Saturday April 25th, 2009
9:30am – 5pm (please arrive at 9am to register + mingle with fellow participants)

Meals are on your own.  You may bring your own lunch or enjoy food from the restaurants just across the street from the center.

$55 (members of Boulder Integral $45) Registration at the door.  Payment by check or cash only please.

According to Ken Wilber, one of the most prominent teachers of the Integral way of learning, living and loving life, there are five fundamental areas of our being that are all equally important: Quadrants, Levels of Development, Lines of Development, States of Consciousness and Types of Personality/being.  This event is about Types of Personality, a very juicy and heart-opening way to learn about our own unique ways of being, and doing things (or not) in our lives with self and other.

While there are many teachings that explore personality types, this day-long workshop will be about getting to know more intimately your personality type through the Enneagram, a fantastic and modern synthesis of a number of ancient wisdom traditions.  See the origins of the Enneagram here.

We will have an opportunity to gain insight into the Enneagram of personality, the Enneagram of spirituality and how to work with each as an ongoing practice to experience reality and our own Beingness more fully and truly.  We will combine mindfulness and the Enneagram to identify our Type and see how it filters, expands, enlightens, and many times, limits and skews our ability to perceive and experience the most essencial core original nature of our reality and ego.

“We have to distinguish between a man as he is in essence, and as he is in ego or personality. In essence, every person is perfect, fearless, and in a loving unity with the entire cosmos; there is no conflict within the person between head, heart, and stomach or between the person and others. Then something happens: the ego begins to develop, karma accumulates, there is a transition from objectivity to subjectivity; man falls from essence into personality.” (Interviews with Ichazo, page 9)

The Enneagram of personality describes, with amazing accuracy and depth, nine fundamental egoic perspectives (Types) through which people interpret reality.   The Enneagram of spirituality describes nine truths about the universe, called Holy Ideas.  Each Enneagram Type experiences one of these universal truths as being absent from the world.  Our Enneagram Type defends against this perceived absence by creating an egoic structure that tries to be that missing aspect of the universe.  By learning more about our particular Holy Idea and our particular Type, this program will help us disidentify from or see with more Divine clarity our Enneagram Type so we can experience a more inclusive and integrated perspective.

The Enneagram is a profound teaching that will shine light on many parts of you.  And it is rare, indeed, to learn this teaching along with the age-old-but-never-goes-wrong practice of mindfulness.  Come and explore this amazing system and see how it can become invaluable to you.

About the Teacher

Tracy Allen has taught the Enneagram in California and Colorado and led groups that apply it as an ongoing practice since 2001.  She has trained in the psychological and spiritual aspects of the Enneagram with the Diamond Approach school led by her spiritual teacher, Hameed Ali, and has studied with both Don Riso and Russ Hudson, and Helen Palmer and David Daniels, the leaders of the two primary approaches to the Enneagram today.  She has an M.A. from Naropa University in Transpersonal Counseling Psychology and, in addition to her private therapy practice, is an energy lawyer as well.  Tracy is a passionate Enneagram teacher and practitioner.

Questions – nomali@boulderintegral.org