Dr. Deborah Ooten
Wednesday, November 30, 2022
Learn from one of the world’s first teachers to combine the wisdom of the Enneagram and Spiral Dynamics® — and bring more compassion and understanding into our world as you connect more deeply with your true self, others, and the Divine.
Have you ever wondered how you think about things?
Why do you think about those particular things, and not something else?
When you make decisions throughout your day, which of your deepest values rise to the top and motivate your ultimate choice?
To understand your deepest patterns and habits, you’ll need to embark on a multilayered process of self-observation, according to Dr. Deborah Ooten, founder of the Conscious Living Center.
The world’s first teacher to combine the wisdom systems of the Enneagram and Spiral Dynamics in a truly sophisticated way, Deborah is pioneering a game-changing technique for understanding more about yourself, how you think, what motivates you, your core values, and much more...
She teaches students around the world how to put these revelations to work in their lives, careers, and decision-making right away.
You too can expand your consciousness as you cultivate a deep understanding of how your personality separates you from your true self, others, and the Divine…
You’re probably familiar with the Enneagram — the model of the human psyche taught as a typology of nine interconnected personality types — but have you spent time studying the groundbreaking wisdom of Spiral Dynamics?
The Spiral Dynamics system offers a view of the evolution of human consciousness over the last 100,000 years — so you can see and learn the core codes that determine your values, motivations, and aspirations.
Spiral Dynamics focuses on stages of development at the deepest layers of your consciousness, giving you a sense of what drives your behavior over time.
Deborah found the Enneagram to be what she calls a flat typography. By bringing in Spiral Dynamics, you can learn the depth of your true ego as you understand and expand your consciousness in new ways.
Combining these two lenses not only helps you discover what makes you unique, it helps you understand your motivations, drivers, values, and developmental stages in a wholly new way — so you can put them into action every day and make decisions that are aligned with who you truly are.
Join Deborah for a new 7-week course as you combine the Enneagram and Spiral Dynamics — strategically supplemented with Gurdjieff’s Fourth Way self-development system — to reveal empowering new truths about who you are... so you can make empowered, conscious choices — one by one — to expand your consciousness and transform the way you live.
With Deborah’s teachings, guided practices, assessments, and demonstrations, you’ll expand your consciousness as an individual — and as part of the groups in your life, including family and work.
Deborah will guide you to create these changes in your own life, so you can become part of the global shift in consciousness that our world so desperately needs, bringing more compassion and understanding to the world around you.
In this illuminating 7-week course, you’ll:
- Embark on a deep dive into the systems of the Enneagram and Spiral Dynamics — including how they complement each other’s strengths and fill in each other’s gaps, giving you a clear picture of who you really are and what fulfills you
- Expand your consciousness by understanding how the deepest nuances of your personality may be separating you from your true self, others, and the Divine
- Pinpoint which of Spiral Dynamics’ 8 levels of consciousness you’re operating from
- Heighten your self-awareness, challenging yourself to expand and evolve through the lens of the Enneagram and Spiral Dynamics
- Find new adaptive solutions for your life, your intimate and work relationships, and the problems our world is facing
- Learn the depths of your ego so you can expand your consciousness in new ways
- Craft your personal mission statement with Deborah’s guidance as you continue expanding your consciousness
- Complete your personal change project using Gurdjieff’s Law of 3 (which determines the character and nature of a vibration) and Gurdjieff’s Law of 7 (which determines how vibrations develop, interact, and change) as your framework
- Learn how you can sometimes feel conflicted over the multiple levels of consciousness within you — and how the different Enneagram types experience this phenomenon
- Investigate your level of consciousness and discern what’s preventing your growth
- Explore the ninth level of human development that’s just now emerging
- And much more...
What Is Spiral Dynamics?
Why I Paired the Enneagram With Spiral Dynamics
What You’ll Discover in These 7 Weeks
In this 7-week transformational intensive, Deborah will guide you through the fundamental skills you’ll need to combine the wisdom of the Enneagram and Spiral Dynamics — to truly understand who you are so you can live your life fully, bringing more compassion and understanding into our world.
Join the Livestream — or Stream Later to Watch at Your Convenience
You’ll connect with Deborah and experience her teachings through livestreaming video via any connected device. This connection is easy to use and will enhance the impact of Deborah’s transmissions. Can’t make it live? After each class, you can stream the video and audio recordings to enjoy anytime and anywhere at your convenience.
