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Introduction to the Enneagram: Understanding the Nine Types
This course identifies the psychological and emotional structure of each Type, describes their path of
integration and disintegration, and identifies the specific differences between Types. The Enneagram
precisely shows how each Type has a unique journey to their transformation and alleviation of addiction
behaviors and habits of suffering. Each struggles with a core misunderstanding that keeps them stuck
in their attempts to change, in spite of vast knowledge and a willingness to change.Ultimately change
requires a strong sense of “presence”, the capacity to see one's mental and emotional habits with an
objective and compassionate eye, and the ability to sense that what one seeks does not come through
fixing or changing the personality. The Enneagram is the map to this deep presence.
The Enneagram of Transformation and Relapse Prevention:
An Introductory Course for Addiction, Mental Health, and Health Care Counselors.
This course proves an introduction to the Enneagram, the issues and gifts of the Nine Types, and the
foundation for assisting the Nine Types in their quest for freedom from addictive suffering and emotional
and addiction relapse. The Enneagram identifies the key emotional psychological fixation that keeps
individuals stuck in repetitious suffering patterns, be it through their addictions to certain unwavering
behaviors, or to addictive substances or habits. Understanding the Enneagram provides an individual
with the needed compassion and insight necessary for transformation and liberation from these
impervious habits.
The Enneagram of Transformation and Relapse Prevention—
Understanding the Path of Emotional and Addiction Relapse in the Nine Types.
This two-course provides advanced material designed to help clinicians more deeply support
individual's attempting to help clients change patterns of suffering and addiction. Experiential
components of the course allow participants to embody the learning in an impacting manner. Through
this workshop individuals will develop the capacity for more "presence", and for developing compassion
for self and others via understanding the psychological predicament each Type has inherited. By
understanding more clearly one's Type strength and weakness, a clearer sense of how to assist others
will evolve.
The Enneagram of Midlife Crisis—Avoiding Emotional
and Addiction Relapse in the Midst of Spiritual and Psychological Difficulty.
It is unquestionable that individuals entering their mid-forties and fifties begin to experience a profound
psychological “emptiness”and “disorientation” that if misunderstood, easily leads them back to relapse
of all kinds, be it to their drug of choice, or to negative habits of reactivity and emotional suffering that
they felt they had rid themselves of. This workshop is designed to assist individuals in understanding
and navigating this major turning point phase, and to transform it into a precious resurrection of their
spiritual and psychological purpose.
The Enneagram of Genuine Change—Exploring the psycho-spiritual
changes in the Nine Types of Men in Psychological and Addiction Recovery.
Vast inaccuracies exist regarding the cycles of change for men navigating sobriety or engaged in
psychological and spiritual transformation.What is little understood is that as men experience inner
growth,they inadvertently lay the foundation for more difficult encounters with deeper constricted
patterns of suffering. As they engage this deeper material whether it be fear, shame, or rage, they often
mistake these encounters with failure. Without clear understanding of the nature, they get discouraged
and relapse, or begin to act out addictive self-destruction habits they thought had vanished. The
workshop is designed to provide accurate and useful knowledge of the true nature of change and how
to more effectively move through these pivotal times. It addition, greater understanding is provided
regarding genuine mechanisms of change, and how “presence”creates the true ground for permanent
change to arise from within.
Authorized Enneagram Workshops
Michael Naylor is an Authorized Enneagram Institute trainer.
He teaches four Enneagram Institute Authorized Workshops:
The Wisdom of the Enneagram Workshop
Moving Beyond Personality
and Optional Introductory Talk on the Enneagram
Most of us encounter the Enneagram as a useful system of personality types. We find it fascinating to
see ourselves and others through the insights that the Enneagram offers. But at a certain point, we
begin to see that the characteristics described in Enneagram books reflect only part of the picture.
