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Two-year Enneagram study course
LEVELS 1-2-3
Study seminars organised by the La Teca institute
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The Enneagram Seminars held by the La Teca association take place over a period of two years, following a precise training programme.
Our institute's approach to the Enneagram originates from Rodney Collins' school. He was a direct pupil of Ouspensky, and is thus in close touch with the thinking of Gurdjieff and the Fourth Way.
The seminars take place three times a year (one intensive weekend every four months), and run from the Friday evening through to 6 pm on the Sunday.
Each meeting is a unique experience, with the aim not only of assimilating the theoretical aspects of the concept presented, but also the opportunity to try them first hand, through practical exercises and shared experiences.
The programme is built around three levels of learning, which must be assimilated in progressive order: basic, intermediate and advanced level.
At the end of the training programme, examinations are held, leading to a final evaluation and certificate acknowledging participation in the course.
Basic level:
The Enneagram of Types
• Getting to know participants and their motivations.
• Introduction to the Enneagram: Gurdjieff, father of the Enneagram
• The Enneagram according to Ouspensky.
• The Enneagram as a symbol of human birth.
• The different personalities as a consequence of the I's defence mechanisms towards suffering.
• Study of these defence mechanisms: (lunar) DENIAL, (mercurial) PROJECTION, (venusian) INTROJECTION, (martial) REACTIVE AGGRESSION or DESTRUCTION, (jovial) IDENTIFICATION, (saturnine) SUBLIMATION (perform theatrical exercises to explain each of these defence mechanisms).
• The Enneagram and the psychological types arising from a fixation on a specific defence mechanism: lunar, mercurial, venusian, martial, jovial, saturnine.
• Mixed types: pure types, mixed types, dual types.
• The psychological types and their classic physical appearance.
• The psychological types and their main flaws.
• Combating our main flaw: a fundamental element of the work on ourselves.
• How to work on our main flaw through the Enneagram
• The Enneagram and the representation of I's: we have all the psychological types in us.
• The war of the parts: the I's battle with each other
• The domain of the I: The controlling I and the Centre of the Enneagram.
• Differences between Essence and Personality.
Intermediate level:
The Enneagram of the psyche
• The Enneagram and Gurdjieff's system: an in-depth study of the 1924 drawing
• Comparisons of these drawings with alchemic images.
• Alchemy and the Fourth Way: The Enneagram and the work on ourselves.
• Study of an 18th-century symbol: a historic Enneagram.
• The origins of the modern Enneagram.
• Enneatypes and Centres.
• Personalities: agglomerations of I's produced by the Centres.
• The basis for communication with others through the Enneagram (touching on transactional analysis).
• A technique for dominating the personality: lying. Each part has its own lie.
• The drive for identification of each personality.
• Loving relationships and the Enneagram.
• The four levels of consciousness.
• The sleeping consciousness and self-remembering.
• The Enneagram of saintly personalities: evolution in the conscience of each part.
• How to solve the machine problem
• The language of the formatory centre: symbol and rite.
• Practical exercises.
Advanced Level:
The Enneagram of the Spirit
• The importance of the Formatory Centre: the badly-trained typist.
• The higher centres in enneagram psychology and the Fourth Way.
• The symbol and its importance for the unconscious.
• Voluntary and involuntary imagination.
• Emotional obstacles to imagination: hesitancy, inhibition and shame, and the consequent rational rejection of imagination as a defence of inhibition.
• The imaginary world and the essential child. Recovering his resources.
• The main key-symbols for “repairing” the formatory centre: death, life, nature and God.
• God and the imaginary world of children.
• Monotheism and Monopsychism.
• Spirituality and the Enneagram: where is God right now?
• Practical experiences.
• The perception of the divine and repercussions on the psychological structure through the Enneagram.
• Enneagram-based relations between the I, God and the world: the missing side of the triangle.
• Pointers for practical reflection and objective observation.
• God: a tool for achieving psychological maturity?
• The Divine and the Super-Ego.
• Self-remembering.
• Practical Enneagram: Repositioning the inner triangle to point upwards.
• Practical and visualisation exercises.
• The Enneagram and the structuring of Fourth Way schools.
• Why a school is essential. What is a school?
• The Enneagram and the teaching, structuring the pupil's learning method.
• Exercising memory: practical objectives.
• Practice and attempts at communicating with the higher centres.
• The use of rhythm for each point of the Enneagram.
• The Enneagram and music or objective art as a whole.
For more information on starting dates, go to the events section.
For further information contact us using the on line form .
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