Nov 21 - 23
The Enneagram is a remarkable system used to describe basic personality types that shed light on our most important psychological dynamics, as well as on the deeper spiritual yearnings of our soul. As we know from our experience, there are different kinds of people - each with their own set of strengths, vulnerabilities, perceptions of the world, and spiritual potentials. The Enneagram can help us to become more clear about those differences as well as to understand ourselves more profoundly.
This Workshop employs visual models, precise psychological insight into the inner workings of the types, guided meditations, discussion, music, and deep experiential work to introduce the Psychic Structures of the nine Enneagram types. The Psychic Structures are concrete "blueprints" for the inner mechanisms of each type. They are symbolic representations of psychological processes and are especially powerful for visually oriented people and for those who wish to have a "gestalt" of each type. With these vivid and dynamic models, you will be able to see with startling clarity what is happening in each type and why.
By the end of this workshop, you will understand each type as a coherent whole and have deeper insight into the mechanisms that drive them. This clear understanding makes it possible for true compassion to arise-as well as the depth of awareness that would make possible a resolution of each type's illusions and inner conflicts. Many who have learned the Psychic Structures have said that they are the most illuminating thing they have ever been taught about the Enneagram.
This Workshop is also about the role of the superego. The Psychic Structures reveal how our ego activity is driven by the superego, the "inner critic," that restricts us and keeps us reacting according to past patterns. We will explore how the superego creates each type's inner conflicts and self-defeating habits and explore ways to counteract its deadening, limiting effects and bring about the direct experience of presence, clarity, compassion, and joy in our lives.
Experiential exercises for each type will focus on reclaiming our presence and vitality by revealing the superego's false and restrictive patterns and self-concepts. We will work with all nine types in depth because each of us has all nine types within us. This information was formerly only available as part of the Riso-Hudson Enneagram Professional Training Program, but because of its extraordinary usefulness to therapists, counselors, and to all serious students of the Enneagram, it is being made available to everyone.
Russ Hudson is one of the principal scholars and innovative thinkers in the Enneagram world today. He is Executive Director of Enneagram Personality Types, Inc., and co-founder of The Enneagram InstituteSM. He has been co-teaching the Enneagram Professional Training Program since 1991, and is a Founding Director and former Vice-President of the International Enneagram Association. He is co-author of The Wisdom of the Enneagram, Personality Types (Revised Edition), Understanding the Enneagram (Revised Edition), and The Power of the Enneagram. He also assisted Don Riso in writing Discovering Your Personality Type and Enneagram Transformations. These five best-selling books are available in British, German, Italian, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Spanish, Dutch, Hungarian, and Portuguese editions. He's so smart and the workshops so excellent we keep inviting him back.
"Most of our unhappiness comes from the habits, fears, defensive patterns, and the self-defeating reactions that our personality backs us into. We can find a way to relate with our personality. When this happens, we have much more inner freedom. Over time, our personality structures can go from being heavy, `wrought-iron' structures to something more light and flexible. The personality will still be there, but it is no longer constricting or causing so much suffering."
- Don Riso and Russ Hudson