I have studied the Enneagram over the past thirty years primarily with Patrick O’Leary, Helen Palmer, David Daniels, MD, Don Riso, Ph.D., Russ Hudson and Richard Rohr.  I have been teaching the Enneagram since 1996 in the South Bay of Los Angeles at Mary & Joseph Retreat Center.

My Enneagram Workshops explore various aspects of the nine personality types described using the Enneagram. I base my classes primarily on the works of Don Riso and Russ Hudson (Personality Types; The Wisdom of the Enneagram etc.), Helen Palmer (The Enneagram etc.) Beatrice Chestnut, Ph.D. (The Complete Enneagram etc.) and Sandra Maitri (The Spiritual Dimension of the Enneagram). These classes include the following areas with the breadth and depth depending upon the previous knowledge of my students and the time available.

1.       A description of the three centers: Instinctual, Feeling, Thinking.

2.       Brief descriptions of the nine types.

3.       Introduction to the Enneagram model.

4.       Introduction to Holy Ideas vs. Habits of Mind

5.       Introduction to Virtues vs. Passions

6.       Introduction to the three Instinctual subtypes

7.       Description of the wings

8.       Description of the stress and security points ( also known as points of integration and disintegration)

9.       Description of correlations with Attachment Theory ( Rios )

10.    Study of each Type including:

a.        Holy Ideas/Habits of Mind

b.       Virtues/Passions

c.        Avoidance/Seeding

d.       Fears/Desires

e.        “Self-Talk” ( I am_____ and “I am good and okay if______________”

f.        Lost childhood message

g.       Attachment issues

h.       Levels of Development: Healthy, Average, Unhealthy

i.         Famous exemplars

j.         Movie exemplars

k.       Spiritual “jump start”

l.         Stress vs. Security points

m.     Wings