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Looking for a way to expand your community of friends who talk type?
This program will explore writings on the Nine Points of View, along with one novel per month. This is a small group exploration of the Nine Types in Depth, using specific literature and film to enhance our experience and enjoyment. The book or movie may offer a character who generally exemplifies an Enneagram Type, or it may explore themes that relate to an Enneagram Type's area of attention, motivations and life themes, vice to virtue conversion, or paths to disintegration and development.
This year our exploration is through the lens of types focusing more prominently on Competency, Positivity or Reactivity.
Requirements: All members commit to the full 10 month process. Each month, you will review a very short chapter and handouts on a specific type and read the chosen book and/or view the chosen film. You also commit to meeting with a different member over coffee/tea each month at a time of your choosing in order to further explore content, reflections and responses to the course content and class sessions. Dale Rhodes will provide a 30-minute teaching on the type of the month; including music, poetry, video clips of the nine types and written resources on the instincts, wings, connecting points, etc. There is plenty of time for reflections and questions amongst the participants.
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 artistic content with people from different points of view.
Here is this year's curriculum. Most resources are available for free via book/downloads/film thru Multnomah County Library.
Click on the underlined title links in the descriptive text below photos.
This program will explore writings on the Nine Points of View, along with one novel per month. This is a small group exploration of the Nine Types in Depth, using specific literature and film to enhance our experience and enjoyment. The book or movie may offer a character who generally exemplifies an Enneagram Type, or it may explore themes that relate to an Enneagram Type's area of attention, motivations and life themes, vice to virtue conversion, or paths to disintegration and development.
This year our exploration is through the lens of types focusing more prominently on Competency, Positivity or Reactivity.
Requirements: All members commit to the full 10 month process. Each month, you will review a very short chapter and handouts on a specific type and read the chosen book and/or view the chosen film. You also commit to meeting with a different member over coffee/tea each month at a time of your choosing in order to further explore content, reflections and responses to the course content and class sessions. Dale Rhodes will provide a 30-minute teaching on the type of the month; including music, poetry, video clips of the nine types and written resources on the instincts, wings, connecting points, etc. There is plenty of time for reflections and questions amongst the participants.
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 artistic content with people from different points of view.
Here is this year's curriculum. Most resources are available for free via book/downloads/film thru Multnomah County Library.
Click on the underlined title links in the descriptive text below photos.
Three Works on The Competency Types: October 2017, March 2018, May 2018
October 2017
Type 5 The Observer: What do you do to avoid dependency?
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer ( male author, male main character )
Book/movie are available. Explore how a Five disappears Into the Wild to experience self-sufficiency.
March 2018
Type 3 The Leader/Performer: What do you do when you experience failure?
Black Narcissus by Rumer Godden ( female author, female main characters )
Book/movie are available. Explore how a young inexperienced nun reinvents herself after failures and madness.
May 2018
Type 1 The Idealist: What do you do with your less than acceptable urges?
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson ( male author, male main character )
Book is what is recommended. Explore how a One manages his angels and demons.
Three Works on The Positive Outlook Types: November 2017, January 2018, June 2018
November 2017
Type 2 The Connector: Why not connect everyone together to get our needs met?
Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons ( female author, female main character )
Book/movie are available. Explore how a Two makes love and connection for all.
January 2018
Type 9 The Mediator: If we forget and just keep going along, won't it all work itself out?
The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro ( male author, female and male main characters )
Only book available. Explore how a couple and a landscape struggle to stay awake and remember.
June 2018
Type 7 The Epicure: If we keep it moving and reframe to the positive, we'll be okay?
Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson ( female author, female main character )
Book/movie are available. Explore how an eclectic visiting aunt rescues!
Three Works on The Reactive Types: December 2017, February 2018, April 2018
December 2017
Type 8 The Protector: What do I do when I see vulnerabilities and injustice?
The Blindside by Michael Lewis ( male author, female main character )
Book/movie are available. Explore how an Eight wakes up to find injustice and strength on her doorstep.
February 2018
Type 6 The Loyal Skeptic: Who and what authority can I trust and how to find out?
Hamlet by William Shakespeare ( male author, male main character )
Book/movies are available. Explore how a Six finds danger and meaning in the world of adults, family and politics.