Course Sessions Wednesdays at 1:00pm Pacific
This course will feature LIVE teachings, interactive training sessions, experiential practices, and Q&A with Deborah. Each session will build harmoniously upon the previous ones, so you’ll develop a complete holistic understanding of the practices, tools, and principles you’ll need to combine the wisdom of the Enneagram and Spiral Dynamics — to truly understand who you are so you can live your life accordingly, bringing more compassion and understanding into our world.
Module 1: Pairing the Enneagram & Spiral Dynamics — Learn the Depths of Your Ego as You Expand Your Consciousness (November 30)
As your journey begins, Deborah will share what inspired her to combine the wisdom of the Enneagram and Spiral Dynamics.
She’ll explain how she found the Enneagram to be what she calls a flat typography. By pairing the two systems, you can see and learn the depth of your true ego as you understand and expand your consciousness in new ways.
Through self-observation, you’ll become aware of your patterns and habits, and learn to understand them so you can make more empowered decisions.
As you’ll discover, Spiral Dynamics is a system that offers a view of the evolution of human consciousness over the last 100,000 years. Deborah considers it a superior tool for helping humanity shift mindsets.
As you become more aware of the spectrum of human values and worldviews, you’ll be more capable of developing deeper insights into the core issues that are responsible for conflict or cohesion among people, groups, and cultures.
You’ll experience how the Enneagram and Spiral Dynamics inform each other, allowing you to have a multidimensional understanding of their inner workings over your lifetime — and a broader view of the ever-evolving levels of consciousness operating within and around you.
In this opening session, you’ll discover:
- A brief history of the Enneagram, Spiral Dynamics, plus George Gurdjieff’s Fourth Way approach to self-development
- Common myths and misuses of the Enneagram, Spiral Dynamics, and the Fourth Way — plus warnings for beginners seeking to discover more about combining them
- How combining the Enneagram and Spiral Dynamics methods can solve problems that are inherent in the type descriptions, resulting in more clarity for typing yourself and others
- Practices to help you bring more compassion and understanding to our world
- The Spiral Assessment you’ll complete at home, then review in Module 4
Module 2: Spiral Dynamics Levels of Consciousness I — How Your Values Expand Your Consciousness (December 7)
Deborah will explain how Spiral Dynamics is based on a two-tier, eight-level system comprised of value memes (vMemes) that represent each stage of human development.
These vMemes are a product of the interaction between external life conditions and individual internal, complex, adaptive systems.
As life conditions change and bring forth a need for change, this drives the shift to a higher vMeme that offers a solution. Spiral Dynamics is an open-ended system that will continue to evolve along with humanity.
The first tier, the Survivalist systems, includes six levels. All individuals and groups at this tier hold their worldview to be the correct and only worldview.
The second tier, the Being systems, allows for each person/group to have a unique and valued place, which integrates all views into one global view.
In this session, you’ll discover:
- How Spiral Dynamics’ value memes (vMemes) represent the eight levels of human development
- How people think about what they think about — and how we see the world through multiple lenses
- How each value level operates within you
- The first tier (Survivalist systems) and second tier (Being systems) of consciousness in the Spiral Dynamics system
- Videos to watch after class — Deborah will encourage you to note your thoughts, feelings, and physical sensations, along with what attracts and repels you
Module 3: Spiral Dynamics Levels of Consciousness II — Investigating Your Level of Consciousness & What’s Preventing Your Growth (December 14)
Deborah will guide you to explore how the spiral informs type. This will be a very detailed view of how each type looks in each vMeme.
If you haven’t already completed your Spiral survey, you’ll once again have a chance to complete it so you’ll contribute to the group result.
Deborah will tabulate the group’s result, and ask for a few volunteers to go over their individual results.
In this session, you’ll discover:
- Descriptions of each Enneagram type using the vMeme framework
- Why Spiral Dynamics matters so much as humanity evolves
- How you can understand others and yourself better
- Practices to help you investigate your level of consciousness and sticking points
- The multiple levels of consciousness living within you simultaneously
- A few co-students’ individual spiral results (you’re also welcome to volunteer!)
- Music to listen to after class for each level of the spiral — you’ll once again note your thoughts, feelings, and physical sensations
Module 4: Evaluating Spiral Group Results & Individual Volunteers — Challenging Yourself to Expand & Evolve (January 4)
Deborah will review the spiral results for the class and then review the results for the individual volunteers.
You’ll learn how the spiral is not a hierarchical system, but a system that expands consciousness as an individual and as a group.
