David Daniels, MD

Conversations with David: Free audio downloads
Listen to interviews with David
See David's workshop schedule

David Daniels, MD, is the co-founder of the Enneagram Professional Training Program (EPTP), along with Helen Palmer. He is a clinical professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford Medical School and co-author of the newly updated Essential Enneagram. He also co-developed the outstanding videos, The Enneagram: Nine Paths to a Productive and Fulfilling Life and The Enneagram in the Workplace. In private practice for more than three decades, David has taught the Enneagram system at Stanford, in the community and internationally for 15 years. He brings his knowledge of the Enneagram to individuals, couples and groups, and to a wide range of applications in clinical practice and the workplace.

These applications include dream work, coaching, leadership styles and conflict resolution. He leads workshops and classes in personal and relationship development including the Enneagram and dreams, forgiveness, personal development, vital relationships, effective communications, the defense mechanisms and will as transformer.

In organizational development and workplace settings, David has expertise in teambuilding, participative management and decision-making, interpersonal skills (communication styles, giving and receiving feedback), leadership style and skills, self-management, negotiations and conflict resolution, change and risk management, learning styles, training strategies and coaching. His clients include AMIL Medical Services (Texas and Brazil), Apple Computer, CitiBank (Geneva), E-Myth Academy, Intuit, Kimpton Hotel Group, Proctor & Gamble, Peninsula Open Space Trust, Seville Realty Company, Varian Associates, Xerox, and Cox, Buchanan, Padmore & Shakarchy Law Firm.

David served as co-director of the First International Enneagram Conference at Stanford University in August 1994 and was a founding director of the International Enneagram Association (IEA).

Conversations with David Daniels

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Instinctual Subtypes: The Enneagram's Hidden Force
Audio series with David Daniels and Peter O'Hanrahan

Part 1 - Fundamentals (25 minutes)

Type 7 (51 minutes)

This life-enhancing 11-part series is available for purchase ($45/series or $7.50 for single programs). Learn more>

Awareness, Acceptance, Action and Adherence
Audio series with David Daniels and Terry Saracino

Learn a new approach for using the Enneagram effectively through the Universal Growth Process (UGP) in this free audio program with David and Terry Saracino. A powerful tool for personal growth, the UGP focuses on the 4As of Awareness, Acceptance, Action and Adherence.

Part 1 - Introduction (18 minutes)

Part 2 - Awareness (19 minutes)

Part 3 - Acceptance (17 minutes)

Part 4 - Action (17 minutes)

Part 5 - Adherence (15 minutes)

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Interviews with David Daniels

Listen to these pre-recorded radio shows about the Enneagram with David Daniels:

2012 recordings

The En*Theos Academy
The Enneagram's Gift to Vital Relationships: The Path to Transformation and Living Love
MP3 downloads from a five-week teleconference with David Daniels

2011 recordings

Align Shine and Prosper Radio
Essential Enneagram Guide to Self Discovery
hosted by Doreen Agostino, February 16, 2011

Achieve Radio
Conscious Healing
hosted by Sherry Anshara, September 22, 2010

VividLife Radio
Reporting Live from the Universe with David Daniels
hosted by Kristen White, August 17, 2010

BlogTalk Radio
The Essential Enneagram - The Definitive Personality Test and Self Discovery
hosted by Rev. Daya Devi-Doolin

VividLife Radio
The Essential Enneagram
hosted by Sharon Quirt, June 2, 2010

Smart Women Talk Radio
The Essential Enneagram
hosted by Katana Abbot, May 4, 2010

Healthy You Radio
New Year, New You – Using the Enneagram to Make Your Resolutions Reality
hosted by Keesha Ewers, January 2010
Part 1
Part 2

Read David Daniels’ monthly column
This educational column by Dr. Daniels is intended to answer questions about the Enneagram in personal development, relationships and life situations. These columns originally appeared in the Enneagram Monthly under the title, “The Touchstone Column.”

Listen to Dr. Daniels interview panels for each type in the Narrative Tradition on VoiceAmerica Internet radio.

Open to Hope: Inspirational Stories of Healing After Loss Edited by Dr. Gloria Horsley (an EPTP graduate) and Dr. Heidi Horsley, this comprehensive and moving collection of more than 100 stories of loss, faith and courage includes two articles written by Dr. David Daniels. All proceeds will benefit the Open to Hope Foundation.

Enneagram workshops with David Daniels

The Enneagram Intensive™
Our premier offering, this five-day course is open to the public as a stand-alone intensive and is Section 1 of the Enneagram Professional Training Program (EPTP). Dr. Daniels is a key faculty member of the Enneagram Intensive™, although faculty varies by location.

Deepening Spiritual Awareness and The Typing Process
This six-day course is Section 2 of the Enneagram Professional Training Program. Dr. Daniels is a key faculty member, although faculty varies by location.

2013 Schedule

Deepening Spiritual Awareness and the Typing Process
August 16-21
Menlo Park, CA
Week 2 of the Enneagram Professional Training Program with Helen Palmer, David Daniels, Peter O'Hanrahan and Marion Gilbert
Contact: Tracy Colina at 866-366-8973 (toll-free in the U.S.) or 513-829-3457 (from outside the U.S.)
44 CEUs

The Typing Process
August 19-21
Menlo Park, CA
Three-day professional training with David Daniels and Peter O'Hanrahan
Contact: Tracy Colina at 866-366-8973 (toll-free in the U.S.) or 513-829-3457 (from outside the U.S.)
22 CEUs

The Enneagram Intensive Weekend One
August 23-25
Detroit, MI
The first weekend in a two-part, non-residential format of the Enneagram Intensive with David Daniels. This format designed for commuters offers six days of trainings in two three-day sessions. The program will continue with Weekend Two on September 20-22.
Contact: Tracy Colina at 866-366-8973 to register or Ronda Diegel for logistics at 248-730-0597.
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The Enneagram for Therapists, Coaches and Spiritual Directors
Fall dates TBA
San Mateo, CA
10-class series every other Thursday morning with David Daniels, MD and Barbara Whiteside.
Contact: Barbara Whiteside at 650-533-9647.
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The Enneagram Intensive Weekend Two
September 20-22
Detroit, MI
The second weekend in a two-part, non-residential format of the Enneagram Intensive with David Daniels. This format designed for commuters offers six days of trainings in two three-day sessions. The program starts with Weekend One on August 23-25.
Contact: Tracy Colina at 866-366-8973 to register or Ronda Diegel for logistics at 248-730-0597.
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The Enneagram Intensive
October 25-31
Asheville, NC
A stand-alone workshop or Part 1 of the Enneagram Professional Training Program with David Daniels and Terry Saracino
Contact: Tracy Colina at 866-366-8973 (toll-free in the U.S.) or 513-829-3457 (from outside the U.S.)
42 CEUs

Love, Spirit and Relationships
November 9-10
Phoenix, AZ
Weekend workshop with David Daniels and Russ Hudson, sponsored by the Arizona Enneagram Association
Register online or call Diane Shevlin at 480-367-1998

See current schedule of all of our Enneagram classes in the Narrative Tradition>

Buy David Daniels’ books and DVDs