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SOMATIC WORK AND THE ENNEAGRAM
by Peter O'Hanrahan

One of the great virtues of the Enneagram system is its holistic view of people and personality type. We have three centers of perception and intelligence: intellectual, emotional and physical/instinctual.

George I. Gurdjieff, who brought the Enneagram to the West, developed an early holistic curriculum in his “Fourth Way” school, with methods based not just on the first way (of the body), or the second way (of the heart), or even the third way (of the mind) but all of them together. He combined sacred music and dance, teaching stories and physical tasks with awareness practice while describing people as “three-brained beings.” In this way he foreshadowed modern research into the Triune Brain – brain stem, limbic system and neo-cortex. There have been many other pioneering holistic teachers, people like Rudolf Steiner, Maria Montessori, Ida Rolf, Wilhelm Reich and Carl Jung. But it wasn’t until the 1960s and 70s that the emerging holistic movement began to impact mainstream medicine and psychology.

We most often begin our study of the Enneagram from a cognitive perspective. This makes sense given that the process of self-awareness and self-understanding begins as an intellectual function. Yet the work must address the passion/emotion of our type and our instinctual subtype as well. However much we value logic and rational thinking, most of the world, much of our daily lives, runs on instinct and emotion. Certainly these two “lower” centers have had a much longer course of development, through millennia of human evolution, than our more recently arrived “top brain.”
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Enneagram Programs - Spring 2008

The Enneagram for Therapists, Counselors, Coaches and Guides  is scheduled for May 1-6 at the Vallombrosa Center in Menlo Park, CA. See photo tour. 
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March – June events:

Exploring Subtypes in Relationships  
March 8, 2008
Conexions Center
Palo Alto, CA
A one-day workshop with Terry Saracino

The Enneagram Instinctual Subtypes – 27 Paths in Life
March 15, 2008
Grass Valley, CA
One-day with Peter O'Hanrahan

Weekly Panel Series: Inner Work, Outer Work
March 26 – May 28, 2008
Berkeley, CA
Nine week panel series with Helen Palmer, Sharon Berbower and Peter O'Hanrahan, leading three panels each on Wednesday nights, except April 30

Exploring the Subtypes in Relationship
March 29-30, 2008
Toronto, Canada
Weekend workshop with David Daniels

Introduction to the Enneagram
April 5, 2008
Denver, CO
One-day workshop with Terry Saracino

A Spiritual Strategy for People in Relationships
April 5-6, 2008
Detroit, MI
A weekend workshop with Helen Palmer

Embodied Enneagram Workshop
April 12-13, 2008
Berkeley, CA
Weekend workshop with Peter O'Hanrahan and Marion Gilbert

The Enneagram for Therapists, Counselors, Coaches and Guides
May 1-6, 2008
Menlo Park, CA
Five-day advanced training with David Daniels, Terry Saracino and Marion Gilbert
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Presence and the Nine Spiritual Antidotes
June 1-4, 2008
Assisi, Italy
European Spiritual Enneagram Retreat with Helen Palmer.
This four-day retreat follows Richard Rohr's May 30 program on the Enneagram and Paradox.

AET annual conference
June 19-22, 2008
Asilomar, CA

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