At a deeper level, however, the Enneagram tells us about the relationship between our personality and
our Essence, or spirit. This Workshop will focus on exercises to help us see through the veils of our
personality structures to have a more direct experience of our Essence, our true spiritual nature. We will
look at the personality types as nine distinct aspects of human nature that can be found in all of us
regardless of our type. We will see how these different parts of ourselves manifest personally in our
lives, and how, rightly understood they can lead us to deeper inner resources and lasting joy.
This Workshop will feature exercises for each type, as well as music, meditations, and practices that will
help bring our Centers of intelligence (Thinking, feeling, and Instinct) into greater alignment, thus
opening us to the transformative action of Spirit. We will focus primarily on the spiritual gifts of each
type. If you are interested in finding more effective ways of using the Enneagram in your spiritual
practice, or if you are interested in exploring the underlying meaning and Wisdom of the Enneagram,
this Workshop will be highly relevant to you.
Enneagram Relationships Workshop
Intimate and Professional
Relationships are one of the most rewarding—as well as the most frustrating aspects of our existence.
Whether in intimate or work settings, the quality of our relationships has an enormous impact on the
quality of our lives, on our self-esteem, and on our careers. Yet, we often find the behavior of others
baffling—even if we have known them intimately for many years. Often, the very things that we do not
understand in others are the greatest sources of problems and conflicts in our relationships. Clearly,
the better we know ourselves and the people in our lives, the more harmonious and satisfying our
relationships will be.
The Enneagram can help us tremendously in understanding our relationships. It is a remarkable system
of nine basic personality types that sheds light on the most important psychological dynamics in our
personality, as well as on the deeper spiritual yearnings of our soul. Each type has its own set of
strengths, vulnerabilities, and perceptions of the world. The Enneagram can help us to realize who we
are and what our greatest potentials might be, as well as to make sense of the sometimes confusing
behavior of others.
Participants will be guided to use the Enneagram as a profound and immensely practical way to
understand their relationships with others, both intimate and professional. Particular dynamics between
the different types, effective methods for communicating with each type, and the ways in which the three
Instinctual Variants (Subtypes) affect our main motivations in relationships will be covered.
The Three Instincts (Subtypes) Workshop
Using the Enneagram to Create Balance
in your Life and Harmony in your Relationships
Our instinctual nature, while extremely powerful in our decision-making processes, lifestyle choices, and
orientation to day-to-day reality, is often given little emphasis in many spiritual paths, and the Instincts
are often treated as an inherent problem—a distortion to be eliminated. This is understandable since
this part of our nature is usually little interested in our spiritual or psychological development. Yet,
without a clear and viable relationship with this aspect of our souls, it is extremely difficult to maintain an
integrated approach to our path.
The Enneagram deals very directly with this aspect of the Self through teachings about the Three
Instincts—Self-Preservation, Sexual (Attraction), and Social (Adaptation). Seminal ideas about the three
Instincts go back at least as far as Gurdjieff's teachings about the Centers and have equivalents in
other spiritual traditions. In recent years, many Enneagram students have discovered the explanatory
power of seeing how their instinctual bias operates in combination with their dominant Enneagram type.
Learning how their type plays itself out through one of these Instincts can be as exciting as when we
first learn about the Enneagram.
In this Workshop, we will first clarify and deepen our understanding of the Instincts, seeing them at work
in our personal experience. We will also examine how our particular instinctual "stack"—the way we
prioritize our basic human needs and values—is the pattern that most keeps us locked in the repetitive
habits of our personality. (One of the quickest ways to unlock the Passion and Fixation of our type is to
understand and work on the imbalance in our Instincts.) Recognizing the way we give energy to certain
needs while neglecting others brings balance and helps us integrate the deeper experiences of
Essence and Being that we may have had. Without such Inner Work, even profound experiences of
Spirit and Oneness cannot affect our lives the way they could.
