The Enneagram and Mindfulness

February 15-18, 2008
Scottsdale, AZ

A weekend workshop with David Daniels, MD, Santikaro and Carole Whitaker, PhD
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The Enneagram is a profound spiritual/psychological system based on nine fundamental ways that attention and energy are organized. The resulting nine habitual patterns keep us caught in repetitive and limited ways of thinking, feeling and sensing. Understanding our Enneagram type helps in freeing attention and energy from our habitual patterns.

Mindfulness is the human capacity to pay attention and be fully aware of life as it unfolds within and around us. Ways of cultivating mindfulness are as diverse as the activities of our lives, including being present to breathing, physical movement, emotion and the personality habits of attention, thinking and feeling. Observed in nonjudgmental awareness, these habitual processes begin to relax and unravel, opening awareness to higher potentials and deeper spiritual understanding.

Each morning of the workshop will be a “mini-retreat” of Mindfulness practice, with instructions in sitting and movement meditation. The rest of each day, we will explore the path of development for each of the Enneagram types, emphasizing inner reflection, type specific exercises, panel work and specific practices as antidotes. Participants will be encouraged to keep silence throughout the retreat outside of the time for formal Enneagram process work.

Participants should have at least a basic understanding of the Enneagram to participate in this program. Wear loose-fitting clothing and comfortable shoes. Please bring a sitting cushion if you use one. Chairs also will be available.

Schedule: 3 pm Friday, February 15 through 3 pm Monday, February 18

Fee per person: $525/double occupancy for three nights accommodations at the Franciscan Renewal Center; $450 commuter (Fee includes all meals and refreshments)

Location: Franciscan Renewal Center, 5802 E. Lincoln Drive, Scottsdale, AZ 85253

The Center is located on 23 acres of beautiful desert land. There are walking paths, a healing garden, labyrinth, meditation chapel and whirlpool available for your use. All sleeping rooms have private baths. Take a virtual tour.

Continuing Education Credits: 26 CEU hours available through the California Board of Behavioral Sciences

Instructors:

David Daniels, M.D., a leading developer of the Enneagram, is clinical professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford Medical School. Dr. Daniels maintained a private psychiatric practice in Palo Alto for more than 30 years and is a long-time teacher of the Enneagram. Together with Helen Palmer, he pioneered the Enneagram Professional Training Program. Since 1988, Dr. Daniels has trained well over one thousand professionals in the use of the Enneagram through this intensive training program designed to bring high-quality Enneagram knowledge to individuals working in fields ranging from business to psychology

Santikaro was ordained as a Theravada Buddhist monk in Thailand in 1985 after having served there with the Peace Corps. He led meditation retreats for many years and served as the abbot of a monastery before returning to the U.S. in 2001. In 2004, he retired from formal monastic life but continues to teach in the Buddhist tradition with an emphasis on the early Pali sources. He is the founder of Liberation Park, a modern American expression of Buddhist practice, study, and social responsibility within community. Santikaro is also an Enneagram teacher who trained with Helen Palmer and David Daniels.

Carole Whittaker, PhD is certified as an Enneagram teacher in the Narrative Tradition with Helen Palmer and David Daniels. She is the coordinator for the Enneagram curriculum at the Franciscan Renewal Center and teaches classes in Christian spirituality and contemplative prayer as well as the Enneagram.

Download a brochure and registration form