Panels and Explorations:
Talking Type in Community
Enneagram Portland Annual Spring Retreat: May 17-19, 2019
Plan to join the community in our latest explorations into being more awake and free, together.
At the beautiful Menucha Retreat Center in Corbett, Oregon.
Bring your hiking boots for wonderful grounds and views of the Gorge.
Who were the people who gave you values, virtues and guidance?
Who taught you how to be (and maybe, how not to be)?
We may find ourselves re-viewing through the lens of the Enneagram our
Parents, Family Members, Teachers, Mentors, Friends, Counselors, Guides and Partners.
How have you been shaped by the values of the 9 Types in your life?
Plan to join the community in our latest explorations into being more awake and free, together.
At the beautiful Menucha Retreat Center in Corbett, Oregon.
Bring your hiking boots for wonderful grounds and views of the Gorge.
Who were the people who gave you values, virtues and guidance?
Who taught you how to be (and maybe, how not to be)?
We may find ourselves re-viewing through the lens of the Enneagram our
Parents, Family Members, Teachers, Mentors, Friends, Counselors, Guides and Partners.
How have you been shaped by the values of the 9 Types in your life?
Everyone wants a local community of friends who talk type. Here it is---
an intergenerational group of men and women who visit and talk type on a yearly weekend in the country!
Join us for introspection, reflection, storytelling, fun and explorations on our ways. If you appreciate what the Enneagram can do to deepen understanding and relationships, you will love being with everyone at this weekend. There is nothing like experiencing folks talk about their perspective on instinct and type: live and local! This year we look at the people who have shaped us and what values the Enneagram Types keep alive for us all.
Prepare to Lighten, to Loosen and to Enjoy
Bring yourself to the exploration community that always forms for this fun yearly event.
We support live and local community experiences that expand and grow over time.
an intergenerational group of men and women who visit and talk type on a yearly weekend in the country!
Join us for introspection, reflection, storytelling, fun and explorations on our ways. If you appreciate what the Enneagram can do to deepen understanding and relationships, you will love being with everyone at this weekend. There is nothing like experiencing folks talk about their perspective on instinct and type: live and local! This year we look at the people who have shaped us and what values the Enneagram Types keep alive for us all.
Prepare to Lighten, to Loosen and to Enjoy
- excellent food,
- light body stretching,
- plenty of time for self-reflection, hiking,
- a community of friends who talk type and love it,
- panels of people speaking about their instincts and types,
- interactive experiences to explore how another style’s gifts might be helpful to develop,
- music and dance,
- and a rocking-fun party where folks are free to contribute in any way to the evening’s entertainment.
Bring yourself to the exploration community that always forms for this fun yearly event.
We support live and local community experiences that expand and grow over time.
From Laurel, Above 2nd Row Fantastic Red Streak:
"One of the greatest gifts the enneagram has given me is an appreciation of my grandmother’s unique way of showing love. I grew up with stories about how, promptly at 9 pm, she would announce to party guests that it was time to go home, as that’s a respectable hour. My aunt loves to joke about how, when she was dating my uncle, she would receive his thank you notes (written to her mom) corrected in red pen. She was an English teacher and why wouldn’t you want to write a thank you with perfect punctuation? Visits to grandma’s house started with a critical question about our haircut. Breakfast included precisely sectioned citrus and melon prepared in the rind but cut into bite-size pieces. And the birthday cake was always day old and on sale. Her Social Instinct showed up in the way she pulled her neighborhood together and created community at church with a widow’s group when her husband died. She later met her boyfriend at an adult education class on laughter. When I learned this I smiled because I know the growth it can take a 1 Idealist to just throw their head back and laugh.
While I still struggle to spell restruant [sic], the weeks I spent at her home in the summers learning spelling on old mimeographed worksheets, shooing cats from her bird feeders, learning to cheat at solitaire, and exploring nature are some of my fondest memories. And, when I did finally manage to open her cookie jar without her hearing I was disappointed to learn they were well-aged chips ahoy that were probably there just for looks as grandmas are meant to have cookies ... but maybe grandkids aren’t meant to eat them.
"One of the greatest gifts the enneagram has given me is an appreciation of my grandmother’s unique way of showing love. I grew up with stories about how, promptly at 9 pm, she would announce to party guests that it was time to go home, as that’s a respectable hour. My aunt loves to joke about how, when she was dating my uncle, she would receive his thank you notes (written to her mom) corrected in red pen. She was an English teacher and why wouldn’t you want to write a thank you with perfect punctuation? Visits to grandma’s house started with a critical question about our haircut. Breakfast included precisely sectioned citrus and melon prepared in the rind but cut into bite-size pieces. And the birthday cake was always day old and on sale. Her Social Instinct showed up in the way she pulled her neighborhood together and created community at church with a widow’s group when her husband died. She later met her boyfriend at an adult education class on laughter. When I learned this I smiled because I know the growth it can take a 1 Idealist to just throw their head back and laugh.
