Exceptionel teaching about: 1.The Nine Defense Systems 2. Love from three centers and 3. Working with the emotional habits

We are happy to host a unique 2-day workshop with Peter O’Hanrahan, who is with no doubt one of the most experienced Enneagram teachers in the world.

Peter O’Hanrahan began his enneagram work in 1978 when the first public classes began in Berkeley, California with Kathleen Speeth PhD and Helen Palmer.

His understanding of the nine type structures was also informed by many years of practice as a counselor and body therapist. In the past 40 years he has taught the enneagram on six continents to a wide variety of groups including public classes, tech companies, church congregations, and university staff. In 1991 he certified as a teacher with the Palmer/Daniels Enneagram Professional Training Program (EPTP) and in 2001 he became a trainer for the EPTP in the US and other countries.

Today he continues as a core faculty member for the Narrative Enneagram school. Articles on the Instinctual Subtypes, the Embodied Enneagram, the Emotional Habits, the Defense systems are available at: https://theenneagramatwork.co

Program of the materials he will cover:

Saturday:

Working with our defense system. Each enneagram type has a specific defense system with three parts working together – the idealization, avoidance, and defense mechanism.

This system has served us by protecting us from harm; it also stands in the way of deeper work on ourselves. When our type structure is threatened by stress or conflict, by difficult external events, or challenges in relationships, the defenses of our type jump into action and resist even our most sincere efforts to grow.

Deep growth and healing require that we learn about our defenses and find ways to reduce their hold on us.

On day one we will explore: (You will learn)

• How the idealization of our type takes positive aspects of our personality and turns them into a trap.

• The nine patterns of avoidance – different for each type – that push us out of awareness and keep us in reactivity and habit.

• Nine specific defense mechanisms, one of which is the most familiar for our enneagram type.

• How the Law of Three can help us manage the conflict between our desire to grow and our resistance to growth

We are looking forward to seeing you at the workshop with Peter O'Hanrahan in Aarhus June the 15 and 16 2024

We are looking forward to seeing you at the workshop with Peter O'Hanrahan in Aarhus June the 15 and 16 2024

Sunday:

Understanding love and connection in three centers and the nine emotional habits

What is love?

How do we love the people in our lives?

What gets in the way? What are we good at?

How do we want to be loved?

Mr. Gurdjieff, who first taught the enneagram in the modern era, spoke about how love is expressed very differently from each center of intelligence.

We will explore: (You will learn)

• How each of our three centers expresses love and care: Instinctual love from the body center (doing). Emotional love from the heart center (feeling). Intellectual love from the head center (seeing).

• What gets in the way of love: the obstacles arising from our type structure and defense system.

• Why it’s time for the traditional “passions” of the nine types to be updated as the “emotional habits.”

• How we can best apply method to the journey from the contracted heart to the open heart.

• How the three “center groups” must get to, and get underneath, the primary emotional layer in their structure. Head types: fear; body types: anger; heart types: grief.

• How we can combine self awareness with breath practice to shift our internal state in the moment.

Dates: Saturday 15 and Sunday 16 June 2024

Time: Teaching from 9:00 - 18:00 / 9AM - 6PM both days

Location: Aarhus. Søren Nymarksvej 6, DK-8270 Højbjerg

Cost: 2-day Workshop Early bird until May 15 DKK 3.200 + VAT After 15th May the price is DKK 4.200 + VAT

Lunch both days: DKK 200 + VAT

Registration: By email to enneagram@mettstine.dk

Payment: By invoice

Language: This workshop will be held in english

Hosted by:

EnneagramUniverset by Jakob Horn og Mettstine Hattesen.