Nine Patterns of Developmental Pathways

In this immersive, interactive workshop retreat with Dan Siegel, participants will learn about their own lives, how persistent patterns of emotion, thinking, and behaviour—known as “personality”—may have formed, and how to enable those potential prisons to transform into platforms of possibility that serve as playgrounds in life.

Dan offers a view from the trans-disciplinary field of Interpersonal Neurobiology to explore Patterns of Developmental Pathways, or PDPs. The PDP approach is consistent with narrative findings of the popular Enneagram of personality as well as modern empirical studies of temperament, motivation, and human development.

Using the lens of Interpersonal Neurobiology, we will explore the universal ways temperament involves motivation and emotion as it forms the basis of personality. We will also examine how attachment-related challenges to security can influence development—pushing it toward lower, more vulnerable levels or, with greater security, toward higher, more integrated levels of development.

The workshop format will be brief conceptual immersions in the PDP framework integrated throughout with extensive reflective practices. These include Pattern-specific work, as well as the Wheel of Awareness—which enables an accessing of the “Plane of Possibility” and cultivates the freedom this workshop will explore, in the realization of Wholeness across the various Pathways we may experience in our lives and in the lives of those with whom we live and work.

Program Highlights

• Explore the deep neural mechanisms that shape our inner lives and interpersonal relationships.
• Learn to work at the “growth-edge” for each of the nine Patterns.
• Learn practical, reflective exercises that cultivate Wholeness and integrative transformation both personally and professionally.

Daily Schedule

A detailed schedule will be emailed to you about 30 days prior to your program. Click here to view a sample program schedule.