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JOIN Roxanne for her Aug. 4 Interview with Dr. Marica Cannon, author of The Gift of Anger

By Roxanne Howe Murphy · Comments (0)
Thursday, July 21st, 2011

JOIN Roxanne for her Aug. 4 Interview with Dr. Marica Cannon, author of The Gift of Anger

Dr. Marcia Cannon is the author of the recently published book, The Gift of Anger.

Does a discussion on the lively topic of anger pique your interest?  On this special live call,  hear Marcia Cannon discuss the transformational gifts of powerful energy.   There will be time for questions, as well.  You won’t want to miss this!

11:30 a.m.-12:30 pm PDT

Register for the call here:

http://www.deepcoachinginstitute.com/marcia-cannon-interview-registration/

The Gift of Anger: 7 Steps to Uncover the Meaning of Anger and Gain
Awareness, True Strength, and Peace

The Gift of Anger is an “owner’s manual” that takes the fear and negativity out of this core emotion and makes anger not only understandable, but even valuable. Using the 7-step gift-of-anger process, you’ll discover the often-unconscious reasons for your anger, and learn how to transform the volatile energy of anger into calm, dependable–and lasting — emotional strength.  From slight irritation to fury, your anger can become a trusted guide in your search for greater understanding and peace. The Gift of Anger shows you how.

For more information, visit www.giftofanger.com, and also check out The Gift of Anger on Amazon, where you can read parts of the book and see the growing number of reviews.

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Enneagram coach training program introductory call

By Roxanne Howe Murphy · Comments (0)
Monday, August 2nd, 2010

Have you found that you cannot imagine coaching without the Enneagram?

Our Enneagram coach training offered through the Deep Coaching Certification program provides an advanced, unique, and in-depth learning opportunity well suited for experienced human development professionals wishing to integrate the rich benefits of presence-based Enneagram work into their professional niche. If this sounds like you, please join me for a fr*ee introductory call on the program on Tuesday, Aug. 10.

I’ll share three robust principles and practices of presence-based Enneagram coaching that leads to profound results. You’ll learn about the program’s framework, how it is structured to support your continuing growth and embodiment of the Enneagram’s wisdom as a person and for more effective coaching results. And there will be time to answer your questions.

Go to www.deepcoachinginstitute.com and click on the registration link on the right column of the website.
I look forward to seeing you there.

LOGISTICS:
Tuesday, Aug. 10, 11:30 a.m.-12:30 pm PT.

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What the Enneagram and Flip Camera Have in Common

By Roxanne Howe Murphy · Comments (1)
Friday, May 14th, 2010

Do you remember having a speech or other public activity videotaped in order for you to see yourself in action?   I remember that as quite an eye-opener.  Our perceptions of ourselves are often at odds with what we actually do.

I was sharing my new Flip video camera with a friend last night at a beautiful retirement party for my husband.  (Wow!   My husband is so loved, appreciated and respected by his colleagues and staff at the university.  It was an incredibly moving event.)  Back to the camera:  for a non-techie like me, being able to so easily capture sweet moments  like the ones experienced last night, and donwload them quickly  is a joy.   My friend, Jackson, said he uses his Flip camera to let his undergrad students watch themselves facilitate outdoor growth activities.  Not surprisingly, after they have seen themselves through the lens of a camera, they often say, “I do that???” 

This is the crucial first-level personal  awareness that is necessary for growth:  seeing what is true about my behavior and actions in contrast to my well-set ideas about my behavior.  Visual feedback is profoundly useful.  So is the Enneagram.  It gives us specific information about the behaviors and external expressions associated with each personality type.  

I was thinking–wouldn’t it be interesting to have another version of the Flip that showed us with as much precision what our thinking, feeling and somatic responses are?  What about a camera that could show us our deeper motivational patterns?   We are often wed to certain ideas about why we do what we do.  But, those. too, are often at odds with reality.   What about a camera that could show us the deep terrain of our life–those places where we have the most pain to be released and the path to our greatest joy and freedom?

