Summary Description
Basic Training
20 modules and 7 bi-weekly cohort sessions, based on Jerry’s best-selling book The Enneagram Spectrum of Personality Styles: An Introductory Guide, 25th Anniversary Edition. This is a comprehensive approach to the Enneagram using the Enneagram Spectrum system. At the end of this training, participants will be issued a certificate as a Certified Instructor in the Enneagram Spectrum Method.
My Enneagram Training Programs are accredited by the International Enneagram Association. Participants who want to be recognized as an Accredited Enneagram Professional can count my programs toward their own accreditation through the IEA.
Who Will Benefit from This Training?
Anyone wishing to expand their knowledge of the Enneagram to enhance their work with individuals or groups.
- therapists, counselors, psychologists, social workers
- 25 CE’s are available for each training for social workers, and counselors (License no: IL 159-001178)
- 25 CE’s are available for each training for psychologists (License no: IL 268-000036)
- spiritual and retreat directors, ministers
- business coaches and consultants
- managers, human resource personnel
- teachers
- anyone interested in personal development and insight into their own personality style and the styles of people in their life
What is the Process Involved in the Training?
- Didactic input from Jerry Wagner, A clinical psychologist, International Enneagram Association (IEA) Founder, accredited with honor professional teacher, and Enneagram author, researcher, and presenter for over 45 years
- 20 recorded modules of online training. Each module contains input and suggested reflection questions. Some modules have required homework assignments designed to help participants personalize the various features of the Enneagram. These assignments need to be submitted to access the next module.
- Seven online cohort meetings after various modules have been viewed to answer questions, hear from other participants, discuss how to present the material, share the homework assignments in small groups, etc. Besides learning from Dr. Wagner, hearing from others who identify with different styles is an invaluable way to understand these diverse ways of being in the world. Attendance at these online group meetings is required to be a Certified Instructor in the Enneagram Spectrum Method. This training has been approved by the IEA for many years now.
What Will You Take Away from the Basic Training?
You will learn the following Content:
- the historical roots of the Enneagram
- what streams of perennial wisdom and contemporary psychology feed into this system?
- the theoretical framework on which the Enneagram is based
- how do the pieces of the Enneagram puzzle fit together?
- the key features of the nine Enneagram styles
- what does each style look, sound, and feel like?
- the resourceful and less-resourceful cognitive, emotional, and behavioral schemas of each style
- what are the adaptive and maladaptive features of each style?
- the paradigm shifts in response to inner and outer stressors
- what happens when each style is relaxed or under pressure?
- the influence of neighboring styles and subtype variations
- what else influences the expression of each style?
- different traditions and approaches to the Enneagram and resources available
- books, audio and video tapes, test instruments, newsletters, organizations, etc.
You will receive the following Materials:
- Enneagram Spectrum of Personality Styles: An Introductory Guide, 25th Anniversary Edition (Digital Version)
- 228 page introductory text containing 30 reflection questions and a structure for understanding and presenting the Enneagram system
- Wagner Enneagram Personality Style Scales (WEPSS)
- Participants receive a complimentary test code to take the online version
- Participants will learn how to administer and interpret this questionnaire (available online at www.wepss.com), the only Enneagram inventory published by a major psychological test company with sufficient research to be favorably reviewed in Buros’s Mental Measurements Yearbook
- 376 PowerPoint Slides
- Instructor Certification
- At the end of this Part I training, participants will be issued a certificate as a Certified Instructor in the Enneagram Spectrum Method.
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