Scott Allender

Leadership Coach & Author of The Enneagram of Emotional Intelligence

Constructive Doubt: Learning to Question the Story You Didn’t Know You Were Telling

Join Scott for a stimulating 90-minute session designed to challenge your perceptions and learn to see yourself, and others, more accurately.

We’ll explore how we don’t see things as they truly are, but as an extension of ourselves. It may not seem this way to us, because the more familiar something feels the more confident we become in its accuracy. But, what if we are only seeing what was useful to see in the past instead of what is true in the here and now? What if our habitual focus of attention is preventing us from being present in our own lives? And what if we could learn to see differently?

In this session, we’ll examine how our type’s perceptions, fixations, and expectations can leave us feeling disappointed and frustrated in our relationships and beyond, and how a little constructive doubt can begin to change everything.

Stephanie Barron Hall

Enneagram Coach & Author of Enneagram In Real Life

Thresholds: Why the People You Love Get on Your Last Nerve (& What to Do About It)

We all have thresholds for what we can handle. When we’re operating within our thresholds, everything feels fine: we’re regulated, connected, and our relationships are good. But the problem is, the people around us have different thresholds. Looking at ourselves through the lens of the Enneagram can be enlightening, but true transformation also happens in our relationships.

The takeaway is this: your spouse is not using your very last nerve as a tightrope on purpose. They just have a different threshold for what feels like “good enough.” Or a different threshold for what feels worth celebrating, or even a different threshold for what feels like love. In this talk, you’ll learn how your perspective differs from others’, how it makes you feel, and how to reestablish equilibrium when all this tightrope walking has you feeling out of sorts.

Kathy Jankowski

Enneagram Teacher & Experiential Learning Specialist

Qigong and the Enneagram: Embodying the Energy of Transformation

The Enneagram helps us recognize the patterns that shape our personality. Qigong helps us feel them. Both the Enneagram and Qigong understand the human being as organized through three centers — instinctive, feeling, and thinking — and both offer practices for returning to balance. This workshop weaves these two traditions together into a single, vibrant offering. 

Where the Enneagram names the patterns, Qigong works with them as living currents in the body. Through gentle movement, breathwork, reflection, and awareness training, participants will explore how Qigong’s Three Dantians and the Enneagram’s Three Centers illuminate one another. Participants will leave with a felt sense of how embodied practice supports self-inquiry, releases old contractions, and deepens presence so that clarity, compassion, mutuality, and inner freedom arise naturally as lived experience.

Come prepared to move gently, breathe deeply, and discover how the Enneagram comes alive when transformation is felt through the whole body.

Michelle Joy, MFT

Therapist and Founder of Enneagram for Couples

Scripts, Projections & Withholding Affections

Why do intelligent, well-intentioned people keep repeating the same painful relational patterns?

Often, it’s not because they don’t care. It’s because they are unconsciously relating through protective patterns.

In this engaging and psychologically rich presentation, Michelle Joy, MFT, introduces three hidden relational dynamics that often make us harder to live with than we realize: the unconscious scripts we cast our partners into, the projections and interpretations we assign to their behavior, and the subtle ways we withhold affection, warmth, openness, or connection when our protective patterns are activated. Using the Enneagram as a powerful lens for self-awareness, Michelle will explore how each of the nine types tends to create these patterns in distinct ways—and how greater awareness can lead to healthier, more differentiated, and more connected relationships.

Participants will leave with a deeper understanding of how their own protective strategies impact the people they love, along with practical tools to create greater emotional safety, authenticity, and connection in both personal and professional relationships.

Doug Lynam

Enneagram Teacher, Money Coach & Author of Taming Your Money Monster: Nine Paths to Money Mastery with the Enneagram

Taming Your Money Monster: Nine Paths to Financial and Spiritual Wholeness

What if your money problems were never really about money? Doug Lynam spent 20 years as a Benedictine monk before becoming an investment advisor, and he learned that our financial struggles rarely come from a lack of information. They come from the same wounds the Enneagram maps so precisely. Drawn from his book, Taming Your Money Monster: Nine Paths To Money Mastery With The Enneagram, this 90-minute workshop introduces a radical new model that renders the Enneagram in three dimensions, mapping the shadow and enlightenment structures of every type. From there, Doug reveals the 18 money monsters, two for each type, one anxious and one avoidant, that quietly shape how we earn, spend, save, and give. With contemplative wisdom, behavioral insight, and plenty of humor, he helps you name your own money monster, understand the wound beneath it, and find your way back to the gift your type was built to offer the world. You’ll leave with your personal type ego map and a clear path toward spiritual and financial wholeness.

Sara Mireles, M.S. ODL

Enneagram Las Vegas Board Member, Executive Director & Lead Facilitator

Guiding the Next Generation: An Enneagram Approach

During this workshop we will explore how the Enneagram serves as a transformative tool for teenagers and young adults, empowering them with self-awareness, emotional intelligence, and stronger interpersonal skills during a crucial stage of personal development. By understanding their core motivations, coping mechanisms, and inherent strengths, young people learn to navigate stress, build healthier relationships, and make intentional choices for their futures. 

To highlight the real-world impact of this framework, teenagers and young adults who have completed our Enneagram Las Vegas Teenage Leadership Development Program will share their personal stories, discussing firsthand how learning the Enneagram has enhanced their leadership abilities, deepened their confidence, and positively shaped their lives.