For now, there is no physical camera that I know of that can do this.  But the Enneagram does offer the psychological and spiritual lens to take us as deep as we want to go.  Once we plug into its vast body of wisdom, we have an incredible tool for our 2nd, 3rd, 4th and more advanced levels of awareness and self-knowledge. 

Visit www.deepcoaching.com.  Check out Deep Coaching:  Using the Enneagram as a Catalyst for Profound Change, and keep an eye out for my newest book, Deep Living:  Using the Enneagram to Connect You to Your Transformational Path.


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Regis deadline for May 21-23 Retreat: “Your Journey of Growth” (Levels of Development)

By Roxanne Howe Murphy · Comments (0)
Monday, May 3rd, 2010

This is a reminder that Tuesday, May 11th is the last day to register for  the Enneagram Institute -San Francisco Bay Area retreat.

We human beings are not static.  What creates the personality’s and soul’s movement, and how to be more conscious. compassionate and present to the many variations we experience in ourselves is the focus of this authorized Riso-Hudson program.   Specifically, we will explore the vertical axis of the personality and the movement to the Integration Point.  

It’s a fascinating exploration that we will meet with tenderness and spaciousness at the beautiful Mercy Center Retreat center, not far from the SFO airport.  Come let your soul rest.

Your Journey of Growth: Working with the Dynamism and Levels of the Enneagram

(formerly known as The Levels of Development: The Vertical Dimension to Personality Type and Guide to Greater Health and Transformation)
A Retreat Sponsored by Mercy Center

With Dr. Roxanne Howe–Murphy and Dr. Ronna Phifer–Ritchie

The Levels of Development (LOD), one of the most profound contemporary contributions to the Enneagram field and identified by Don Riso and Russ Hudson, explains the vertical dimension to the personality types. The Levels help us track our movement along a continuum toward more freedom, consciousness, expansiveness, and Being in the higher Levels (or toward more reactivity and self–destructiveness in the lower ones).

By introducing this “vertical axis” to the types, the Levels explain some of the most important things that we find in human nature–fluidity and change, resistance and conflict, freedom and compulsion–among many human qualities. Working with the Levels points us to where we are in our journey of growth, and guides us toward greater health and transformation.

Registration deadline: May 11, 2010

To Register:
http://www.mercy-center.org/Flyers_2010/0521Enneagram/retreat.html

Retreat Hours:

Friday, May 21: 7:00 PM–9:30 PM
Saturday, May 22: 9:00 AM–Noon, 3:30–6:00 and 7:00–9:30 PM
Sunday, May 23: 9:00 AM–Noon, 1:00–3:00 PM

Faculty:

Dr. Roxanne Howe–Murphy, Enneagram teacher and coach, is the founder of Deep Coaching (www.deepccoaching.com), the Deep Coaching Training Program, and the Director of the Enneagram Institute of the San Francisco Bay Area. She is the author of the internationally adopted book, Deep Coaching: Using the Enneagram as a Catalyst for Profound Change.and a new Enneagram book this fall.

Dr. Ronna Phifer–Ritchie, Principal of Enneagrowth, is a consultant and public speaker. She holds a doctorate in counseling psychology and a master’s in marriage and family therapy . Phifer–Ritchie is a certified life coach and a researcher in early Christian studies and the Enneagram. She is the Co–Director of the Enneagram Institute of the San Francisco Bay Area. She is currently engaged in a relationships project with Riso and Hudson. www.enneagrowth.com.

For more info:  http://enneagramcalifornia.com/riso-hudson-workshops/levels-of-development/

Read what others have said:http://enneagramcalifornia.com/testimonials/read-what-others-have-said/

Today is the last day to vote for Deep Living in the Next Top Author Competition. If you haven’t done so yet, I appreciate your vote to help bring this message out to millions of others:

“On the transformational journey, one size does not fit all.  There is a path that connects with YOUR inner experience. Find it and you’ll have the KEY you’ve been looking for.”   Please help  users find the KEY to their growth by voting for Roxanne’s next Enneagram book, Deep Living, at the   NextTopAuthor competition at @ http://bit.ly/NextTopAuthor

 

 

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Coaching your clients from Presence

By Roxanne Howe Murphy · Comments (0)
Friday, April 16th, 2010

In recent conversations with coaches, we’ve talked about how to best support our clients when using the Enneagram.  There is so much to learn about the internal world of each of the nine types or spheres of consciousness.  

