Exploring The 9 Points of View in Literature, Film & Community
The Nine Online: 2024-2025
Now in its 9th consecutive year, this online membership program explores themes described in the Nine Points of View using an exemplary novel or film as our focus. A large group evening teaching and type-panel is followed by smaller in-depth explorations on the Nine Types using specific literature and film to enhance our understanding of ourselves and others. The character study may offer insight into an Enneagram type's values, general life themes, or show areas of attention, motivations and life themes, vice to virtue shifts, or paths to disintegration and development. Because we have all points of view available to us, most participants find something relevant, moving and meaningful to examine in their own lives each month. You may find better understanding of your own personal development, as well as your relationships and interactions amongst groups.
Well-beyond the simplicity of "What is this character's type?", members of this community ask the deeper questions on meaning that are found when encountering good art, film and literature. Get deeper understanding of the types and how you can better relate to their ways of being. Discover universal themes accessible and applicable to us all on the human journey. And best: Expand your community of friends who talk type, character development, arts, literature and film.
We believe that deep learning and change happens over time in a continuous supportive learning community. This is a tried and true community exploration on The Humanities, using the Enneagram as its map and direction. The map of The Enneagram and experience with The Arts can deepen our understanding of universal life themes and meaningful existence. Join for this and all the other benefits of community membership. Every month you will find something worthwhile!
Well-beyond the simplicity of "What is this character's type?", members of this community ask the deeper questions on meaning that are found when encountering good art, film and literature. Get deeper understanding of the types and how you can better relate to their ways of being. Discover universal themes accessible and applicable to us all on the human journey. And best: Expand your community of friends who talk type, character development, arts, literature and film.
We believe that deep learning and change happens over time in a continuous supportive learning community. This is a tried and true community exploration on The Humanities, using the Enneagram as its map and direction. The map of The Enneagram and experience with The Arts can deepen our understanding of universal life themes and meaningful existence. Join for this and all the other benefits of community membership. Every month you will find something worthwhile!
You will feel like you are on an extended retreat exploring character and community.
“That is part of the beauty of all literature.
You discover that your longings are universal longings,
that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone.
You belong.”
(F. Scott Fitzgerald)
“That is part of the beauty of all literature.
You discover that your longings are universal longings,
that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone.
You belong.”
(F. Scott Fitzgerald)
Monday Orientation and Meet Your Classmates
Monday, September 23rd 6:30-8:00p Pacific
Teaching / Type Panels: 1st & 3rd Mondays 6:30-8:00p Pacific
October 7th & 21st, November 4th & 18th, December 2nd (only) , January 6th & 20th, February 3rd & 17th
2x Each Month: Small Groups Oct thru February
Small groups follow and are the same-week as the 1st & 3rd Mondays, keeping our content fresh!
Choose join one: Weds or Thurs 6:30p-8:30p, Weds or Fridays 10a-Noon Pacific.
Note that December has only one Teaching and Type Panel Evening, so small groups meet once in December.
Your Own Type's Lunch Bunch Hour (Optional)
Noon the day of your type's panel (1st/3rd Mon): Meet for a discussion with Dale and all those of your own type.
Classmate 1-1 Chats (Optional)
Request to pair with a different classmate between each session for an extra 1-1 discussion.
Monday, September 23rd 6:30-8:00p Pacific
Teaching / Type Panels: 1st & 3rd Mondays 6:30-8:00p Pacific
October 7th & 21st, November 4th & 18th, December 2nd (only) , January 6th & 20th, February 3rd & 17th
2x Each Month: Small Groups Oct thru February
Small groups follow and are the same-week as the 1st & 3rd Mondays, keeping our content fresh!
Choose join one: Weds or Thurs 6:30p-8:30p, Weds or Fridays 10a-Noon Pacific.
Note that December has only one Teaching and Type Panel Evening, so small groups meet once in December.
