Harvard Negotiation Insight Initiative Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School Summer Learning Forum The Enneagram: A Catalyst

for Insight and Change July 16-20, 2007 With Helen Palmer and Louise Phipps Senft

The Enneagram is an historic map of psychological barriers to inner receptivity. Ennea means nine in Greek, and grammos is something written or drawn the map of nine cognitive/emotional obstacles was named during its passage through the Greek Philosophical tradition, only to be recently re-discovered as identical to the personality types recognized by todays clinicians and spiritual directors. The Enneagrams enduring value is its ability to integrate modern personality theory with spiritual practice that relaxes each types core resistance to taking in reality as it actually is. The result is a far greater ability to enter and maintain a seat of receptive inner awareness to what is actually happening Now instead of responding automatically. The focus of our week will be on self-awareness, an ongoing attention to our own internal state, and the profound influence our type structure has on the way we do conflict. In discovering your own type within this system, and hearing the vastly different perspectives described by other types, you will recognize a pattern of key motivations, avoidances, and selective placements of attention tthat emerge as a conflict unfolds, On the cognitive side - -our format includes interviews and interactions with the types, and short didactics, On the practice side we concentrate on three core contemplative methods: Self-observation, mindfulness, and object contemplation, which act together in relaxing resistance instead of acting it out. Helen Palmer has worked with this system since the early 70s. A teacher of psychology and intuition, she authored five well regarded books in the field of human consciousness. The Enneagram and The Enneagram in Love and Work are international bestsellers, now in 24 languages. This work became the subject of a 2002 PBS show Breaking Out of the Box: Discovering the Enneagram. Together with David Daniels, M.D. she co-founded Enneagram Studies in the Narrative Tradition, an organization that presents worldwide on key topics of psychological and spiritual integration. Her current interest is in Enneagram Distance Learning, in association with John F. Kennedy University at www.Enneagram.com. Louise Phipps Senft founded LPS & Associates/Baltimore Mediation in 1993, the first mediation and conflict transformation firm in Maryland. Her firm offers family and business facilitation, mediation and training nationally and internationally. All her work is grounded in the transformative approach of a relational framework. Louise, also a law professor, has provided workships and mediation services to thousands of individuals in the judiciary, commercial, non-profit, university and government agency settings, She is an Associate and certified trainer with the The Insititute for the Study of Conflct Tradition, and its International teaching Association. Louise and her training partner, Larry Hoover, wre the first to introduce the Enneagram to lawyers and mediators as the chief method for developing their own selfawareness and emotional and spiritual intelligence for staying grounded while intervening a conflict and allowing conflict to unfold. With her experience in both domains, Louise is particularly well suited to bridge the Enneagram system with the theory and practices of mediation and conflict transformation. Registration Information is available here.