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Comments from Participants

"Tom Condon is a gifted teacher, perceptive and intuitive as he worked with each of us. His kindness, tact, and compassion were evident throughout the weekend, which built trust and rapport. It was a joy to watch him work with others and be a recipient of his insights and help."
- Beverly Sorensen, Enneagram Teacher

"An invaluable clinical perspective from someone who knows the Enneagram cold. Tom is a teacher's teacher." - Rita Heller M.S.W.

"The workshop was dynamite! Tom's skill combined with his caring and humor makes his workshops easy to recommend to anyone who wants to change and grow." - Hal Harber, Retired Banker

"I found Tom's knowledge and experience, as well as mellow approach, a great combination. These two days have been a wonderful introduction to a fascinating system." - Cheri Young, Health Care Administrator

"This really helped put my NLP skills into context. The workshop gave me a much better model for integrating specific NLP techniques for each personality style. The interviews and demonstrations were particularly useful!" - Robert Roundtree, M.D.

"The workshop was very powerful for me. I'm not exaggerating when I say that my primary relationship has taken on a whole new glow based on the things that I learned. I'm also finding it easier to express myself and have a clearer view of what I want." - Patrick Callahan, Teacher

"This workshop was the most valuable I have attended both for my personal growth and my work as a therapist. Tom's style of working with us was intuitive, creative and playful. He worked skillfully and respectfully with each of us, taking nothing away but pointing the way to a greater range and freedom of choice." - Elizabeth Bean, Therapist

"Tom exhibits gentle yet firm skills in his therapeutic interventions. Watching him work with the participants was inspiring and his humor is magnificent. I really enjoyed his style and my learning."
- Murray Spalding, Author, The Enneagram & NLP

"The combination of NLP, Ericksonian hypnosis and the Enneagram was well done and very helpful. I've been to many seminars - this ranks among the best." - Dick McHugh, Co-Director, Sadhana Institute

"Condon interviews people, applies NLP techniques and behold: like a pattern under the heat of an iron, the Enneagram styles appear and you KNOW them in a way you'll never forget. Condon mixes 10 years of Enneagram familiarity, 14 years of NLP and hypnosis practice with what apparently is a genetic gift to make the Enneagram types vivid and real. And during it all he is extraordinarily helpful." - The Enneagram Educator

"Thomas Condon presents a compelling and vivid description of each personality type. With a respectful humor and a gentle, focused style, he inspires people to see that there are choices wherever there is increased awareness. I would recommend this workshop for those who feel ready for change." - Jeanette Ezzo, Conflict Mediator

"One of the most profound learning experiences of my life. Very clear definitions, useful and clarifying examples and demonstrations of resourceful techniques. Tom is a kind, respectful and playful teacher." - Mary Bast, Executive Coach

"I thought the workshop was excellent, informative and enjoyable. A wonderful introduction to the Enneagram."
- Clare Crawford-Mason, Writer and Television Producer

"Seeing and listening to the different personality styles opened me to greater compassion, appreciation and acceptance of others - and of myself." - Donna Thome, Therapist & Seminar Leader

"Tom's easy manner encourages people to examine themselves in a supportive environment that allows them to touch sensitive areas." - Susan Firestone, Artist

"The experience Tom Condon provides for you in Lifethemes expertly combines today's most sought after techniques for personal and professional growth. Don't miss this workshop!"
- Janet Burr, Author of Awaken Your Intuition

"For me, this experience has blended my knowledge of NLP and hypnosis and supplied the missing link - personality. I have gained many new ways to interact and help people. I would highly recommend this workshop!"
- John Davidson, Academic Director, Suncoast School of Massage Therapy

Review of a Lifethemes Workshop from The Enneagram Educator

"In a mountain resort just outside the small city of Bend, Oregon, Tom Condon puts on the workshop he calls Lifethemes. He combines the techniques of neurolinguistic programming (NLP) and Ericksonian hypnosis, the vision of the Enneagram, and, apparently, a small helpful portion of magic.

Each workshop session begins almost casually. Condon hands out several sheets on the Enneagram types he will discuss. Beginning with sketchy cognitive detail, Condon starts to talk, simply and clearly. He uses a minimum of professional jargon. Without fanfare, the magic starts.

He does not overwhelm, either with emotional intensity or technical detail. He just describes the Enneagram type in deepening spirals. He seems to see with an inner eye and talks as though he were a psychic tour guide. He continues with the conscious layer, then adds metaphors, stories about people, movie references, jokes - as much right brain evocative material as is needed.

Condon has a thorough grasp of the Enneagram and is a finely trained therapist, but his ability to evoke the experience of the type with image, metaphor and example is magic. If you've ever tried to figure out Enneagram types armed just with the cognitive information from books, you understand why this poetic layer is so important.

The Enneagram is an inner map and a code that enhances and personalizes the NLP tools. NLP takes existing energies within the person and moves them around. If a person is brave on the ski slope, NLP can move that bravery to the dinner table conversation or a sales presentation. With the Enneagram, Condon was able to quickly and effectively learn where the real energies lay and where they need to move to.

