Enneagram Teachers in the Western U.S.

This page includes listings of affiliates and associates of Enneagram Worldwide, all certified teachers in the Palmer-Daniels Enneagram Professional Training Program.

Arizona
California
Colorado
Oregon

ARIZONA

Scottsdale

Carole Whittaker, PhD, 480-502-4446, Franciscan Renewal Center
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Carole is coordinator of the Enneagram curriculum at the Franciscan Renewal Center in Scottsdale, including introductory classes, workshops with key teachers including Helen Palmer, David Daniels and Peter O'Hanrahan, and ongoing work in small groups with local teachers. All classes are taught in the Narrative Tradition and use a variety of exercises and practices designed to help participants develop their capacity for self-observation.

Carole also teaches the Enneagram to independent groups and trains EPTP certified teachers to teach Helen Palmer's series of follow-up classes on the barriers to spiritual freedom. She holds a doctorate in physical chemistry from UCLA and teaches other programs at the Franciscan Renewal Center on contemplative prayer, Christian doctrine and spirituality.

Sedona

Robin Cameron,  928-300-6144
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Trained as a spiritual director with a strong background in scripture and 12-step spirituality, Robin began integrating the Enneagram into her teaching and spiritual direction in 2000. Because of her regard for the Narrative Tradition, she certified with EPTP in 2006 and attended the Enneagram for Therapists, Counselors, Coaches and Guides advanced training in 2007. Transformation on all levels is her passion – individually, in personal and work relationships, and in community. To that end she teaches the Enneagram as a powerful tool for change.

With a background first as an Episcopalian and now Roman Catholic, Robin has a strong respect for all people on a spiritual quest. She teaches the Enneagram in workshop, retreat and follow-on settings, utilizing both interviews and panels in the process. The Enneagram is integral to her daily life and spiritual practice.

CALIFORNIA

Grass Valley

Nancy Anderson, 530-273-3340, Yuba River Enneagram Community
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Nancy has worked with the Enneagram since 1988 and completed her Enneagram Professional Training Program teacher certification in 2000. She teaches introductory and continuation level classes and workshops in Grass Valley and Nevada City through the Yuba River Enneagram Community as well as the San Francisco Bay Area. Nancy offers personality typing sessions to help individuals determine their Enneagram type and private sessions for a deeper exploration of type.
For three years Nancy served on the board of directors of the Association of Enneagram Teachers in the Narrative Tradition, an international organization that includes teachers from 18 countries. Nancy has followed a meditation practice for many years and has a special interest in the relationship between the Enneagram and spiritual growth.

Marion Gilbert, RPT, 530-274-2320, Yuba River Enneagram Community
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Marion has been practicing physical therapy for 27 years and is the co-owner of Spring Hill Physical Therapy and Acupuncture Center in Grass Valley, CA. She has continued her career with extensive training in CranioSacral Therapy, Somato-Emotional Release and Trauma Resolution.
Marion has applied the Enneagram personally and professionally for the past seven years. She teaches Enneagram classes in Grass Valley and Nevada City through the Yuba River Enneagram Community. Her emphasis is on integrating her vast somatic experience as an avenue of personal transformation according to the Enneagram tradition.

Mill Valley

Joni Harris Minault, MBA, 415-380-8388, SeeChange Partners
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Joni is a management consultant with more than 20 years of corporate experience. She is certified in applying and delivering How to Use the Enneagram for Success in the Workplace (Ginger Lapid-Bogda), as a practitioner of Radical Collaboration, an interest-based problem solving approach to conflict resolution (Jim Tamm and Ron Luyet), and as a mediator.

Joni and Jane Tight founded SeeChange Partners to address the needs of corporate clients seeking positive change in their interpersonal, team, leadership and conflict resolution skills. They use the Enneagram as the fundamental tool to help clients increase self-awareness, which leads to better relationships, which result in business success.

Menlo Park

Jane Tight, MS, 650-327-5679, SeeChange Partners
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Jane is an executive and life coach. She is the founder of Jane Tight Coaching and co-founder with Joni Harris Minault of SeeChange Partners. Jane believes that her clients are already experts on their lives and are looking for focus, change, clarification, direction or accountability to move forward in the life they want to live. She uses the Enneagram to help individuals increase their emotional intelligence through self-observation and become aware of the impact they are having on others. Then the process of transforming a person or a company can occur.

