Enneagram Workshops
Workshops:
The Enneagram is a powerful tool for helping people understand themselves and their relationships to others in their family or in the workplace. Nilsen, a certified Enneagram instructor, brings these teaching events to your congregation or place of work, presenting the Enneagram through lecture and/or power point presentations and through informal discussion. Directed exercises lead people toward discovering their type and understanding the ramifications of this discovery. Depending on the interests of the participants, the workshop can focus on:
- The Enneagram in the Workplace:
How to understand your work style, deal with co-workers or bosses of differing styles, and many other ways to use the Enneagram in the workplace.
- The Enneagram for Spiritual Growth:
Special emphasis is placed on prayer styles, biblical texts that liberate each type, and how each type can grow spiritually.
- The Enneagram for Parenting:
Every parent of more than one child knows that children come into the world hard-wired in different ways. This workshop helps parents understand core differences in children and how best to parent each type.
- The Enneagram in Relationships:
What strengths do the various personality types bring to relationships? What are the innate problems? How can I grow in self-understanding so I can be a better spouse or friend?
- Enneagram Staff Enrichment:
Church staffs and staffs of other organizations have found the Enneagram an extremely helpful tool in enhancing the strengths of staff members and minimizing misunderstandings that lead to friction and dissension.
Mary (sometimes working with her husband, Roy, a retired clergy and certified Enneagram instructor or Ruth Foster also a certified Enneagram instructor) comes to local congregations or organizations and gives personal interviews to all the staff members, helping them discover their personality type. Then she conducts a one-day retreat at which time participants explore their behavior in the workplace as it relates to their type and seek to understand each other by sharing responses to such questions as: When I am under stress, my behavior changes in this way... What I most need from people around me at that time is...
For more information, contact Mary Nilsen at 1-800-996-2777 or marynilsen@zionpublishing.org
