarterly or monthly. Option for type-specific lunch bunch session.
Membership: Quarterly for Access to 20 Online Sessions: 4 Payments $150
Pay $150 Deposit by check (Enneagram Portland PO Box 10603 Portland OR 97296), Venmo Dale-Rhodes-2, or charge on this site.
Then pay $150 for each quarter due: October 1st, January 1st and April 1st via check or this website's payment page.
Attend 1st W Eves 6:30p - 8:00p Pacific, your small group, and a different one-to-one chat quarterly or monthly. Option for type-specific lunch bunch session.
- Everyone joins for the entire academic year's participation as listed above, Sept 2023 thru June 2023.
- Your commitment is to the community as well as with yourself.
- There are no refunds once your program is listed as full or classes begin.
- All community members get $25 off private sessions with Dale Rhodes during the academic year.
"What worked? I found the whole experience so valuable! You have such a gift of creating a safe space to learn and share where everyone is valued and heard! You have such a unique gift of teaching the Enneagram with a nuance that I haven't heard before that deeply connected to me in my Enneagram space. I learned so much looking at each Enneagram type through the lens of film and literature. I find myself wondering about types as I watch and read everything now! The resources provided in schoology were so helpful and interesting! It was such a gift to get to know my small group filled with such amazing people and I learned even more from each of them. Thank you Dale!"
"Great way to explore the enneagram at more depth, and see it at work in the world beyond your own personality!"
- Carol Ferris
"What worked? All of it. The "lecture/teaching" sessions were informative and insightful. Learned something new or gained a new perspective with each class & course. I loved the incorporation of learning / studying the Enneagram while enjoying films & literature, some films/books that I might not have otherwise read or come across on my own. The panels were very informative and provided both high & low sides of each type in a warm & safe environment with an understanding/accepting audience each time. The small individual groups were warm, welcoming, safe, and friendly. And the 1-to-1 meetings were personal and more rich than I'd expected them to be."
"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
"What worked? Building on previous years, the opportunity to look at each type in all its "many wanderings." To hear from, and gain greater understanding of, those types whom I tend to view as mysteries, or "other.' To see new dimensions in those types, like my own, from whom I may have thought I already knew everything."
"It was over a decade ago that I first discovered the gift of the Enneagram. Since then I have attended a few additional workshops and evening events that Dale has offered and always found them engaging and insightful. As both a pastor and a psychiatric RN, I have made use of the Enneagram in helping me understand both the people I serve and, more importantly, why I respond to them as I do. Most recently I took Dale's 9 Types in Literature and Film. 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. I would certainly encourage any who have a passion for reading and an interest in knowing themselves and their loved ones to take this program. "
- Tim Winslea
"What worked? I delight in learning about how to use the Enneagram in my personal & work life. It is the greatest tool I have ever come across to help me understand myself and others. Each meeting I gain valuable i sites on how to grow and how to better understand others. Of course the most valuable component of the groups is you and your delightful non-defensive manner of making it fun."
"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
"What worked? Dale's knowledge is prodigious, and I always learn a great deal from him. He continues to learn more about the enneagram and passes that valuable knowledge along to us in his classes. Furthermore, Dale is gifted at leading groups, at encouraging conversation, at calling out what is good and/or interesting in what individuals contribute to the discussion. And most of all, he is simply someone extremely lovable with an enormous and wise heart. Spending time with him is a gift. I find Dale's groups to be extremely valuable, generous, and I heartily recommend them to everyone I know."
"Great way to explore the enneagram at more depth, and see it at work in the world beyond your own personality!"
- Carol Ferris
"What worked? All of it. The "lecture/teaching" sessions were informative and insightful. Learned something new or gained a new perspective with each class & course. I loved the incorporation of learning / studying the Enneagram while enjoying films & literature, some films/books that I might not have otherwise read or come across on my own. The panels were very informative and provided both high & low sides of each type in a warm & safe environment with an understanding/accepting audience each time. The small individual groups were warm, welcoming, safe, and friendly. And the 1-to-1 meetings were personal and more rich than I'd expected them to be."
"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
"What worked? Building on previous years, the opportunity to look at each type in all its "many wanderings." To hear from, and gain greater understanding of, those types whom I tend to view as mysteries, or "other.' To see new dimensions in those types, like my own, from whom I may have thought I already knew everything."
"It was over a decade ago that I first discovered the gift of the Enneagram. Since then I have attended a few additional workshops and evening events that Dale has offered and always found them engaging and insightful. As both a pastor and a psychiatric RN, I have made use of the Enneagram in helping me understand both the people I serve and, more importantly, why I respond to them as I do. Most recently I took Dale's 9 Types in Literature and Film. 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. I would certainly encourage any who have a passion for reading and an interest in knowing themselves and their loved ones to take this program. "
- Tim Winslea
"What worked? I delight in learning about how to use the Enneagram in my personal & work life. It is the greatest tool I have ever come across to help me understand myself and others. Each meeting I gain valuable i sites on how to grow and how to better understand others. Of course the most valuable component of the groups is you and your delightful non-defensive manner of making it fun."
"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
"What worked? Dale's knowledge is prodigious, and I always learn a great deal from him. He continues to learn more about the enneagram and passes that valuable knowledge along to us in his classes. Furthermore, Dale is gifted at leading groups, at encouraging conversation, at calling out what is good and/or interesting in what individuals contribute to the discussion. And most of all, he is simply someone extremely lovable with an enormous and wise heart. Spending time with him is a gift. I find Dale's groups to be extremely valuable, generous, and I heartily recommend them to everyone I know."
Enneagram Portland
welcomes and encourages a diverse community experience.
We are in our 8th season of this program and always expanding our views, along with our understandings and experience of justice, equity, diversity and inclusion (JEDI).
Broaden your worldview with us this year.
Click to see our diverse past titles.
welcomes and encourages a diverse community experience.
We are in our 8th season of this program and always expanding our views, along with our understandings and experience of justice, equity, diversity and inclusion (JEDI).
Broaden your worldview with us this year.
Click to see our diverse past titles.