To the Workbench: Using the Enneagram in the Communal Environment

1. To the Workbench: Using the Enneagram in the Communal Environment Session Two: 10:45am - Noon

2. Discovering One’s Style • Determining Core Style • Personality tests based on self-reporting takes a degree of self-knowledge. • The RHETI is 56 - 82% accurate for determining one’s basic type (Riso/Hudson, 11).

3. Discovering One’s Style • The accuracy of the RHETI is increased by the understanding that we have “four selves.” • Past Self • Present Self • Ideal Self • Self as Others See Us • The RHETI is attempting to discern one’s “past self.”

4. Discovering One’s Style • Lapid-Bogda’s Exercises to Discover One’s Enneagram Style • Warm-Up Exercise: Identify Strengths and Weaknesses • Warm-Up Exercise: Charting the Emotional Index

5. Three Centers • Emotional patterns are strongly related to one’s Enneagram style. • Each Enneagram style is rooted in one of three Centers • Head Center • Heart Center • Body Center • Our emotional repertoire often reflects our main Center. Each of us tends to favor one of the three modalities.

6. Head Center • Head or Mental Center • Styles Five, Six, and Seven • Checks in the Afraid category, particularly next to medium- and high-intensity words • These mental styles tend to engage first in elaborate analysis as a reaction to their common emotion, fear.

7. Head Center • Fives • Respond to fear by withdrawing, retreating into their minds in order to understand • Emotional Index marks predominantly low-intensity in emotions other than “Afraid” • Sixes • React to worry or fear by anticipating negative scenarios and planning alternatives • High number of checks in all three Afraid intensity levels • Sevens • Move from worrying into pleasurable possibilities • Do not appear fearful but are running from fear and pain--avoidance reaction • Many checks in Afraid and in Glad

8. Heart Center • Emotional Center • Numerous Marks in all Four Emotional Index categories • Styles Two, Three, and Four • Work hard to project a particular image. • Use their emotions to perceive how others are responding to them.

9. Heart Center • Twos • Try to create an image of being likable • Look to others for affirmation of self-worth • Tend to be warm, optimistic, and enthusiastic • High number of checks in the Glad category • Threes • Project an image of success • Seek the respect and admiration of others for what they accomplish • Checks in all four categories, but fewer Sad marks • Fours • Quite familiar with feelings of sadness and melancholy • Highest number of marks in Sad • Try to project an image of being unique or special; use their emotional sensitivity to defend against rejection

10. Body Center • Gut/ Instinctual Center • Marks highest in the Mad category • One, Eight, and Nine • Anger lies in the emotional substructure of this Center’s types.

11. Body Center • Ones • Medium intensity Mad, range of Sad marks • Anger, while deep, manifests as frequent irritation followed by flares of resentment • Tendency for self-criticism; can become discouraged and depressed • Eights • Large numbers of checks in Mad, particularly high intensity • Express anger frequently and directly • Anger stimulated by injustice, weakness in others, someone’s ineffective control, or someone’s lying • Nines • “Anger that went to sleep”--lies deep beneath the surface • Anger activated when feel ignored or forced to do something • Likely to have low- or medium-intensity marks in all four categories • Tend to avoid conflict and anger, preferring rapport and comfort with others

12. Enneagram Styles • Which of the descriptions most accurately describes my inner workings, not what is necessarily visible to others? • If you are over forty, think about how you were in your thirties, twenties, and teenage years.

13. Enneagram Styles • Exercise • Discovering the Styles • Organize ourselves by type • Finding our Distinct Type • Rank the Types from Most Like You to Least Like You • Of the top four, do two seem more accurate? • Review list of strengths and weaknesses. Is there a match between those and a type description? • Does the Center feel right?

14. Delving Deeper • Two Additional Features of the Enneagram • Wings • Stress and Security Points

15. Delving Deeper • Wings • Wings are the Enneagram styles on each side of your actual Enneagram style. • Secondary styles to core • Display some of these characteristics • Add additional qualities rather than subtract • Person can have one, two, or no wings • Common to have one wing active when younger and another as mature

16. Delving Deeper • Stress and Security Points • Stress--behavior moves toward negative side of style • Security--strengths of style more apparent • Importance of Arrows • Stress Point--arrow toward where one moves when feeling pressure • Security Point--arrow from the place one moves when relaxed

17. Using the Enneagram in our Work • Enneagram style gives reasonably predictable behaviors in a variety of situations. • Use of the Enneagram • Know Ourselves Better • Have Compassion for Others • Work Effectively in a Communal Environment

18. Moment for Reflection

19. Credits • Ginger Lapid-Bogda, Ph.D. Bringing Out the Best in Yourself at Work: How to Use the Enneagram System for Success. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2004. • Don Richard Riso and Russ Hudson. Discovering Your Personality Type, Revised and Expanded. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2003. • “Lifted.” PIXAR Short Films Collection. Pixar Animation Studios, 2007.

20. To the Workbench: Using the Enneagram to Awaken the Empathy of Others Session Three: 1:15pm - 2:45pm

21. To the Workbench! • Enneagram Exercise • Breathe, Relax, Reflect • Complete the Exercise sheet • Find a companion or two or three (groups greater than four are not recommended) to share the insights gained, to listen as others share, and deepen the experience

22. Moment for Reflection

23. Credits • Ginger Lapid-Bogda, Ph.D. Bringing Out the Best in Yourself at Work: How to Use the Enneagram System for Success. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2004. • Don Richard Riso and Russ Hudson. Discovering Your Personality Type, Revised and Expanded. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2003. • “Boundin’.” PIXAR Short Films Collection. Pixar Animation Studios, 2004.