It’s true.  The Enneagram is a vast body of wisdom.  It speaks to our intellectual curiosity because it has so much to teach. There’s so much information on each of types,  and sometimes, that’s where we get stuck.  In the busy mind culture that most of us live in,  the tendency is to want to understand it all, and understand it right now.  That’s why the Enneagram has often been misinterpreted simply as a “typing’ tool.  It’s easy for the mind to categorize and label and then come up with a few solutions to how to work with that particular type.

 But the Enneagramm also speaks to our hearts because we can’t help but be deeply touched by seeing how the nine egoic structures play out, and  the enormous unconscious suffering that is caused when we take the ego to be who we are.  When we penetrate below the structures, and see the true yearning that each individual has, we see that the majority of our unconscious behaviors are the ego’s way of trying to resolve the pain.    Our compassion for ourselves, for our clients and loved ones,  and indeed, for the world, is  magnfied a thousand times.  It’s a lot for the heart to bear.

And that’s why the Enneagram also focuses on the wisdom of the Body.  It is here, in the belly center (kath point or lower tan tien) that we come into contact with the 3rd center of our whole being’s intelligence.  As we develop the capacity to ‘be with’ this center, that our experience of ourselves in relationship to the world changes.  We have our substance, our physicality, our hereness, our inner power, and through this center that we connect with ground. 

When we connect to the foundational center, the belly, our hearts can open to and hold with such compassion the human condition. And from that place, what the client needs from our time together, becomes more available.

It’s a radically different way of approaching coaching:  with a depth of Presence that is developed through contact with the 3 centers of intelligence.   Coaches,  this counter-intuitive approach offers such value. It is based upon what is here, what is real, and not upon the mental agenda of the busy mind.  And from Presence, all coaching topics, from peronal and relationship issues to organizational strategy-planning  becomes cleaner and clearer.

http://www.deepcoachinginstitute.com/

“On the transformational journey, one size does not fit all.  There is a path that connects with YOUR inner experience. Find it and you’ll have the KEY you’ve been looking for.”   Please help  users find the KEY to their growth by voting for Roxanne’s next Enneagram book, Deep Living, at the   NextTopAuthor competition at @ http://bit.ly/NextTopAuthor

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Your Journey of Growth through Vertical Axis of the Enneagram

By Roxanne Howe Murphy · Comments (0)
Friday, April 16th, 2010

Have you ever wondered why you are sometimes so open, flexible, easily able to navigate change, and at other times, you’re tense, constricted and resistant?   What happens that contributes to your experience of freedom and expansiveness, or to compulsiveness and even self-destructiveness?

With exquisite and almost uncanny precision, the Enneagram helps us understand the movement up and down the “spine” of flexibility and health.  The Vertical Dimension of the Enneagram, named the Levels of Development  by the Enneagram pioneer who discovered them, Don Riso, provides a  stunning richness and depth to our self-understanding.

The Levels have been endorsed by Ken Wilbur has said that it is this vertical dimension that moves the Enneagram toward a complete psychology.

On May 21-23 (Fri night to Sunday afternoon),  2010 Mercy Center in Burlingame, California, is hosting my colleague, Dr. Ronna Phifer-Ritchie and I to facilitate the  ”The Levels of Development” Retreat (aka Your Journey of Growth: Working with the Dynamism and Levels of the Enneagram).    In this deeply personal work, you’ll discover that you are so much more than who you’ve thought yourself to be.

The beautiful Mercy Retreat center is about 15 minutes from SFO).

For more information:  http://enneagramcalifornia.com/riso-hudson-workshops/levels-of-development/

To register now:  http://www.mercy-center.org/Flyers_2010/0521Enneagram/retreat.html

 

“On the transformational journey, one size does not fit all.  There is a path that connects with YOUR inner experience. Find it and you’ll have the KEY you’ve been looking for.”   Please help  users find the KEY to their growth by voting for Roxanne’s next Enneagram book, Deep Living, at the   NextTopAuthor competition at @ http://bit.ly/NextTopAuthor


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How Do You Do Life? It’s such a Paradox

By Roxanne Howe Murphy · Comments (6)
Thursday, April 8th, 2010

Going along with how we naturally approach day-to-day living is the easiest and most natural thing in life. We are heavily conditioned to think that how we do life is life itself.