Your Own Type's Lunch Bunch Hour (Optional)
Noon the day of your type's panel (1st/3rd Mon): Meet for a discussion with Dale and all those of your own type.
Classmate 1-1 Chats (Optional)
Request to pair with a different classmate between each session for an extra 1-1 discussion.
The Mental Planning Types: "I Want To Know What Is Coming!"
Seven Epicures, Six Loyal Skeptics and Five Observers
October 7th: Epicure Point 7--- Restrictions, Resilience, Freedom, Sobering Truths
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED READ: No Time Like the Future by Michael J. Fox and/or
Watch: Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie
Seven Epicures, Six Loyal Skeptics and Five Observers
October 7th: Epicure Point 7--- Restrictions, Resilience, Freedom, Sobering Truths
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED READ: No Time Like the Future by Michael J. Fox and/or
Watch: Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie
October 21st: Loyal Skeptic Point 6 --- Questioning, Advocacy, Bull-Dog Tenacity
Watch: Dark Waters
Watch: Dark Waters
November 4th: Observer Point 5 --- Isolation, Intellectual Observation, Wonder and Care
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED READ: Turtle Diary by Russell Hoban and/or
WATCH: Turtle Diary (There is no guarantee this film will be on YouTube or any audible streaming service at the time of the class.)
Plan ahead, and better yet: Read an instructive, entertaining and moving novel on meaning in early midlife.
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED READ: Turtle Diary by Russell Hoban and/or
WATCH: Turtle Diary (There is no guarantee this film will be on YouTube or any audible streaming service at the time of the class.)
Plan ahead, and better yet: Read an instructive, entertaining and moving novel on meaning in early midlife.
The Kinesthetic Types: "What Really Matters?"
Eight Protectors, One Idealists and Nine Mediators
November 18th: Protector Point 8 -- Strength/Weakness, Force, Protection of Self/Others
RECOMMENDED READ: Fences by August Wilson and/or
WATCH: Fences (a play by August Wilson)
Eight Protectors, One Idealists and Nine Mediators
November 18th: Protector Point 8 -- Strength/Weakness, Force, Protection of Self/Others
RECOMMENDED READ: Fences by August Wilson and/or
WATCH: Fences (a play by August Wilson)
December 2nd: Idealist Point 1--- Dignity, Integrity, Upholding Principle, Working to be Useful
Watch: The Holdovers
Watch: The Holdovers
January 6th 2025: Mediator Point 9 --- Do Ordinary People Matter? Effect in One's Own Life
REQUIRED READ: The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
REQUIRED READ: The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
The Relational Types: "I Want Connection With You."
Three Performers, Four Romantics and Two Connectors
January 20th: Performer Point 3 --- Overcome Obstacles, Inspiration on A Stage, Model Success
Watch: King Richard
Three Performers, Four Romantics and Two Connectors
January 20th: Performer Point 3 --- Overcome Obstacles, Inspiration on A Stage, Model Success
Watch: King Richard
February 3rd: Romantic Point 4 --- Orpheus, Loneliness/Longing, Creation from Past Loss
WATCH: All of Us Strangers
WATCH: All of Us Strangers
February 17th: Connector Point Two--- Emotional Love and Care, Heroic Service to Others
Watch: The Eyes of Tammy Faye (2021 Portrayal and/or the 2000 Documentary)
Watch: The Eyes of Tammy Faye (2021 Portrayal and/or the 2000 Documentary)
This course assumes general familiarity with the Enneagram system, but you gain plenty with handouts that will give you Nine Points to Watch For, and a lesson and panel on each type. Every member joins their own type exploration each 1st or 3rd Monday at the community teaching. Small group class time will be more focused on how the literature/film/themes relate to us all. Students might find it helpful to have one Enneagram text during the course. Buyer beware of Enneagram teachers with little or no formal training in the system and who may have unnamed agendas. I recommend:
A warm thank you to my very useful teachers and friends who are inspiration and support for these classes, specifically:
Judith Searle The Literary Enneagram: Characters from The Inside Out
Tom Condon The Enneagram Movie and Video Guide
- William Schafer's Roaming Free Inside the Cage: A Daoist Approach to the Enneagram and Spiritual Transformation
- Jerome Wagner's Nine Lenses on the World: The Enneagram Perspective
- Helen Palmer's The Enneagram in Love and Work
A warm thank you to my very useful teachers and friends who are inspiration and support for these classes, specifically:
Judith Searle The Literary Enneagram: Characters from The Inside Out
Tom Condon The Enneagram Movie and Video Guide
Self-Study (SP): Nesting
You will review a handout posted online called "Nine Points to Watch Out For" that will highlight type themes on each selection. There are brief videos on this website under the Enneawhat? Menu above for you to learn more about the type. You arrange to get the chosen book or film, which are often available for free through public libraries, streaming sites to which you are already subscribed. Plan to search IMDB.com for current film streaming options.
