We are pleased to announce the following 2012 session topics and presenters, starting with our keynote presentation with Tara Brach. Tara will present: TRUE REFUGE -- THREE GATEWAYS TO PEACE AND FREEDOM.
Tara shares, "Joseph Campbell writes that all religions start with the cry, 'Help!' We spend many moments in a trance of separation and deficiency, entangled in strategies for seeking relief. This suffering asks for our deep and compassionate attention. By awakening to the three archetypal domains of presence — TRUTH (of the present moment), LOVE, and AWARENESS — we see beyond our personal patterning to the radiance and freedom of our natural Being."
READ TARA'S INTERVIEW WITH EANT'S TALK JOURNAL EDITOR, MATT AHRENS
Part ONE - Published in the August issue of TALK JOURNAL
Part TWO - Published in the September issue of TALK JOURNAL
EANT PRESENTATIONS
Our Narrative Tradition presentations will again feaure Helen, David, Terry, and Marion, this year focused on the Harmony Triads as a gateway for JOY.
All presenters listed below are certified teachers in the Narrative Tradition. We are surely looking forward to the exciting information and experiences that will be shared at this year's conference thanks to the contributions of all involved. A big thanks to each of you!
GUIDED INNER WORK A MEDITATION: WHAT NEXT?
HELEN PALMER | Sunday Morning Presentation
Enjoy a very special journey within, led by Helen Palmer, as only Helen can do it.
Helen is one of the founders of the Enneagram movement in the United States, a teacher of intuition, and bestselling author of five well regarded books in the field of human consciousness, two of which on the Enneagram topic are now in 27 languages. This work was the subject of a recent PBS television documentary Breaking out of the Box – Discovering the Enneagram.
Together with David Daniels, M.D. she founded Enneagram Studies in the Narrative Tradition, a school dedicated to psychological and Spiritual integration, still teaching a portion of its Professional Training Programs. Their school has brought the integration theme to many thousands in many countries during its 20-year history.
HELEN PALMER | DAVID DANIELS | TERRY SARCINO AND MARION GILBERT
PASSAGES TO JOY: THE MAGIC OF THE HARMONY TRIADSCo-founders Helen Palmer and David Daniels along with Terry Saracino and Marion Gilbert will guide our exploration of the "Enneagram of Harmony." We'll also hear from panels composed of each of the Harmony Triads of 1-4-7, then 8-5-2, and 3-6-9.
Download a PDF of David Daniels' presentation slides from the 2012 Conference.
How might we deepen our capacity for joy in working our own unique triangle of type? What new insights might be gained from the 2-5 connection? The 4-7 connection? Helen, David, and Terry will lead panel interviews, with Marion Gilbert offering the somatic piece for each panel.
David Daniels, MD is a clinical professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford Medical School, a leading developer of the Enneagram and co-author of The Essential Enneagram. He maintained a private psychiatric practice in Palo Alto for more than 30 years and is a long-time teacher of the Enneagram.
Read David's Extensive Article in TALK, coming in the November issue, on the Harmony Triads. To sign up for TALK, click here...
Together with Helen Palmer, David pioneered the Enneagram Professional Training Program™ (EPTP). Since 1988, David has trained hundreds of professionals in the Enneagram through this intensive training program designed to bring Enneagram knowledge to individuals working in fields ranging from business to psychology.
Terry Saracino currently teaches in the Enneagram Professional Training Program (EPTP) with Helen Palmer, David Daniels and Peter O'Hanrahan, and is involved in the ongoing development of the EPTP. She completed her own certification through the EPTP in 1990 and has mentored candidates for certification in the program since 1991. In addition to her work with the EPTP, she teaches workshops on the transformative power of the Enneagram.