The Workshop will employ personal teaching by Russ Hudson, experiential dyads and triads,
meditation, movement work, and music to help participants recognize the ways that these patterns
express themselves in their lives. We will also explore concrete ways in which to bring greater balance in
our approach to our instinctual life. Our approach is relaxed and conversational, with an emphasis on
the development of our capacity to remain in Presence.
The Levels of Development Workshop
The Levels Workshop explores how the Levels of Development provide a vertical dimension to the
personality types, making clear the "inner logic" of each type and revealing how the various traits and
motivations that comprise each type form an interrelated whole. At their most profound, the Levels are
the measure of each person's degree of fixation within his or her own type, that is, the degree with
which they are able to be Present vs. being swept away by past conditioning, reactivity, and defenses.
Working with the Levels not only provides recognition for where we are in our journey of growth, but
also guides us toward greater health and transformation.
The Levels were discovered by Don Riso in 1977 and subsequently further developed with Russ
Hudson. The Levels provide a way of tracking each type's movement along a continuum toward more
freedom, consciousness, expansiveness, and Being in the higher Levels—or toward more reactivity,
mechanicality, and self-destructiveness in the lower ones. By introducing this "vertical axis" to the types,
the Levels explain some of the most important things that we find in human nature—fluidity and change,
resistance and conflict, freedom and compulsion—among many human qualities.
In this Workshop, we will teach the meaning of all nine Levels, and how people "move" from one Level to
another, along with other complex movements predicted by the Enneagram. We will also see some of
the main characteristics of each type along the nine Levels. Exercises, music, and meditation will be
used as a way of grounding the information in our personal experience and to deepen our
understanding. This Workshop is particularly valuable for more advanced students, including therapists
and those who wish to make practical applications of the Enneagram.
The Levels of Development innovation is the only Enneagram work to be specifically endorsed by Ken
Wilber, who has stated that only with this vertical dimension taken into account, does the Enneagram
system move toward being a complete psychology. Don Riso and Russ Hudson are the only Enneagram
authors to write and teach about the Levels, thus giving their work an extraordinary explanatory power
and making a wide range of practical applications possible.
This course identifies the psychological and emotional structure of each Type, describes their path of
integration and disintegration, and identifies the specific differences between Types. The Enneagram
precisely shows how each Type has a unique journey to their transformation and alleviation of addiction
behaviors and habits of suffering. Each struggles with a core misunderstanding that keeps them stuck
in their attempts to change, in spite of vast knowledge and a willingness to change.Ultimately change
requires a strong sense of “presence”, the capacity to see one's mental and emotional habits with an
objective and compassionate eye, and the ability to sense that what one seeks does not come through
fixing or changing the personality. The Enneagram is the map to this deep presence.
The Enneagram of Transformation and Relapse Prevention:
An Introductory Course for Addiction, Mental Health, and Health Care Counselors.
This course proves an introduction to the Enneagram, the issues and gifts of the Nine Types, and the
foundation for assisting the Nine Types in their quest for freedom from addictive suffering and emotional
and addiction relapse. The Enneagram identifies the key emotional psychological fixation that keeps
individuals stuck in repetitious suffering patterns, be it through their addictions to certain unwavering
behaviors, or to addictive substances or habits. Understanding the Enneagram provides an individual
with the needed compassion and insight necessary for transformation and liberation from these
impervious habits.
The Enneagram of Transformation and Relapse Prevention—
Understanding the Path of Emotional and Addiction Relapse in the Nine Types.
This two-course provides advanced material designed to help clinicians more deeply support
individual's attempting to help clients change patterns of suffering and addiction. Experiential
components of the course allow participants to embody the learning in an impacting manner. Through
this workshop individuals will develop the capacity for more "presence", and for developing compassion
for self and others via understanding the psychological predicament each Type has inherited. By
understanding more clearly one's Type strength and weakness, a clearer sense of how to assist others
will evolve.
The Enneagram of Midlife Crisis—Avoiding Emotional
and Addiction Relapse in the Midst of Spiritual and Psychological Difficulty.
