Exploring The 9 Points of View
in Literature, Film & Community
Seeing Something Greater In Ourselves
Year Six: 2021 - 2022
Discover the universal themes accessible and applicable to us all on the human journey.
Get a deeper understanding of the types and how you relate to their ways.
Expand your community of friends who talk type, character development, arts and literature.
The Enneagram is a map to universal inner and outer territories. While we often gravitate to certain regions, we visit them all daily throughout our lives. Join this program to find and experience where the map is leading you; all through an exploration of amazing characters and meaningful themes in great film and literature.
Now in its sixth year, this program explores the themes described in the Nine Points of View, along with a novel or film each month. Along with one evening teaching session, these are small group explorations on the Nine Types in Depth, using specific literature and film to enhance our understanding of ourselves and others. The book or movie may offer a character who generally exemplifies an Enneagram type's values, or it may explore themes that relate to an Enneagram type's area 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 each month find something relevant, moving and meaningful to examine in their own lives.
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 foundation and direction. The map of the Enneagram and experience with The Arts can provide our entry to universal life themes and meaning amongst us all. Join for this and all the other benefits of community membership. This year, we focus on The Good: Seeing Something Greater In Ourselves.
Get a deeper understanding of the types and how you relate to their ways.
Expand your community of friends who talk type, character development, arts and literature.
The Enneagram is a map to universal inner and outer territories. While we often gravitate to certain regions, we visit them all daily throughout our lives. Join this program to find and experience where the map is leading you; all through an exploration of amazing characters and meaningful themes in great film and literature.
Now in its sixth year, this program explores the themes described in the Nine Points of View, along with a novel or film each month. Along with one evening teaching session, these are small group explorations on the Nine Types in Depth, using specific literature and film to enhance our understanding of ourselves and others. The book or movie may offer a character who generally exemplifies an Enneagram type's values, or it may explore themes that relate to an Enneagram type's area 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 each month find something relevant, moving and meaningful to examine in their own lives.
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 foundation and direction. The map of the Enneagram and experience with The Arts can provide our entry to universal life themes and meaning amongst us all. Join for this and all the other benefits of community membership. This year, we focus on The Good: Seeing Something Greater In Ourselves.
Membership includes ABC!
A. Type of the Month Teaching and Panel Interviews
All Students Attend
Every 1st Wednesday 6.30p-8.00p
Teachings recorded for members. Panels never recorded.
B. Monthly Groups of Nine Online
You Choose One
Mornings 10a-12p: Every 2nd Tues, 2nd Weds or 2nd Fri or
Evenings 6:30-8:30p: Every 2nd Tues, 2nd Weds or 2nd Thurs
All Sessions Online Pacific, Oct 2021 - June 2022
C. Chat w/ one new classmate monthly
Friend-pairs are assigned in advance but scheduled at your own leisure!
Self-Study in Your Own Nest
Each month on your own, you will join the online course management system to review a few handouts and brief videos on the month's type along with Dale's reflections on the novel/film. You also arrange to experience the chosen book/film (often available for free in our public libraries or on streaming sites to which you are already subscribed: search google/bing or IMDb along with the title for streaming options). A few prepared questions are available for your self-reflection and for use in your one-to-one and group discussions.
Welcome to the Self-Preservation Instinct experience of this class!
Pairs in A Pear Tree
You also commit to meeting with a different member each month at a time of your choosing in order to further explore content, reflections and responses to the class sessions. A schedule is created for this at the beginning of the term. In-person if you like and are local, or online. This is a great interdisciplinary 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 we 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 to keep you connected.
Welcome to the One-To-One Instinct experience of this class!
Our Feathers Flock Together
Meet the Types! At the *new* 1st Wednesdays all-community teaching sessions, Dale Rhodes will provide a short teaching on the type of the month (recorded) and engage participants in type-of-the-month panels (not recorded) to explore themes and facets of the type and that month's novel/film.
In the 2nd of the Month small groups, we have 45 minutes for any who may want to share their own reflections without crosstalk, we take a 10 minute comfort break, and afterwards move into open lively dialogue! There is plenty of time for reflections, reactions, questions and deeper delving amongst the participants. Dale Rhodes facilitates each group session.
