Russ Hudson, Helen Palmer, David Daniels & Jessica Dibb – The Enneagram for Healing Practitioners
The Enneagram for Healing Practitioners offers therapists, social workers, coaches, educators, spiritual directors and healers a powerful tool for supporting clients that complements your primary approach.
What You’ll Learn in The Enneagram for Healing Practitioners
In The Enneagram for Healing Practitioners, each LIVE teaching, discussion and training session will build harmoniously upon the next. You’ll receive new principles, insights and processes for working with type in your clients and with your own type, with an eye towards developing truly co-creative therapeutic relationships.
Different faculty will co-teach each week and within every module. David Daniels, Helen Palmer, Russ Hudson, and Jessica Dibb will each elaborate on a specific area of expertise (as it relates to each Enneagram type), as follows:
Interwinding the Enneagram Elements
David Daniels will present the role of childhood temperament in the formation of personality and the implications for parents and caregivers. He’ll share the 5 vital ingredients of healthy relationships that flourish rather that flounder, and show you how to work with the key ingredient of developing a separate self and self-care and their vital function. Lastly, he’ll highlight the ingredients by type for intimate and close relationships, including sexuality.
Type and Its Inner Observer: A Spiritual Method for Psychological Distress
Helen Palmer will explore with the importance of observing the patterns of our minds and listening to the self-reports of people who see the world differently. This simple turn of attention that self-reflection requires marks a giant stage in human development.
In the language of neuroscience, self-reflection joins two different levels of consciousness — the conditioned level of the brain’s embedded neural pathways and the “pure knowing” of intuition that marks recurring habit as it appears. Clients can learn to turn attention inward to recognize automatic inner patterns that drive them in a predictable direction. With practice, clients can note their own repeating pattern such as doubt (type six) flattery (type two) and judgement (type one) as it starts to engage. Eventually, they can choose to let conditioned suffering go instead of letting it run.
Triadic Structures and the Enneagram: Optimizing Balance, Harmony and Transformation for Clients
Russ Hudson will address triadic structure of the Enneagram, to highlight distinctions that are useful in zeroing in on particular challenges and capacities that arise for clients, and also for exploring ways to bring about better balance.
The Enneagram as a “three by three system” offers a number of groupings that can be quickly employed to illuminate key issues and open new possibilities for the client. Among these groups are the Centers (Belly, Heart and Head) which delineate different modes of intelligence; the Hornevian Groups which reveal fundamental ways we approach goals, wishes and needs (Assertive, Dutiful, and Receptive);
The Harmonic Groups which highlight how we approach conflicts and interpersonal problems (Positive Outlook, Emotional Realness and Rational Competency); and the Object Relations Groups, which reveal underlying, and often subconscious, emotional convictions often at the root of the client’s psychological issues. Each Enneagram type represents a unique combination of these groups, and the groups are also useful in determining a client’s type.
Conscious and Unconscious Dialogue and Dance in Client/Practitioner Relationships
Jessica Dibb will address one of the most transformational aspects of the practitioner/client relationship: Learning to utilize the unconscious material and object relations that clients project onto practitioners (transference) and the unconscious material and object relations practitioners project onto clients (countertransference).
The framework of the Enneagram adds rich dimensions to this phenomena because each type will have certain qualities they wish for from a practitioner, and certain fears or blind spots they wish to avoid seeing or contacting in the practitioner. Additionally, the practitioner’s type can deeply affect what qualities and strengths they emphasize in the work with clients, and what blind spots or areas they actively deny, avoid or react to.
You’ll learn about type transference and type countertransference. And you’ll discover ways to be aware of this, ways to utilize the material that arises, and experiential exercises for working with blind spots in both yourself and your client. We will even occasionally dip into “relational therapy” that honors the unique relationship of each practitioner and client as important — and see how the practitioner’s type can bring strengths or limitations to the healing relationship.
The Enneagram for Healing Practitioners Curicullum
Module 1: Practitioner Principles for Co-Creating Dynamic, Empowering & Enduring Change with Clients: Utilizing the Enneagram to Guide, Inspire & Ground Transformational Process
Russ Hudson, Helen Palmer, David Daniels & Jessica Dibb will share the journey that brought them to discovering the Enneagram, why they value it, and the foundational understandings for using it in a client setting.
You’ll emerge from this first live session with a solid foundation of creative new ways to approach building relationships with clients that are empowering for both of you, create rapid change, and that are immediately accessible for clients of all nine types.
