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Throughout
history both ancient and modern, and universally in all cultures, humanity's
inner nature is described as comprising these three core
intelligences, which are pictured to the right.
These are the three basic arenas in which life calls people to respond. While
different cultures and individuals have named them differently, the idea remains
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Go-getters,
Responders and Introspectives
The three personality types with an underactualized feeling center are called
Go-getters. Focusing on their abilities to think and do, they are
task-oriented and want to make the world around them, including other people,
the way they want them to be. By diminishing the importance of the feeling
center, they overvalue their freedom to accomplish. Being outwardly enthusiastic and
generally optimistic, they undervalue vulnerable emotions and intimate relationships.
Having an underactualized thinking center creates the three Networker personality types. Because they don’t trust their own impressions or their thinking process, they look to the situation to see what should happen next. Then they respond to it using their abilities to feel and do by being involved in other people’s lives, sociable, gracious and responsible. They rely on these abilities to compensate for and disguise their insecurity. Often they accomplish this goal so well they themselves are unaware of any fearful feelings.
The three Introspective personality types are created by an underactualized doing center. Relying on their abilities to think and feel make them interested in life and people. While they often excel at analyzing people and situations, they are equally unable to formulate a response and put it into effect. They do more thinking, feeling and talking than actual accomplishing. Unconfident of their ability to move in or affect the material world, they focus on their abilities to be innovative and creative. They either leave practical responsibilities to others or create chaos in their lives by mishandling practical necessities.
The Nine Enneagram Types
Each of these three categories, which describe how personalities deal
with life, subdivide into three types when the next layer of personality is added. As a response to the
perceived values and needs of one’s caregivers, or as a way to be loved and
have one’s needs met, people learn to view life through the values of
thinking, feeling or doing. These values become a lens that focuses people’s
attention on one aspect of life while diminishing or ignoring the other two sets
of values.
People who see life through the values of the thinking center are logical, analytical, inquisitive and look for patterns. People who see life through the feeling center’s values honor relationships, enhance their self-image, and process emotion. Seeing life through the doing center’s values causes people to protect their own safety, to be engaged in life, and to be alternatively spontaneous and reactive.
Because people who deal with life as Go-getters, Responders and Introspectives can also view life in one of the three ways described above, nine personality types are the result. This is the foundation of the Enneagram.
Individuality
The final layers of personality come from the many other factors that
contribute to every person’s development, such as genetics, choices, education
both formal and informal, cultural and subcultural influences, family
experiences, birth order, etc. Thus, every individual is unique while their
personalities also fall into the nine types described by the Enneagram.
Hurley/Donson Breakthrough Enneagram® Seminars see each of the nine personality types in a dynamic and user-friendly way as its own composite of the three centers. The way the centers interact with each other creates the uniqueness of each type. In this approach, type ceases to be a rigid category and becomes a key to unlocking our true potential as human beings.
If you are new to the Enneagram, a Hurley/Donson Breakthrough Enneagram® Seminar will make this system one that you can readily understand. If you already know the Enneagram, it will create a practical framework in which you can immediately apply the system to improve your life — your personal relationships, your work performance and your own sense of inner peace and happiness.
This method accomplishes these important goals:
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It supports you in quickly identifying your type. |
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It links the Enneagram to the three elemental capacities of every human being — thinking, feeling and doing. |
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It immediately shows you how to capitalize on your strengths and minimize your weaknesses. |
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It places the Enneagram in the context of a simple yet profound system for the complete healing of your personality. |
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It simply and clearly reveals the inner workings of each of the Enneagram's nine personality types. |
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It reveals the self-harming emotions that sabotage your life and shows you what to do about them. |
What You Learn in a
Breakthrough
Enneagram® Seminar
Hurley/Donson Breakthrough
Enneagram® Seminars are modular in structure. In the first module, you
will learn about:
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The three centers of intelligence — thinking, feeling, and doing — and why it is necessary for each to be healthy for you to live a happy life. |
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The nine personality types — in a visual presentation that is fun, interesting and easy to understand. |
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How your Enneagram type has affected your own life. |
Further modules can vary according to the interests and needs of the group. Video tape modules provide a living experience of the Enneagram. Participants see the Enneagram in action by viewing video tapes of panels comprising one representative of all nine types responding to the same situation. The similarities and differences among type, as well as the unique characteristics of each type, become apparent.
Other possible modules include:
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Relationships and communication. |
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Spiritual formation. |
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Healing the hidden wound in each type. |
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Leadership types. |
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Applications to counseling and caregiving. |
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Dealing with the attitudes and negative inner states that create each type. |
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Deepening your understanding of how repressing one center affects your life. |
Meditations and other experiential situations such as small group discussions and artistic expressions are other means of developing these topics. In these activities, people discover on a more personal level how type affects their lives and what they can do to maximize strengths and minimize weaknesses. These exercises are complemented by presentations that reveal each participant’s potential for improving relationships and changing their lives through the insights of the Enneagram.
Presentation Formats
Presentations on the Enneagram can be of various lengths: a three hour
introduction to the system, a half-day seminar, a full day seminar, a keynote
with a full day seminar and a workshop of several days in length.
Consult our Seminar Schedule to find a Hurley/Donson Breakthrough Enneagram® Seminar near you, or contact Enneagram Resources, Inc. to inquire about co-sponsoring a seminar in your area. All programs are customized both in content and for your budgetary needs.
Related book: Discover Your Soul Potential: Using the Enneagram to Awaken Spiritual Vitality (WindWalker Press, 2000). This multiple award winning book presents the nine personality types of the Enneagram as different composites of the three centers (thinking, feeling and doing), fully explaining the "Breakthrough approach" to the Enneagram.
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