Enneagram Alive Webinars
Enneagram Alive Monthly Webinars
Enneagram Alive runs a series of monthly webinars* offering inspiration from a range of talented people within our network and beyond.
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May Webinar
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Title: The Gift of Presence: from reactivity to
responsiveness in family relationships
Presenter: Valerie Tih
Date: Tues 14th April 2024, 19.30 - 21.00 GMT
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"Who we are and how we engage with the world are much stronger predictors of how our children will do than what we know about parenting” - Brene Brown.
Many caregivers and professionals are shifting away from authoritarian and permissive models of disciplining children and moving towards relationship-focused models that prioritize healthy attachment and connection. Effective leadership in families, schools, and communities is born out of fostering a culture of connection that is built on a foundation of Presence. This workshop is for parents, grandparents, and any professional who works closely with children and youth to help:
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pinpoint where we over-utilize or under-utilize the gifts of all nine Enneagram points when guiding children
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use the strengths of all 3 intelligence centers to become more responsive and less reactive during those tough/triggering moments
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compassionately illuminate what’s hindering our capacity to be present with children and ultimately the leaders we most want to be
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By showing up and committing to Presence, we courageously give children a secure place to land. Just as an acorn transforms over time into a mighty oak, children can go about self-actualizing into who they are meant to be, when they can rest in our Presence and love. Understanding both the strengths and challenges we bring to relationships can significantly improve our effectiveness as leaders and will impact families not only today, but for generations to come.
Valerie Tih (pronounced tea) understands that parents feel frustrated by the gap between who they want to be as a parent and the day to day reality of parenting. So at JoyFULL Coaching she provides shame-free courses and customized coaching so that parents can become the calm and confident parents they’ve always pictured themselves to be.
Valerie transforms outdated parenting paradigms into research-based Positive Discipline frameworks based on the latest brain science, the Enneagram, and best practices.
She has over 25 years of experience as a speaker, presenter and facilitator of retreats and educational workshops. She is a trained art therapist and a certified teacher. She’s a certified “Happiness Coach” (a program taught by Dr. Robert Holden), and is a Riso-Hudson/Enneagram Institute certified Enneagram Coach with Honours standing and is IEA accredited. She has presented on parenting and the Enneagram in the 2021 and 2023 IEA Global Conferences.
Valerie and her husband have two boys, aged 14 and 10 and her youngest son has Down syndrome. She enjoys advocating for people with disabilities and is passionate about building community, spreading kindness, and choosing joy.
Save the dates!
We are presently putting together an inspiring programme for 2024 for you. Details will be published and emailed as soon as they are finalised but in the meantime, you can SAVE THE DATES and mark them in your diaries.
Phyllis Jordan: 12th June 2024 (Weds), 19.30-21.00 GMT
Title:Two Way Prayer Meditation - an invitation to presence and connection through writing
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*There is a £10 charge for these online events. Enneagram Alive is a not for profit organsiation and run by volunteers. We welcome and are always grateful for donations from our community.
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Past Webinars
March 2024
Title: Meditation Made Personal - 27 Meditations for 27 Subtypes
Presented by: Lynn Roulo
Based on the Claudio Naranjo theory of the Enneagram subtypes, this workshop starts with an overview of the concept of subtypes and an introduction to Kundalini Yoga. We then move into each of the distinct 27 personality profiles, starting with an explanation of the subtype, sharing the growth path for the subtype, and then practicing a breathwork-based meditation for each personality.
Get ready try a great sample of Kundalini Yoga breathing techniques, mudras, mantras, and more. You should expect to leave this workshop with a better understanding of the subtypes, a clear understanding of the personal growth path for each of the subtypes, and a great introduction Kundalini Yoga meditations. The workshop includes a free 30-page ebook.
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February 2024
Title: The Enneagram in Love and Relationship
Presented by: Helen English and Andy Portman
Love and relationship can lift our hearts! We long for good connection; with intimate partners, family members, friends, colleagues and our social network. Yet nowhere do our patterns show up so clearly as they do here and often with painful consequences. How can we meet these patterns and be free to relate in loving presence? How might we start to live and relate in new ways? What helps us open to love and healing in relationship? How can we begin to have more conscious and life-affirming friendships? Helen English in conversation with partner Andy Portman to explored these perennial questions, so vital to our well-being.
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January 2024
Title: The New Year Enneagram: Re-sourcing your True Self
Presented by: Ingrid Hurwitz
We kicked off the New Year with Ingrid Hurwitz, focussing on the meaning of rebirth and renewal from an Enneagram perspective, exploring the ongoing cycles of transformation as well as the radical inner shifts that dedicated Enneagram students describe. Asking also how this work lead to the emergence of a new sense of self, while “the past me”, trapped in self-destructive patterns, seems almost unrecognisable?
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November 2023
Title: A Journey through the Enneagram
Presented by: Martin Quigley
Based on his soon-to-be published book of the the same title, Martin took us on an enlightening journey, demonstrating how - by using the inner observer and the power of self awareness - we can begin to relax and deconstruct our defence mechanism and move towards positive change. Lively breakout sessions gave participants a chance to let their imaginations play by asking themselves releavnt type specicifc "what if ..... " questions and share their experiences.
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October 2023
Title: The Power of Music and Resonance to transform your Energetic Pattern
Presented by: Martin Salzwedel
This workshop gave us some food for thought, testing our energies resonances with musical exercises (!), singing, and discussion in breakout groups to talk about how we experience our energetic drive. And how things change when we shift our energy.
