One Spirit Workshops in Essential Spirituality

08-821 The Enneagram: Nine Faces of the Ego
and Nine Aspects of Essential Presence
with Rev. Karen Watt MA; Rev. Tony Zito MD; Rev. Michael Pergola MA, MBA, JD.

POSTPONED UNTIL SPRING '09
9:30 am to 5:30 pm
$200 Public, $175 OSIS Students
OSIS Credit Value: 2

Distance Learning Available (click to learn more)

The Enneagram is a powerful topology whose roots can be traced to many of the world’s great wisdom traditions. Providing both a psychological and spiritual map of our inner landscape, it correlates well with a variety of spiritual teachings, including ancient Christian, Jewish, Buddhist, and Sufi traditions, each of which describes perceptual patterns similar to those illustrated by the Enneagram. Rather than pigeonhole personalities, the Enneagram seeks to help individuals escape from the boxes and habitual patterns in which they find themselves. It is a dynamic tool for understanding how the ego develops and how to let go of unconscious patterns that imprison one’s essential nature.

Through reading, lecture, experiential exercises and dialogue, students will come to understand:
• The nine characteristic ways they turn away from their essential nature as ego develops.
• The passions that drive behavior and create a false face of personality characterizing how they show up in the world.
• The beliefs, defenses, emotional patterns and behavioral predispositions that stem from core wounds, unconsciously directing their actions and reactions.
• How to re-access the lost qualities of their essential nature.
• The soul’s journey home using the Spiritual Enneagram, including the Holy Ideas and Virtues, which are essential qualities that counteract and override the hold of the ego.

Students will be able to incorporate these new insights and deeper understanding of unconscious patterns into their personal and professional relationships and will develop a new capacity for authentic relatedness and genuine communication.

Rev. Michael Pergola MA, MBA, JD, Co-Founder & President of One Spirit Learning Alliance has pursued an understanding of consciousness in individuals and collectives for over 30 years. A long time student of the world’s wisdom traditions, he served as Chief Knowledge Officer at a large bank for six years and practiced law at Wilmer, Cutler and Pickering for nine years. He has a JD and MBA from Cornell University and a Masters in Organizational Dynamics and Individual Development from the University of Pennsylvania. He is an Enneagram teacher, a facilitator, mediator, meditation teacher, biofeedback practitioner and executive coach. He teaches and consults to Fortune 500 companies in the areas of leadership, communication, organizational learning and creativity. He develops and teaches courses in a wide variety of areas including: Integral Spirituality, Ancient Wisdom for Modern Life, and Spiral Dynamics. In his various roles Michael applies his understanding to support others in developing personal mastery and the capacity for skillful action.

Rev. Karen Watt, MA is an ordained Interfaith minister, a consultant to business, educational, and non-profit organizations and a personal and business coach. She is a trained facilitator, a certified mediator, an experienced educator, a certified Enneagram teacher, and a board member of One Spirit Learning Alliance. Karen has facilitated organizational learning and coached both individuals and teams in large corporations. She served as a lead teacher and Board President at the Institute for the Advancement of Service in Alexandria, VA., and has a Master’s Degree from George Washington University. In her various roles as teacher, counselor and coach she provides a safe space for individuals to understand the “limits to growth” that impede their development as full human beings. Karen nurtures her student’s capacity for personal mastery, self-knowledge, and skillful action in their personal and professional relationships.

Rev. Tony Zito, MD is an ordained Interfaith minister, retired psychiatrist, pianist, cook, mediator, and avid student of the world’s spirituality. Tony has a deep knowledge of both psychology and spirituality. He expresses his understanding in a down to earth and human way that creates safety and the opportunity for insight. Living with spiritual principles through abundant and trying times in life has brought Tony to a deep and practical spirituality well suited to life in contemporary society. Tony is a gifted teacher who energizes his students as he inspires them to a deeper way of knowing.