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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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Acknowledge, Accept and Honor Whatever Shows Up

By Roxanne Howe Murphy · Comments (4)
Tuesday, April 20th, 2010

 ”Acceptance is one of the paradoxes of [Deep Coaching], and is one of its most profound teachings and practices. The Enneagram points to our strengths and gifts, to patterns that casue trouble or unncessary conflict in our lives, and to everything in between.  When any part of us is denied or judged, we create a war within.  We become divided against ourselves and create an obstacle to our growth and development.

We unsuspectingly give energy to those areas of our lives that we do not want to acknowledge through the process of denying and/or avoiding.  Those issues, feelings, or experiences which we actively avoid will continue to lurk, grow even larger and pop out when least expected.

When an issue or topic is being avoided in a client’s life (as well as in a coaching conversation), it consumes precious life energy and creates unneeded tension [and stress.]  It leads to constriction.”  (excerpt from R. Howe-Murphy, Deep Coaching:  Using the Enneagram As a Catalyst for Profound Change, Enneagram Press, 2007, p. 170.)

Helping our clients to acknowledge and accept what shows up (without acting on these inner experiences) honors the full range of the human experience.  To provide this kind of allowing is a radical departure from the usual experience and is a powerful step towards liberation.

“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.”   Help  readers 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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From Inner Critic to Inner Authority

By Roxanne Howe Murphy · Comments (0)
Monday, April 12th, 2010

Are you being tested?   

I’ve noticed that everytime I take another step in the direction of what my soul really wants, with what is aligned with my inner knowing, that some kind of resistance shows up with it.   I see this with my clients all the time.   The Inner Critic becomes particularly accelerated when you are on a path of real change and growth.

The resistance, the Inner Critic is not going away.   It can no longer be an ‘excuse’ for not doing what you are here to do. 

Rather than getting stopped by the resistance, by the Inner Critic, you can learn to * expect that it will show up, *be able to identify it’s many dimensions (and its variations, contingent upon Enneagram type), *recognize it for what it is (an internal structure that is Not You), it is, * take appropriate steps, and, surprisingly, find the Gem of Truth within it.

That’s what we’ll do in this Deep Coaching course.

From Inner Critic to Inner Authority

Changing Your Relationship with the Inner Critic Changes your Relationship to Your Life

Five Tuesdays: April 27- May 25    4:30-6:00 pm PDT by phone

You know the Inner Critic’s audible voice. We’ll shine the light on its more subtle or shadowy dimensions.  Experience the movement to freedom from repetitious mental, emotional and somatic resistance that hold you back from that which your soul and heart are dying to experience. You’ll find that there is more space for consciousness to be expressed through you.

Gain healthy and healing perspectives +  tools + resources +  support.   Deepen Presence.

Deep Coaching and Enneagram-based professionals, register here:  http://www.deepcoachinginstitute.com/courses/the-inner-critic-and-truth/

Growth-oriented individuals with some Enneagram background, register here:     http://deepcoachingservices.com/enneagram-telecourses-workshops/enneagram-telecourses-workshops-2from-inner-critic-to-inner-authority/

Join Roxanne Howe-Murphy, Ed.D.,  author of  Deep Coaching: Using the Enneagram as a Catalyst for Profound Change, founder of the Deep Coaching Certification Program, and Director of the Enneagram Institute of the San Francisco Bay Area..  This course is based on a chapter from her forthcoming book, Deep Living: Using the Enneagram to Connect You to Your Transformational Path ( fall, 2010). 

“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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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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The Deep Coaching Movement as a Practical HOW to Awakening

By Roxanne Howe Murphy · Comments (0)
Saturday, June 13th, 2009

What does it mean to be a “Deep Coach?”

One of the  Deep Coaching course members intimately shared that over the course of the last 2 months, she has begun discovering the “subtleties” of  her personality patterns.  She mused that while we might read about Enneagram patterns  and be able to identify them at a more obvious level, that there’s a much greater depth and realness experienced  when we allow ourselves to come into contact with the ‘sneaky’ ways that the patterns creep into the cells of everyday life.  They do so often, but especially when ‘no one is watching.’

But she noticed the patterns when they were trying to sneak past her awareness!  She was so aware that she could see the workings of certain patterns and she could experience them WHILE they were happening.   This gave her the capacity to not let them become too ‘real.   She let them be patterns rather than “just who she is,” which helped her release some aspect of her old story about herself.  We should note that in this process of being aware, but not getting too involved with a pattern, the very nature of  Awareness begins reducing the power of the patterns themselves.  This is an extraordinary movement toward awakening.

For her, the recognition of the subtleties of the patterns and the shift in her relationship to the patterns (and thus, to herself) led her to say “Oh, I think this is what Deep Coaching is about.:  I think she would have added, “at least at this stage in my understanding”

All of us involved in the Deep Coaching movement using the Enneagram are committed to awakening–to our own journey of real awakening; and to be of service to others who would like support on their journeys.  This, afterall, is not a ‘solo’ trip.  We need each other to help us see what we can’t see in ourselves and to remind each other of the magnificence of our Essential Nature.   In this community of seekers,  our  shared impetus can more easily move through the inertia that would otherwise sidetrack us when we are on our own(as it has many times).

While I wrote the book, Deep Coaching,: Using the Enneagram as a Catalyst for Profound Change, none of us (including me) can yet realize the full meaning, direction or impact of what it means to be a Deep Coach.  I believe that  the ‘deep coaching process” will continue unfolding and teaching us with each moment of conscious awareness and presence for which we show up.