In other words, as we grew up, we naturally “identified with” our particular approach to life and took it to be the real thing—reality. Most people find it quite stunning to realize that their automatic way of living, thinking, behaving and doing is actually a configuration–a strategy– for managing the pain and difficulties experienced in life.  Unwittingly, this strategy often creates more unhappiness and dissatisfaction.

You’ve seen that there are nine Enneagram ‘types.’  The personality structure for each type has a way of organizing life around some core ideas about oneself and life that feels necessary, right and certain.

What you organize your life around is related to where you naturally put your attention.

Here are examples, each reflecting one way that individuals organize their life based upon the nine Enneagram types: 

  • Organizing life around “doing things right and being right”
  • Organizing life around “relationships” and” being helpful to others”
  • Organizing life around  “being the best at” and having others see how well I “excel”
  • Organizing life around ‘trying to find my authentic self” and ‘how I am different’ from others
  • Organizing life around “ideas and mental models”
  • Organizing life around “being secure and being supported”
  • Organizing life around “having fun and having freedom”
  • Organizing life around “being in control and “experiencing realness”
  • Organizing life around “peace and harmony”

Each way of organizing life is part of an internal logic that feels like “this is how life actually works” for individuals dominant in each of the types.

The problem is this.  That this internal logic is faulty because it is defined by the ego.   When you follow the ego’s dictates, this logic takes you in exactly the opposite direction from your soul’s deep yearnings.  It’s an astounding paradox of life.  What makes the most sense to the egoic self ultimately leads to pain.

The challenge is to recognizing the way you orient, what your life unconsciously organizes around….herein lies the great opportunity for awakening.

From the upcoming book by Roxanne Howe-Murphy, Ed.D, Deep Living:  Using the Enneagram to Connect You to Your Transformational Path

“On the transformational journey, one size does not fit all.  There is a path that connects with YOUR inner experience. Find it and you’ll have the KEY you’ve been looking for.”   Please help  users find the KEY to their growth by voting for Roxanne’s next Enneagram book, Deep Living, at the   NextTopAuthor competition at @ http://bit.ly/NextTopAuthor

 

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The next Enneagram “deep” book is coming

By Roxanne Howe Murphy · Comments (1)
Wednesday, April 7th, 2010

It’s been percolating in the background for about a year–another book on the horizon.

After my earlier book, Deep Coaching:  Using the Enneagram as a Catalyst for Profound Change, had been published, I was asked by a lot of professionals  if I had additional readings  that they could give their clients.  Of course, I referred them to my favorite Enneagram books, yet  there seemed to be interest in a synthesis/ companion book  that incorporated the main themes of Deep Coaching.

I can’t just sit down and write.  It takes time to see what is there to be written, if anything.   Now, I’m bursting!  I’m loving what I am learning as I write!   Literally, my heart feels so filled with love for the Enneagram and for this material,  that I can’t wait to share it.  It’s still a work in progress (aren’t we all?), but I can see the end in sight.

Essentially, the message of the book is

Experience being at home in yourself.  Herein lies real peace.  Invite youurself home through the Power of Allowing.  Here, you discover the  sustainable and profound life-affirming impact of Presence.

As I was writing,  I learned of an amazing competition that invited authors with a spiritual orientation to get support in getting the word out about their books.  So, I jumped in and am learning to swim in these new waters.

To learn more about my book, go to my Next Top Author page: @ http://bit.ly/NextTopAuthor.  (In case you want to find me from the program’s homepage, my author number is 18.)  I’d love your vote to help promote my message.  Thank you.

I’d love to have you join me on this journey, so I’ll be sharing some different aspects of the book with you in upcoming weeks as well as some of my own process as writer.




