Relationships can run into trouble whenever there is a clash over values or a clash over styles. People in a relationship—whether it be personal, professional, or social—may enter conflict because they prioritize needs differently, causing frustration when we feel the other person doesn’t take our needs seriously. Or, they may agree on what is important but have different styles for meeting those needs.

These dynamics aren’t limited to just one-to-one relationships. They also affects teams and whole organizations, shaping group politics, power structures, and organizational effectiveness in general.

The Enneagram, properly understood, is a system of values (the three instinctual biases) and of styles (the nine Ennea-type strategies). Mario Sikora will share lessons learned from over 25 years of working with organizations and the leaders who guide them to help participants understand the impact of (primarily) the instinctual biases and the nine strategies on individual performance, coworker and team relationships, and the whole organization.

This program will explain how to understand the Enneagram through this lens and, more importantly, how to use this understanding to transform your professional relationships. Participants will be equipped with a deeper—yet simpler—understanding of the Enneagram in a way that they can apply to all their relationships, especially if they work in organizations. 

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In the context of long-term relational commitments we are beholden to the constrictive conditions that hold the potential for not only our most powerful shadow work but also our greatest individual and collective possibility – the birth of what G.I. Gurdjieff referred to as ‘Real I.’ Counter to the egoic drive to transcend our humanity in all of its glory and mess, the path of conscious love invites us to allow our heart to “break wide-open without resorting to despair, resentment or bitterness.”  Our Type structure, held in the mutual trust and safety of these relational exchanges, is made transparent, revealing the Type’s defensive structure as the veil of our greatest gifts.

Constriction or commitment—seemingly a narrow gate from one side—is discovered to be a gate that opens up to an abundance and authenticity that we’ve always longed for. We call forth the “other’s” essence in allowing them to love and accept us as we are (and vice-versa). In the end, only the giving itself matters. Our wings of flight are borne in and through our transfigured wounds held in love.

Drawing from his experience of this path and the Western esoteric roadmaps that inform it, Jonathan will offer a talk on the transformational potential lying at the heart of, and often within the very necessary coarseness of, committed partnerships.  

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Internal Family Systems (IFS) is an evidence-based model of the mind and its component “Parts” created by Dr Richard Schwartz. In recent years it has gained extensive use in therapy and in coaching. Parts are “sub-personalities” that hold both positive and negative aspects of our personality. Parts may be Managers which activate to shield vulnerable Exiles (often young wounded or traumatized Parts) from triggering; Firefighters which activate to quench the “flames” when an Exile is triggered; or other Managers that hold some of our strengths. In addition, the IFS concept of Self is closely aligned with the Enneagram concepts of Essence, which are available when Parts make space in the internal landscape.

Knowledge of the structure of each Enneagram Type provides individuals a road map to key Parts. IFS provides Enneagram-informed individuals methods of internal inquiry that can be helpful in loosening the unconscious, habitual patterns of Type.

In relationships, personal or professional, the mapping of Parts connected to Type is a powerful method of exploring challenges. Finding Parts in either partner that might be polarized against each other is particularly useful in resolving disputes.

The Narrative style of Enneagram teaching is a good fit with the IFS method where the Practitioner helps the person locate, communicate, and get into relationship with their Parts.

Portions of the material in this workshop was published in “All Together Us: Integrating IFS with Key Modalities, Communities and Trends” edited by Jenna Riemersma, published in August 2023. It has been presented to IFS Conferences as well as to the IEA conference in 2023.

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Workshop Description

To mature and evolve as a human being it is imperative to work towards awareness, acceptance, and integration of every aspect of the self, including looking at topics that are taboo in our society. Sexuality is one of these topics! Many of us are unaware of the role of sexuality in our lives, and often lack the tools to talk about it—but it impacts us every day, even if we don’t realize it.

When we embrace who we are sexually, we obtain the capacity to accept who we are holistically. It’s the courage to understand that every part of ourselves, even the parts we hide, are important on the path to greater self-awareness.

Human sexuality is fundamental to life. It is a universal part of our humanity, yet there are few tools that incorporate or even acknowledge sexuality as an aspect of our psycho-spiritual development. At its core, the Enneagram is a sacred tool used to cultivate wholeness and union; as such, it is imperative that we look at sexuality as part of our psycho-spiritual development.

When we start to look at sexuality as a part of this development, we can understand the role the Nine Enneagram Types (and instinctual biases) play in sexuality. This results in more compassion for the self. 

We hope you will join us for this workshop with Lyndsey Fraser, MFT, as we explore how understanding our sexuality in relation to the Enneagram has a significant impact on our self-awareness and growth. The focus will be on the Enneagram Types and Sexuality with an interactive element for participants.

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 Event Description coming soon!

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