Enneagram Professional Training Program

For these and other EPTPs internationally, please visit EnneagramWorldwide.com.

Shenzhen, China Dec. 26-Jan. 5

Menlo Park CA Feb. 5-17.

Shanghai, China June 24-29  (business training Chengdu, China July 1-4)

Menlo Park CA July 18-28.

Workshops in Europe:

Enneagram Types and Subtypes

March 13-14, Helsinki, Finland. Sponsored by Leila Valtonen.

The Enneagram and the Instinctual Subtypes

Managing personal growth, career and relationships in a world of rapid change

March 19-20, Nantes, France. Sponsored by Regard.9.com.

Workshops in the US: San Francisco Bay Area

Monthly Enneagram Study Group starts Jan. 29.

Introduction to the Enneagram, March 3.

Berkeley Panel Series - Subtypes in Relationship, starts March 17.

Defenses, Dichotomies & Character Structure, May 15, Palo Alto.

International Enneagram Conference, July 29 - Aug. 1, San Francisco.

Washington DC

The Enneagram Types and Embodied Relationship, April date TBD

San Francisco Bay Area:

Monthly Enneagram Study Group starts Jan. 29 with Peter & Pat O'Hanrahan

Applying the Enneagram to personal growth and relationships. Topics include defense systems, character structure, three centers, the inner observer, moving on the lines, subtype awareness, communication, embodied presence. Format: presentation, inner practice, breakout groups and personal sharing. Extensive handouts provided. Previous Enneagram study is required.

Six Friday evenings, 7-9:00pm

Jan. 29, Feb. 26, Mar. 26, Apr. 23, May 21, June 18.

Location: Richmond Hills, East Bay, off Arlington Ave or a few minutes from I-80.

Cost: $210 for all 6 meetings. Group size limited to 15.

Registration: call Pat at 510 234-1600

Introductory Evening in Berkeley on March 3

This will be an overview of the Enneagram system, the nine personality types and the instinctual subtypes for those who are new to the system, plus an opportunity for continuing students to ask questions and talk about how they are using the Enneagram. Please join us for an interesting evening of lecture, discussion, and class participation. The cost is $20 as a stand alone, or included in the Berkeley panel series price. Send - or bring - your friends who are curious!

Location: First Congregational Church, 2345 Channing Way, Berkeley (The cross street is Dana, seven blocks from the downtown Berkeley BART). Use street parking or the UC garage on Channing.)

Wednesday evenings, 7-9pm, March 17 thru May 12

with Helen Palmer, Sharon Berbower, and Peter O'Hanrahan

            The Enneagram describes three centers of energy and intelligence that shape the structure and behaviors of our personality type. The intellectual center holds our point of view, habit of attention, and mental fixation. The emotional center is home to our feelings, our empathy function, and the "passion" of our type. The body center contains three major instincts: 

            1) Self preservation instinct - guiding our relationships with home, food, security, family, and warmth in personal relationships.

2) One to One instinct - fueling our personal vitality, sexuality, intimate relationships, and our experience of spiritual union.

3) Social instinct - forming our friendships, our participation in groups and community, and our social identity.

            Every person has all three instincts, but one of them becomes more central in our daily lives and relationships - this primary instinct determines our Enneagram subtype.

            Our subtype affects how we spend our time and attention in daily life and our way of being in relationship. Understanding subtype differences (and similarities) is a powerful way to improve communication and empathy. Many people find that subtype is as important as type itself when it comes to intimate partners, family and friends. Understanding our subtype style helps us make more informed choices about how, and how much, we invest our time and energy with people and projects. It's also a key to working with the emotional habit (passion) of our personality type, which is expressed and discharged through our subtype activity.

In our spring class we will hear through panel interviews with the nine personality types about their experience with subtypes in relationship and the path of inner work.

Teachers: Helen Palmer has been teaching the Enneagram in Berkeley and around the world for 35 years. She is the author of several best selling books, including "The Enneagram in Love & Work." Sharon Berbower is a longtime psychotherapist, with an extensive background in meditation and spirituality, who teaches the Enneagram at JFK University. Peter O'Hanrahan is an associate of the Palmer/Daniels Enneagram Professional Training Program who teaches workshops in the US, Europe, and China.

March 3 - Introduction, March 17 - Type 1, Mar. 24 - Type 2, Mar. 31 - Type 3, April 7 - Type 4, April 14 - Type 5, April 21 - Type 6 , April 28 - Type 7 , May 5 - Type 8 , May 12 - Type 9

Location: First Congregational Church, 2345 Channing Way, Berkeley (The cross street is Dana, seven blocks from the downtown Berkeley BART). Use street parking or the UC garage on Channing.)

Fees: for the entire series: by March 11: $245/person or $400/for 2 for the series. After March 11: $275/person, $450/for 2. Drop-ins: $35/class. Students with ID: $180/series, $300/for 2, drop-ins with ID $25/class. (If you are registered for the entire series but miss a class, a CD recording will be available).

Registration:

To register by phone with Credit card, or to learn more about the class series, contact Pat O’Hanrahan at 510-234-1600. Checks may be sent to: Enneagram Work, 1442A Walnut St. #75, Berkeley CA 94709. At the door: You may pay for the series or single drop-in classes by check, credit card with ID, or cash.

Defenses, Dichotomies & Character Structure

One-day workshop with Peter O'Hanrahan

Saturday, May 15 9:30am to 5pm, at Conexions, 1023 Corporation Way, Palo Alto CA

Cost: $150 includes lunch. Discounts for participants of all three spring workshops at Conexions. Registration: www.Conexions.org

Understanding our personality's defenses is a major key to our psychological health and our relationships. It’s one of the main ways we can apply the intelligence of the Enneagram in daily life. All nine of the personality types have their strengths, contributions, and personal appeal. It's the defense system that creates problems and locks the type fixation in place, keeping us from true connection with the people we love and work with and blocking contact with our true self.

The defense system has three parts: 1) the idealization, what we want to live up to or think we should be; 2) the avoidance, what we try to stay away from or cover up (our shadow); 3) the defense mechanism, which is the "enforcer" of the fixation. This system becomes part of our type structure in ways we are not aware of and sets up a pattern of "dichotomies" for each of the personality types.

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 towards 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.