It is unquestionable that individuals entering their mid-forties and fifties begin to experience a profound
psychological “emptiness”and “disorientation” that if misunderstood, easily leads them back to relapse
of all kinds, be it to their drug of choice, or to negative habits of reactivity and emotional suffering that
they felt they had rid themselves of. This workshop is designed to assist individuals in understanding
and navigating this major turning point phase, and to transform it into a precious resurrection of their
spiritual and psychological purpose.
The Enneagram of Genuine Change—Exploring the psycho-spiritual
changes in the Nine Types of Men in Psychological and Addiction Recovery.
Vast inaccuracies exist regarding the cycles of change for men navigating sobriety or engaged in
psychological and spiritual transformation.What is little understood is that as men experience inner
growth,they inadvertently lay the foundation for more difficult encounters with deeper constricted
patterns of suffering. As they engage this deeper material whether it be fear, shame, or rage, they often
mistake these encounters with failure. Without clear understanding of the nature, they get discouraged
and relapse, or begin to act out addictive self-destruction habits they thought had vanished. The
workshop is designed to provide accurate and useful knowledge of the true nature of change and how
to more effectively move through these pivotal times. It addition, greater understanding is provided
regarding genuine mechanisms of change, and how “presence”creates the true ground for permanent
change to arise from within.
Authorized Enneagram Workshops
Michael Naylor is an Authorized Enneagram Institute trainer.
He teaches four Enneagram Institute Authorized Workshops:
The Wisdom of the Enneagram Workshop
Moving Beyond Personality
and Optional Introductory Talk on the Enneagram
Most of us encounter the Enneagram as a useful system of personality types. We find it fascinating to
see ourselves and others through the insights that the Enneagram offers. But at a certain point, we
begin to see that the characteristics described in Enneagram books reflect only part of the picture.
At a deeper level, however, the Enneagram tells us about the relationship between our personality and
our Essence, or spirit. This Workshop will focus on exercises to help us see through the veils of our
personality structures to have a more direct experience of our Essence, our true spiritual nature. We will
look at the personality types as nine distinct aspects of human nature that can be found in all of us
regardless of our type. We will see how these different parts of ourselves manifest personally in our
lives, and how, rightly understood they can lead us to deeper inner resources and lasting joy.
This Workshop will feature exercises for each type, as well as music, meditations, and practices that will
help bring our Centers of intelligence (Thinking, feeling, and Instinct) into greater alignment, thus
opening us to the transformative action of Spirit. We will focus primarily on the spiritual gifts of each
type. If you are interested in finding more effective ways of using the Enneagram in your spiritual
practice, or if you are interested in exploring the underlying meaning and Wisdom of the Enneagram,
this Workshop will be highly relevant to you.
Enneagram Relationships Workshop
Intimate and Professional
Relationships are one of the most rewarding—as well as the most frustrating aspects of our existence.
Whether in intimate or work settings, the quality of our relationships has an enormous impact on the
quality of our lives, on our self-esteem, and on our careers. Yet, we often find the behavior of others
baffling—even if we have known them intimately for many years. Often, the very things that we do not
understand in others are the greatest sources of problems and conflicts in our relationships. Clearly,
the better we know ourselves and the people in our lives, the more harmonious and satisfying our
relationships will be.
The Enneagram can help us tremendously in understanding our relationships. It is a remarkable system
of nine basic personality types that sheds light on the most important psychological dynamics in our
personality, as well as on the deeper spiritual yearnings of our soul. Each type has its own set of
strengths, vulnerabilities, and perceptions of the world. The Enneagram can help us to realize who we
are and what our greatest potentials might be, as well as to make sense of the sometimes confusing
behavior of others.
Participants will be guided to use the Enneagram as a profound and immensely practical way to
understand their relationships with others, both intimate and professional. Particular dynamics between
the different types, effective methods for communicating with each type, and the ways in which the three
Instinctual Variants (Subtypes) affect our main motivations in relationships will be covered.