Marion Gilbert RPT is the owner of a private Physical Therapy Practice and Wellness Center in Nevada City, CA. She has been practicing as a physical therapist for 35 years. The emphasis of her treatment approach is on Craniosacral Therapy, Somato-Emotional Release, and Trauma Resolution Therapy. The Wellness Center integrates a variety of classes integrating body, mind, and spirit. She certified as an Enneagram teacher in 2005 with Helen Palmer and David Daniels, in the Narrative Tradition, and is currently an Associate Teacher for Enneagram Studies in the Narrative Tradition (ESNT). The development of Somatic Awareness Practice as an addition to ESNT's Enneagram Curriculum is Marion'smain focus.
Download a PDF of the Harmony of Triads diagram.
Download a JPG of the Harmony of Triads diagram.
SENSATE AWARNESS OF HARMONY
GERRY FATHAUER
Our oneness is the container for the Harmony of Wellness modality. In the "Sensate Awareness of Harmony” session, you will learn how to experience the vibration of harmony in your energy field and how to access your "perfection." You will also gain an understanding of four aspects of the human energy system: Your Aura, Perfection, Blueprint, and Essence of Origin.
The “Sensate Awareness of Harmony” presentation will engage you in experiential practices to sense the aura in a strong versus weak condition. You will also experience the harmonious qualities of your perfection and of love. Cognitive material that explains the scientific principles underlying these experiences will be provided in handouts prior to the conference.
We are already our perfection as accessed in the auric field. This is our true nature. Here we may access and experience the vibration of harmony and the quality of love. These are natural states within the energy system of all human beings. You are able to not only experience these states, but also to use your consciousness to harmonize, and therefore raise, denser vibrations of trauma with the higher vibrations of these harmonious qualities.
The human system of vibration is frequency and pattern moving at varying rates of intensity and dimension. Our system is multidimensional and holographic by nature. Harmony of Wellness introduces you to a few of the aspects of this human system of vibration. Each aspect is essentially coherent waves of energy in communication with each other.
The “Sensate Awareness of Harmony” session will allow you to explore introductory fundamentals contained in Harmony of Wellness’s Aligned Essence Wellness Series. The series consists of three CDs: Cleanse, Restore, and Transform, which teach us how to use consciousness and understanding of the human energy system to mediate trauma for improved wellness and well-being.
Gerry Fathauer is an Enneagram teacher-coach and is co-owner of Harmony of Wellness LLC. She integrates the Enneagram into wellness practices that teach consciousness and energy-body principles that mediate both trauma and disease for greater well-being.
LETTING GO OF SUFFERING, MAKING ROOM FOR JOY | A MEDLEY OF SPIRITUAL PRACTICE
PAMELA MICHAELIS
In the beginning,
we want suffering to go away. We often remember an acute experience of suffering as marking the beginning of our spiritual path, even if we didn’t recognise this at the time. We are highly motivated to search for explanations and healing solutions because we want pain, anxiety, or troublesome aggression to go away. We may seek a rational thinking level for a while, which often means reading a lot of books. I knew how to learn this way, my main activity was reading and writing most of the content of those books into "my note book" in "my handwriting" in "my language" and I smile today, recognising and understanding when I see people in seminars, writing diligently.
This is one way of using active energy in the hopes of relieving suffering, and it just feels so good. At some level we do find relief in understanding more about ourselves, our biographies, what went right or wrong, who was good to us and who was not, why we communicate as we do, and so on. If we are lucky, we come across the Enneagram on this part of our journey. We now have a map to study when we are feeling lost. We begin to train our inner observer and recognise why we suffer, when our passion is up, and what we might do to change things. We begin to understand that there really are three centres of so-vastly-differing intelligences. We may be praying, going to therapy, practicing autogenic training, meditating, even doing all of this with the intention of finding release from suffering — by making it go away.
