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Opening
Up The Enneagram
New
Dimensions and Applications
Tom Condon
This new audio program, recorded and edited from a
live workshop, offers a variety of powerful methods
and models that will help you change yourself and
others.
Subjects
Include:
The Meta Model. An amazingly useful
language model that has many intersections with the
Enneagram. The Meta Model helps you recognize and
respond to the language patterns of different
Enneagram styles and offers linguistic distinctions
that will help you communicate better with each one.
If knowing someone's Enneagram style helps you speak
their language, the Meta Model will help you speak
their dialect.
The Meta
Model is most commonly used to gather high-quality
specific information in situations where it is
important to understand someone exactly. It is used by
coaches, therapists counselors, business consultants
to understand their clients' internal states and
specific needs. The model is both a revealer of
internal states and Enneagram styles and offers
methods for altering both.
Meta
Programs.
Derived from Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP), Meta
Programs are unconscious, deep-rooted patterns by
which we filter our experience and shape our
perceptions. Like Enneagram styles, Meta Programs help
us create and sustain our subjective reality personal
narrative.
Meta
Programs overlap with and nicely complement the
Enneagram, giving the latter additional depth and
texture, leading to new ways to use the Enneagram to
change and grow. Meta Programs operate, in large part,
unconsciously and come in two varieties, related to
inner motivation and outer communication.
In this edited
workshop we explore and experience the Meta Programs
most relevant to the Enneagram. These include how
people process information, make decisions, are
motivated to change, set goals and what they
generalize, delete and distort.
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Opening up the Enneagram, Tom Condons new
recorded seminar, responds to a question Enneagram
students frequently ask. "Now that I know my style,
what do I do about it?" Condon introduces two models
and methods from NLP (Neurolinguistic Programming)
and integrates them with the Enneagram in a new way.
The first, called the -Meta Model, deals with
language. Enneagram 101 starts by identifying your
focus of attention and language is the structure of
that focus. The way we talk eliminates some
information, emphasizes other and distorts a lot of
reality. Condon devotes the first part of his
seminar to explaining how we all employ some of
these linguistic patterns. Then he explains how
certain Enneagram styles prefer specific patterns
which predictably shape their subjective reality.
Condon adopts almost a technical approach. His
unifying concerns are a) how we create and maintain
the reality of our Enneagram style and b) how to
change and grow past it. He presents each style as
dynamic, a moving inner structure. His explanations
and examples are concrete and vivid. For example,
Enneagram students know that many style Nines have a
tendency to think globally and have some difficulty
getting specific. What do they do that other styles
do less of? They think and speak in generalizations:
"It was always that way in those days." "We're going
to have to change everything to make this whole
thing work."
For coaches and counselors, Condons categories,
taken largely from Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP)
materials, are helpful coming and goingt recognizing
and helping. Coming, you can recognize Enneagram
styles by the -syllables they utter, and then to
help clients, you can identify the patterns and then
more aggressively, interrupt those patterns.
For example, a style Two will ignore her own needs
and then meet those needs in others. She uses
certain language patterns to accomplish this,
especially one called "mind readiong." A Four will
be certain that he does not meet the criteria of the
group he aspires to. He will use specific speech
patterns to express, reinforce and even create his
emotional state. Think lamentations: description of
misery to elicit deserved sympathy and justice.
The big three patterns that do all of us in are
distortion, deletion and generalization. We tell the
whole truth and nothing but the truth but only under
oath and with outside help. We tell part of our
version of some of the truth vaguely. And then only
to some people under certain circumstances. By the
end of Condon's seminar, one is convinced clear
communication is a triumph, not an assumption. What
instructed me as a coach was the liberating leverage
provided by the clarifying patterns of the Meta
Model.
The second subject area is called "Meta Programs." A
series of patterns that connect well to the
Enneagram. Condon starts, as does the Enneagram,
with focus-what an individual sorts for, what they
most often notice as well as ignore. For example, we
may sort for people, activities, place, things or
information. We may sort for more than one of these,
usually, but in a hierarchy. Twos will want to know
who will be at the meeting and a Seven will want to
know what activity is planned. Both people may want
to know both but with different intensity.
Besides focus, Condon deals with energy as he
introduces other Meta Programs related to
motivation: Do we run toward what we desire or away
from what we fear or loathe? Are we concerned about
internal or external rewards and standards? Do we
look to our self or to others for our reference
points? Every Enneagram style has a composite of
these preferences. Condon is always careful to use
words like "tend" and "frequently." These are not
absolutes either in a style or an individual.
After sharing these patterns, Condon has
style-specific groups flesh out how that works for
them and report back to the general group. So we
hear from all nine Enneagram styles. I found the
differences among the subtypes more pronounced than
I would have expected. A self-preservation subtype
may have some clear divergence from a social subtype
and Condon pointed out that often subtype
preferences can be a source of greater friction in a
relationship than the style itself.
Condon closes the workshop with his signature magic:
demonstrations of changework, this time with a style
Two and a style Eight. Both clients explore in depth
how their Enneagram patterns were acting out in
their lives. With an apparently casual interruption
of their defenses, Condon enabled them to see with
fresh and undefended eyes what they could do to
solve several type-specific problems. Tom doesnt
batter down defenses like say, Dr. Phil. He reminded
me of Jonathan Swift's satire about the little folk
of Lilliput. They bound their victim with a thousand
threads. When Tom works with a client he loosens one
thread at a time. It is breath-holding to listen to
someone become free one thread at a time.
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