While I still struggle to spell restruant [sic], the weeks I spent at her home in the summers learning spelling on old mimeographed worksheets, shooing cats from her bird feeders, learning to cheat at solitaire, and exploring nature are some of my fondest memories. And, when I did finally manage to open her cookie jar without her hearing I was disappointed to learn they were well-aged chips ahoy that were probably there just for looks as grandmas are meant to have cookies ... but maybe grandkids aren’t meant to eat them.
Faciliating together again even though they are not Socials...
Dale Rhodes, M.S., M.A.
(4 Romantic One-to-One), certified trainer: Palmer/Daniels ESNT, Jerome Wagner's Spectrum, Tom Condon's Changeworks.
"I had a great boss in my early 20s during college, who is likely an Enneagram Three Performer. He modeled success, raising people up, being welcoming to everyone who came in the door, and modeled being smart about one's public image. He gave me a job when he saw I was probably a youth in trouble, and taught me restaurant work well enough to become a manager for a time. He supported a few of us waitstaff in opening a soup kitchen in his restaurant, where homeless people were served by homeless youth being trained in restaurant operations. A model of a successful, welcoming, openly gay businessman: he paid my airfare and hotel to the first Gay Rights March (1987?) where our group wore the restaurant uniform sweatshirts, in good public relations support of course. He was later a grand supporter of my agency when I ran the Illinois AIDS Hotline and the GLBT Group Services program. First openly gay alderman in Chicago: He is still a major hero of mine."
"My mother is a Social Two Connector who always reminded us of those less fortunate. We visited and shopped frequently for the elderly and people who had been affected by polio. Although we occasionally got food boxes from the church because my father was out of work in the winter, we assembled those food boxes for elders and poor families in our parish throughout the year. A heroine matriarch of our family, my Mom got what she wanted as a Social Two all about Kindness and Personal Love: Five service-oriented children--- three nurses, an enneagram spiritual director, and the best single dad mechanic on the planet. She inspires me to this day to remember that sometimes it is more important to be loving than to be right. I'm not always good at it, but it's there in my consciousness because of her."
"My father was an Enneagram Six Loyal Skeptic, and taught me many many things from that vantage point. Besides the values of being prepared, attending to safety first and then enjoying risk; I credit my vehement leftie political support of organized labor to Dad's being a Union Carpenter. He knew that there is power in numbers, and there is safety in having a community of allies. My mother is safe and secure today, much due to my father's loyalty to the Carpenter's Union and the pension that supports those families. I have to say too that as a Six my father also enjoyed fear--- my sister and I love scary movies (and scaring people) way more than our friends do and we're pretty sure it had something to do with having a dad that took us to cemeteries for fun."
Deb Lyman, LCSW
(6 Loyal Skeptic Self Preservation), certified trainer: Palmer/Daniels ESNT, Enneagram Portland's Studio E, Tom Condon's Changeworks.
"When I was in in the (Canadian) Peace Corps in my early twenties, I had a beloved friend who had to have been an Enneagram 7 Adventurer. He was he an imaginative and inspiring biology teacher to his African students. With Francois there were endless possibilities and adventures that included but were not limited to scary motorcycle rides through rural Sierra Leone, overnight primitive boat trips to remote islands, extraordinary overland lorry journeys through other West African countries, weekends of music community and fun, all with enormous good humor. He pushed and challenged my cautious Sixness with his joyful enthusiasm and imagination into experiences that I would never have tried on my own, and which I will never forget."
"My father was an Enneagram 8, probably Self Preservation.He exemplified the kind of confidence and competence that are gifts of the 8. He strongly encouraged my independence- to be financially independent, to follow my dream to go to Africa, to sail my own boat, while at the same time having my back. He definitely took care of the immediate and large extended family in a more than generous manner. He modeled protecting the underdog by advocating for the French community in Quebec at a time when French Quebec was fighting for it's cultural and political life. He walked the talk as a bilingual Quebecer and our family stayed at a time when many Anglo's were leaving the province. He taught me to love nature and had a huge soft spot for all animals, especially the endangered whales and wolves. He made sure there was 'enough' for my mother when he died. He showed us how one could be direct about the whole topic of dying, which he managed to do suddenly in the middle of living life large."
Dale Rhodes, M.S., M.A.
(4 Romantic One-to-One), certified trainer: Palmer/Daniels ESNT, Jerome Wagner's Spectrum, Tom Condon's Changeworks.
"I had a great boss in my early 20s during college, who is likely an Enneagram Three Performer. He modeled success, raising people up, being welcoming to everyone who came in the door, and modeled being smart about one's public image. He gave me a job when he saw I was probably a youth in trouble, and taught me restaurant work well enough to become a manager for a time. He supported a few of us waitstaff in opening a soup kitchen in his restaurant, where homeless people were served by homeless youth being trained in restaurant operations. A model of a successful, welcoming, openly gay businessman: he paid my airfare and hotel to the first Gay Rights March (1987?) where our group wore the restaurant uniform sweatshirts, in good public relations support of course. He was later a grand supporter of my agency when I ran the Illinois AIDS Hotline and the GLBT Group Services program. First openly gay alderman in Chicago: He is still a major hero of mine."
