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A More Detailed Description
of These Programs

Their focus on the principles of personal transformation allow Kathy and Theodorre to create a safe atmosphere for training participants, in which they can both do their own inner work and learn compassionate insight about all nine types. Many participants say lasting change is the result.

For over 30 years each, Kathy Hurley and Theodorre Donson have been dedicated to positive change and to renewing the human spirit in practical ways. Kathy and Theodorre have found solutions to humanity’s needs both through their community leadership experience and in their familiarity with the writings of the great men and women who, today and through the centuries, have contributed to the advancement of humanity. 

The programs presented here convey this wisdom
Kathy and Theodorre are especially known for three contributions: 

• Their unique "heart perspective" to Enneagram training

• Their innovatively simpler presentation of the types as components of the three centers, thinking, feeling and doing

• Showing not only the diagnosis of Enneagram type but also the prescription for overcoming its limitations.

The originators of this approach, they continue to uncover insights into the types that are on the forefront of Enneagram development.

The Enneagram describes in detail how people experience inner confusion and react mechanically to the cares and anxieties of the world. These training programs place the Enneagram in a context which quiets the mind, allowing for positive change. Participants discover how compulsions can slowly dissolve so people can experience true freedom. In these seminars, you:

	Find healing for the body, mind, and heart so they can operate at their highest levels.
	Deepen your appreciation of type and how it affects personal growth and relationships.
	Experience self-observation in an objective, positive, self-accepting way.
	Learn the practice of Self-remembering, which connects you with your true self.
	Understand how to be positive by dis-identifying from negative inner states.
	Master the art of interpreting the events of life through a wisdom that heals and renews.

To create a personalized experience,
each program has a
limited number of participants.

Graduates' Experiences
Graduates of the Hurley/Donson Partners in Transformation Program will tell you that this system, when applied, really works because it builds inner strength — the strength of true self. Further, it’s easily taught, easily learned and easily remembered because it’s simple yet comprehensive. 

After successfully completing these programs, graduates world-wide have utilized this material in many and various ways, including:

	Relationship building
	Education
	Psychotherapy practice
	Spiritual direction
	Team building

If you want to know what our graduates say, you can read some of their endorsements.

Kathy and Theodorre personally teach every session of their trainings and enjoy doing so. They are available for personal interaction with and questions from their students. With their unique combination of insight and humor, they invite participants into the process of growth, inviting personal sharing from everyone. 

Level 1 Training and Certification in Denver, Colorado April 5 - 10, 2008

 

Level 2 Training and Certification  TBA

 

Training Program Philosophy

 

Partners in Transformation Membership Benefits

 

Purpose for Enneagram Training

Call Kathy and Theodorre.
They would love to speak with you.

Call Kathy at 303.985.1889
Call Theodorre at 303.980.8141

Goals of Enneagram Training
These training programs are open to everyone who wants to deepen their appreciation of everyone's human potential.

Deeper personal work with the Enneagram is one primary motivation for people to participate in Hurley/Donson Enneagram training programs. Simultaneously, graduates of these programs are certified to teach Hurley and Donson's revolutionary Enneagram seminars.

Personal Growth
Once you learn about the nine personality types described by the Enneagram through a book or a seminar, insights and applications for how it can improve your life begin to unfold. Yet for many, the most effective way to apply these insights is elusive. That's where  training programs  offered by Kathy and Theodorre can be of help.

Describing the compulsions of our personality types defines the problem clearly. However, defining the problem doesn't always mean the solution to the problem is clear. Kathy and Theodorre's training and certification programs are designed to support you in both learning about and experiencing the positive change in your life that you seek.

These programs set the Enneagram in the context of principles and practices by which soul energy emerges as the compulsion dissolves. We use the word "soul" to refer to our true self, our essential self.

Interactive lectures create an atmosphere of group investigation that honors everyone’s experience. Deeper insights into the types come from analysis of video taped panels of all nine types responding to real life situations. Exercises draw you into the wonderful world of possibility that letting go of the compulsive dimensions of your personality creates.

Kathy and Theodorre's Enneagram training programs are a balance of large group, small group and individual work; of head, heart and body activities; of insight into compulsion and discovering the way out of compulsion; and of serious pursuit and humor. Graduates who have experienced many trainings to gain skills in various fields often say these programs are the most balanced and effective they have participated in.

The Enneagram is a gateway to the path of personal transformation. During these trainings, Kathy and Theodorre personally lead you down a path on which you uncover the amazing possibilities of healing and wholeness that await you when you apply the material they teach. Graduates always report they receive far more than they expected to when the program is finished. That's probably because it's impossible to explain in advance the tools for transformation that Kathy and Theodorre have discovered. They simply have to be experienced. 

This is the kind of personal work you can't get from Hurley and Donson's or anyone else's books. Why? First, because it's based on mostly unpublished material. In these programs, Kathy and Theodorre teach you principles that contextualize the Enneagram in an "inner tradition" that can only be conveyed personally. That leads to the second reason: the programs are experiential.  No amount of reading can substitute for experiencing healing your soul with like-minded people on the same journey, led by spiritual teachers who have walked and continue to walk this path themselves.

