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I learned quite a lot on each day,
And made some great friends by the way.
And all this despite
Being quite old and white –
Get hype for the great IEA!

Helen Palmer:

• “Your type is an adaptive strategy to keep you secure in the world.” -Helen Palmer
• Identity feels like choosing but it’s really automatic
• When I get triggered, instead of reacting outwardly, I can center inwardly.
• The imagination is a true path to next levels of consciousness, if we can just get past our projections.
• Anchor the castle, invoke the blue fairy, then she begins to sing.
• Go to the part of your body that has shut down that has enabled the passion to arise. Stay with it and relax.
• If you have trouble going within, ask “what am I running away from?” Take up a sport and get exhausted.
• Apply the Enneagram to “be a tube not a bucket” to address the resistance in nine ways
• That is not a thought. That is the recognition capacity of your inner witness.
• Don’t go away from it. Go toward it. It’s just a contraction with a bunch of interpretation attached to it.
  

Instincts in relationship workshop:

• All the instincts are trying to get needs met from outside. You can redirect and get them met from inside.
• Self-pres says “please don’t have people over for parties”
• Social says “sexual beats around the bush but doesn’t ask for what they need”
• Sexual says “social wants to be heard but rambles and doesn’t get to the point. I want intimacy but not that kind.”
  

Overall impressions of the IEA community:

• The IEA community is largely old and white, and the narrative tradition is stuck in 70’s gender roles.
• Keep the spirit of scientific inquiry; drop the gatekeepers.
• In order for this community to survive into the next generation, we need to be one community, not an uncomfortable hodgepodge of a spiritual community and an academic community.
• The backstory about the snow shoveling argument

Previous episode in this series:

• WCME 060: IEA 2016 part 1: Bringing a scientific mindset to the Enneagram
• WCME 062: IEA 2016 part 2: Using Non-Violent Communication (NVC) to have conversations that transform
• WCME 063: IEA 2016 part 3: 4 Perspectives on the 3 Instincts: Russ Hudson, Mario Sikora, Beatrice Chestnut, and Tom Condon

You can find the IEA conference here. I’ll be there and I’d love to meet you! -Pace

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