"My mother is a Social Two Connector who always reminded us of those less fortunate. We visited and shopped frequently for the elderly and people who had been affected by polio. Although we occasionally got food boxes from the church because my father was out of work in the winter, we assembled those food boxes for elders and poor families in our parish throughout the year. A heroine matriarch of our family, my Mom got what she wanted as a Social Two all about Kindness and Personal Love: Five service-oriented children--- three nurses, an enneagram spiritual director, and the best single dad mechanic on the planet. She inspires me to this day to remember that sometimes it is more important to be loving than to be right. I'm not always good at it, but it's there in my consciousness because of her."
"My father was an Enneagram Six Loyal Skeptic, and taught me many many things from that vantage point. Besides the values of being prepared, attending to safety first and then enjoying risk; I credit my vehement leftie political support of organized labor to Dad's being a Union Carpenter. He knew that there is power in numbers, and there is safety in having a community of allies. My mother is safe and secure today, much due to my father's loyalty to the Carpenter's Union and the pension that supports those families. I have to say too that as a Six my father also enjoyed fear--- my sister and I love scary movies (and scaring people) way more than our friends do and we're pretty sure it had something to do with having a dad that took us to cemeteries for fun."
Deb Lyman, LCSW
(6 Loyal Skeptic Self Preservation), certified trainer: Palmer/Daniels ESNT, Enneagram Portland's Studio E, Tom Condon's Changeworks.
"When I was in in the (Canadian) Peace Corps in my early twenties, I had a beloved friend who had to have been an Enneagram 7 Adventurer. He was he an imaginative and inspiring biology teacher to his African students. With Francois there were endless possibilities and adventures that included but were not limited to scary motorcycle rides through rural Sierra Leone, overnight primitive boat trips to remote islands, extraordinary overland lorry journeys through other West African countries, weekends of music community and fun, all with enormous good humor. He pushed and challenged my cautious Sixness with his joyful enthusiasm and imagination into experiences that I would never have tried on my own, and which I will never forget."
"My father was an Enneagram 8, probably Self Preservation.He exemplified the kind of confidence and competence that are gifts of the 8. He strongly encouraged my independence- to be financially independent, to follow my dream to go to Africa, to sail my own boat, while at the same time having my back. He definitely took care of the immediate and large extended family in a more than generous manner. He modeled protecting the underdog by advocating for the French community in Quebec at a time when French Quebec was fighting for it's cultural and political life. He walked the talk as a bilingual Quebecer and our family stayed at a time when many Anglo's were leaving the province. He taught me to love nature and had a huge soft spot for all animals, especially the endangered whales and wolves. He made sure there was 'enough' for my mother when he died. He showed us how one could be direct about the whole topic of dying, which he managed to do suddenly in the middle of living life large."
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 persuaded.
- Robert Francis
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 persuaded.
- Robert Francis
- Dorm Twin 2 nights and all 5 meals: $ 250
- Dorm Queen 2 nights and all 5 meals: $ 300
- Private Double/Queen Bed/Bath 2 nights and all 5 meals: $ 350
- Private Couple Double/Queen Bed/Bath 2 nights and all 5 meals: $ 550
We work hard to make this experience affordable for all.
This is the actual cost for your attendance that we pay to the retreat center.
All rates include facilities fees and all 5 meals Friday eve through Sunday morning.
There are no refunds or exchanges for this program. It is limited to 24 participants.
1. Fill out the Registration Form below.
2. You are registered fully when you have paid the food and lodging fee. Pay online or send a check for above deposit to:
Enneagram Portland 1220 SW Morrison, Suite #1305 Portland OR 97205.
3. At retreat's end, you will get an envelope to make a generosity offering ($150 or above) that supports Deb and Dale's work.
Cash and checks only for this, please.
Thank you for supporting this community event!
Friday Evening 7:00pm-10:00pm
Dinner 7:00 (all participants), Program 8:00pm
Saturday All Day
Breakfast 8:00am
Program 9:00am - 12:00pm
Lunch 12:00pm
Program 2:00pm - 5:00pm
Dinner 6:00pm
Party 8:00pm Your music, poems, stories, jokes, offerings: all options and optional.
Sunday Morning 9:00am - 12pm
Breakfast 8:00am
Program 9:00am - 12:00pm exit
Dinner 7:00 (all participants), Program 8:00pm
Saturday All Day
Breakfast 8:00am
Program 9:00am - 12:00pm
Lunch 12:00pm
Program 2:00pm - 5:00pm
Dinner 6:00pm
Party 8:00pm Your music, poems, stories, jokes, offerings: all options and optional.
Sunday Morning 9:00am - 12pm
Breakfast 8:00am
Program 9:00am - 12:00pm exit