Welcome to the Social Navigating Instinct experience of this class!
Each month on your own, you will join the online course management system to review a few handouts and brief videos on the month's type along with Dale's reflections on the novel/film. You also arrange to experience the chosen book/film (often available for free in our public libraries or on streaming sites to which you are already subscribed: search google/bing or IMDb along with the title for streaming options). A few prepared questions are available for your self-reflection and for use in your one-to-one and group discussions.
Welcome to the Self-Preservation Instinct experience of this class!
Pairs in A Pear Tree
You also commit to meeting with a different member each month at a time of your choosing in order to further explore content, reflections and responses to the class sessions. A schedule is created for this at the beginning of the term. In-person if you like and are local, or online. This is a great interdisciplinary 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 we 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 to keep you connected.
Welcome to the One-To-One Instinct experience of this class!
Our Feathers Flock Together
Meet the Types! At the *new* 1st Wednesdays all-community teaching sessions, Dale Rhodes will provide a short teaching on the type of the month (recorded) and engage participants in type-of-the-month panels (not recorded) to explore themes and facets of the type and that month's novel/film.
In the 2nd of the Month small groups, we have 45 minutes for any who may want to share their own reflections without crosstalk, we take a 10 minute comfort break, and afterwards move into open lively dialogue! There is plenty of time for reflections, reactions, questions and deeper delving amongst the participants. Dale Rhodes facilitates each group session.
Welcome to the Social Navigating Instinct experience of this class!
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 you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Autumn 2021: The Emotional Relating Types: Referencing Past Relations
Our lives are lived through crafting an identity, remembering the importance of relationships, and making connections.
We seek to inspire others, to increase life's depth and meaning, and to encourage loving connections with others.
We all ask: How do I relate to this part of life? How is this me?
October: Type 3 The Performer
READ OR LISTEN: Trevor Noah: Born a Crime (Autobiography)
November: Type 4 The Romantic
Watch: Cherry Blossoms (Film)
December: Type 2 The Connector
READ or (better) LISTEN: Dolly Parton: Songteller (*Audio* Memoir is *highly recommended*) or
WATCH: Dolly Parton: Here I Am (Netflix Documentary)
and WATCH: I Love You Man (Film)
Our lives are lived through crafting an identity, remembering the importance of relationships, and making connections.
We seek to inspire others, to increase life's depth and meaning, and to encourage loving connections with others.
We all ask: How do I relate to this part of life? How is this me?
October: Type 3 The Performer
READ OR LISTEN: Trevor Noah: Born a Crime (Autobiography)
November: Type 4 The Romantic
Watch: Cherry Blossoms (Film)
December: Type 2 The Connector
READ or (better) LISTEN: Dolly Parton: Songteller (*Audio* Memoir is *highly recommended*) or
WATCH: Dolly Parton: Here I Am (Netflix Documentary)
and WATCH: I Love You Man (Film)
Winter 2022: The Kinesthetic and Action Types: Living In the Now
Our lives are lived through getting on, getting down and getting in to what matters.
We go for Right Action, Strength for the Vulnerable and Enacting Goodness.
We all ask: How do I relate to this part of life? How is this me?
January: Type 9 The Mediator
READ OR LISTEN: Gloria Steinem: My Life On the Road (Memoir); or
WATCH: The Glorias (Film) or Gloria: In Her Own Words (Documentary)
February: Type 8 The Protector
WATCH: Awkwafina and Sandra Bullock: The Farewell (Film) and Oceans 8 (Film)
March: Type 1 The Idealist
READ OR LISTEN: Michelle Obama: Becoming (Memoir) and/or
WATCH: Netflix Documentary Becoming
Our lives are lived through getting on, getting down and getting in to what matters.
We go for Right Action, Strength for the Vulnerable and Enacting Goodness.
We all ask: How do I relate to this part of life? How is this me?
