Professional Development Courses: Schedule

This course is designed to create more effective communicators. You will learn to influence with integrity when delivering your desired message. The perception by others of the message you provide will be examined and critiqued. Your skills will be assessed, improved, and redirected, creating a renewed method of universal understanding when dealing with anyone you encounter, regardless of their personality type, learning style, or frame of reference. After intense interpersonal exercises, and much self-reflection, you will develop a new set of skills in the areas of both written and oral communication. Skills designed to enhance your ability to craft an effective message. A message which elicits the desired response you had hoped for.  Imagine the possibilities.

One of the most important tasks teachers face is working to establish a positive, constructive relationship with the parents/guardians of their students. When there are no outside issues parent contacts and face-to-face meetings are straightforward. What if the student, their child, is involved in any at-risk behaviors? What skillset is essential for the teacher to possess in order to aid the parent/guardian in helping their child be
successful in school? This course addresses those key issues. Specific strategies will be presented, discussed, practiced, and implemented allowing participants to gain those critical skills.

The Enneagram - Knowing Ourselves And Each Other is an introduction to the Enneagram System of Personality. The Enneagram describes nine personality types and the strengths and challenges of the strategies people use to interact with each other and the world. It describes how these strategies, motivations, and desires emerge when people are functioning in a normal manner and when they are under stress. 

The Enneagram helps us know ourselves by revealing what we do well, the kinds of people and environments we are attracted to, and the gifts that we easily and naturally offer to the world. It can also reveal our habitual behaviors, blind spots, and limiting beliefs that trip us up. Additionally, the Enneagram helps us understand others by describing their values, thought processes, the language they use, and what motivates them, which informs how to best communicate with them. Knowing what motivates us and others to act is the key to improving behavior. No other personality system does this as accurately and practically as the Enneagram. 

In this course, we will first discover which of the nine styles is our Preferred Strategy/Primary Motivation. We will examine how our Preferred Strategy/Primary Motivation shapes our teaching style. We will also consider the Enneagram’s Emotional Competencies and their direct relation to the 5 Competencies of Social Emotional Learning. Moving to our classrooms, we will examine how each of the nine styles may present in our students and how by identifying their styles, we can help them achieve. Finally, we will take a brief look at how the Enneagram is an excellent model for leadership.