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The Enneagram and Conscious Relationships
Saturday, June 1, 2019; 1 to 4:30 pm
Members $30, Non-Members $35

Everything that irritates us about others can lead to an understanding of ourselves.
– C. G. Jung

Often, we’re aware that certain relationships in our lives challenge us, but we aren’t sure how to improve them. We may ask, “How can she behave that way?” or “Doesn’t he have any feelings?” or “What could that person be thinking?” And we may experience the same frustrating relationship pattern repeating itself with different people.

This workshop will cover the nine Enneagram types and how each is oriented toward relationships with others. Understanding our type—and the types of those around us—can liberate us from stuck patterns of interaction and behavior. As we bring awareness to the inner blueprints we carry unconsciously, we can begin to “wake up” to the authentic potential every relationship holds.

Through lecture, small-group exercises, guided meditation, and music, we will explore the typical “object relations” of each type, how to identify and work with our “instinctual stack,” and some key ways to improve any relationship. This workshop is appropriate for those who are new to the Enneagram as well as longtime aficionados.

Grace Holland, M.A., received her teaching certification from the Enneagram Institute in 2010. Her teachers, Don Richard Riso and Russ Hudson, are renowned Enneagram scholars and authors of The Wisdom of the Enneagram and other bestselling books. Before becoming an Enneagram teacher, Grace worked for a number of years in the fields of communication and publishing. She has used both the Enneagram and Myers-Briggs as a personal and career coach, as well as in her family life. Grace is a member of the International Enneagram Association and has taught in university, church, and small group settings. She lives in Maine with her husband and their two teenage daughters. Grace also helped parent three stepchildren.

Death Café II
Sunday, June 23, 2019; 2 to 4:30 pm
FREE for Members and Non-Members
(Donations Welcome)

Maximum Participants: 14

In this meeting lasting for two and a half hours, we will gather to eat cake, drink tea, and discuss death. The objective is ‘to increase awareness of death with a view to helping people make the most of their (finite) lives’. This is a group-directed discussion of death with no agenda, objectives, or themes. It is a discussion group rather than a grief support or counseling session. Death Cafés have been held across the U.S. and much of Europe.

These Cafés are offered on a not-for-profit basis (participants may be invited to make a minimal donation), held in an accessible, respectful, and confidential space, and are open-ended having no intention to lead people to any conclusion, product, or course of action. Refreshments, including cake, will be provided.

Teresa Arendell, Ph.D., is a Jungian analyst practicing in Maine. She has taught and offered lectures and seminars and served on committees at the Maine Jung Center, the Boston Jung Institute, and various other Jungian associations.

Will Furber, J.D., is a Jungian analyst from North Bath, Maine. He helped found the Maine Jung Center 30 years ago and is a former Board Chair. He is a faculty member of the Boston Jung Institute, where he co-leads a recurring seminar which has as one of its principal aims the enrichment and development of collective life.