Supporting those who want to understand themselves and others more clearly
Hello to you! I'm Dale Rhodes, a mentor and guide with a private practice focusing on The Enneagram, World Wisdom Traditions, Good Sense and more since 1998. Not only am I passionate about teaching clients and students the full benefits of understanding Point of View, I am a thrice formally-trained, well-seasoned, full-time professional in the field.
I offer online sessions for individuals and couples--- and in-person programs (read below).
I work well with reflective and creative people who are motivated to learn, grow and change. Whether the content you wish to explore is your own self-understanding, relationships, spiritual growth or finding right livelihood, my clients find that our sessions offer useful practical information as well as meaningful insights that support positive change. If you're trying to be more fully human, more fully yourself, this is a solid method for you--- and accompaniment itself is often worthwhile.
You may schedule directly using the Schedule Now button, or you may pre-purchase (3) discounted multiple sessions via the Payment Page menu above. Please reach out to begin, I am glad to connect with you!
I offer online sessions for individuals and couples--- and in-person programs (read below).
I work well with reflective and creative people who are motivated to learn, grow and change. Whether the content you wish to explore is your own self-understanding, relationships, spiritual growth or finding right livelihood, my clients find that our sessions offer useful practical information as well as meaningful insights that support positive change. If you're trying to be more fully human, more fully yourself, this is a solid method for you--- and accompaniment itself is often worthwhile.
You may schedule directly using the Schedule Now button, or you may pre-purchase (3) discounted multiple sessions via the Payment Page menu above. Please reach out to begin, I am glad to connect with you!
- Master of Arts: Interdisciplinary Studies: Spiritual Traditions & Ethics (2002)
- Master of Science: Human Services & NonProfit Administration (1991)
- Bachelor of Arts: Interpersonal Communications, Gender Studies (1989)
- 3 Professional Enneagram Certifications: Narrative, Spectrum, Changeworks
- Additional Certifications: MBTI®, Spiritual Direction & Contemplative Listening
- Outdoor Naturalist Trainings: Wilderness Awareness School & Metro's Nature University
- Longtime Mentor for Certifying Narrative Teachers and The People's Nonprofit Accelerator
- More About Dale Rhodes
Public Community Courses: The People's Enneagram
For over 20 years, I have facilitated interdisciplinary experiences for a vibrant community of people exploring The Nine Points of View together. Now, people from all time zones are exploring this powerful tool for positive transformation through online live interactive courses, most often using literature and film as method for examining character and development. Expand your views of our world, of yourself and of those around you; all with one of the best guides available. Join us in this grand ongoing community. I believe the best way to learn and grow is through a continuous community experience. If you talk type, you should be with us.
An in-person community retreat day is always scheduled for Portland in Fall and at the Oregon Coast in Spring. Ask about hosting in-person programs for friends, family, colleagues at your own site.
For over 20 years, I have facilitated interdisciplinary experiences for a vibrant community of people exploring The Nine Points of View together. Now, people from all time zones are exploring this powerful tool for positive transformation through online live interactive courses, most often using literature and film as method for examining character and development. Expand your views of our world, of yourself and of those around you; all with one of the best guides available. Join us in this grand ongoing community. I believe the best way to learn and grow is through a continuous community experience. If you talk type, you should be with us.
An in-person community retreat day is always scheduled for Portland in Fall and at the Oregon Coast in Spring. Ask about hosting in-person programs for friends, family, colleagues at your own site.
What is so good about an interdisciplinary professionally-led community?
I asked when I started this vibrant community over 20 years ago and it still guides me today.
"A lake evaporates upward and thus gradually dries up; but when two lakes are joined they do not dry up so readily, for one replenishes the other. It is the same in the field of knowledge. Knowledge should be a refreshing and vitalizing force. It becomes so only through stimulating intercourse with congenial friends with whom one holds discussion and practices application of the truths of life. In this way learning becomes many-sided and takes on a cheerful lightness, whereas there is always something ponderous and one- sided about the learning of the self-taught."
Hexagram 58, The Lake, The Joyous; The I Ching (The Taoist Book of Changes)
I asked when I started this vibrant community over 20 years ago and it still guides me today.
"A lake evaporates upward and thus gradually dries up; but when two lakes are joined they do not dry up so readily, for one replenishes the other. It is the same in the field of knowledge. Knowledge should be a refreshing and vitalizing force. It becomes so only through stimulating intercourse with congenial friends with whom one holds discussion and practices application of the truths of life. In this way learning becomes many-sided and takes on a cheerful lightness, whereas there is always something ponderous and one- sided about the learning of the self-taught."
Hexagram 58, The Lake, The Joyous; The I Ching (The Taoist Book of Changes)
Get some sense of me at this online show, where I'm the convener and presenting Type Four "Using My Powers for the Good... " All 9 Presenters are grand examples of the good folk in our community. Read on below and meet me in real time to learn more.
Dale Rhodes shares his professional experience, formal training, and education to make a most effective consultant and teacher. His intention to bring about positive change through employing the Enneagram is matched by his abilities to skillfully apply the system in many different arenas, including individual mentoring and organizational training. His work will offer you delight and great benefit. Helen Palmer, author of The Enneagram and The Enneagram in Love and Work
Dale Rhodes, with his professional backgrounds in nonprofit management and spiritual direction, brings maturity and a freshness to teaching the Enneagram. He offers mentoring, spiritual direction, panel interview workshops and retreats for a wide variety of students. Participants are delighted and enriched by the perspectives that Dale brings to the potential for positive change in relationships, work and spirituality. I am pleased to support this highly qualified and caring Enneagram Teacher in the Narrative Tradition. David Daniels, M.D., Stanford Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, co-author of The Essential Enneagram
"Dale Rhodes is a very knowledgeable Enneagram presenter and a wonderful host for guest workshop presenters. Enneagram Portland is one of the bright lights in the Enneagram galaxy." Jerome Wagner, Ph.D., Loyola University, author of The Nine Lenses on the World
Our Enneagram workshop with Dale was incredibly valuable to our staff, both in terms of increasing individual self-awareness, and in terms of deepening group cohesion. Our staff all work closely together, and so feeling connected to and understood by each other's co-workers is essential to being able to guide the transformative work we do with our clients and guests. Our Enneagram staff workshop with Dale has given us a shared language and set of tools for further developing our self-awareness, improving our communication with each other and with guests, and deepening our sense of connection to each other and to the work of this organization. Both online and in-person, Dale was an incredible teacher and facilitator with remarkable integrity, compassion, and humor, expertly guiding our staff group towards a deeper and more nuanced understanding of how we communicate and work together as a community. We're looking forward to further developing these skills with him! Liz Coppola, Program Director @ Ekone Ranch and White Eagle Preserve (www.ekone.org)
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