Workshop OFFERINGS
(prerequisite: Going Inward)
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Anti-RacismWe will learn about:
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(prerequisite: Going Inward)
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Ally to Accomplice We will learn about:
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(prerequisite: Going Inward)
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Anti-RacismWe will learn about:
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(prerequisite: 9P1K)
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Implicit BiasWhat we will learn:
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(prerequisite: 9P1k)
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Gender IdentityWhat we will learn:
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(prerequisite: Gender Identity)
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Gender Identity 2.0This workshop includes :
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(prerequisite: Going Inward)
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Why Language is ImportantThis workshop includes:
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Susan Olesek — Founder
Born outside of Boston, Susan spent her formative years in Asia with occasional forays into places of extreme suffering like The Walled City of Hong Kong and the streets of Bombay. These experiences made deep impressions on her Enneagram Type 1, ideological heart. By the time she entered Occidental College to study sociology, Susan’s resolve to somehow make a contribution to the world was embedded in who she was becoming.
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Rick Olesek
In July 2015, Rick left his corporate career behind him to become the Executive Director of EPP; a leap of faith that reflects his profound belief in this project’s vision. A Stanford grad and former Vice President of Information Services and Human Resources, Rick ran his own successful database consulting firm for 15 years where he taught himself everything from business acumen to technical expertise and virtually everything in between.
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Eric McCluskey
With his newfound involvement in EPP, Eric’s goal is to leverage his decades of experience in growing enterprises to support the ability of the project to touch as many lives as possible. Eric is a native Californian who splits his time between Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Shawna Elizabeth
Shawna Elizabeth is a Social Media Consultant who volunteers with EPP to use social networking as a medium for sharing our powerful work with a growing global audience. Shawna believes that even small moments of compassion create a ripple effect, and works to share content that inspires others to open their hearts to those who might otherwise be forgotten.
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Susanne Gawreluk
Susanne Gawreluk is EPP’s Chapter Liaison, Minnesota’s Chapter Lead, EPP Faculty, a certified guide, and personal wellness practitioner who has been teaching the Enneagram to women at Shakopee prison since 2015. Integrating the head, heart and body connection for personal resiliency is her passion. As a compassionate Type 4, Susanne has woven creativity and humor into the dark places of life as a 15-year hospice volunteer.
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Robin Grant is a Graphic Designer, volunteer guide, creative, illustrator, and multimedia artist who uses his gifts as a Type 4 to inspire learning. Robin works with EPP to design, illustrate, and brand educational materials, including training guides, print collateral, video content, social media assets, presentation materials, and more.
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Halida Hatic is a Community Weaver and practical visionary who loves connecting people to the vision and mission of EPP. Halida enjoys building relationships and inspiring connection and community through shared values.
As a Type 8, she uses her abundant energy to support EPP’s community expansion through fundraising, strategic partnerships and special events. |
Laura Hooper
Laura Hooper is a Program Manager and certified guide who works tirelessly to support the people and projects that keep EPP moving, including our ambassadors, guides, staff, coaches, and volunteers. As a Type 7, Laura feels at home working on a variety of projects at any given moment, which she does with enthusiasm and ease.
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Sue Lambert
Sue Lambert is EPP’s Ambassador Liaison extraordinaire, a member of the EPP Ambassador Advisory Committee, Co-Facilitator of EPP’s Re-entry Classes, and an EPP Guide Apprentice who is completing the last steps of achieving her Enneagram Teaching Certificate. As a Type 1, Sue loves to use her gifts to support others as they navigate the challenges in their life post-incarceration, while also working with EPP to redefine “rehabilitation” for the currently incarcerated.
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Jodi Norton
Jodi Norton is a Project Coordinator whose compassionate presence and eye for detail serve to bring leaders, guides, ambassadors and the public together with EPP’s students on the inside. As a Type 9, Jodi enjoys using her organizational and analytical gifts to skillfully build relationships and to serve as the connection point between EPP and the logistical teams within the prison systems.