Crystal Noworyta, MFT-Intern

Therapist

Inside the Type: Understanding Enneagram Patterns Through Parts Work

Co-presented with Diana Saunders, LMFT

What if your Enneagram type is not simply who you are, but a system of protective parts that developed to help you navigate relationships, stress, vulnerability, and the world around you? In this engaging and experiential presentation, participants will explore how each Enneagram type tends to develop familiar internal roles, including managers, protectors, critics, rescuers, performers, avoiders, and other parts that work hard to keep us safe. We will look at the common “cast of characters” that may show up within each of the nine types and consider what those parts may be protecting underneath the surface. Through practical teaching, reflection, and guided experiential parts work meditations, participants will have the opportunity to connect with their own internal patterns with greater curiosity, compassion, and awareness.

Peter O’Hanrahan

International Enneagram Teacher, Trainer & Instinctual Subtype Specialist

How the Nine Type Structures are Based in Three Centers: Neurobiology, Emotional Habit, and How We See the World

A new model of human beings emerged in the western world in the 1960’s and 70’s, an understanding that people have multiple parts and multiple centers of intelligence working together in a system. This holistic, or whole person view, led to new approaches in health and psychology which recognized the importance of body, mind and spirit. Transpersonal Psychology, Humanistic Psychology, and body-based therapies all focused on the integration of different parts. Medical practitioners began to include emotional and psychological issues in the work of physical healing. And the enneagram of personality types showed up as well, describing nine personality types which are based not only in the mind but also in the heart and body. A hundred years ago this is what Mr. Gurdjieff called “three-brained beings.”

In this presentation, we will explore the nine enneagram types from a holistic view. With respect for the early enneagram brought to us by Oscar Ichazo, Claudio Naranjo, and Christian scholars, I am changing the language a bit and bringing (adding) a more positive view to our ego and personality structure. For example, using “emotional habits” instead of “passions,” “worldview” instead of fixation. We’ll look at each enneagram type to see how the three centers – head, heart, body – form a living system. And we’ll take a quick look at how effective inner work and personal growth require us to bring methods and practices to each of our centers. We usually start our enneagram learning with our minds. But deeper work and transformation requires that we bring attention, methods and practices to each of our centers. I will spend some time with the neurobiology of the types. As a body-based therapist for many years I find that the importance of these patterns is often not fully understood. Instead of a handout I will provide an online link to the slides used in the presentation.  

Patrick O’Leary

Author, Enneagram Historian & Teacher

Featured Guest Panelist

Diana Saunders, LMFT

Therapist, Enneagram Las Vegas Board Member, Enneagram Teacher

Inside the Type: Understanding Enneagram Patterns Through Parts Work

Co-presented with Crystal Nowaryta MFT-Intern

What if your Enneagram type is not simply who you are, but a system of protective parts that developed to help you navigate relationships, stress, vulnerability, and the world around you? In this engaging and experiential presentation, participants will explore how each Enneagram type tends to develop familiar internal roles, including managers, protectors, critics, rescuers, performers, avoiders, and other parts that work hard to keep us safe. We will look at the common “cast of characters” that may show up within each of the nine types and consider what those parts may be protecting underneath the surface. Through practical teaching, reflection, and guided experiential parts work meditations, participants will have the opportunity to connect with their own internal patterns with greater curiosity, compassion, and awareness.

Dr. Steve Purdom

Founder & President of Enneagram Las Vegas, Executive Director & Lead Facilitator

The Enneagram Portal: Exploring the Shadow Within

The Enneagram is an excellent tool for bringing understanding and clarity to the conscious part of our psyche—specifically, our Enneagram type. Once we fully grasp the fears and motivations of our type, we can live with greater consciousness and grow in emotional maturity. Furthermore, we can begin to redirect our attention toward the unconscious part of our psyche, which Carl Jung calls the ‘Shadow.’ I view the Enneagram as a portal into these unconscious aspects of ourselves. Please join me to explore how we can access the unconscious and incorporate these parts of ourselves with understanding and compassion.

Peter Troolin, MBA

Enneagram Coach & Enneagram Minnesota Board Member

Applying the Law of  Three to Your Enneagram Inner Work

Dr. Jerry Wagner

Clinical Psychologist, Author & Founding Enneagram Teacher

Enneatyping Out

In the TV series “Wednesday” the eponymous heroine, the daughter in the non-traditional Addams family, is a pupil in a school for “special students” such as Medusas, werewolves, et.al.  

After a full moon, the werewolves say they “wolfed out,” transforming from ordinary humans into animal-like creatures.  If they don’t want to “wolf out,” they can put themselves into a holding pen.  What a delightful metaphor for how enneatypes transform from their essence or true nature into their personality caricatures. 

We’ll explore what “moons” (or triggers) cause you to “One out” or “Two out” or “Three out,” etc. as a defense (as in teeth and claws) to protect you from what you fear.  And what helps you return to your original self?

Or, how can you avoid enneatyping out in the first place?  What could be your holding (or pausing) pen?  And, to lower your anxiety, how can you safely expose yourself to those situations and reactions (often imaginary) you fear will occur when you stay true to yourself?   Then you won’t have to turn into a gargoyle and scare yourself and everybody else.  Don’t feed your wolf, play with it