Summer Sun Casts a Shadow:
Exploring The 9 Points of View in Film & Community
Online Realtime Community: 4 Sessions on the Centers and Shadow
Thursday Mornings 10am - 12Noon: May 22, June 12, July 10 & Aug 14
Don't wait for Groundhog Day in February--- We see our shadows everyday thru Summer!
This 4-session program is open to all types and student levels. This is a small group exploration on the Core Types 9/6/3 in depth and on shadow content, using specific film characters and themes to enhance our understanding of ourselves and others. The Core Types represent the clearest views into what each center triad wants: (Kinesthetic) Control 891/ (Mental) Predictability 567/ (Relational) Approval 234.
The chosen movie/novel/play offers themes and a character who generally exemplifies type/center values, so we may better understand the center's/type's areas of attention, motivations and life themes, vice to virtue shifts, or paths to disintegration and challenges to wholeness. We also ask deeper questions on meaning always found in well-crafted films. As we have all points of view available to us, and all these 9 folk around us, most participants find something relevant, moving and meaningful to examine in their own lives.
Given that we are so often more than we can see in ourselves, a look into blindspots, difficulties we pose for others and ourselves, it's worthwhile exploring the other sides of ourselves through a view into all the types. We might unearth some gold from the unowned content of our ways of being.
Discover universal themes accessible and applicable to us all on the human journey. Get deeper understanding into yourself, the other types, and how you relate to their ways of being--- adaptive or maladaptive. Expand your community of friends who talk type, character development and the arts. Every session you will find something worthwhile!
The chosen movie/novel/play offers themes and a character who generally exemplifies type/center values, so we may better understand the center's/type's areas of attention, motivations and life themes, vice to virtue shifts, or paths to disintegration and challenges to wholeness. We also ask deeper questions on meaning always found in well-crafted films. As we have all points of view available to us, and all these 9 folk around us, most participants find something relevant, moving and meaningful to examine in their own lives.
Given that we are so often more than we can see in ourselves, a look into blindspots, difficulties we pose for others and ourselves, it's worthwhile exploring the other sides of ourselves through a view into all the types. We might unearth some gold from the unowned content of our ways of being.
Discover universal themes accessible and applicable to us all on the human journey. Get deeper understanding into yourself, the other types, and how you relate to their ways of being--- adaptive or maladaptive. Expand your community of friends who talk type, character development and the arts. Every session you will find something worthwhile!
"Be careful in casting out your demons that you’re not casting out the best in you.” Nieztche
Orientation, Introductions & Teaching All the Types
(Looking at the Shadow)
Thursday May 22 10a-Noon Pacific
Core Type 9 and 8s/1s Seeking Control & Effect
(Inert Rage/Excess/Resentment)
Thursday June 12 10a-Noon Pacific
Film to Review: The Banshees of Inisherin (Martin McDonough)
Core Type 6 and 5s/7s Seeking Predictability & Assurance
(Doubt/Stinge/Impatience)
Thursday July 10 10am-Noon
Play or Film to Review Prior: Doubt (John Patrick Shandley)
Core Type 3 and 2s/4s Seeking Approval/Relating/Identity
(Deceit/Pridefulness/Envy)
Thursday August 14 9:30am-Noon
Novel to Read Prior: The Talented Mr. Ripley (Patricia Highsmith)
(Acceptable but not recommended: Film or miniseries)
(Looking at the Shadow)
Thursday May 22 10a-Noon Pacific
Core Type 9 and 8s/1s Seeking Control & Effect
(Inert Rage/Excess/Resentment)
Thursday June 12 10a-Noon Pacific
Film to Review: The Banshees of Inisherin (Martin McDonough)
Core Type 6 and 5s/7s Seeking Predictability & Assurance
(Doubt/Stinge/Impatience)
Thursday July 10 10am-Noon
Play or Film to Review Prior: Doubt (John Patrick Shandley)
Core Type 3 and 2s/4s Seeking Approval/Relating/Identity
(Deceit/Pridefulness/Envy)
Thursday August 14 9:30am-Noon
Novel to Read Prior: The Talented Mr. Ripley (Patricia Highsmith)
(Acceptable but not recommended: Film or miniseries)
The Peacemaker 9: 891s have more attention to Power, Control, Effect, Agency and The Now.
The Loyal Skeptic 6: 567s have more attention to Information, Safety, Security, Predictability and the Future.
The Performer 3: 234s have more attention to Image, Attention, Approval, Attunement with Others and The Past.
Not for the faint of heart but for folks willing to explore themselves and others with curiosity and humility...
This course assumes general familiarity with the Enneagram system, but you gain plenty with handouts and a lesson each time. 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 to refer to, but not required.
Highly-recommended classics are listed below and click here for the bibliography of recommended authors on the website.
This course assumes general familiarity with the Enneagram system, but you gain plenty with handouts and a lesson each time. 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 to refer to, but not required.
Highly-recommended classics are listed below and click here for the bibliography of recommended authors on the website.
Self-Study: Each month, you will review a handout and two 200-second videos on the center being explored, along with Dale's reflections on things to watch for in the book or film. You arrange to view the film or read/listen-to the book prior to class; plan to search IMDB.com for film streaming options. A few prepared questions are available for your self-reflection and for use in our group discussions.
Together: In our sessions, Dale will provide a 20 minute teaching on the centers, blindspots, difficulties posed for others, shadow content; engage the group to explore many facets of the types, and introduce relevant themes found in that session's book or film. We will have 30 minutes for any who may want to share their own reflections without crosstalk, we take a 10 minute comfort break, and afterwards move into 60 minutes of open lively dialogue. There is plenty of time for reflections, reactions, questions and deeper delving amongst the participants.
Together: In our sessions, Dale will provide a 20 minute teaching on the centers, blindspots, difficulties posed for others, shadow content; engage the group to explore many facets of the types, and introduce relevant themes found in that session's book or film. We will have 30 minutes for any who may want to share their own reflections without crosstalk, we take a 10 minute comfort break, and afterwards move into 60 minutes of open lively dialogue. There is plenty of time for reflections, reactions, questions and deeper delving amongst the participants.
Membership in All 4 Summer Sessions $95
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- Everyone joins for the entire course series.
- Your commitment is with the community as well as yourself.
- No refunds once our program is listed as full or classes begin.
- Gain some friends and add to meaningful conversations for just one season!
Enneagram Portland welcomes and encourages a diverse community experience.
We are in our 10th of the 9 Types in Literature, Film and Community and always expanding our views, along with our understandings and experience of justice, equity, diversity and inclusion (JEDI). Broaden your worldview with us this year.
Click for our past diverse titles
Click to read reviews & endorsements
We are in our 10th of the 9 Types in Literature, Film and Community and always expanding our views, along with our understandings and experience of justice, equity, diversity and inclusion (JEDI). Broaden your worldview with us this year.
Click for our past diverse titles
Click to read reviews & endorsements
