In this issue:

Article:

We Are Being Called

Upcoming Workshops and Courses:

Relationships Workshop (Jan 4-6)

Deep Coaching Teleconference Series (Starts Jan. 29)

Essence: The Enneagram of Self-Remembering (Starts Feb. 4)

Article: We Are Being Called

Don’t you feel a change a coming

From another side of time

Breaking down the walls of silence

Lifting shadows from your mind

Placing back the missing mirrors

That before you couldn’t find

Filling mysteries of emptiness

That yesterday left behind

Cat Stevens, Change IV

I’ve just returned from a week in Atlanta immersed in deep Enneagram work with 30 “Essence Friends” from around the world. (The moment I started writing this message to you, this Cat Stevens song came streaming in on the radio, so I included it. Somehow, it all fits.) The impact from the week highlighted three themes that I want to share with you. Perhaps they will remind you of what you already know…

First: We are being called to be awake and conscious.

If anything, this year has told us that we can no longer live life “as usual.” There are things that are beyond our control (I know, I know, that illusion is so hard to pop). What we can do is meet each today with as much awareness and presence as we can remember to bring to the moment and let that become the basis for whatever action we take.

This is the great hope for our world….that one-by-one, we become just a bit more aware, and thus more compassionate and real. What if each of us evolved by just one degree? What would that look like? You know what? We have the enormous capacity to do just that and far more. This is what we were born to do–now.

Second: Check in with yourself–how are you doing?

What is your experience of yourself amidst the enormous change that we are so clearly in? How are you meeting it? From the macro level change that we hear or read about everyday to the ripples and waves moving through our personal lives and those of family, friends, colleagues and neighbors, it can be easy to have our very core shaken. So, how are you doing with it?

Your well-being is an integral part of the web of evolution. How are you taking care of yourself? Please create some space for you, time to renew yourself, a time to get in touch with various aspects of yourself, time to heal whatever needs your attention. This is no longer a ‘nice thing to do for yourself,’ but a prerequisite for being able to bring your whole self to the living of this life.

Third: Who we hang out with makes a difference.

Being involved with others who are committed to their journey of awakening is vital to gaining and giving support and honest and loving feedback, as well as sharing in the cosmic humor that is part of this journey. In my spiritual community, we call these “essence friends,” because the quality of presence-based conversation, inquiry, sharing and care lifts us all. A group of my Enneagram students have decided that their relationships are so vital to their well-being, that they have independently chosen to meet together in-between our regular sessions.

The more we commit ourselves to our growth journey, the more that others who are on similar paths find their way into our lives. You are not alone, I assure you. I encourage you to make space in your life for these important human reminders of ‘who you are’ and why you are here.

As a final note, There is no moment that does not hold sacredness, if we but remember to hold it as such. This season is a particularly poignant time to call ourselves to attention, to let ourselves be stunned into silence and awe by simply noticing the preciousness of life and by the awareness of the beauty and love that is available to us in every moment.

May you abide in abundant blessings and light during this holiday season.

Roxanne

Announcements

The new year brings many opportunities to delve into what it means to be truly present to yourself, to be present in relationships, and to study how the Enneagram can support you in your life and work.

There’s still time to get in on this workshop if you register now. For a great way to start the new year, join me in the sacred journey of seeing self and others from a fresh, more conscious perspective.

The Enneagram Relationships Workshop

Jan 4-6, 2008

Mercy Center, Burlingame, CA.

Relationships have an enormous impact on every aspect of life: on our identity, health, self-worth, success, and they are core to our psychological and spiritual development. Gain remarkable insights about yourself and others as you:

• Develop an understanding of how core thinking and emotional dynamics operate among and between individuals with different Enneagram types
• Discover how differences in life priorities and on approaches to conflict management make perfect sense based on type orientations
• Experience the impact of increasing your presence while interacting with others
• Increase your emotional freedom from getting hooked by others
• Learn real-life approaches to being in healthier relationships

This authorized Riso-Hudson workshop is recommended for couples, single individuals who are interested in creating conscious relationships, parents, adult children of elderly parents, professionals who work closely with clients and anyone having challenges in their relationships.

My trusted colleague Dr. Ronna Phifer-Ritchie will co-teach this workshop.

For more details and to register, go to www.lifewisecoaching.com/relationships-workshop-intimat/

Note the discount if you register with a second person.

As part of the Deep Coaching Training Program, I’m offering:

The Deep Coaching Teleconference series

Are you ready to take your professional work using the Enneagram to the next level?

For coaches, therapists, spiritual directors, hypnotherapists, bodyworkers, acupuncturists, energy-workers and other holistic professionals who are called to take their work deeper.

Tuesdays, 6:00-7:30 p.m., PST

January 29-April 15

11 sessions (not meeting every week)

This teleconference series will be based on Roxanne’s Deep Coaching book. During the series, we will focus on the internal logic of each type, including essential characteristics, hidden dynamics, motivations, and an internal story of each of the nine personality structures. Case studies and participant experience will provide the basis for coaching practice.

For more information and to register, go www.lifewisecoaching.com/certification-program/

Essence: The Enneagram of Self-Remembering

A learning community that meets monthly with Roxanne on the San Mateo Coastside

• Does your mind feel over-used? Would you like to have contact with and greater access to your three primary centers of intelligence?
• Are you forever trying to “fix yourself,” believing that if you could just get this one mysterious ‘thing’ taken care of, you might be ok? Would you like to approach yourself and others with more genuine compassion, and realize that there is ‘nothing to fix?’
• Does experiencing your “Essential nature” appeal to you, but also feel out of your reach?

The most profound contribution of the Enneagram is to the awakening of our true nature. In this nine-session series, we will explore the wisdom that the Enneagram offers by focusing on how we start with where we are as a way to move toward, experience and remember our Essential Nature.

DATES and TIME:

Once/month meetings -

Mondays, 6:45-9:15 p.m., Starting Feb. 4

For more information, go to www.lifewisecoaching.com/riso-hudson/

NOTE: All three learning opportunities qualify for:

1) CE credit with the California Board of Behavioral Sciences; and

2) for the Deep Coaching Training Program.

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