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September 2023
Title: Experiencing the energy of your Enneatype through the Mudras
Presented by: Anna Fra
In this webinar, Anna led us on a fascinating journey through the Mudras of the passions and virtues of all nine Enneagram points. We had the opportunity to observe her demonstrate the Mudras and then to perform them ourselves, and to discuss the experience of really feeling and somatically sensing the energies of our type's passions and virtues.
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June 2023
Title: The Enneagram's Three Centres: History, Myth and Experience
Presented by: Uranio Paes
Enneagram Alive was delighted to welcome Uranio Paes, a world-renowned Enneagram teacher known for his innovation, powerful facilitation and thought-leadership. Uranio Paes illuminatd the distinctive ways in which body, heart, and head types work, given their dominant intelligences. He explained the theory around the centres that he and Beatrice Chestnut subscribe to and and some of the ways this may differ from the approach others take, both in theory and in practice. We heard about the Chestnut Paes Enneagram Academy approach and the reasons for it, as well as having a taster of what it's like to work directly 'in the room' with Uranio.
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May 2023
Title: Love and Connection in the Three Centres
Presented by: Peter O'Hanrahan
What can the Enneagram teach us about love, connection and human relationships? Peter reflected that love is easy to say but hard to define. It means different things to different people. Perhaps the most common meaning is that love is a feeling in the heart. Yet there is much more to “love” than our feelings. At times the centres work together, but not always. Understanding the role of our three centers show us how we love and how we want to be loved. Knowing our Enneagram Type helps us work with our ego defenses, our projections and idealisations our emotional habits, and shows us how we can develop our capacity to love through the body, heart and mind.
This well- attended webinar saw 38 people, led by Peter, share their experience and reflect on and compare the various ways of receiving and giving love through the three centres, and how this is influenced by type structure and how they show up in their relationships and in love.
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April 2023
Title: Is Modern Science Catching Up with Ancient Wisdom?
Presented by: Dr Henrie Lidiard
Spiritual traditions, including the Enneagram, have long talked about human beings having ‘3 centres’ of intelligence. However, for some these descriptions can seem a bit vague, unsubstantiated or ‘new age’ in nature, as if the ‘centres’ might just be a metaphor, an ‘energy’ or an idea.
However, there is now compelling evidence for their physical location, structure and function coming from the rapidly evolving field of neuroscience. Diverse studies now show that we do indeed have ‘brains’ or ‘centres of embodied intelligence’ in our heart and our gut, as well as in our head
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March 2023
Title: Introduction to the The Somatic Enneagram
Presented by: Marion Gilbert
As we start to use the Enneagram to understand ourselves better, we come
to have more options for how we respond to life, rather than being
“on automatic” in our personality’s type patterns. Our past history has
hard-wired us to stick with what we know, our type patterns, because they keep us safe. But keeping safe can keep us small and unable to fully open to the wholeness of who we truly are.
Feb 2023
Title: Are you my Type, Am I yours? The Enneagram in Relationships
Presented by: Rosemary Cowan
In honour of the age-old celebration of love on Valentine's Day, Enneagram Alive is thrilled to have Rosemary Cowan, renowned Enneagram Teacher and couples counsellor, present this webinar on the relevance of the Enneagram in growing and maintaining happy relationhips
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Jan 2023
Title: The Enneagram and Dreamwork
Presented by: Veronica Whitty
This webinar by Veronica Whitty provided us with a fascinating and unique opportunity to work on dreams. Dreams show us the consequences of what we are doing and inform us when the wishes of the ego are threatening our psychic or spiritual well-being. The more the ego censors the dream message, the more disturbing the dreams become. We use dreams as a mirror for issues.This workhop was an amazing journey into the world of dreams and a big thank you to those who were prepared and brave enough to bring their dream to the workshop.
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Nov 2022
Title: Getting Creative with the Flow of Life
Presented by: Helen English
Helen presented an intriguing study and interpretation of importance of symbols and how hese symbols map the flow of energy in our environment and within people too, as individuals, and groups. A lovely, interative webinar tdemonstrating how moving proactively with the wings and arrows of the Enneagram becomes a language of change and continuous movement. A language that helps us engage more positively with spirit, our own essence and with the world around us.
Sept 2022
Title: Typing, Mistyping,and a new Type Test
Presented by: Beatrice Chestnut
When we learn the Enneagram and all the many insights it gives us into our personalities, the first challenge is to find your correct type. In this webinar, Enneagram teacher and author, Beatrice Chestnut, discussed the sources of mistyping, what it takes to find your type in an accurate way, and the new type test she co-created with UK native Fergus Sullivan and her business and teaching partner, Uranio Paes.
June 2022
Title: An Introduction to Focusing: Discovering the More of Who We Are
Presented by: Therese Ryan
Focusing is a gentle and natural practice during which we bring a compassionate curiosity to our felt sense of a situation, allowing something new and fresh to emerge. We experience the "more" of who we are, beneath the patterns of our type. This experiential workshop will introduce you to the gentle power of Focusing. "Nothing that feels bad is ever the last step". Eugene Gendlin. Therese is a Narrative Enneagram teacher and a Focusing Professional.
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May 2022
Title: The Enneagram's Ancient Egyptian Origins
Presented by: Teresa Daniels
Uplifted by an Egyptian pilgrimage with Enneagram master Russ Hudson, Teresa shared photos, stories and learning on the roots of the contemporary Enneagram that lie deep in the Egyptian past. The talk followed the footsteps of Gurdjieff and the Desert Fathers and Mothers, through sacred sites and mystical temples in an ancient land, to find out what may be uncovered about the Enneagram symbol and its origins, so often described as lost in antiquity?