Nine Minds Workshop – Learning Resources – Ruthanne Wrobel LESSON PLANS for ONE and ALL 1 HEROIC QUALITY 2 EMOTIONS 3 STORY LINE List heroic qualities, values, Feel human hopes, fears, Think of overall story line, a meanings … Choose one word passions, emotions to spark & narrative structure. Use key & one strong image to embody motivate learning … set up scenes from the story to one vital quality binary tensions organize lessons 4 EXTREMES 5 RESEARCH 6 PHILOSOPHY + IRONY Find the greatest, the least, the Find topics to explore in Raise philosophic questions, limits of reality … relate exhaustive detail that relate find ironic realizations that extreme features to heroic to the heroic quality … explore limits & opposites of quality heroism 7 CELEBRATION 8 ASSESSMENT 9 REFLECTION Stage a project or activity to Assess literacy skills & forms Allow students and teacher to help resolve dramatic tensions of imaginative engagement reflect on their learning as as students demonstrate their with the lessons they interacted with the skills & understandings subject and each other Adapted from Kieran Egan, The Educated Mind: How Cognitive Tools Shape our Understanding, 1997. http://www.ierg.net NINE TALK STYLES 8 COMMANDS 9 CHRONICLES 1 SERMONS Arguing, debating, opposing, Recounting sagas, epics, Teaching, preaching, finding taking aim, scoring points, generalizing, day-dreaming fault, admonishing, parting shots … military aloud, voicing vague notions, correcting, reminding of metaphors. wondering, meandering obligations Self-talk: ‘Do this my way’ Self-talk: ‘Nice’n easy’ Self-talk: ‘That’s not right’ 2 SYMPATHIES 3 SALES PITCH 4 LAMENTS Befriending, supporting, Promoting, advertising, Longing, lamenting, comforting, offering friendly performing, exclaiming, extolling, yearning, regretful advice, pitching in, meeting motivational speeches, sighs, poetic turns of phrase, needs, getting personal success stories self-expression Self-talk: ‘You need me’ Self-talk: ‘Watch me shine’ Self-talk: ‘I’m feeling …’ 5 LECTURES 6 CAUTIONS 7 ANECDOTES Detailed explanations, Questions, warnings, Joking, laughing, story- informative displays of second-guessing, trouble- telling, entertaining, shifting knowledge, definitions, facts, shooting, worst-case gears, changing venues, precise instructions, logical, scenarios, defending / sampling, imagining, rational arguments testing checking out, moving on Self-talk: ‘I’m thinking …’ Self-talk: ‘On a lighter note’ Self-talk: ‘But what if …’ An educational resource provide by Enneagram North in Toronto, Canada. Visit www.enneagramnorth.com Wise Words from Famous Canadians 8 Pierre Elliot Trudeau 9 Lester B. Pearson 1 Jack Layton “Canada will be a “I do not know that I have “What we need to do is strong country when done very much myself to stand up for ourselves Canadians of all promote fraternity among when we're un-fairly provinces feel at home nations, but I do know treated.” in all parts of the that there can be no more ““So let us be loving, country, and when important purpose for hopeful and optimistic. they feel that all any man’s activity or And we’ll change the Canada belongs to interests.” world.” them.” 2 Stephen Lewis 3 Wayne Gretzky 4 Jean Vanier “What responsibility “I wasn’t naturally gifted “Life is a succession of means is being your own in terms of size and crises and moments when guru. We can only help you speed; everything I did in we have to rediscover find the way. Any healing, hockey I worked for, and who we are and what we any progress, any hope, is that’s the way I’ll be as a really want.” going to come from you. ... coach.” But I can help you find “Envy comes from your energy. I'm obligated “I skate to where the puck people's ignorance of, or to help you find it, in any is going to be, not where lack of belief in, their own way I can.” it has been.” gifts.” 5 John Polanyi 6 David Suzuki 7 Marshall McLuhan “[Intellectual courage is] “We live in a finite world “Our permanent address the quality that allows one with finite resources. is tomorrow.” to believe in one's Although it may judgment in the face of sometimes seem quite “There are no passengers disappointment and big, earth is really very on spaceship earth. We widespread skepticism. small – a tiny blue and are all crew.” Intellectual courage is green oasis of life in a cold even rarer than physical universe.” “I don't necessarily agree courage.” with everything that I say.” An educational resource provide by Enneagram North in Toronto, Canada. Prepared by R. Wrobel, 2011. Visit www.enneagramnorth.com AKHENATEN’S NINE FACES 8 9 1 THE SUN KING TRUE BELIEVER REFORMER Pharaoh, Emperor, Unity, harmony, no Religious revolution, Ruler of All Lands, dualism, no discord, life worship of the Aten, Divine Monarch & light everlasting challenge priests, temple bureaucrats, generals 2 3 4 DEVOTED SON of ROYAL COUPLE MYSTIC GENIUS Queen Tiye Akhenaten & Nefertiti Patron of the arts, new Where mother leads Grand performers, self- naturalism, poetic he follows, in religion, promoters, power couple, inspiration, strange in daily life, in politics Watch us shine ! symptoms, visions ? 