Social Community (SO): Navigating
At the 1st and 3rd Monday all-community evening teaching sessions, Dale will provide a short teaching on the type of the month and engage current participants in a type-panel to explore facets of the type and introduce relevant themes found in the novel or film. Only the teaching section is recorded and made available for a week only to students who miss; the panel is never recorded to support confidentiality in the community. The experience of realtime community is what is expected here: the recordings of the teaching are not a product, they are a gift made available if you must miss a large-group session.
In the small groups of 9 participants that occur the same week as the teaching/panels, we have 45 minutes for all who may want to share their own reflections in a listening/reflection session without crosstalk, then we take a 10 minute comfort break, and afterwards move into open lively dialogue! This has met the needs of introverts and extroverts for over years, so we stick to it. There is plenty of time for reflections, reactions, questions and deeper delving amongst the participants. Dale Rhodes facilitates each group session, and the small groups are never recorded.
Optional: If your type is the teaching and panel focus that night, you are invited to join an hour's Online Noon YOUR TYPE LUNCH BUNCH to meet with folks of the same type, learn a bit, play "Stump the Chump" with questions for Dale; this is an invitation not an expectation, but everyone has enjoyed it. Never recorded, it is restricted to class members only. Meet your same-type buddies, explore the film/book together and plan what you'd like Dale and the panel to convey to the larger community that evening.
Optional: We have a local community dinner in person at the end of the series, and we link with non-locals online for a review and celebration.
One-to-One Chats, Voluntary (1-1) Pairs
Optional: You may be interested in meeting with an assigned different member at a time of your choosing in order to further explore content, reflections and responses to the class sessions. Your 1:1s can be in-person if you are local, or on phone or video. This is a great way to expand your understanding of the Nine Points of View in your own life. And it is a way to explore personality and humanities with people from different points of view. Many students say that the one-to-ones are the most meaningful part of the year's experience. Because you may connect this way, we do only a brief check-in at groups--- mostly we get right to the content on type themes and the literature/film selection. And if you miss a session, you are in a buddy system for the term to keep you connected. At registration, if you enjoy 1:1s, you may request to be in the rotations.
You will review a handout posted online called "Nine Points to Watch Out For" that will highlight type themes on each selection. There are brief videos on this website under the Enneawhat? Menu above for you to learn more about the type. You arrange to get the chosen book or film, which are often available for free through public libraries, streaming sites to which you are already subscribed. Plan to search IMDB.com for current film streaming options.
Social Community (SO): Navigating
At the 1st and 3rd Monday all-community evening teaching sessions, Dale will provide a short teaching on the type of the month and engage current participants in a type-panel to explore facets of the type and introduce relevant themes found in the novel or film. Only the teaching section is recorded and made available for a week only to students who miss; the panel is never recorded to support confidentiality in the community. The experience of realtime community is what is expected here: the recordings of the teaching are not a product, they are a gift made available if you must miss a large-group session.
