Why should you consider participating in this workshop?In my twenty years of being involved in transformational trainings, workshops and coaching , I have never seen a more powerful awareness and spiritual growth tool.
When I found the Enneagram, I knew almost immediately that I had discovered a treasure trove of riches that would change the way I understand life. This tool is one of the most effective approaches available to generate sustainable transformation in your life.
I have taken this amazingly powerful awareness tool and combined it with tried and true transformational distinctions to open up massive new possibilities in life. I have partnered this with teaching the key spiritual disciplines and learning approach that enables you to create SUSTAINABLE SPIRITUAL GROWTH. The key word there is sustainable…meaning it is not a flash in the pan, here today and gone tomorrow. This is a systematic way to grow that you can BUILD UPON.
What is the Enneagram?
The Enneagram is a transformational awareness and growth ‘tool’. Its name comes from the Greek word “ennea”, meaning “nine”, meaning it is a nine pointed diagram. Each of the nine “points” represents a particular, unique personality typology. What we call the Enneagram today started with the Desert Fathers in the early Christian Church in the fourth century.
The Enneagram symbol represents nine distinct strategies for relating to the self, others and the world. Each of these types expresses a different pattern of thinking, feeling and acting that arises from a deeper inner motivation or worldview. These types or styles are not who you are, but show you the patterns that tend to dominate your experience.
What You Can Expect:
If you participate in this workshop and apply the material presented, you can anticipate:
- Greater clarity regarding authentically connecting to yourself, God and others.
- Deeper spiritual awareness
- Greater empathy for the key relationships in your life
- Enhanced relational dynamics with spouse, children, extended family, friends and co-workers.
- A new sense of freedom and awareness
- A deeper appreciation for who you are and who those most important to you are
What graduates are saying…..
Following are what graduates of this workshop said about their experience. These are direct quotes from workshop participants.
“For anyone who is trying to better understand a relationship, or a personal, professional relationship, or to run an organization or to resolve extended family relationships—the answers are all here in this workshop material. This gives you the tools to have it work.”
“It seems that I now have almost every experience every day come from a different place…I have increased awareness of how others are around me.”
“Understanding with such clarity that everyone is not like me has been mind blowing and has created empathy for others in a way that I never thought possible.”
“I have so much more empathy. I am more peaceful. I don’t take things so personally. This is so good for our marriage and all my five kids.”
“I have so much more freedom. I feel like it is okay to be who I am now.” 
“I now have a vision for who I am and my relationships. I can start to push into the talents and things God has created in me that I have never been able to tap into. It opened up a whole new world of creativity and possibility.”
“Exercising the daily discipline to practice stillness has been great.”
“I solved the mystery of why everyone doesn’t think the way I do, and why my kids don’t respond like I want them to….they don’t think the way I do.”
“I have solved the problem of how to create deeper connections.”
“This has opened up my world and a lot of judgmentalism and criticality is leaving.”
“It became easier to see and accept what was not working for me anymore. It gave me peace and courage to keep walking through it and see all the different ways God has created me.”
“I have so much more empathy for my kids…meeting them where they are even through that is not my preferred style. It helps me to have empathy to know they are wired differently.”
“I have been able to identify for the first time what is specifically unique to me, including the pitfalls and positive impacts.”
“I have so much more empathy for my husband. I learned not to not defend my position with polarizing conversations with him. I learned how to overcome being misunderstood and seeing how I was contributing to that.”
“I have very little or no stress dealing with anyone because I see them differently. I am no longer trying to be a people pleaser. I am an accountable adult who sees things differently.”
“I have so much more self-awareness, power and faith to approach other people in any interaction.”
“I see my husband completely differently in a very good way. I have much more respect and appreciation for how he runs his life. I am no longer adversely affected by how he runs his “show.” And that is profound. I am able to experience the moment completely differently.”
“I especially appreciated Kris’s explanations of how types show up in life—it made things very clear.”
“This helped me reframe some common struggles that come up over and over again with my husband. We have a better perspective in how to empathize and bring out the best in each other.”
“I am more thoughtful of my word choices and actions. I don’t take things so personally.”
“I am a more thoughtful observer and better communicator.”
“I have a deeper spiritual connection in my prayerful time.”
“I now have very specific ways to think of physical, emotional and spiritual connections. This material helps it to be easily assimilated—that there are physical, emotional and spiritual components to connection.”
“I am able to view challenging relationships with more compassion and empathy and that is huge.”