Module 2: Therapeutic, Coaching & Transformational Processes to Support Healing & Awakening for Type Eight
As facilitators we can become more skillful at helping eights release and relax out of destructive patterns of insensitivity, domination, excess, and separation from their feelings.
We can partner with them to create a healing and learning environment that allows them to make contact with a greater breadth and depth of their capacities, freeing up the gift of their essential vibrancy and power in a way that optimizes their self-care, choices, vocation, relationships and self- actualization.
Module 3: Therapeutic, Coaching & Transformational Processes to Support Healing & Awakening for Type Nine
As facilitators we can become more skillful at helping Nines release and relax out of destructive patterns of disengagement conflict-avoidance, indifference and the suppression of their vital energy. We can partner with them to create a healing and learning environment that allows them to make contact with a greater breadth and depth of their capacities, freeing up the gift of their essential aliveness and connection to self and others in a way that optimizes their self-care, choices, vocation, relationships and self- actualization.
Module 4: Therapeutic, Coaching & Transformational Processes to Support Healing & Awakening for Type One
As facilitators we can become more skillful at helping Ones release and relax out of destructive patterns of perfectionism, judging, frustration and excessive self-control.
We can partner with them to create a healing and learning environment that allows them to make contact with a greater breadth and depth of their capacities, freeing up the gift of their essential wisdom and integrity in a way that optimizes their self-care, choices, vocation, relationships and self- actualization.
Module 5: Therapeutic, Coaching & Transformational Processes to Support Healing & Awakening for Type Two
As facilitators we can become more skillful at helping Twos release and relax out of destructive patterns of people pleasing, grasping for love, denial of personal needs, and over-involvement in the lives of others. We can partner with them to create a healing and learning environment that allows them to make contact with a greater breadth and depth of their capacities, freeing up the gift of their essential compassion and altruism in a way that optimizes their self-care, choices, vocation, relationships and self- actualization.
Module 6: Therapeutic, Coaching & Transformational Processes to Support Healing & Awakening for Type Three
As facilitators we can become more skillful at helping Threes release and relax out of destructive patterns of overachieving, narcissism, image consciousness, and losing touch with feelings. We can partner with them to create a healing and learning environment that allows them to make contact with a greater breadth and depth of their capacities, freeing up the gift of their essential authenticity and value in a way that optimizes their self-care, choices, vocation, relationships and self- actualization.
Module 7: Therapeutic, Coaching & Transformational Processes to Support Healing & Awakening for Type Four
As facilitators we can become more skillful at helping Fours release and relax out of destructive patterns of moodiness, hyper-sensitivity, self-absorption, and self-hatred. We can partner with them to create a healing and learning environment that allows them to make contact with a greater breadth and depth of their capacities, freeing up the gift of their essential creativity and depth in a way that optimizes their self-care, choices, vocation, relationships and self- actualization.
Module 8: Therapeutic, Coaching & Transformational Processes to Support Healing & Awakening for Type Five
As facilitators we can become more skillful at helping Fives release and relax out of destructive patterns of detachment from feelings and the body, compartmentalizing, withdrawing, and fear of depletion. We can partner with them to create a healing and learning environment that allows them to make contact with a greater breadth and depth of their capacities, freeing up the gift of their essential understanding and vision in a way that optimizes their self-care, choices, vocation, relationships and self- actualization.
Module 9: Therapeutic, Coaching & Transformational Processes to Support the Healing & Awakening for Type Six
As facilitators we can become more skillful at helping Sixes release and relax out of destructive patterns of overthinking, reactivity, anxiety, and doubt. We can partner with them to create a healing and learning environment that allows them to make contact with a greater breadth and depth of their capacities, freeing up the gift of their essential courage and awakeness in a way that optimizes their self-care, choices, vocation, relationships and self- actualization.
Module 10: Therapeutic, Coaching & Transformational Processes to Support Healing & Awakening for Type Seven
As facilitators we can become more skillful at helping Sevens release and relax out of destructive patterns of overachieving, narcissism, image consciousness, and losing touch with feelings.
We can partner with them to create a healing and learning environment that allows them to make contact with a greater breadth and depth of their capacities, freeing up the gift of their essential joy and freedom in a way that optimizes their self-care, choices, vocation, relationships and self- actualization.
Module 11: Integration, Supervision & Emergent Ideas & Processes
As helping professionals, facilitators, coaches, even parents or educators we have probably tried a lot of new ideas with our clients, students and even children during the 5 months. The faculty would like to have two sessions of professional supervision with the community in which you can call in with your questions, situations with clients and students, and talk about the ways you have been working with them, and how you might deepen your effectiveness.