Jane works with individuals and groups in private and corporate venues. Her diverse client mix includes CEOs, lawyers, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and women-in-transition. Her corporate clients have been wealth management, biotechnology, office relocation, mineral investments and technology. Jane is a frequent public speaker and provides workshops, panels and off-site trainings for groups such as YPO (Young President’s Organization), Junior League, Menlo School and the Northern California International Enneagram Association.

Mt. Shasta

Carl Marsak, MA, 530-926-5750, Enneagram Center of Mt. Shasta
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Carl is a teacher, counselor and writer who has studied and practiced the Enneagram since 1993 and has taught workshops since 1999. He has graduate degrees in Religious Studies (NYU) and Social and Cultural Anthropology (CIIS). In 2003 he founded The Enneagram Center of Mt. Shasta, creating a place where spiritual tradition and modern psychology can meet and weave together their respective insights and gifts.

Carl has written several articles for the Enneagram Monthly, been a speaker at IEA Conferences and leads Enneagram events in the Narrative Tradition in Northern California, nationally and abroad. He focuses on the Holy Ideas and spiritual transformation, relationship issues and interpersonal communication, and introductory workshops. Carl also is available for typing interviews and spiritual counseling. His approach to the Enneagram comes from years of living in the Findhorn Community in Scotland, traveling and doing spiritual practices in India, psychotherapeutic experience, and a deep commitment to personal growth and collective change.

Palo Alto

Jane Kroll, 408-739-2729, Conexions
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Jane has led workshops and seminars on psychological and spiritual growth processes for more than 25 years. She is a Typing Supervisor for the EPTP and heads an Enneagram Studies Team of four certified teachers at the Foundation for Global Community in Palo Alto, CA, which offers a weekly panel series, other Enneagram workshops and typing sessions.

Jane has taught beginning and continuation-level Enneagram courses in the San Francisco Bay Area, nationally, and in Canada. She sees the Enneagram as an extraordinary tool for personal and spiritual growth, and a considerable ally to our Inner Observer as we begin observing our mostly unconscious behaviors and allowing the processes of transformation to occur.

Richmond

Peter O’Hanrahan, 510-841-8202, www.enneagramwork.com
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Peter has been an Enneagram teacher for the past 24 years and has created numerous programs and applications of the system for both business and psychology. He regularly teaches workshops on the basic Enneagram, instinctual subtypes and the somatic Enneagram in Northern California and other locations around the world.

Peter has presented the Enneagram in the workplace since 1994, with a focus on communication skills and leadership development. His clients include computer companies, public agencies, small businesses and non-profits. He and Susan Forster co-authored Transformational Leadership, a handbook for the Enneagram in the workplace. He has presented the Enneagram at local and national organizational development conferences.
A counselor and group leader since 1971, Peter was the director of several mental health centers, including the Center for Human Growth in Berkeley, site of many of the first public Enneagram classes in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Currently he is an associate trainer and the director of the Enneagram Professional Training Program (EPTP). He is a founding board member of the Association of Enneagram Teachers in the Narrative Tradition.

San Carlos

Matt Ahrens, MBA, 650-610-9690, Solution Points
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Matt uses the Enneagram to help clients – individuals and organizations – breakthrough the status quo to achieve a greater sense of fulfillment and success. Clients immediately increase their self-awareness through seeing clearly how their Enneagram type shows up in all aspects of their professional and personal lives. Growing this awareness and developing the skillful means to effectively work through these patterns of behavior is truly transformative. Clients improve their self-management and their ability to relate to and communicate with all sorts of people in every circumstance. In short, clients develop emotional intelligence which is the greatest indicator of future success.

Matt is an executive coach, organizational development consultant and mediator who also offers public workshops, off-site workshops, retreats, and public speaking on the Enneagram, leadership development, coaching and other topics. Matt has worked with Genentech, Hewlett Packard, Intuit and Levi Strauss & Company. Matt is the president of the Association of Enneagram Teachers in the Narrative Tradition.

San Anselmo

Polly Cherner
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Polly Cherner has been immersed in the study of the Enneagram for the last five years. She certified in 2005 with the Enneagram Professional Training Program, founded by Helen Palmer and Dr. David Daniels. She currently leads Enneagram Panel Evenings one Saturday evening a month, conducts beginning classes and study groups throughout the year, and holds individual Enneagram conversations with folks interested in discovering where they fall in this insightful system. She and her husband Randy, live in San Anselmo, CA, where they have raised three sons.