“I can see more clearly when I am resisting key relationships. I can engage them less judgmentally and have fun—a better experience.”
“I have so much more clarity about how I operate, what motivates and discourages me and both productive and destructive strategies and thoughts I go to.”
“Tremendously valuable in terms of personal awareness and that I have a choice in how I behave and react. I have less of an automatic reaction.”
Included In the Workshop
- Test To Determine Your Type
- A Weekly Reading handout each week for the next week’s Session Discussion. A download link for this is emailed each week to you.
- In addition to the weekly reading handout, each week participants will be emailed five daily contemplation topics and practices relative to that week’s focus.
- A weekly two hour live Session to discuss that week’s material.
Transformation Through the Enneagram Workshop Session Topics
Introduction (Material Given Prior to Session One)
- What’s the Enneagram?
- Determining your Enneagram Type
- The Greatest Value of The Enneagram
- The Most Important Key to Focus & Intentionality
- What Transformation Is & Is Not
- Beginning the Typing Process
Session One
- Primary Areas of Focus
- The Ever Present Nature of Resistance
- How You Got Your Particular Type
- Survival Based Adaptive Strategies
- The Three Intelligence Centers
- Transformational Spiritual Disciplines
Session Two
- Tips on determining Types (Wings, Arrows, Cultural Influences)
- Enneagram Type Strategies
- Idealizations—Enhanced Views of Self
- Contemplation and Contemplative Prayer
- The Practices of Self Observation & Self Reflection
Session Three
- Idealizations, Projections, & Avoidance Patterns
- Type Based Preoccupations
- Fixations
- Vices/Compulsions/Driving Emotions
- Defense Systems
- Defense Mechanisms
Session Four
- Overview of Basic Type Structure
- Virtues Origin
- Virtues Essence
- Vice to Virtue Conversion
- The Universal Growth Process
Session Five
- More on Vice to Virtue Conversion
- Foundational Disciplines for Transformation
- The Two Balanced Sides To Spiritual Growth
- The Keys To Connection
- Stimulus & Response
- The Holy Ideas
Session Six
- The Enneagram & Renewing The Mind
- The Three Elements of Transformation
- Polarities
- Pursuing Your Authentic Self
- Reinventing Your Relationship With Mistakes & Failures
- Key Elements of Spiritual Growth
- Paths To Transformation
- Essential Qualities
- Healthy Characteristics
- Wake Up Calls & Red Flags
Session Seven
- Transformation From Several Angles
- Transformation & Trust
- Signposts Along The Growth Path
- Characteristics of Each Type’s Continuum
- Movement Along The Arrows
- Growing Empathy
- How To Relate to Various Types
Session Eight
- Pitfalls & Invitations
- The Price of Admission To The Spiritual Growth Path
- Additional Type Groupings
- Triad Insights
- Summary of Enneagram Growth Paths
- Instinctual Energies & Subtypes
Instructor Bio
Kris Kile lives in Austin Texas, with his wife of 38 years, Katie. They have two adult sons, Timothy and Christopher.
Kris Kile is a Certified Master Trainer in Transformational Trainings (Leadership Development Training Group). He also is a Certified Master Coach (Behavioral Coaching Institute). He also is a Certified NeuroLeadership Coach (NeuroBusiness Group NeuroCoaching Center).
Kris is the founder of Authentic Community.org, Inc (www.authentic-community.org)
He also is the co-founder of The Transform.Institute (www.transform.institute). Kris also facilitates transformational trainings with Reinvent Ministries (www.reinventministries.org).
He has been involved in Transformational Trainings since 1996. He has a degree in Biblical Studies. Kris has attended multiple workshops regarding the Enneagram and spent (literally) thousands of hours studying the Enneagram, taking courses, and working on how to utilize it specifically as a spiritual growth tool.
He has combined his background in teaching transformational practices and disciplines with the Enneagram’s explanation and description of character formation to provide a unique learning opportunity for anyone committed to transformational living.
Kris has authored and designed multiple workshops, trainings, and programs for individuals, companies and non-profits. All are designed to facilitate personal and (where applicable) organizational transformation.
He currently has written two books and co-authored a third book. All three are either in the pre-published stage or in the process of being published. Two of the books, Apprenticing Jesus—Beginning Steps, and Apprenticing Jesus—Being A Disciple, are in the format of small group curriculums. The third book, Transform, covers fifteen transformational disciplines and practices that create personal and organizational breakthrough.
If you have any questions, you can email kris@kriskile.com