April 2018
Type 4 The Romantic: What do I do with all these feelings that ask me to step-out?
Song of the Lark by Willa Cather ( female author, female main character )
Book/movie available. Explore what it means when a Four discovers her authentic art expression.
Judith Searle's The Literary Enneagram may be an enjoyable optional supplementary text, along with Tom Condon's Enneagram Movie Guide.
Many Enneagram Portland groups continue as self-managing groups after the initial year. Get onboard for this one!
Pre-registration and pre-payment are required.
Tuition in full: Make a discounted one-time $475 payment that covers the 10-session course tuition.
Payment plan: $175 deposit holds your space. $175 due December 1 and $175 due March 1.
These programs can fill. Your space is saved only with payment.
Cash or checks are preferred, or you may charge here.
October 2017
Type 5 The Observer: What do you do to avoid dependency?
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer ( male author, male main character )
Book/movie are available. Explore how a Five disappears Into the Wild to experience self-sufficiency.
March 2018
Type 3 The Leader/Performer: What do you do when you experience failure?
Black Narcissus by Rumer Godden ( female author, female main characters )
Book/movie are available. Explore how a young inexperienced nun reinvents herself after failures and madness.
May 2018
Type 1 The Idealist: What do you do with your less than acceptable urges?
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson ( male author, male main character )
Book is what is recommended. Explore how a One manages his angels and demons.
Three Works on The Positive Outlook Types: November 2017, January 2018, June 2018
November 2017
Type 2 The Connector: Why not connect everyone together to get our needs met?
Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons ( female author, female main character )
Book/movie are available. Explore how a Two makes love and connection for all.
January 2018
Type 9 The Mediator: If we forget and just keep going along, won't it all work itself out?
The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro ( male author, female and male main characters )
Only book available. Explore how a couple and a landscape struggle to stay awake and remember.
June 2018
Type 7 The Epicure: If we keep it moving and reframe to the positive, we'll be okay?
Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson ( female author, female main character )
Book/movie are available. Explore how an eclectic visiting aunt rescues!
Three Works on The Reactive Types: December 2017, February 2018, April 2018
December 2017
Type 8 The Protector: What do I do when I see vulnerabilities and injustice?
The Blindside by Michael Lewis ( male author, female main character )
Book/movie are available. Explore how an Eight wakes up to find injustice and strength on her doorstep.
February 2018
Type 6 The Loyal Skeptic: Who and what authority can I trust and how to find out?
Hamlet by William Shakespeare ( male author, male main character )
Book/movies are available. Explore how a Six finds danger and meaning in the world of adults, family and politics.
April 2018
Type 4 The Romantic: What do I do with all these feelings that ask me to step-out?
Song of the Lark by Willa Cather ( female author, female main character )
Book/movie available. Explore what it means when a Four discovers her authentic art expression.
Judith Searle's The Literary Enneagram may be an enjoyable optional supplementary text, along with Tom Condon's Enneagram Movie Guide.
Many Enneagram Portland groups continue as self-managing groups after the initial year. Get onboard for this one!
Pre-registration and pre-payment are required.
- Registration is for membership in the full 10-session yearlong course.
- Membership closes in October, so unless there is a waitlist there are no refunds.
- Sessions take place at Enneagram Portland office: 1220 SW Morrison #1305, Portland Or 97205.
- The Essential Enneagram text, and all training materials are included.
Tuition in full: Make a discounted one-time $475 payment that covers the 10-session course tuition.
Payment plan: $175 deposit holds your space. $175 due December 1 and $175 due March 1.
These programs can fill. Your space is saved only with payment.
Cash or checks are preferred, or you may charge here.
After participating in Dale’s Deepening Group and Studio E (both fantastic!), I thought I would take a break from Enneagram studies; but then Dale offered his first Enneagram & Literature class. How could I not say “Yes!” to wrapping my two favorite subjects together in one package? And I am so glad I did—looking at the Nine Types through characters in literature enriched me with profound insights from other class members and drew me into personal reflection. |
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"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
Enneagram & Literature Class 2016 - 2017
( Elizabeth Winslea also took the class and will tell you about it too... )
Tim Winslea
Enneagram & Literature Class 2016 - 2017
( Elizabeth Winslea also took the class and will tell you about it too... )