October 17th-19th, 2008       Burlingame, CA 

A life without relationships… it’s impossible. Relationships are core to our existence, and have an enormous impact on our identity, health, self-worth, success in the world, and even our survival. They can be rewarding and intriguing, as well as baffling and sometimes painful. How we interact with others provides a key to our psychological and spiritual development.

The Enneagram offers a profound and immensely practical way to understand and shift your relationships with others. In this workshop, we will address how core thinking and emotional dynamics operate between different Enneagram types, explore effective methods you can use to communicate with people of each type, and learn how the three Instinctual Variants (Subtypes) affect primary motivations in your relationships. You will gain new perspectives on yourself and others, and gain valuable insights to having healthier relationships.

Notes:

CEU’s: This course meets the requirements for 15 hours of Continuing Education Credit for MFT’s and LCSW’s as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. Provider Name: Roxanne Howe-Murphy, Ed.D. Provider number: PCE2759

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September 19th-21st, 2008      Burlingame, CA 

Our instinctual nature, while extremely powerful in our decision-making processes, lifestyle choices, and orientation to day-to-day reality, is often given little emphasis in many spiritual paths, and the Instincts are often treated as an inherent problem-a distortion to be eliminated. This is understandable since this part of our nature is usually little interested in our spiritual or psychological development. Yet, without a clear and viable relationship with this aspect of our souls, it is extremely difficult to maintain an integrated approach to our path.

The Enneagram deals very directly with this aspect of the Self through teachings about the Three Instincts-Self-Preservation, Sexual (Attraction), and Social (Adaptation). Seminal ideas about the three Instincts go back at least as far as Gurdjieff’s teachings about the Centers and have equivalents in other spiritual traditions. In recent years, many Enneagram students have discovered the explanatory power of seeing how their instinctual bias operates in combination with their dominant Enneagram type. Learning how their type plays itself out through one of these Instincts can be as exciting as when we first learn about the Enneagram.

In this workshop, you can expect to:

• Clarify and deepen your understanding of the Instincts, seeing them at work in your personal experience.
• Examine how our particular instinctual “stack”-the way we prioritize our basic human needs and values-is the pattern that most keeps us locked in the repetitive habits of our personality.
  (One of the quickest ways to unlock the Passion and Fixation of our type is to understand and work on the imbalance in our Instincts.)
• Recognize the way you give energy to certain needs while neglecting others, bringing balance and helping you integrate the deeper experiences of Essence and Being that you may have had.
  (Without such Inner Work, even profound experiences of Spirit and Oneness cannot affect our lives the way they could. )
• Hear personal teaching, participate in experiential dyads and triads, meditation, movement work, and music to help you recognize the ways that these patterns express themselves.
  (All inside a relaxed and conversational approach, with an emphasis on the development of our capacity to remain in Presence.)
• Explore concrete ways in which to bring greater balance in our approach to our instinctual life.

Notes:

CEU’s: This course meets the requirements for 15 hours of Continuing Education Credit for MFT’s and LCSW’s as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. Provider Name: Roxanne Howe-Murphy, Ed.D. Provider number: PCE2759

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June 13th-15th, 2008     Burlingame, CA 

The Levels of Development, one of the most profound contemporary contributions to the Enneagram field and identified by Don Riso and Russ Hudson, provides a vertical dimension to the personality types, making clear the “inner logic” of each type and revealing how the various traits and motivations that comprise each type form an interrelated whole. Using the Levels helps us put our direct experience of life into a meaningful context.

The Levels provide a way of tracking our movement along a continuum toward more freedom, consciousness, expansiveness, and Being in the higher Levels (or toward more reactivity and self-destructiveness in the lower ones). By introducing this “vertical axis” to the types, the Levels explain some of the most important things that we find in human nature-fluidity and change, resistance and conflict, freedom and compulsion-among many human qualities. Working with the Levels not only provides recognition for where we are in our journey of growth, but also guides us toward greater health and transformation

In this workshop, you can expect to:

• Understand the meaning of all nine Levels, and how people “move” from one Level to another, along with other complex movements predicted by the Enneagram.
• See some of the main characteristics of each type along the nine Levels.
• Gain a deep grounding in this information on the Levels, through exercises, music, and meditation.
• Work with the Enneagram in advanced ways that facilitate practical applications in your professional and personal life.

Notes:

CEU’s: This course meets the requirements for 15 hours of Continuing Education Credit for MFT’s and LCSW’s as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. Provider Name: Roxanne Howe-Murphy, Ed.D. Provider number: PCE2759

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