Chicago Training March 2012

Nine Lenses On The World: Using Cognitive Therapy To Check Our Enneagram Prescriptions


31 Mar 2012 - 1 Apr 2012 | 09:00 AM-4:00 PM | Chicago, IL
Schemas are stable and enduring patterns of thinking that develop during childhood and are elaborated throughout our life.  We view the world through our schemas or lenses, which are important beliefs and constructs about the world and ourselves.  Since we accept these schemas without question, they become self-perpetuating and are very resistant to change.  To the extent that our schemas accurately represent reality, they clarify our vision and are useful and self-serving. If our schemas are out of date, they distort reality and end up being self-defeating.
We’ll discover some adaptive or useful schemas for each Enneagram style and what are some typical maladaptive not-so-helpful schemas for each type.
Schemas exert their influence on our behavior and strive to ensure their own survival through three processes of schema maintenance,schema avoidance, and schema compensation.  In this workshop we’ll consider how these processes operate in the nine Enneagram styles.
We’ll see how our schemas maintain themselves by exaggerating information that confirm them or minimizing data that contradict them.  We’ll discover how we cognitively, emotionally, and behaviorally avoid triggering our maladaptive schemas to escape the negative emotions they stir up.  And we’ll investigate how we compensate for these schemas by doing the opposite of what they suggest so we can evade triggering the pain they cause.
Finally we’ll learn some techniques to recognize and challenge our maladaptive schemas and replace them with more adaptive ones.
This workshop, which presumes a basic knowledge of the Enneagram styles, will involve input, personal reflection, small group sharing, and large group feedback.
March 31, 2012: 9:00 am – 4:00 pm April  1,    2012: 9:00 am – 4:00 pm
Location: Loyola University, Chicago: McCormick Lounge in Coffey Hall
Cost:  $100
12 CEU’s available
To register make check made out to First Analysis Institute of Integrative Studies for $100 and send it to them at P.O. Box 06236, Chicago, IL  60606-0236
Contact: Jerry Wagner
jeromewagnerphd@gmail.com; 847-400-6507