Embracing leadership through the Enneagram
Course description
In this course we rediscover and establish our connection with inner and outer values and perspectives and free ourselves from internal blockages. In this way we generate the space and time to acquire skills to handle our relationships with wisdom and compassion and to live with meaning and purpose.
Appreciative Inquiry is a strengths-based, inclusive and actionable approach towards system change and development. Appreciative inquiry works on the premise that every organic system has some inherent generative forces, which when amplified, unleash positive energy and enable collective commitment.
Enneagram is a personality type model we use as a tool of self-awareness and personal development to lead us toward personal transformation. As a symbol, the geometrical figure consists of a composition of the wisdom of religious and spiritual traditions dating back over 2500 years. It outlines the 9 basic types of human nature and the complex relations between them. It is a precise method to understand ourselves and others and provides keys for working on our relationships.
This is an experiential journey of self-awareness and personal development based on the Enneagram, appreciative inquiry, and emotional intelligence as the basis for individual and community change. The intention is to offer a way of facing challenges in a way that increases general productivity and reinforces collective commitment.
Methodology
The combination of systemic appreciative approaches used in this workshop make a powerful package for catalyzing systemic generative change in people, organizations and communities. This involves techniques of mindfulness for looking at one’s overall inner picture and areas of potential change while emotional intelligence and spiritual intelligence techniques are used to enhance awareness of self and of one’s relationships. The workshop takes place through interactive and experiential self-awareness, personal development exercises and meditation.
Using the Enneagram as a guide, we deploy techniques and tools consulting and psychology tools, specifically Gestalt theory, Positive Psychology, Cognitive Psychology, Transactional Analysis, Coaching and Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP).
Benefits
- Developing a more positive perspective
- Developing an ability to be present and observant in daily life
- Recognizing and understanding vision, values, virtues, passions, strengths, fears, the inner dialogue, the blind spots, the vulnerabilities, the defense mechanisms and the leadership model of the nine personality types of the Enneagram
- Recognizing personal motives that lead you to your basic functional and non-functional behaviours, and how you have limited yourself
- Developing self-compassion and overcoming your inner critic to develop compassion and understanding of others
- Implementing efficient strategies and tools based on strengths to change what limits you.
Programme
This workshop is highly experiential and participatory. It consists of short theoretical lessons, practical exercises and team discussions.
MORNING SESSION I
– Opening and introduction
– Opening Round – getting to know each other
– Expectations Round
– Setting up the Agenda
Break (20 min)
MORNING SESSION II
Appreciative Inquiry
- Introduction and Overview of Appreciative Inquiry
– Principles of Understanding and Practicing
– 4D model – Discovery process
Lunch Break 13.00-14.30
AFTERNOON SESSION
The history of the Enneagram: the symbol and the typology
The 9 ways we view the world
The essence of one’s self, the personality structure, self-awareness and the relationship with others
Break
Experiential Exercises
Reflective Sharing Round
Closing of the day – 5 min
Local Evening – welcome reception
MORNING SESSION
– Opening round check in
Warm pp exercise – playful movements
The vision, the values, the virtues and the passions of each type
The unconscious messages of childhood, the basic fear, the vulnerability, the emotions under stress, the defense mechanisms
Break
– 2D Envisioning Process
– Cultivating a generative approach
– Workouts
– Plenary session – Sharing and processing round
Lunch Break 13:00 – 14:30
AFTERNOON SESSION
The ways of communication and the leadership model of each type
Theory and preparation for practice
Break
– Formulation of working groups and Journaling
– Sharing and processing round for the whole group
MORNING SESSION
– Morning Check in Opening Round
– 3D Design – Appreciative action planning ·
– Practicing ‘Appreciative Conversations’
– Workouts
Break
– Workouts II
Lunch Break
AFTERNOON SESSION
– Gestalt individual work out
– Circling
Break
– Sharing and reflections
MORNING SESSION
– Morning Check in Opening Round
- Mindfulness Exercises (part 1)
– 4D Destiny/Delivery
Break
– Drama & Fishbowl process
Lunch Break 13:00 – 14:30
AFTERNOON SESSION
– The role of spiritual intelligence in relationships, workplace, home, community
- Awareness of habits and areas of potential change
– Excursion in the nature
– Outdoor activities
MORNING SESSION
– Morning Check in Opening Round
– Open Space Technology process / Proaction Cafe
– Sharing and processing round for the whole group
Lunch Break 13:00 – 14:30
AFTERNOON SESSION
Experience different enneagramme people talks in an appreciative way
– Feedback on each other in working groups and Journaling
– Evaluation / Integration
Big Circle: Participants future ideas, invitations to each other
Duration: 6 days
Dates: Upon request
Location: Crete, Greece
Designed for participants/groups
This workshop is designed for individuals, groups and organizations who are interested in team-building activities or individuals who want to grow personally as individuals and leaders. It is for those who feel that the journey of self-discovery and transformation is important and wish to use the Enneagram as a tool in their lives.