The Challenging Part of the Journey – The Ping-Pong Game
After a period of self-observation and intensive learning about ourselves, our survival strategies, emotions, healthy boundaries and how to communicate well, we can tick the right box on a questionnaire because we do know about these things. However, knowing about is so much easier than changing our habit. I noticed long after I "knew" what I should be doing, saying the word. "No,"
and taking a stand on healthy boundaries was as likely as my going around the world in 80 days; I was far too busy in my head, trying to work out whether this is a situation where I really have to say, "No." There is always another voice explaining why the world needs "a yes."" Second or reactive force playing ping-pong in the head with active force feels like compulsive thinking, a sure sign that we need to ground ourselves, change centres, and do some breathing and body work.
Automatic programmes welcome any moment of hesitation to take control once more and "No" just evaporates away, another victim of a watchful defense mechanism. For some it is so much easier, so familiar, so safe to adapt, whereas others might find it easier to say no and go away or enter into a fight in the name of self-righteousness. All these strategies, when coming from a state of reactivity, have a tendency to prolong rather than resolve suffering. We need to stay grounded and embody neutral or third force to hold inner experience, while active and reactive force play out their game and find balance with one another. Then we come to know what "clarity" and “boundaries" feel like as body sensations and we can begin to speak the language of authentic experience from each of our three centres. However in the moment it arises we may still want suffering to simply go away.
Change of Intention - Resignation to Problems and Suffering
Experience brings the realisation that everyone knows suffering. It is part of the natural human condition and there is little we can do to avoid the problems and suffering that tomorrow might bring. Resigning to this fact is a big first step toward accepting and caring for inner experience. Of course, it depends very much on the cause, how easy it is for us to remember this. However, there is a level of consciousness where suffering becomes more interesting as a source of growth. At last our intention changes, we no longer want to get rid of anything. We value and surrender to inner experience, wanting to hold and love and integrate the energy of contraction back into our system. Hope is knowing and understanding that suffering is a source of intelligence, spiritual nourishment and renewal of energy. Learning to let go of thoughts in the moment when suffering arises and instead place loving attention on the contraction in the body helps to digest suffering, liberate energy, and create inner space so that joy can find its way through. Through to our natural experience of aliveness. From here we gain deeper insight into what action is actually required of us in any given situation.
In this workshop, we will look at the role of loving kindness in growth work and do some inner practice with intention, body and breath, the three centres and three forces of energy. We will also look at the role of resignation, surrender, gratitude, and forgiveness in letting go of suffering. I would like to thank all those who have dedicated their lives to teaching others, especially Helen Palmer, David Daniels, Ken and Elizabeth Mellor, Robert and Karey Waterman, Arlene Moore, Jürgen Gündel and Norbert Häg.
Pamela Michaelis, with a background in IT and 23 years experience as a manager, Pamela applies the Enneagramm as a tool for personal, relationship and team development in seminars, corporate consultancy and individual coaching. She is a founder member of EBNE (Enneagram in Business Network Europe) and chaired the German Association of Enneagram Teachers for four years. She organises and presents at national, European, and international conferences and writes innovative articles on the enneagram. Pam also co-authored the book,
Ich bin anders - Du auch?
CULTIVATING THE HEART
RENÉE ROSARIO
There’s a sweet spot between accepting ourselves completely as we are and our desire to evolve, what has been called the “evolutionary impulse.” Developing the capacity to embody both is a sure sign of spiritual and psychological maturity. We live in amazing times where science and spirit are converging on many points relative to this tension, this sweet spot.
The practice of relaxing in and down and accepting our experience just as it is in the moment can shift our reactive patterns. Yet we can also intentionally and actively work to cultivate specific inner experiences, which can also create new neural connections. These two can be mutually supportive and part of our integrative path.
HeartMath has been researching the impact of emotions on overall health and well-being for nearly 20 years. When we experience negative feelings, our body feels out of balance or we feel out of control. Often this is because some aspect of our survival strategy has been triggered. From a physiological point of view, we feel “dis-regulated” and there is usually a desire to do something to get back to a sense of regulation.
