Hello patient Enneagram Spectrum Newsletter readers.
By now you’ve probably come to the same conclusion I have: it’s really not a good idea to put a Five in charge of a Newsletter because they seldom disclose anything! I don’t have a blog because I figure if I’m not interested in what I’m thinking, who else would be? Despite that reservation, here’s what I’ve been thinking and what’s coming up.
First a quick update about the health of my wife Bernie. She’s been a real trouper or trouperette in dealing with her brain tumor. If you recall, she had a meningioma (a benign brain tumor) removed 11 years ago which returned last year. That was removed but then she had an infection and they had to go back in to remove that. She’s been doing well and has her final surgery at the beginning of April to replace the infected bone they had to remove. The surgeon doesn’t think this is much of a big deal, though anything beyond a haircut seems excessive to me. Send some prayers and positive energy her way the first weekend in April. Thank you.
My Loyola University teaching life is going well. I’m slipping the Enneagram a little more into the Theories of Personality course I teach to undergraduates. I use it to demonstrate how the various personality theories we cover (like Jung, Adler, Horney, Rogers, Kelly, et.al.) show up in nine personality manifestations. I just wrote an article for the Enneagram Monthly which I posted on my website and am attaching here that traces how some of George Kelly’s cognitive personality theory can be used in the Enneagram system. One of the clinical psychology students in my graduate course on History and Systems of Psychology asked if I would talk about the Enneagram. I immediately added 10 points to his grade. Seems his father, who is a consultant, uses the Enneagram. Obviously a wise man.
My Enneagram life is picking up a little steam. I’m offering a workshop Saturday April 12 for the Minnesota IEA Chapter: Nine Lenses on the World: Using Cognitive Therapy to Check Our Enneagram Prescriptions. It has to do with exchanging our maladaptive schemas for some more adaptive ones. If you are in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area and want to attend, check out their website: www.mn-iea.org to register.
In May I’m going back to Singapore to present a Basic Enneagram SpectrumTraining, May 12-16, and an Advanced Enneagram SpectrumTraining, May 18-21. Again, if you’re in the area and want to attend, contact Granville D’Souza at granville@eqasia.com.
Here’s the description of the Advanced Training from my website: www.enneagramspectrum.com. Having written this, I got all the acronyms out of my system and so now don’t feel compelled to use any ever again.
This ESAT will feature WASPs ,WAMS, and CATs in a format of SIPs.
Expanded over four days, the Enneagram Spectrum Advanced Training will include further useful information about Wings, Arrows, Subtypes, and Polarities; more interpretive work with the WEPSS (Wagner Enneagram Personality Style Scales) and Adaptive and Maladaptive Schemas; and additional discussion about Communication styles, (look)-Alike types, and Teams (both inner and outer).
The format will involve Small group sharing, Input, and Panel interviews. Participants receive a Certificate for this Enneagram Spectrum Advanced Training.
Topics for the advanced 4-day Enneagram training:
- More in-depth exploration of the Wings and what it looks like when we identify with the high side or low side of our neighbors.
- More on the paradigm shifts that take place when we are under stressful and relaxed conditions (the Arrows).
- Further in-depth discussion of the Subtypes of each style.
- Additional work with Polarities with exercises for integrating our shadow elements into our sense of self. How to relabel, reown, and reintegrate our polarities.
- More information and practice for administering and interpreting the WEPSS and suggestions for conducting a typing interview.
- Additional work with Adaptive and Maladaptive Schemas. Looking at how each style maintains their maladaptive schemas, with exercises for letting go of our distorted views and employing some more useful views. How to make our psychic lenses clearer and less distorting.
- Communication styles of each type. How each type likes to communicate and how they prefer to be communicated with.
- More consideration of look-Alike types and how to tell them apart.
- Nine ways of doing business: working with our inner and outer Team with additional powerpoint slides.
- Opportunities for Small group sharing with same types and different types, Input, and Panel interviews.
Let me know if you would be interested in an Advanced Training closer to home in case you’re not planning on being in Singapore this Summer -- though it’s a lovely place to visit. I’m thinking of offering one, probably in Chicago next Summer, with or without acronyms.
This Summer is the 20th anniversary of the Founding of the International Enneagram Association. The very first conference was at Stanford and this anniversary will be in San Francisco, July 24-27. I have the privilege of presenting the pre-conference day with Richard Rohr, a mesmerizing speaker and Enneagram author. Richard will address the Enneagram and spiritual development; I will talk about the Enneagram and psychological development; then the two of us will talk about God-knows-what, since we haven’t decided, yet. Perhaps the two halves of life based on his book “Falling Upward” -- psychology in the first half and spirituality in the second half. Come to San Francisco and be surprised as I will be.
At the IEA Conference I’m also giving a workshop on the Enneagram and the Five Love Languages: words of affirmation, quality time, receiving gifts, acts of service, and physical touch. Come and learn which Enneagram types and subtypes prefer which languages and be surprised as I will be.
It’s no surprise that I’m offering the Enneagram Spectrum Basic Training and Certification again this Summer, July 7-11, same place, almost same time. If it works, don’t fix it. I’m attaching a write-up of the Training. If you know someone who might be interested, please send the description along to them.
I’m also attaching the article about the Enneagram and George Kelly’s cognitive theory of personality and therapy. I like Kelly’s theory. It gives some insight into how personal constructs and the Enneagram styles function and how to go about changing some stuck patterns. Hope you find it useful.
I’m still one of the editors of the Enneagram Journal. If you’ve got something you want to say (and who doesn’t) send your article to journal@internationalenneagram.org. Go to the IEA website: www.internationalenneagram.org and click on “Enneagram Journal Call for Submissions” for more information. The deadline is February 28, so write fast.
Hope this (by now, annual) Newsletter finds you functioning well and hopefully will see you again sometime here or abroad (you know, like in California).
Jerry
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