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Soaring to New Heights

Spring 2010
Palo Alto, CA
A three-part series with exceptional Enneagram teachers presented by Conexions

Join us for one, two or three of these special sessions with renowned Enneagram instructors, Terry Saracino, David Daniels and Peter O’Hanrahan

The Journey Inward
March 13
One-day workshop with Terry Saracino

The Enneagram's Gifts to Vital Relationships
April 23-24
Weekend workshop with David Daniels

Defenses, Dichotomies and Character Structure
May 15
One-day workshop with Peter O'Hanrahan

Location: Conexions Center, 1023 Corporation Way, Palo Alto, CA 94303

Prerequisite: You have basic Enneagram knowledge

Cost: $150 includes lunch; $240 for 2 workshops; $340 for 3

Discounts available for Conexions members and when registering for more than one workshop:
$135 for one workshop
$216 for two workshops
$306 for entire series

To register for any or all workshops, contact Samantha Schoenfeld at 650.938.9300 ext. 10.

The Journey Inward
Tips and Techniques for Working with your Type

Presenter: Terry Saracino
Schedule: 9:30 am to 5 pm, Saturday, March 13

This workshop will focus on how to use the wisdom of the Enneagram to support your journey inward. Touching on each center, we will explore both barriers and supports to the inner journey, addressing topics such as the role of self-observation, the barrier of the super-ego, limiting beliefs for each type and practices to increase presence. Through a variety of exercises, each participant will explore his or her habitual patterns to reveal more of the soul’s inner terrain. Teaching formats will include didactics, exercises, discussion and short panels. By the end of the day, you will have acquired additional tools to use in your daily life to help loosen type structure and clear the way toward deeper self-awareness.

The Enneagram's Gifts to Vital Relationships

Presenter: David Daniels
Schedule: 7 to 9:30 pm Friday, April 23 and 9:30 am to 5 pm Saturday, April 24

Our vital relationships are the foundation upon which we thrive or wither. What makes for healthy intimacy? How does our Enneagram type help and hinder our most important relationships? How can we deepen and heal these relationships?

This in-depth workshop explores the ways the Enneagram understandings of type can be applied powerfully to heal, develop and strengthen our vital relationships. It is designed for all who want to deepen and enhance their primary relationships whether these be partners, family members, close work associates, significant friendships or practitioners working with relationship issues.

For each type we will explore attentional patterns and their effect in relationships, key issues and vulnerabilities, personal reactivity and resentments, and specific tasks for personal development. The workshop will use brief talks, inner practices, panels in the Narrative Tradition of the types speaking for themselves, guided interactions in relationships, practical exercises and discussion.

• Further your understanding of the Enneagram system and its powerful practical applications in vital relationships
• Build your understanding and utilization of the Universal Growth Process (UGP) and the associated “4As” of Awareness, Acceptance, Action, and Adherence
• Deepen appreciation of differences among us based on the nine types
• Experience more fully your path of development and ability to love
• Enjoy the workshop!

Friday evening features an “Introduction to the Enneagram,” a pre-requisite for those with little or no knowledge of the Enneagram. This 2.5-hour program offers a fascinating and dynamic introductory experience and one that prepares participants for the weekend ahead. At the completion of the introduction you will be able to identify and evaluate your patterns of thought, feeling and behavior in relationships.

Defenses, Dichotomies and Character Structures

Presenter: Peter O’Hanrahan
Schedule: 9:30 am to 5 pm Saturday, May 15

Understanding our personality's defenses is a major key to our psychological health and our relationships. It is one of the main ways we can apply the intelligence of the Enneagram in daily life. We need some defenses to live in the world. The challenge is to make them flexible and efficient and not be taken over by them. Fortunately, the Enneagram provides us with a psychological tool that can be used to bring sharp awareness and the possibility of intervention to our defensive reactions, and open the door to deep personal and spiritual growth.

This workshop is oriented toward people who know the Enneagram well and want to spend a day exploring deep personal work on type. It will include lecture, discussion, interviews and breakout groups.