This workshop is ideal for:
- Staff members of organisations
- Personal development consultants, mental health counselors, psychologists, coaches, career counselors and business consultants who want to use it as a tool of their work
- Managers and directors who want to use Enneagram in the workplace, in their relationships, with their clients or with members of their team.
The course seeks to enable participants to share and explore the role of leadership in the development of sustainable communities and to identify how their experience and potentials could be used for wider benefit. It draws on appreciative leadership, leadership embodiment and Enneagram ideas and techniques.
Instructors
Dr. Markos Perrakis, founder and managing director of Fractality, designs and implements projects in the areas of leadership development and strategic planning to promote effective communication and individual and collective process development.
Dr. Perrakis is one of the first persons in Greece to apply the methodology of appreciative inquiry for individual and organizational development. This approach seeks to strengthen human capital and social bonds to generate organizational capacity.
Fractality offers services in coaching, training, assessments, supervision, process facilitation and speaking, systemic consultation, solution focused and cognitive behavioural approaches, methods of participatory design, spiritual intelligence and psychometric assessment. Dr. Perrakis is a certified provider of Vocational Guidance and Professional Orientation and an ISO 9001 lead auditor.
Dr. Perrakis is a representative of the Association of International Institution Supervision in Europe, a member of International Intervision Groups, scientific assistant of the Society for Organisational Learning, and scientific partner of the European Union of Small and Medium Enterprises (EUMU) in Greece in the Strategic Planning and Human Capital Development programmes.
Dr. Perrakis holds a Ph.D. in social psychology on leadership styles and their efficiency in organisations and an M.A. in clinical psychology.
Niki Anandi Koulouris has been working as HR Consultant, Corporate Trainer / Facilitator and Coach since 2002. As a trainer / facilitator, Ms. Koulouris designs and delivers interactive, experiential workshops and educational programs aimed at developing human potential across multiple sectors for all staff and board levels. She uses an experiential approach employing techniques and methods from systems theory, Gestalt psychology, art and types of meditation. In her work with people and organizations, Ms. Koulouris utilizes the Enneagram, a model that encapsulates the 9 basic types of human personality and their intricate relationships.
Ms. Koulouris is trained in psychology and integrative counseling methods such as Gestalt, transactional analysis, systemic constellations, neuro-linguistic programming, hypnosis, psychogenetic system and Enneagram; corporate coaching; and personal development and spirituality. She is a certified trainer of adults by the Accrediting Council for Continuing Education & Training and is a member of the Hellenic Coaching Association /EMCC Greece-Cyprus, the International Enneagram Association and the Creativity Coaching Association.
Venue
Our program takes place in Athens, Classical Athens was a powerful city-state that emerged in conjunction with the seagoing development of the port of Piraeus. A center for the arts, learning and philosophy, home of Plato‘s Academy and Aristotle‘s Lyceum,[6][7] it is widely referred to as the cradle of Western civilization and the birthplace of democracy,[8][9] largely because of its cultural and political impact on the European continent, and in particular the Romans.[10] In modern times, Athens is a large cosmopolitan metropolis and central to economic, financial, industrial, maritime, political and cultural life in Greece.
Participation Fee
Option A.
The fee for this course is 780€. It includes tuition fees and educational materials, certificates.
Beverages and a welcome cocktail, a one-day excursion (optional). Accommodation and meals are not included in the above fees.
Option B.
Total full package price for participants with double room accommodation: 1,250€:
All prices include:
– A 4-star hotel accommodation
– Breakfast
– Welcome cocktail
– Lunch
– Full 6day workshop tuition fee
– Educational materials
– Certificate of participation at the end
Additional option:
– A full-day excursion with the group led by locals with local snacks and drinks – €50
Contact us
Questions or concerns? please contact us at [email protected] or call +302106010522. Cancellation Policy*
Until 30 days before the starting date of the selected workshop, cancellation will be free of charge and the pre-payment will be fully refunded. Between 30 to 15 days before the starting date of the workshop, 50% of the fee will be refunded. Within the 15 days before the starting date of the workshop no refunds will be made.