Even those innocent of the sleight-of-mind techniques of NLP could see some of the practice: mirroring, hypnotic suggestions and reframing (calling an experience by a different name so as to see and feel it differently). Condon drew out the pattern and usually moved the person past some thickets one could tell they usually didn't negotiate well. The combination of the therapeutic practices of NLP and the Enneagram is powerful."

About Thomas Condon

Thomas Condon is an internationally recognized Enneagram trainer and author. He has taught over 400 workshops in the United States, Germany, England, Switzerland, Austria, Luxembourg, Italy and France. The Director of the Changeworks in Bend, Oregon, he has been an adjunct faculty member of Antioch University and the University of California at Berkeley. He is a certified Master Practitioner of Neurolinguistic Programming and had an NLP-based private practice for 11 years. Tom is the author of over 50 audiotapes,videotapes and books.

About Tom's Work With the Enneagram
"As the Editor of the oldest and largest journal on the Enneagram, I overlook the entire field. I am approached constantly with writing on the subject. I sift through a lot of sand to find gold but I've always found the real stuff with Tom Condon. His material is original and practical; he writes clearly and vividly. There's no one doing the work he's doing; Tom is a major voice in the Enneagram community." - Editor, Enneagram Educator

"Thomas Condon has been studying and working with the Enneagram for 18 years and his depth of understanding is apparent. Through examples, stories and analogies he conveys a clear understanding of each personality type. His approach is fascinating, dynamic and richly observed."
- Inner Quest Magazine

"Thomas Condon does a great job of filtering the Enneagram through NLP. You'll acquire some potent professional tools and learn about yourself first."
- Anchor Point

"Tom Condon enhances the Enneagram with techniques from NLP and Ericksonian hypnosis. The healing potential of the Enneagram unadorned is amazing; when it is set as the jewel in Condon's multi-faceted approach, we begin to see how much more is possible." - Courtney Behm, Nine Points,
The Newsletter of the International Enneagram Association

About The Enneagram Movie and Video Guide

"A mine of real gold! What is beguiling about Condon's work, besides an uncommonly fine literary style, is the clarity with which he points out Enneagram styles that most students have trouble seeing."
- The National Catholic Reporter

"Condon utilizes movie characters to disclose the inner workings and psychodynamics of each style. This book is fun, well written and a great source of Enneagram instruction. The use of film is a powerful method for capturing the nuances and essence of every personality style." - Enneagram Monthly

"Condon breaks new ground! If you watch the movies, or even just read their reviews, your Enneagram assessing skills will increase dramatically." - The Enneagram Educator

"A real find! Condon's movie guide provides not only a snappy introduction to the Enneagram's personality types, but write-ups of hundreds of movies, focusing on the main characters and their behaviors. A series of movies exhibiting one type will give the reader a great sense of both the basic issues and their variations for that type. Condon provides capsule reviews plus good viewing and study suggestions." - Inner Journeys Book Review

"In becoming a psychotherapist it was always clear that reading great novels taught me more than any psychology course. Thomas Condon has taken film - the art form of our time - to show the mind heart and bodily experience of each Enneagram style. Truly a great book!"
- Margaret Frings Keyes Author, Emotions & The Enneagram

"Not since Helen Palmer broke the ice with her classic work The Enneagram has learning this fascinating system of personality types been so easy. Considered to be one of the oldest forms of psychological assessment, the Enneagram has remained elusive to many, but, thanks to Thomas Condon, here is a format (finally) that anyone can understand.

This book emphasizes the illustration of the nine Enneagram types through observation by providing the personality types for almost one thousand movie characters. The Guide is an easy read and functions as an admission ticket to a realm in which we can gain a deeper understanding of movie characters and personality types.

This is a must-read for people who already know the Enneagram - it will help them to deepen their insights - and it is a great introduction for the newcomer. The actors and movies are clearly indexed so readers can easily find their favorite actors and delve deeply into the movie characters' psyches. There is no stuffy psychobabble, just clear descriptions about using our most celebrated medium - film - as a tool of psychological discovery. Get The Enneagram Movie and Video Guide and display it in your store. It will be a steady seller for a long time."
- Reviewed by Mark Husson, Twelfth House Bookstore - New Age Retailer

"Have you ever watched a movie and wondered, "Why did that character do that?" If you have, read The Enneagram Movie and Video Guide by Thomas Condon, the one and only book to review the movies and their characters in terms of the Enneagram, a popular psychological system of personality types. For example, Meg Ryan's character in When Harry Met Sally was a 6 with a 7 wing. Robert De Niro in Raging Bull was an 8.

With The Enneagram Movie and Video Guide you won't have to analyze your friends. Instead, you'll have thousands of characters at your disposal - and you can watch them behave over and over just by pressing "rewind." This is a wonderful book for learning and/or increasing your understanding of the Enneagram. - Leading Edge Review