In the small groups of 9 participants that occur the same week as the teaching/panels, we have 45 minutes for all who may want to share their own reflections in a listening/reflection session without crosstalk, then we take a 10 minute comfort break, and afterwards move into open lively dialogue! This has met the needs of introverts and extroverts for over years, so we stick to it. There is plenty of time for reflections, reactions, questions and deeper delving amongst the participants. Dale Rhodes facilitates each group session, and the small groups are never recorded.
Optional: If your type is the teaching and panel focus that night, you are invited to join an hour's Online Noon YOUR TYPE LUNCH BUNCH to meet with folks of the same type, learn a bit, play "Stump the Chump" with questions for Dale; this is an invitation not an expectation, but everyone has enjoyed it. Never recorded, it is restricted to class members only. Meet your same-type buddies, explore the film/book together and plan what you'd like Dale and the panel to convey to the larger community that evening.
Optional: We have a local community dinner in person at the end of the series, and we link with non-locals online for a review and celebration.
One-to-One Chats, Voluntary (1-1) Pairs
Optional: You may be interested in meeting with an assigned different member at a time of your choosing in order to further explore content, reflections and responses to the class sessions. Your 1:1s can be in-person if you are local, or on phone or video. This is a great way to expand your understanding of the Nine Points of View in your own life. And it is a way to explore personality and humanities with people from different points of view. Many students say that the one-to-ones are the most meaningful part of the year's experience. Because you may connect this way, we do only a brief check-in at groups--- mostly we get right to the content on type themes and the literature/film selection. And if you miss a session, you are in a buddy system for the term to keep you connected. At registration, if you enjoy 1:1s, you may request to be in the rotations.
Membership for 20 Online Sessions: $565 One-Time Payment
Fill out registration below.
Pay $565 total by check (Enneagram Portland PO Box 10603 Portland OR 97296)
or Venmo (Dale-Rhodes-2), or PayPal [email protected], or charge on this site, click here to pay: Payments
Membership for 20 Online Sessions: 3x Payment Plan $200 each
Fill out registration below.
Pay $200 Deposit by check (Enneagram Portland PO Box 10603 Portland OR 97296),
or Venmo Dale-Rhodes-2, or PayPal [email protected], or charge on this site, click here to pay: Payments then pay $200 November 1st and January 1st.
Fill out registration below.
Pay $565 total by check (Enneagram Portland PO Box 10603 Portland OR 97296)
or Venmo (Dale-Rhodes-2), or PayPal [email protected], or charge on this site, click here to pay: Payments
Membership for 20 Online Sessions: 3x Payment Plan $200 each
Fill out registration below.
Pay $200 Deposit by check (Enneagram Portland PO Box 10603 Portland OR 97296),
or Venmo Dale-Rhodes-2, or PayPal [email protected], or charge on this site, click here to pay: Payments then pay $200 November 1st and January 1st.
- Everyone joins for the entire season's participation as listed above, Sept 2024 thru February 2025.
- Your commitment is with yourself, your small group and the greater community. Please mark your calendars to be present.
- There are no refunds once your program is listed as full or after classes begin.
- All community members get $15 off private sessions with Dale Rhodes during the academic year.
From member Les Stoessl, Type 8:
"You get comments that open doors. It's fun and intellectually stimulating for us all. "
Enneagram Portland is all area codes, welcoming and encouraging a diverse community experience for all members. We are in our 9th year of this on-going community and always expanding our views and our understanding of justice, equity, diversity and inclusion (JEDI). Broaden your worldview with us this year! Click to view our diversity-focused titles.
"You get comments that open doors. It's fun and intellectually stimulating for us all. "
Enneagram Portland is all area codes, welcoming and encouraging a diverse community experience for all members. We are in our 9th year of this on-going community and always expanding our views and our understanding of justice, equity, diversity and inclusion (JEDI). Broaden your worldview with us this year! Click to view our diversity-focused titles.