The Three Instincts (Subtypes) Workshop
Using the Enneagram to Create Balance
in your Life and Harmony in your Relationships
Our instinctual nature, while extremely powerful in our decision-making processes, lifestyle choices, and
orientation to day-to-day reality, is often given little emphasis in many spiritual paths, and the Instincts
are often treated as an inherent problem—a distortion to be eliminated. This is understandable since
this part of our nature is usually little interested in our spiritual or psychological development. Yet,
without a clear and viable relationship with this aspect of our souls, it is extremely difficult to maintain an
integrated approach to our path.
The Enneagram deals very directly with this aspect of the Self through teachings about the Three
Instincts—Self-Preservation, Sexual (Attraction), and Social (Adaptation). Seminal ideas about the three
Instincts go back at least as far as Gurdjieff's teachings about the Centers and have equivalents in
other spiritual traditions. In recent years, many Enneagram students have discovered the explanatory
power of seeing how their instinctual bias operates in combination with their dominant Enneagram type.
Learning how their type plays itself out through one of these Instincts can be as exciting as when we
first learn about the Enneagram.
In this Workshop, we will first clarify and deepen our understanding of the Instincts, seeing them at work
in our personal experience. We will also examine how our particular instinctual "stack"—the way we
prioritize our basic human needs and values—is the pattern that most keeps us locked in the repetitive
habits of our personality. (One of the quickest ways to unlock the Passion and Fixation of our type is to
understand and work on the imbalance in our Instincts.) Recognizing the way we give energy to certain
needs while neglecting others brings balance and helps us integrate the deeper experiences of
Essence and Being that we may have had. Without such Inner Work, even profound experiences of
Spirit and Oneness cannot affect our lives the way they could.
The Workshop will employ personal teaching by Russ Hudson, experiential dyads and triads,
meditation, movement work, and music to help participants recognize the ways that these patterns
express themselves in their lives. We will also explore concrete ways in which to bring greater balance in
our approach to our instinctual life. Our approach is relaxed and conversational, with an emphasis on
the development of our capacity to remain in Presence.
The Levels of Development Workshop
The Levels Workshop explores how the Levels of Development provide a vertical dimension to the
personality types, making clear the "inner logic" of each type and revealing how the various traits and
motivations that comprise each type form an interrelated whole. At their most profound, the Levels are
the measure of each person's degree of fixation within his or her own type, that is, the degree with
which they are able to be Present vs. being swept away by past conditioning, reactivity, and defenses.
Working with the Levels not only provides recognition for where we are in our journey of growth, but
also guides us toward greater health and transformation.
The Levels were discovered by Don Riso in 1977 and subsequently further developed with Russ
Hudson. The Levels provide a way of tracking each type's movement along a continuum toward more
freedom, consciousness, expansiveness, and Being in the higher Levels—or toward more reactivity,
mechanicality, and self-destructiveness in the lower ones. By introducing this "vertical axis" to the types,
the Levels explain some of the most important things that we find in human nature—fluidity and change,
resistance and conflict, freedom and compulsion—among many human qualities.
In this Workshop, we will teach the meaning of all nine Levels, and how people "move" from one Level to
another, along with other complex movements predicted by the Enneagram. We will also see some of
the main characteristics of each type along the nine Levels. Exercises, music, and meditation will be
used as a way of grounding the information in our personal experience and to deepen our
understanding. This Workshop is particularly valuable for more advanced students, including therapists
and those who wish to make practical applications of the Enneagram.
The Levels of Development innovation is the only Enneagram work to be specifically endorsed by Ken
Wilber, who has stated that only with this vertical dimension taken into account, does the Enneagram
system move toward being a complete psychology. Don Riso and Russ Hudson are the only Enneagram
authors to write and teach about the Levels, thus giving their work an extraordinary explanatory power
and making a wide range of practical applications possible.
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