| Addiction Studies addresses the needs of helping professionals who treat addiction, and of persons who are actively working a 12-Step Program. This track blends the assets of the 12-Steps and Enneagram personality typology to loosening the personality defense structures, (i.e. "character defects) so a program become more effectively applied to daily life and relationship stressors. |
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AR101: Using the Enneagram and the 12 Steps as a Tool for Life
Course description. Enneagram theory describes how each of nine personality types manifests its own “compulsion”. When taken to extremes, such compulsions can become addictions to chemicals or behaviors. Recovery from addiction is viewed from the application of the Twelve Step Program to the specific “compulsions”, “needs”, and “fears” of each Enneagram personality.
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outline: I. Historical and symbolic correlation of the Enneagram and the Twelve
Steps. II. Overview of Enneagram Personality Typology. a. The Centers of Intelligence: Three core ways of knowing. b. The Hornevian Groups (Karen Horney): Social styles of relating. c. The Harmonic Groups (Riso-Hudson): How we relate to others when we do not
get what we want. III. The foundation of Basic Fear and Basic Desire in Enneagram personality. a. Formation of personality in childhood. b. Messages learned in childhood. c.
The “compulsion” or “passion” of each Enneagram personality. IV. Aspects of Enneagram personality to use with the Twelve Steps. a. Identification of “compulsion” or “passion” for each personality. b. Identification of “needs” for each personality. c. Identification of “fears” for each personality. d. Identification of how each personality
can work against recovery. V. Practical exercises to apply knowledge about Enneagram personality to each of the Twelve Steps. |