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New/Unknown
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Marion Gilbert
A champion of EPP since our inception, Marion is an EPP Advisory Board Member and a fearless pioneer of the integration of Somatic Awareness Practices with the Enneagram who has contributed greatly to the Enneagram field. She currently serves as a Core Faculty member of the nonprofit The Narrative Enneagram (TNE).
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Russ Hudson
Russ Hudson is one of the principal scholars and innovative thinkers in the Enneagram system’s development worldwide.
Says, Russ, “In our earliest days of teaching the Enneagram, Don Riso and I became aware of something that we had not anticipated: that the work we were doing was reaching prison populations and having a positive effect. We received letters from incarcerated people sharing their realizations with us, and we were always deeply moved by these testimonies. |
Gabor Maté M.D.
Countless EPP students have sighed their relief and elation when introduced to Gabor Maté’s compassionate explanation of addiction: “It’s a problem, but not the problem, addiction is a person’s attempt to solve a problem that started in childhood. The real questions is not why the addiction, but rather, Why they pain?”
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Robyn Reiss
Robyn is an active partner at F7 Ventures, a new angel fund of seven Facebook alumnae women, investing primarily in female-founded companies. Robyn is absolutely passionate about the power of technology to improve people’s lives. Previously, Robyn held leadership positions at Facebook in its early days, Google, Summit Public Schools, and the NYC Mayor’s Economic Development Corporation.
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Mark Schwartz, Sc.D, MFT
Dr. Schwartz graduated from John’s Hopkins University with a doctorate degree in psychology and mental health. He worked in the Department of Psychology at John’s Hopkins and co-taught at the university. He later joined the staff of the Master’s and Johnson Institute where he served as the Director of Workshops, Director of Research, Developer and Director of the Masters and Johnson Trauma and Compulsivity Institute, and as the Executive Director for 16 years.
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Shalini Verma
Shalini Verma is a high energy leader at Google… bringing the latest artificial intelligence/machine learning products to life through a global deployment team. Named to Crain Magazine’s Tech 50 Top Technology Talent, her passion is to inspire leaders to transform themselves and the world whether in non-profit or for profit organizations.
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Neelam Wadhwani
Neelam Wadhwani was raised in a small town in Western India, Neelam spent her formative years studying in a convent, where the nuns emphasized that learning happens in the mind and the soul. Her family spent summers with a close family friend, a warden of one of the two jails in India. Here, at a very young age, she saw suffering and sorrow and noticed the absence of rehabilitation and redemption.
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Jennifer Weber, M.Ed., CFRE
Jennifer Weber is the Founder of Cornerstone Consulting in Seattle WA, where she specializes in working with innovative non-profit leaders to create fundraising strategy and inspire transformational philanthropy. Working in fundraising for 20 years, Jennifer believes philanthropy is rooted in values and can be a powerful catalyst for social change.
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David Daniels M.D. (In Loving Memory)
From the get-go, “Dr. D.” was a champion of EPP and an avid spokesperson for our mission. A clinical professor emeritus of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford Medical School, Dr. Daniels was a leading developer of the Enneagram system of nine personality styles.
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Alex Senegal
Alex Senegal was raised in “the projects” of San Jose, California. Running the streets before he was a teenager and found himself in the revolving door of California’s correctional system for 23 years. While serving his final term, Alex was introduced to the Enneagram in 2014 and found — at last — a personal freedom, unlike anything he’d ever known.
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Victor Soto
"When I went to jail I was lost, and could not explain how or why I sent down the path to end up behind bars... With the knowledge, I learned while incarcerated and the serious commitment by and to the Ambassador Program I am traveling on the best path I have ever been on in my life. I have learned how to be present, and to in relationship in the moment without making others into objects onto which I paste my history, my projections or judgements because of my past."
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Clay Tumey
Clay Tumey was a successful, former bank robber who was serving time in a Texas prison when he was first introduced to the Enneagram. Though he felt freer on his first day in prison than he had in the years since turning himself in, Clay learned a freedom of another kind when he found himself as a Type 5 on the Enneagram. He took to this system as a way of remembering how to open his once-closed heart.
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LocationP.O. Box #804
Los Gatos, CA 95031 1 408 600 0074 |