Excavating Your Ego

Excavating Your Ego: A Framework for Realizing Your Full Potential

Our purpose at Upbuild is to help people realize their full potential. To do this, we must start by understanding ourselves completely – our underlying motivations, our fears, our desires, why we get triggered when we do, and how we can overcome whatever might be holding us back from achieving our goals.

This workshop gives us a framework to better understand ourselves as well as the many people in our lives. It gives us tools to make us more aware of subconscious patterns of thought that prevent us from expressing our true selves and enabling us to be who we are capable of being. And it gives us the insights to start to free ourselves from our own egos, which is the only way to realize our full potential.

Here are a few highlights of what you should expect to get out of this workshop:

• Understanding of the underlying motivations, fears and desires of your personality type
• Increased awareness of your blind spots and how other people might see you
• Insight into your personal and professional relationships, particularly those in which you experience some conflict, and how to improve them
• Greater empathy for colleagues, family and friends when their behaviors trigger you, enabling you to have more effective conversations
• Connection with a community of people committed to working on themselves and helping each other in this work

The Framework We Use

The workshop revolves around the nine distinct personality types of the Enneagram, which is a powerful system for better understanding ourselves and others, and a robust tool for personal development and transformation.

Together we will examine each of the nine types, learn about the basic motivations, fears and desires of each type, help you determine your type, discuss how to maximize each type’s potential and minimize predictable pitfalls, and introduce a series of practical exercises that you will be able to take away with you.

Agenda

This workshop will simultaneously give you:

• A thorough introduction to the Enneagram
• Provide a series of exercises to help us all get in touch with and better understand our own egos

Friday 6:30-9:30pm: We will start on Friday evening with an introduction to the Enneagram framework and an experiential discussion about ego, ending with dinner.

Saturday 10am-7:30pm: On Saturday morning we will begin with a meditation before delving deeper into the Enneagram framework. Throughout the day we’ll examine each personality type through multimedia profiles/vignettes, interactive exercises, and participant panels. We’ll also have an exercise to key in on our personal growth through understanding our ego. We’ll have lunch and regular short breaks to recharge, debrief, ask questions, and get to know each other better.

Sunday 10am-7:30pm: On Sunday we will wrap our examination of the remaining personality types before a closing exercise and commencement (“where do we go from here?”).

Note:

• Wear comfortable clothing
• Bring a pen
• Vegetarian meals and snacks are also included