Offsites

The Enneagram is a powerful and ancient system that illuminates 9 personality archetypes that in exploring, help us understand ourselves and each other with renewed insight and clarity. The enneagram, when understood and applied, can transform our personal and professional relationships. It helps us parse out the conditioned persona parts of self vs. the more essential aspects of Self that are often hiding under the ego’s misguided strategies to keep us safe and subsequently small. It also helps us see that truth is relative based on where were sitting and reveals how our lived experience has shaped us, thus engendering compassion for the profound range and depth of the human experience. One day of exposure to this body of wisdom can have a profound impact on the collective morale, empathy and cohesion of a group or organization.

Creation is born from stillness and the quality and resonance of our creations are directly connected to the quality and depth of our stillness. This day long offsite allows its participants to explore the relationship between being and doing, stillness and expression, and the ways in which we inhibit our inherent ability to be the creators of our lives and our experience here. We will dive deeply into the cultivation of presence, connection to our essential Selves and then we will create from that place. The process will allow us to disarm the inner critic and acknowledge with compassion and care, the internalized shame that so often sabotages our impulse to show up authentically from a place of clarity and truth.

This day long offsite introduces and explores some of the most profound and relevant concepts from the Dharma to support and strengthen alignment, empathy and clarity in any group endeavoring toward a common goal. Examples include but are not limited to:

1. Moving from theoretical (head) wisdom to embodied (heart) wisdom.

2. The cultivation of the space between stimulus and response to reclaim choice and greater agency over outcome.

3. The differentiation between the idea that life is happening TO us vs. life is happening FOR us.

4. How cultivating the inner conditions of friendliness, tenderness, warmth and compassion elicits the outer conditions we seek.

5. The art of being in the flow of the river vs. trying to swim upstream. Balancing and harmonizing our agendas with what is actually happening in real time.

This day long offsite is for those that are interested in learning how to convert pain into grace + challenge into wisdom. This is for groups that want to directly address the sources of pain and conflict that are at the heart of whatever discontent and disconnection is thwarting harmony, progress and potential. When we drop into our hearts and find a meta vantage point, we begin the process of seeing how our pain points are also our teachers. We begin to trust the larger impetus behind why these challenges have arrived and we harness the courage to embrace rather than resist what is ours to alchemize. We cannot transmute and integrate our lessons through force or fear. It can only happen when we are ready to perceive ourselves and each other through the lens of compassion, forgiveness and love. This offsite holds the space and provides the wisdom for this to happen.

We will use creative process to bring pain points into the form of image and symbol and then through active imagination and opening up our lens, we will begin to see what these pain points are trying to teach us. Through the creative process and widening our hearts and lens, the path of meaning making and healing begins to emerge. From there we build a pathway toward resolution and integration of the wisdom gleaned.