5/15/15. Liberation. Liberation. Reflection. Overview Reflections on Leadership, Liberation and Life. The Day the Enneagram Landed in my Heart

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1 5/15/15 Overview Reflections on Leadership, Liberation and Life! Liberation Terry Saracino, MA, MBA! Leadership ~ The Day the Enneagram Landed in my Heart ~ The Big Picture - Enneagram and Integration ~ Our Part - 4 Elements of Transformation! Life 2015 Canadian Enneagram Conference Toronto, Ontario 1 3 Liberation The Day the Enneagram Landed in my Heart Liberation Reflection The Big Picture: Enneagram and Integration What role has the Enneagram had in your liberation?

2 5/15/15 Increase our capacity to something greater than ourselves Our universe is dotted with over 100 billion galaxies and each one contains roughly 100 billion stars. Simon Singh in the The Big Bang 13 The Enneagram To sit quietly, in a natural place, is to be Holy Ideas exposed to millions of miracles. Virtues Author Unknown

3 We make a space inside ourselves so Being can speak. Martin Heidegger Loosen our type patterns: The Enneagram Habit of mind or fixation Emotional pattern or vice Defense mechanism Idealization Avoidance Focus of attention Somatic instinctual neural Somatic The Enneagram 3 primary instincts 27 subtype patterns

4 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. Somatic Work John Welwood, The of Awakening 28 Integration/Embodiment 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 Somatic Work 31 Integration/Embodiment Reflection What are your practices in each of these areas: spirituality, psychology, somatic work? Do they inform each other? If so, how? Liberation Our Part ~ 4 Elements of Transformative Practice 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

5 5/15/15 Why Change is Hard! Requires letting go of the known and being No mud, no lotus. receptive to not knowing! We encounter discomfort Suffering is the universal solvent that melts us toward our own true natures. Thich Nhat Hanh! Conscious suffering is required (also known Michael Lerner A Gift Observed as intentional or voluntary suffering) 37 Four Essential Elements of Transformative Practice Intention! Intention! Attention! Repetition Attention! We have to engage the process! Cultivation of inner observer! Grace and impeccability! Mindfulness! Placement of attention! Generous Dose of Guidance! Shift from external to internal Source: Living Deeply: The Art and Science of Transformation in Every Day Life (Institute of Noetic Sciences) Repetition 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.! 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 Swami Nityananda Living Deeply! Practice, practice, practice! To make new : 3 breaths or 11 seconds

6 Generous Dose of Guidance! Teachers! Guides! Supportive community! Fellow travelers on the path 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 Reflection How do you relate to these 4 elements: intention, attention, repetition, and guidance? Is each one included in your practice? 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 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 Leadership Leadership for Enneagram practitioners! Know the content of the Enneagram! Know the field in which you are using the Enneagram! Know yourself Life! Where the rubber meets the road! Life as Practice, Practice as Life 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

7 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 I pin my hopes to quiet processes and small circles in which vital and transforming events take place. Rufus Jones, Quaker If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together African Proverb 57 7