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Using
the Enneagram to Create Balance in your Life and
Harmony in your Relationships
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Plus evening
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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 Certified Enneagram Teacher, Grahame
Morgan-Watson plus 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.
Grahame
Morgan-Watson is founder of MetaMe,
Enneagram Insights. His formative years
living and learning with the indigenous and
ex-patriot cultures of Saudi Arabia and
Borneo, has formed a certain awareness for
valuing and understanding difference and
diversity in Grahame’s consciousness.
Following a thirty year business career in
the Music Industry, Grahame embarked on a
trail of personal development and learning
for the new millennium. He is a certified
Trainer of Neuro-Linguistic Programming
(NLP) from The International NLP Trainers
Association (INLPTA) and NLP Master
Practitioner, certified Consultant and
Trainer of Language and Behaviour (LAB)
Profile and, relevant to this workshop,
a Riso-Hudson certified Teacher of The
Enneagram (Hons.) Grahame is currently a
third year student in Feldenkrais
Practitioner Training, and a student of the
RIDHWAN School - Diamond Approach to
personal Essence.
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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 mindfully 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 all students of the Enneagram including
therapists and those seeking 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.
Grahame Morgan-Watson, is one of only
two Enneagram
Institute Authorised Teachers in the
UK, to be licensed by Don Riso and Russ
Hudson, to deliver this workshop. Grahame is
a Riso-Hudson certified Enneagram Teacher (Hons)
and an INLPTA certified Trainer of
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Two
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Plus evening |
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Next
Workshop
November
21 - 22
Times
Sat 9:30 am to 9:00 pm
Sun 9 am to 5:30 pm
The
price
£325. per person
Early Bird Price if paid in full
before Oct 2009
£275.
5% discount for two or more
bookings.
Includes
Refreshments and Sandwich Lunch both
days, plus two course evening meal
Saturday prior to evening session.
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