January: Type 9 The Mediator
READ OR LISTEN: Gloria Steinem: My Life On the Road (Memoir); or
WATCH: The Glorias (Film) or Gloria: In Her Own Words (Documentary)
February: Type 8 The Protector
WATCH: Awkwafina and Sandra Bullock: The Farewell (Film) and Oceans 8 (Film)
March: Type 1 The Idealist
READ OR LISTEN: Michelle Obama: Becoming (Memoir) and/or
WATCH: Netflix Documentary Becoming
Spring 2022: The Mental Planning Types: Thinking of the Future
Our lives are lived through planning to create safety, security and predictability.
We are seeking membership in community, thoughtful (limited) engagements, and freedom from restriction.
We all ask: How do I relate to this part of life? How is this me?
April: Type 6 The Loyal Skeptic
WATCH: Mud (Film)
May: Type 5 The Observer
WATCH: Musician Kutiman in Presenting Princess Shaw (Film)
and in The Thru You Too Series (YouTube);
and The Station Agent (Film)
June: Type 7 The Epicure
WATCH: Elton John in Rocket Man (film)
and Captain Fantastic (Film)
Our lives are lived through planning to create safety, security and predictability.
We are seeking membership in community, thoughtful (limited) engagements, and freedom from restriction.
We all ask: How do I relate to this part of life? How is this me?
April: Type 6 The Loyal Skeptic
WATCH: Mud (Film)
May: Type 5 The Observer
WATCH: Musician Kutiman in Presenting Princess Shaw (Film)
and in The Thru You Too Series (YouTube);
and The Station Agent (Film)
June: Type 7 The Epicure
WATCH: Elton John in Rocket Man (film)
and Captain Fantastic (Film)
This course assumes *general* familiarity with the Enneagram system, but you gain plenty with handouts and a lesson each month. We will hear from the type of the month each 1st Wednesday at the community teaching. Small group class time will be more focused on how the literature/film/themes relate to us all, not just to the type of the month. Students might find it helpful to have one Enneagram text to refer to before reading the selection of the month. Buyer beware of Enneagram teachers with little training or skill behind them who may have unnamed agendas. Three highly-recommended classics are listed below and there is a bibliography of recommended authors on the website.
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 teachers and friends who are inspiration and support for these classes specifically:
Judith Searle author of The Literary Enneagram: Characters from The Inside Out
Tom Condon, author of The Enneagram Movie and Video Guide
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Registration & Deposit are completed via the button below.
a. Quarterly Tuition: Pay $100 Deposit online or with check. Then pay $165 Quarterly by September 30th, by December 31st, by March 31st via check or this website's payment page. You will attend Wednesday Evenings 6:30p- 8:00 and your small group.
b. Yearly Tuition: $100 Deposit online or with check. Then pay $450 balance by September 30th via check or this website's payment page. You will attend Wednesday Evenings 6:30p - 8:00p and your small group.
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 teachers and friends who are inspiration and support for these classes specifically:
Judith Searle author of The Literary Enneagram: Characters from The Inside Out
Tom Condon, author of The Enneagram Movie and Video Guide
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Registration & Deposit are completed via the button below.
a. Quarterly Tuition: Pay $100 Deposit online or with check. Then pay $165 Quarterly by September 30th, by December 31st, by March 31st via check or this website's payment page. You will attend Wednesday Evenings 6:30p- 8:00 and your small group.
b. Yearly Tuition: $100 Deposit online or with check. Then pay $450 balance by September 30th via check or this website's payment page. You will attend Wednesday Evenings 6:30p - 8:00p and your small group.
- This program is currently running with 40 students enrolled. Email if you are interested in joining a 2022 2x/month group.
- All join for the entire academic year Oct 2021 thru June 2022, no refunds once program begins.
- All community members get $25 off private sessions with Dale Rhodes during the academic year.
Hey Check This Out!
Enneagram Portland encourages and welcomes a diverse community experience.
We are in our sixth season of this program and always expanding our views, along with our understandings and experience of diversity, equity and inclusion. In past programs, we have focused on these works as explorations into type themes. Broaden your worldview with us!
Enneagram Portland encourages and welcomes a diverse community experience.
We are in our sixth season of this program and always expanding our views, along with our understandings and experience of diversity, equity and inclusion. In past programs, we have focused on these works as explorations into type themes. Broaden your worldview with us!