5 6 7 MASTER MIND LOYAL SKEPTIC ADVENTURER Urban planner of new Loyal to his father in A whirl-wind reign of public spaces, scholar, Thebes, Amenhotep III; projects, plans for new architect of new ideas, later turned against temples, statues, pageants ritual life, royal life, worship & priests of … Neglect of armies, symbolism … Amun, changed his empire, left the business name, moved to Amarna of government to others … Develop an interpretation of Akhenaten and his mysterious reign, based on careful selection and study of historical evidence and arguments. Present and defend your position in class during a learning conversation. Consult this online source, as a place to start: http://ashraf62.wordpress.com/2011/05/09/akhenaten-the-first-individual-in- history/ An educational resource provide by Enneagram North in Toronto, Canada. Prepared by R. Wrobel, 2011. Visit www.enneagramnorth.com HOMER AND THE ENNEAGRAM The Enneagram styles are very old. Homer (ca. 750 B.C.E.) knew the nine basic themes essentially as they are today. Odysseus travels through each of the Enneagram domains in exact reverse numerical order. Here is his itinerary: 2. Calypso, the Two nymph who offers Odysseus every worldly good and even immortality if he will but stay with her. 1. The Phaeacians, perfect Martha Stewart One hosts, where honour, respect, fair play, and courtliness count most, along with beautifully prepared meals. 9. The Land of the Lotus Eaters, dreamy, forgetful Nines. 8. The Cyclops, powerful, vengeful giant Eights; "Each one dwells in his own mountain cave, dealing out rough justice to wife and child, indifferent to what others do." 7. Aeolia, a Seven island that floats whimsically on the sea, relocating with the wind, where the Seven residents feast and party. 6. The paranoid Laestrygonians, Sixes who attack Odysseus without provocation. 5. The solitary Circe, the cunning Five sorceress. 4. The visit to Hades, the psychic underworld. The Sirens, Fours who bewitch passing mariners to tragedy with melodious song. 3. Scylla and Charybdis, a monster and a whirlpool, a rock and a hard place, where skilful sailing full speed ahead is the only way through. Homer must have known something of the relationships among the Enneagram types as well, because he knew the critical order. He was likely associated with long- established civilizations to the east, the Chaldeans, and the Persians, who had developed elaborate cosmologies. Centuries later, Pythagoras (ca. 550 B.C.E.) traveled east and studied these ancient traditions and perhaps met the Babylonian Hebrews as well. As philosopher Oscar Ichazo has noted, the Enneagram symbol itself is one of the geometric "seals" Pythagoras, and later the Platonists, used to show the special qualities and relationships among numbers. With the extraordinary spread of Neoplatonism, the material entered the Catholic and Orthodox churches through the early church fathers and eventually traveled east into Sufism and west to reconnect with the Jewish Kabbalah in France and Spain. The basic themes of the Enneagram -- including the balancing of a formal series of opposites as a pathway to development -- came to a full flower in Kabbalah, the central works of Jewish mysticism. Notes from Michael J. Goldberg, Getting Your Boss's Number: and Many Other Ways to Use the Enneagram at Work, San Francisco: Harper, 1996, p. 276-277 See new book by Michael Goldberg: Travels with Odysseus: Uncommon Wisdom from Homer's Odyssey, 2005. NINE WORLD VIEWS – Do you see what I see? 8 FRONT LINES 9 OCEAN DEPTHS 1 COURT HOUSE The world calls us to battle All rivers & drops of water The world watches & judges for power & control. Conflicts flow into one sea. All points intentions, actions & divide & define friends & of view are valid. There are outcomes. So many faults & foes. Know your allies & no distinctions. No one flaws need fixing. enemies. stands out. Self-talk: ‘Go with the flow. Self-talk: ‘Something’s not Self-talk: ‘Be strong. Speak Don’t make waves’ right’ out. Act now.’ 2 OASIS 3 SHOW TIME 4 TWILIGHT So many in the world need In a world of competition, Glimpses of rare beauty lie comfort, aid & shelter. As my the winner outshines them around us and within. Who caring hands reach out to all. The world rewards ‘the can fathom or transmit help, the world smiles. best’ with fame, favour and untold joys, sorrows and love. shadows? Self-talk: ‘We need each other.’ Self-talk: ‘Be the best. Strive Self-talk: ‘Who am I? What to impress. Never fail.’ am I feeling?’ 5 IVORY TOWER 6 JUNGLE TRAILS 7 WONDER LAND The world is filled with No one is safe for long in a The world is a level playing confusing data & misleading world where so much can field of options & claims.