Values and ideals motivate and guide our choices. Some are attracted to goodness, others to love, still others to action, beauty, wisdom, loyalty, joy, strength, and peace. Vulnerabilities are the tender underside of our values. We become very sensitive and protective when our values are discounted or threatened. Some are sensitive to criticism, others to rejection, still others to failure, abandonment, ridicule, betrayal, limitations, weakness, and conflict. When we are functioning from the self actualizing and transcending side of our person, we pursue our values and accept our vulnerabilities. Our vision is realistic, our energy is expressed cleanly as a virtue, and our actions are resourceful and fulfilling.

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Leadership Mastery with the Enneagram
Click here for detailed information about dates and costs for upcoming Enneagram Workshops. The Enneagram is a dynamic system of nine personality types. It is meant to help us understand ourselves, the people in our lives, and our habits of mind and reactivity in conflict and otherwise. Each of the nine personality profiles describes a distinct and fundamentally different pattern of thinking, feeling and acting, offering profound insight about why we behave the way we do, how we can change, and a precise path to psychological and spiritual freedom. Taught in the company of others, this system also generates compassion and relationship skills with people who experience the world in a very different way. By helping us to understand who we are, the Enneagram improves our self-awareness.
What is an Enneagram workshop?
The Enneagram is a system of nine personality types first developed by psychologists in Berkeley, California in the early 70's. Now the system has spread to many countries around the world for applications in family life, psychotherapy, spiritual direction, education, and business. The Enneagram is used in many different ways but the underlying themes always have to do with self knowledge and relationships with others. There is simply no better tool available to describe the ways that different personality types think and feel and how they approach relating. Once we understand the key issues and concerns of the people in our lives, we have a powerful set of suggestions and tips that will help us to build better relationships with many different kinds of people.
Since then, thought leaders such as Richard Rohr, Don Riso, Russ Hudson, and others have brought contemporary learning and understanding to the Enneagram. The Enneagram is based on nine personality types. Each type has a number associated with it. The four numbers to consider are:. You can learn your Enneagram type by visiting the Enneagram Personality and Assessment site to purchase and take the test. Jay Hidalgo is a certified Enneagram coach.