If you’d like to join us for this amazing adventure of awakening from a grounded, practical, yet far-reaching perspective, and deepen your learning about the Enneagram has to teach, we’d love to have you.  A good place to start is with the next Deep Coaching Teleconference Series starting in September.  Check it out at www.lifewisecoaching.com/certification-program/

Blessings, Roxanne

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The Wisdom of the Enneagram Retreat

By Roxanne Howe Murphy · Comments (0)
Monday, March 30th, 2009

Join my colleague and I for the exploration of the relationship of personality and essence in your life.  Discover what it means to experience a grounded, real spirituality in your day-to-day existence.

The Wisdom of the Enneagram:

The Joyful Experience of An Awakening Life

May 16-18, 2009

Mercy Center, Burlingame, California

Beyond the study of personality types, the Enneagram is a powerful tool for supporting the work of awakening to our Essential Nature. This introduction to the psycho-spiritual approach to the Enneagram will enable you to “remember” aspects of your true self, and will help you to more rapidly recognize the “wake up calls” in your life that you can use to move toward higher levels of health and wholeness.

  • Discover each type’s higher nature, healing attitudes and specific tools for transformation
  • Learn how to observe and release your more troublesome habits and reactions
  • Experience ways to unhook from inner dynamics that hinder your happiness
  • Cultivate more awareness, conscious choice & intention in your everyday life
  • Understand how to use the Enneagram for your continued spiritual growth

For more information, visit the Wisdom of the Enneagram Retreat page on my website.

Roxanne

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Making a Change? What Are You Taking With You?

By Roxanne Howe Murphy · Comments (0)
Monday, January 12th, 2009

When I was in my late 20′s, my  husband of a couple of years and I decided to move across the country for new career opportunities.  A colleague of my husband asked me, “Why are you really moving?”   Hmm–why were we moving?  Well, I thought it was for new position, but it gave me pause.    She said something that I have never forgotten:  Just remember, you take yourself wherever you go.” Once I began studying the Enneagram, I realized that she was talking about the unrecognized activity of the ego.  She was referring to the automatic patterns that take take us away from our true nature.

I’ve spent years exploring the personality, coaching, teaching and being an observer of the human experience, and have discovered that there is a part in each of us  that can be very sneaky in creating ways to ‘try’ to get away from ourselves.   Of course, that’s the nature of the ego.  It is conditioned to take us away from ourselves, from our deepest truth.  (This is not about making the ‘ego’ bad–we will always have one.  The problem is when it ‘has me’ rather than me having it!)

Depending upon our Enneagram personality configuration,  for example, we might spend our lives being on the go, and not staying with any one experience for any length of time.  Perhaps our pattern is to figure everything out in our heads.  Perhaps we are in a constant competition with ourselves, setting the bar higher and higher, trying to ‘best’ ourselves.   Perhaps we question everything and focus on why something could never work.  Perhaps we focus our attention on others, and look for ways that we can be helpful.  These are just a few strategies that different egoic structures use.  If the patterns are not brought into clear awareness and not interrupted, the cost is high.  We feel lost, disconnected, and alone.

Regardless of where we move to, or what job or position we take, or who we marry or divorce, or what new skils we learn, or how much money we earn, the automatic activity of the ego and all of its suffering and problems  do go with us—-until we see it  all for what it is.

Many of my students and clients who are in transition in their lives have come to recognize this truth.  “If I continue these particular behaviors, emotional patterns and ideas about myself (and that are associated with my Enneagram type),  I will just take them to my next position/to my next relationship/to the rest of my life.”   Nothing of real significance will have changed.

Of course, what we also take with us who our True Nature.  And, truly, it is right here, right now.  As the patterns of my type relax, the more I come into contact with my realness, my ‘hereness,’ my  innate aliveness, and my inherent sense of belonging,  Now, to take THIS with you is no small thing.  This is worth being Here.

My classes, workshops, and retreats are all designed to ORIENT YOU TO YOUR TRUE NATURE.  Here are my current offerings:  www.lifewisecoaching.com.

Roxanne

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Amazing Grace (The Movie, 2007)

By Roxanne Howe Murphy · Comments (0)
Friday, November 21st, 2008

We’re in the midst of a historical arc that revolves around individual and social transformation. While I haven’t written about good movies that I love before, I now feel moved to write about this one because it illustrates another transformational period in time.   Based on a true story, this historical and political drama shows us an important arc of history that changed the world as it was known at that time, and planted at least some of the seeds for where we are today.

Have you heard of William Wilburforce?  Perhaps if you’re English, you know his story.  But, I hadn’t heard about him before I saw Amazing Grace. It is stunning to me that his name isn’t more widely known.

There are times in history when some individuals become remarkable through the depth and expression of their commitment to high values.  Wilburforce is one of those individuals.  Torn between a life “dedicated to God,” and a life in the political arena where he could make a difference, he comes to grips with his calling.

This is a powerful story of an abolitionist who tirelessly fights not only the “establishment” but his inner demons.  It’s worth renting.  (By the way, I see that there are numerous movies called “Amazing Grace.”  This one is  directed by Michael Apted and starts Ioan Gruffudd, Albert Finney, Michael Gambon, Rufus Sewell and Toby Jones.)

If you see it, let me know what you think Wilburforce’s type is.  I’d love to hear your opinion.

Blessings, Roxanne

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