San Francisco

Beatrice Chestnut, PhD, MFT, 415-225-2659
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Beatrice uses her knowledge of the Enneagram with her psychotherapy clients, in the groups she leads and with teams in business settings. Bea has taught at Northwestern University and the California Institute of Integral Studies, and facilitates interpersonal learning groups at the Stanford’s Graduate School of Business and the University of San Francisco School of Law. 



Bea was certified to teach the EPTP in 1997, completed Ginger Lapid-Bogda’s “Train-the-Trainer’s Enneagram training program in 2005, and currently assists Ginger with the teaching of this program. Bea is the president-elect of the International Enneagram Association and served as the IEA’s conference chair in 2005. She is writing a book on the psychological dimension of the Enneagram.

JoAnne Tybinka, 415-928-5094, Business Dialogue Inc.
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JoAnne is president of Business Dialogue Inc., a 20-year-old training and development firm that specializes in communication skills development and team building. Business Dialogue’s flagship products include People-to-People Skills and The Art of Personality. JoAnne designed these products and was the leader of the project teams that developed them.

JoAnne has worked with the Enneagram since 1992. She collaborates yearly with two colleagues, Carrie Aginsky and Steve Smith, to offer a six-month online study of the Enneagram of Holy Ideas. This study is followed by a weekend retreat in the Narrative Tradition that includes ritual, music, poetry and dance. JoAnne believes that opening all the senses allows us to experience our unique essence and participate fully with others.

Sausalito

Karin Scholz Grace, MS, 415-331-9950
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Karin offers Enneagram workshops, and private typing and coaching sessions in Marin County through Marin Healing Arts. She brings a rich somatic perspective to the Enneagram, and her teachings use a variety of exercises and practices to help participants become insightful self-observers and skillful communicators. Karin also brings her knowledge of the Enneagram into her private practice of somatic therapy, using touch and movement to help clients become more balanced, flexible and creative in their responses in daily life.

Karin is trained in dance, movement, anatomy, physiology, kinesiology, acupressure and herbalism, and in somatic therapy in the tradition of Thomas Hanna. She is certified in Enneagram for Business (with Ginger Lapid-Bogda), and in Radical Collaboration, a conflict resolution technique emphasizing self-awareness (with Jim Tamm and Ron Luyet). Karin pursues her own spiritual journey through her Enneagram work and as a student of the Diamond Approach.

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COLORADO

Boulder

Renée Rosario, MA, LPC, 303-443-9055, www.Enneasight.com
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Renée 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 seven years. She 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.  Renée is intensely curious about the workings of the mind and body to discover the seeds of health present in unconscious mechanisms. She also is a Mindfulness Instructor at Naropa University and a Peacemaker trained in contemplative social action and peacemaking through the Colorado Peacemaker Institute.

Denver

Terry Saracino, MA, MBA, 650-854-7234
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Terry has taught the Enneagram since 1989, bringing it to individuals and organizations throughout the country and internationally as a tool for personal, professional and spiritual growth. Terry founded The Enneagram Center in Denver, where she created a variety of innovative classes for both beginning and advanced students, facilitated type and study groups, and counseled individuals. Her work at the Center included introducing the Enneagram to therapists and facilitating therapist support groups. She also used the Enneagram in coaching and team-building programs for corporations and nonprofit organizations.

Terry 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.

Terry was a founding board member of the Association of Enneagram Teachers in the Narrative Tradition (AETNT), chaired its first conference and served as part of the Association leadership for several years. She has presented her work at numerous Enneagram conferences.
She has for many years pursued her own spiritual journey through her Enneagram work and as a student of the Ridhwan School (Diamond Approach®), founded by Hameed Ali. She also has taken courses from a number of other Enneagram teachers.

When she first learned the Enneagram in 1989, she knew instantly that she had found her life’s work, and her passion for this work has never waned.

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OREGON

Portland

Dale Rhodes, MS, MA, 503-295-4481, Enneagram Portland
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Dale is a professional mentor and spiritual director. He received an MS in Human Services Administration from Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies, an MA in Spiritual Traditions and Ethics from Marylhurst University, and a Certificate in Spiritual Direction from Mercy Center for Contemporary Spirituality. Dale’s consulting work with organizations is supported by extensive experience in teaching and nonprofit business management. He is a skillful and compassionate mentor for individuals seeking spiritual direction and guidance.

Dale facilitates Enneagram Portland, skillfully interweaving psychology, professional experience and spirituality in their work. They provide public classes, workshops and retreats, and also consult in business and treatment settings.

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