Classes are held in Boulder, Colorado, unless noted otherwise. Location with registration confirmation.
From Reactivity to Compassion: An Introduction to the Enneagram
Saturday, 9:30am-5:30pm
January 23, 2010
Cost $95
Most of us would say that we want to be more peaceful, take others less personally and ourselves less seriously. We may add that we’d like to be happier and have fun too! The Enneagram provides a playground for us to do just these things.
This class will introduce the Enneagram through the exploration of the needs that we are attempting to fill through our type strategies. Suitable for new Enneagram students and those wanting to deepen their understanding of the system, we will explore the basic structure of the system and the preoccupations of each type. We will also delve into the primary needs the type structure is attempting to fill, such as safety, love and belonging. When we inquire into the need that is motivating a certain behavior, we begin to perceive through the eyes of compassion. Viewing yourself and others with curiosity and compassion changes these relationships, allowing you to move through the world with greater peace and with more joy.
The Enneagram is a dynamic system of nine personality types that empowers you to better understand yourself and others. As you learn about the nine Enneagram types and witness representatives of each type sharing their personal stories, you will gain self-awareness, compassion and insight to create a more fulfilling and meaningful life. The format is highly interactive, fun, informative, and transformative. Through personal interviews, guided meditations, lectures and experiential practices, we can come to understand our own worldview intimately and learn about the worldviews of others.
Exploring the Architecture of the Enneagram
Feb 3 & 17, Mar 3 & 17, 2010
Wednesdays, 6:30-8:30pm
Cost $145
In this ongoing class we will explore the various foundational aspects of the Enneagram, the architecture of the system. We will investigate the centers of intelligence or triads of the system, wings, stress and security points, and defense mechanisms. In addition, we will review the gifts or strengths of the type along with the primary adaptive strategies, traps, avoidances and myths.
This class is intended to help you understand the structure that supports your type orientation in more depth. As we become more conscious of the structure of the type and the powerful, and usually unconscious, mechanisms that support it, we begin to have more choice in how we respond to our internal triggers and thus create more harmony in relationship to ourselves and others.
Ultimately, the Enneagram is about awakening from the automatic patterns of the type structure, so that we have more choice in our responses. The power of choice is greatly enhanced by the understanding of how the type works. As you gain knowledge (conceptual understanding) and wisdom (experiential knowing), your ability to make new choices grows. We are not attempting to demolish our type structures but to do some remodeling, creating more space, beauty, and flexibility in which to live in!
This class is offered in the Narrative Tradition, where class participants share about their experiences, participating as both teachers and students to each other. The format includes lecture, panel interviewing, small group processing, awareness activities, and discussion. This class is for those who are familiar with the Enneagram and their type.
Featuring an Exciting New Regional Offering by
Enneagram Center of the Rocky Mountain Region
Stress and Relationships:
An Enneagram Panel Series
Taught in the Narrative Tradition by 5 experienced, certified Enneagram instructors featuring: Terry Saracino, Renée Rosario, Whitney Allen, Jane Welzel, and Mary Ellen Arthur
Once a month, February 6 – June 5, 2010 (Feb 6, Mar 6, Apr 10, May 1, May 5)
Saturdays from 9:30-12:00
A monthly panel series that will focus on stress and its impact on our relationships. Each type perceives stress through a different filter, and these perceptions are unknowingly imposed on our relationships. Through self-observation, we can begin to understand and relax the habitual ways we experience and respond to stress, and thereby improve the quality of our relationships. The series will be taught in the Narrative Tradition – listening to representatives of each type speak for themselves as both witness and teacher. Each session will also include a Q and A and short breakout groups. The panels will be interviewed by five certified Narrative Tradition instructors, each of whom brings unique experience and teaching strengths to the Narrative Tradition. For more information contact Barb Allgaier at barballgaier@gmail.com or 303-697-9456.
Moving from Projection to Creation with the Enneagram
Saturday, 9:30am-5:30pm
April 17, 2010
Cost $95
As quantum physics appears in mainstream culture in countless books and in films, like “What the Bleep Do We Know?”, we are beginning to question the accuracy of our perceptions and how much we can effect those perceptions. The Enneagram adeptly describes how we narrow our attention as described by the type. Threes see a world of tasks to be accomplished, Sixes a world of potential dangers to avoid, and Nines a world of other people’s agendas to navigate. Another way to view this is that we project our inner beliefs and concerns onto the outer world. To say that we create the world we see then becomes less of a stretch and this is what quantum physics is discovering.
In this workshop we will explore the different realities that are projected according to type and creative ways to change our projections. Is it possible to observe our habitual tendencies, shift our internal experience, and therefore create new realities? Can we become fully responsible for how we interpret our experiences and thus gain the power to change that interpretation if we wish? Can we let go of trying to convince others to “see it our way” and instead marvel at the diversity of perspectives?
People who have attended this workshop have been amazed to discover access to a more positive experience and perspective of themselves and their world. This workshop will include didactic information on the nature of projection, a layman’s view of quantum physics theory, panel presentations, experiential exercises, awareness practices, and will be highly interactive, transformative and fun as we discover how to create the lives we desire to live. This class is for those who are familiar with the Enneagram and their type.