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2015 Canadian Enneagram Conference Toronto, Ontario

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Reflections on Leadership, Liberation

and Life

Terry Saracino, MA, MBA

Overview !  Liberation

~ The Day the Enneagram Landed in my Heart

~ The Big Picture - Enneagram and Integration

~ Our Part - 4 Elements of Transformation

!  Leadership

!  Life

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Liberation

The Day the Enneagram Landed in my Heart

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Reflection

What role has the Enneagram had in your liberation?

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Liberation

The Big Picture: Enneagram and Integration

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Path to Integration

ENNEAGRAM

SPIRITUALITY

Increase capacity to be receptive

Loosen type patterns: mental/emotional

Relax type structure: Instinctual neural

pathways

INTEGRATION EMBODIMENT

PSYCHOLOGY SOMATIC

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Path to Integration

ENNEAGRAM

SPIRITUALITY

Increase capacity to be receptive

Loosen type patterns: mental/emotional

Relax type structure: Instinctual neural

pathways

INTEGRATION EMBODIMENT

PSYCHOLOGY SOMATIC

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Spirituality

Increase our capacity to be receptive to something greater than ourselves

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“Our universe is dotted with over 100 billion

galaxies and each one contains roughly 100

billion stars.”

Simon Singh in the The Big Bang

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“To sit quietly, in a natural place, is to be

exposed to millions of miracles.”

Author Unknown

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Spirituality The Enneagram

Holy Ideas

Virtues

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“We make a space inside ourselves so Being

can speak.”

Martin Heidegger

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Path to Integration

ENNEAGRAM

SPIRITUALITY

Increase capacity to be receptive

Loosen type patterns: mental/emotional

Relax type structure: Instinctual neural

pathways

INTEGRATION EMBODIMENT

PSYCHOLOGY SOMATIC

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Psychology

Loosen our type patterns: mental/emotional

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Psychology The Enneagram

Habit of mind or fixation

Emotional pattern or vice

Defense mechanism

Idealization

Avoidance

Focus of attention

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Path to Integration

ENNEAGRAM

SPIRITUALITY

Increase capacity to be receptive

Loosen type patterns: mental/emotional

Relax type structure: Instinctual neural

pathways

INTEGRATION EMBODIMENT

PSYCHOLOGY SOMATIC

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Somatic

Relax type structure: instinctual neural pathways

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Somatic The Enneagram

3 primary instincts

27 subtype patterns

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Path to Integration

ENNEAGRAM

SPIRITUALITY

Increase capacity to be receptive

Loosen type patterns: mental/emotional

Relax type structure: Instinctual neural

pathways

INTEGRATION EMBODIMENT

PSYCHOLOGY SOMATIC

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Spirituality

Psychology Somatic Work

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Spiritual Bypassing

Use of spiritual ideas and practices to shore up a shaky sense of self, or to belittle basic needs, feelings and developmental tasks in the name of enlightenment.

John Welwood, The Psychology of Awakening

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Realization

Movement from personality to being, the direct recognition of one’s ultimate nature Actualization How we integrate that realization in all the situations of our life

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Spirituality

Psychology Somatic Work

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Reflection

What are your practices in each of these areas: spirituality, psychology, somatic

work?

Do they inform each other? If so, how?

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Liberation

Our Part ~ 4 Elements of Transformative Practice

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Why Change is Hard !  Automatic patterns of thought, emotion,

behavior are unobserved

!  Patterns are rooted in the autonomic nervous system and operate outside of ordinary consciousness

!  Identity “works” in the external world

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Why Change is Hard !  Requires letting go of the known and being

receptive to “not knowing”

! We encounter discomfort

!  Conscious suffering is required (also known as intentional or voluntary suffering)

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No mud, no lotus. Thich Nhat Hanh

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“Suffering is the universal solvent that melts us toward our own true natures.” Michael Lerner A Gift Observed

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Four Essential Elements of Transformative Practice

!  Intention

!  Attention

!  Repetition

!  Generous Dose of Guidance

Source: Living Deeply: The Art and Science of Transformation in Every Day Life (Institute of Noetic Sciences)

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Intention

!  We have to engage the process

!  Grace and impeccability

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Attention

!  Cultivation of inner observer

!  Mindfulness

!  Placement of attention

!  Shift from external to internal

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Repetition

!  Neuroplasticity: capacity of connections between neurons in the brain to change in response to experience and our environment

!  Neurogenesis: formation of new nerve cells continues throughout life

!  Practice, practice, practice

!  To make new pathways: 3 breaths or 11 seconds

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The moment of realization or aha! is the outcome of dedicated effort. Constant and daily effort is important and necessary in any individual’s life.

Swami Nityananda Living Deeply

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Generous Dose of Guidance

!  Teachers

!  Guides

!  Supportive community

!  Fellow travelers on the path

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“What is spiritual friendship?

It is the genuine meeting of two people who are vulnerable and open and truth-telling and available for actual contact and communion at the feeling level.”

Tami Simon Founder, Sounds True

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Reflection

How do you relate to these 4 elements: intention, attention, repetition, and

guidance?

Is each one included in your practice?

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Leadership

!  The greater your liberation from automatic type patterns, the more capacity you will have to inspire, empower, and lead others

!  Can truly be present to and receive others as they are instead of from the biases of type patterns

!  Bestowed by followers

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Leadership

Greatest predictors of sustained success

!  Self Awareness

!  Learning Agility

!  Communication

!  Influence

Source: The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership by Jim Dethmer, Diana Chapman, & Kaley Warner Klemp

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Leadership

Leadership for Enneagram practitioners

!  Know the content of the Enneagram

!  Know the field in which you are using the Enneagram

!  Know yourself

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Life !  Where the rubber meets the road

!  “Life as Practice, Practice as Life”

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If you are really awake, conscious, and aware, then your life is a practice. Then everything you do is a practice.

Wink Franklin Living Deeply

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Life Applying to this community and this weekend

!  We come together to learn and share in a community of like-minded souls

!  We need each other’s support for “living deeply”

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“I pin my hopes to quiet processes and small circles in which vital and transforming events take place.”

Rufus Jones, Quaker

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If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together. African Proverb

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