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Inner Critic–Moving Beyond the Idea of the Gremlin

By Roxanne Howe Murphy · Comments (1)
Tuesday, April 6th, 2010

I’ve had have the great fortune of facilitating an amazing group over the past several years in a monthly Women’s Enneagram collaborative. The last couple of months we’ve been focusing on changing our relationship to the Inner Critic. Essentially, rather than taking the I.C. to be “real,” we see it for what it is–a central part of the ego’s structure that can take up enormous space in the psyche, and that can consume inordinate amounts of energy. Like the rest of the ego structure, it is trying to substitute for that which truly is real and eternal within us, which of course, it can’t.

Thus, as we grow in our awareness of how this particular ‘structure’ operates, we come to the stunning realization that there is a different kind of relationship to be had with the I.C. rather than taking it to be the truth, ‘making it bad,’ or ‘getting into a struggle with it” as if it was real. That’s why I use the word “structure’ —the I.C. can be seen as more of an “It” that operates on automatic rather than a ‘he/she/they’ that has been personified, taken personally.

I thnk we have to be careful about characterizing the I.C. as a “gremlin” or “that entity that sits on my shoulder,” because this is a way that we give it a sense of realness, and give it more power.

To work with the Inner Critic requires being able to notice when one is “at the effect” of its structure. There are lots of clues if we know what to look for. They show up mentally, somatically, emotionally, energetically and spiritually. Once we recognize them, then we can begin the process of stepping back from it, Unhooking from it, dis-identifying with it as something real. That’s when we begin to experience our inner authority.

And then, we have the courage to face the I.C.’s message, sort through all the falseness of its noise, and find if there is perhaps a Gem of Truth that is at the very core of the message. Finding this Gem helps us continue to grow and evolve.

Last night, I saw the women’s eyes opening wide.  For most, it was the first time seeing the Inner Critic as a gift.  Indeed, it can point you to something valuable, as long as you don’t get caught in the first wave of its automatic and egoic activity. Name it, call it out, distance yourself from the negativity or from its arrogance, as it shows up differently for different people depending upon one’s dominant Enneagram type.  Then, with clarity and curiosity, see if there is a gem to be found.

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Fall Deep Coaching (Enneagram-based) Courses Starting Soon!

By Roxanne Howe Murphy · Comments (3)
Wednesday, August 12th, 2009

What is Being Asked of Growth-Oriented Professionals

As the world continues to change dramatically, growth-oriented professionals are being asked to be clearer, more grounded, more-intune with their client’s inner world and reality while staying grounded in the ability to be a Fair Witness and truthful guide.

Who Becomes a Deep Coaching Practitioner?

The Deep Coaching Program attracts coaches from many specialty niches, therapists, spiritual guides, HR and OD consultants, body/energy workers–any professional with a growth-oriented practice.  Common factors among those attracted are the deep desire to bring awakening into the world and a love of working with the Enneagram.

If you have a calling to “bring your greatest joy to meet the world’s great hunger” (F. Buechner),  this may be the perfect ‘professional home’  for you.

Fall Course Offerings

We have an amazing line-up of offerings for Fall, 09:

* The Deep Coaching Practice Circle (for those who have taken foundation Enneagram coaching classes) starts Aug. 25

* The Foundation Deep Coaching Telecourse Series with founding teacher Roxanne Howe-Murphy begins Sept. 1

* The Deep Leadership Coaching Practice Circle with Belinda Gore (for those with foundation Enneagram coaching courses) begins Sept. 3.

* Know Your Instincts–a brand new telecourse open to all interested in personal and professional growthwork-with Roxanne Howe-Murphy begins Sept. 10

* Deep Coaching Retreat: A Living Experience of the Enneagram with Roxanne Howe-Murphy and Belinda Gore will be held Oct. 18-22.

For more information on the program, go to: http://lifewisecoaching.com/deep-coaching-certification/

Classes start soon!  Register Now!

Experience the Hallmarks of Deep Coaching!  Depth, Presence, Real Change, Liberation!



Each course in this program contributes to integrating and embodying Deep Coaching principles and builds on your use of Deep Coaching Models; approaches the use of the Enneagram from a different perspective, each offering deepening levels of clarity, insight, knowledge, confidence and appreciation that comes with this potent body of wisdom.


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