In this presentation, I will offer practices that specifically support our ability to actively cultivate the capacity of our heart, mind, and body to have greater compassion, clarity, and peace. We can develop new neural pathways “changing” the habituated conversation between the regulatory systems in our bodies. We can enhance our capacity for self-regulation. We can cultivate the heart’s intelligence to connect more deeply to the qualities that are offered from the Ground of Being. We can fertilize the potential of these bodies to be more receptive conduits for the Absolute.
And importantly these days, we can also develop our capacity to stay in connection and relationship with others and our world. We can move the evolutionary field of consciousness to a greater level of genuine caring and love.
Renée Rosario, MA, LPC, is a transpersonal, body-centered psychotherapist in private practice in Boulder, CO. She utilizes the Enneagram, EMDR and Mindfulness practices along with other spiritual and traditional modalities in her therapy practice. She is a graduate of Naropa University.
Renée is an Enneagram teacher certified by Helen Palmer and David Daniels in the Narrative Tradition. She has facilitated workshops and classes for 11 years and was recently invited to join the EPTP training team.
Renée loves to teach and learn through the Narrative Tradition and her classes have spanned introductory workshops and subtype classes to classes on projection and creation through a quantum physics perspective.
WEAVING THE ENNEAEGRAM INTO HIGH-STAKES COLLABORATION TRAINING | The Agony
and the Ecstasy
SHARON RUDY, FRED BOYKIN, and JOAN RYAN
This session focuses on lessons and how-to's, based on using the Enneagram in the design and implementation of a series of multi-federal agency trainings in collaboration and negotiation. For the past ten years, a variety of federal agencies have been painfully learning to share resources and work together to manage the US response to global health crises such as HIV/AIDS, SARS, and other infectious diseases. Even though the stakes are high, getting along hasn't been easy as these federal agencies actually represent different corporate cultures. Think Peace Corps and Department of Defense.
Building on their years of experience delivering highly rated training, coaching, and organizational development, Sharon Rudy and Drew Lent, of the Global Health Fellows Program, assembled a team of Enneagram-trained people with expertise in psychology, business, negotiation, and communications to create training that uses the power of the Enneagram to assist the many different agency officials who must collaborate on a day-to-day basis to actualize global programs for the treatment and prevention of HIV-AIDS. The team included the co-presenters, as well as David Daniels, Curt Micka, and Jack Killen.
The session will included the challenges, learnings, and the evolution of these trainings over time and discuss the lessons learned about using Enneagram material in creative business applications depending on the audience and goals. The presentation will also include interactive activity that demonstrates the way we learned to use the material to teach collaboration and negotiation skills to a varied group, most of whom came to the trainings with no background in self-awareness, self-observation, or related skills as well as possessed open conflict and resentments. There will be time for discussion and questions.
Sharon Rudy is a Global Health Project Director who uses the Enneagram as a core learning approach with the State Department, USAID and CDC -- together. Sharon holds a PHD in Counseling and Organizational Consulting and is Enneagram-certified as well as board-certified in counseling and coaching.
Fred Boykin, MSW, LICSW is a clinical social worker who owns Counseling and Psychotherapy Services of Washington, DC. He has worked with clients with the Enneagram since 2002, teaching the Enneagram at a variety of venues. More recently, Fred has presented the Enneagram as a business tool to a number of governmental and private organizations, including Centra Incorporated, Emily’s List, USAID, State Department, and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC).
Joan Ryan, J.D. is an executive coach and trainer. She is a certified Narrative Tradition Enneagram teacher (1996), and an EPTP mentor/coach. She is the co-creator, with Santikaro, of Enneagram Thailand now in its 10th year. She is a Consulting Lecturer at Ramathibodi Hospital Medical School, Mahidol University, Thailand and its Institute for Contemplative Education. She is a founding Fellow of the Institute of Coaching Professional Association at McLean Hospital of Harvard Medical School. She is proud to be a member of the GHFP multi-party collaboration training team.