Certification to Teach
Certification to teach the Hurley/Donson Enneagram Experience® Seminar is the result of graduating from the Level 1 training program. At the training, you receive over 70 pages of outlined presentations with which you can teach the seminar. Accompanying the outlines are over 40 pages of participants' handouts that graduates are permitted to reproduce for the people who attend their seminars. 

Completing the teaching package are Kathy and Theodorre's written and verbal instructions and suggestions for presenting their material. Graduates have used these materials both in seminars and with individual clients, family members and associates. You leave fully equipped to teach the Enneagram to others in a concise format and understandable terms.

It may be of interest that many people who come not intending to teach the Enneagram leave the program with great enthusiasm for teaching. They have experienced something so important they want to share it.

Philosophy
Kathy and Theodorre believe spirit needs to be awakened, enlivened and nurtured in all of us. Therefore, in their training programs:

	They provide a refreshingly innovative paradigm for learning through New Science principles.
	Everyone is invited to share from their wisdom and experience.
	They foster relatedness, because when people feel connected, knowledge can move into the heart.
	They live the principles of they teach.
	They support you in walking the same journey.

The unique feature of these programs is their focus on the deep heart, the heart beneath the heart of daily life experience. This is the home of our "true self." Head knowledge only prepares the way. With the deep heart
we apply knowledge personally to our lives. Heart knowledge changes everything.

Kathy and Theodorre’s students will tell you that these five-day programs create a safe and hospitable learning atmosphere, teach valuable tools both for presenting the Enneagram and for transforming your personal life, and especially that they bring the Enneagram from the head to the heart. 

Some people mistakenly conclude that a "heart-centered approach" to teaching the Enneagram softens the teaching. While Kathy and Theodorre are known for their gentleness, what they teach is personal strength. It is the misguided and undisciplined heart that weakens us in life, and only those who educate their hearts are able to maintain a consistent sense of true self in an ever-changing world.

Indeed, all the traditions say that the heart is the only place within us that produces transformation. The heart is the crucible of change; keeping knowledge in the head only creates the illusion of change. The people who are attracted to our seminars want real change in their lives, and they leave with the tools they need to grow.

Preparation for these programs leads to positive change in your life 
For participants to enter fully into these programs, we suggest preparations that include reading and digesting chapters from Hurley/Donson books before attending. With this material integrated into your thinking, you will be able to participate experientially in the programs. 

Then, as a graduate of our trainings, you will have the tools to carry this wisdom into your daily life where change really happens. This is our way of attempting to assure that information is NOT kept at the level of "head knowledge," but rather that it enters the heart. Only when knowledge finds its home in the heart can transformation and healing begin. 

The Enneagram describes in detail how your soul experiences inner confusion and reacts mechanically to the cares and anxieties of the world. Our Level 1 and Level 2 training programs teach you how to deal with these pressures successfully. They place the Enneagram in a context that quiets the mind and achieves inner peace. If you live the principles taught in this training program, your Enneagram compulsion slowly dissolves and you experience true freedom for the first time. In these programs, you:

	HEAL the body, mind and heart intelligences so that they can operate at the highest levels.
	EXPERIENCE self-observation in an objective, positive, self-accepting way.
	LEARN how the practice of Self-remembering connects you with your essential or true self.
	IMPROVE your ability to disengage from the cares and anxieties that life in the world creates.
	UNDERSTAND how dis-identifying from negative inner states makes room for positive states.
	MASTER the art of placing the wisdom of this system between yourself and the world so that every impression that comes to you from the world is interpreted through wisdom.

A complete yet simple system
The Enneagram is an insightful tool to understand yourself and others. Understanding personality at the level of unconscious motivation as the Enneagram does creates the potential for compassion for self and others.

However, Kathy and Theodorre take this information one step further. Through their unique understanding of how human beings experience healing, they have created a simple yet profound and complete system for healing the human soul!

This system begins with the understanding the nine Enneagram personality types and their relationship to the three centers of intelligence — thinking, feeling and doing. If you haven't already read about this new model of the Enneagram, which we call Breakthrough Enneagram®, (using this link will take you to a page in this website that explains this idea in greater detail), this would be a good time to do so and then return to this page.

CEUs. Enneagram Resources, Inc. (ERI) is approved by the National Board of Certified Counselors to offer continuing education activities for Nationally Certified Counselors. ERI adheres to NBCC continuing education guidelines. ERI offers Continuing Education Units for all its programs.

Training Program Particulars
Below are five choices for more information. The first two describe our training program, which is in two parts, Level 1 and Level 2. Click on these links to find contents of the program, prerequisites, cost, and schedule.

	Level 1 Training and Certification in Denver, Colorado April 5 - 10, 2008
	Level 2 Training and Certification in Denver, Colorado TBA

 

Training Program Philosophy

 

Partners in Transformation Membership Benefits

 

Purpose for Enneagram Training

To Find Out More About These Programs and How to Register For Them:

	Call 303.985.1889 in the Denver Metro Area or from a country other than the U. S. A.
	Call toll free 877.591.9903 in the U. S. A. and outside the Denver Metro Area
	E-mail ERI@hurleydonson.com for more information
	Use the Seminar Registration Form

Call Kathy and Theodorre.
They would love to speak with you.

Call Kathy at 303.985.1889
Call Theodorre at 303.980.8141