As Deborah will explain, individual and collective evolution is a lifelong process. The journey has no end. To evolve on an individual or global scale, you must always start with yourself and be honest about the levels from which you’re operating. Deborah will help you do this.
From this awareness, you can then challenge yourself to expand and evolve — to find adaptive, creative solutions for your personal life, including intimate and work relationships, and for the world’s problems, too.
As you’ll explore, when you create personal change, you’re also changing the world.
In this session, you’ll discover:
- The combined spiral assessment results for the whole class
- Individual assessments from volunteers
- How you can sometimes feel conflicted over the multiple levels of consciousness within you — and how the different Enneagram types experience this phenomenon
- How to interpret your spiral assessment score
- How to discern where different memes simultaneously exist within you
Module 5: Putting the Spiral Into Action — Crafting Your Personal Mission Statement as You Continue Expanding Your Consciousness (January 11)
What Gurdjieff calls objective science uses a musical analogy to depict a universe composed of a chain of energies that stretches from the lowest octave to the highest. Each energy is transformed as it rises and falls, taking on a coarser or finer nature according to its place on the scale.
At each specific level, an energy corresponds to a degree of intelligence, and it is consciousness itself, fluctuating within a wide range of vibrations, that determines human experience.
Gurdjieff also affirms the reality of an absolute level of pure quality (always evolving).
From this source, energies descend to meet and interact with the energies we know. When this intermingling of pure with gross takes place, it can change the meaning of our actions and the influence they bear on the world.
Deborah will also introduce you to Gurdjieff’s Law of 3, which determines the character and nature of a vibration, and Gurdjieff’s Law of 7, which determines how vibrations develop, interact, and change.
In this session, you’ll discover:
- The entering and exiting phases between systems where most energy lies
- Exactly what’s needed to continue expanding your consciousness
- Personal Change Projects assigned — introduction to using the law of 3 and 7
- Deborah’s Enneaxam and creating your personal mission statement
Module 6: A Momentous Leap for Humankind — The Ninth Level of Development That’s Just Now Emerging (January 18)
Spiral Dynamics is an open-ended system, meaning levels continue to emerge as humanity evolves...
At this point in the course, you’ll already have learned about the eight levels of development that have been clearly observed, studied, and documented.
In this session, you’ll explore the ninth level of development that’s just now emerging. Not enough individuals have reached this level for us to fully describe it yet.
As Deborah will explain, the wisdom system uses the image of the spiral because each level includes the values, skills, and mechanisms of the levels below it while becoming more adaptive, complex, and expansive.
Deborah will share how, as people evolve through each of these stages, all previous levels of consciousness are still operating and can be expressed appropriately or inappropriately given the life conditions of the time, place, problems, and circumstances we face.
In this session, you’ll:
- Explore the ninth level of development in Spiral Dynamics
- Review your personal change projects assigned in Module 5
- Listen as volunteers review their personal change projects for the class (you’re welcome to volunteer)
- Review how a social change or group change project works using Spiral Dynamics
Module 7: Review & Moving Forward — Closing Q&A Session (January 25)
In this module, you’ll have an opportunity to ask Deborah any final questions.
You’ll briefly look at ongoing practices, with an emphasis on finding simplicity.
You’ll also explore the emergent, cyclical, double-helix model of adult biopsychosocial systems development of Dr. Clare W. Graves and how you can apply its principles to your life.
In this closing session, you’ll discover:
- How to use the emergent, cyclical, double-helix model for your practice
- How to use this model for listening to and understanding others’ values
- Support groups and practices for learning more after this course concludes
- New challenges to put this new information into action
- Where you can share your ideas and questions
The Enneagram & Spiral Dynamics Bonus Collection
In addition to Deborah’s transformative 7-week virtual course, you’ll receive these special bonuses to complement the course and take your understanding and practice to an even deeper level.
Heart Types of the Enneagram
Video Teaching & Panel Moderated by Dr. Deborah Ooten
The Heart Triad, also known as the Feeling Triad, features Enneagram types 2, 3, and 4. As Deborah interviews a panel of people who identify as Heart types, she explores how they notice their thoughts, feelings, and physical sensations. Join Deborah and embark on this glimpse into the inner landscape of each heart type.
Head Types of the Enneagram
Video Teaching & Panel Moderated by Dr. Deborah Ooten
The Head Triad, also known as the Thinking Triad, includes Enneagram types 5, 6, and 7. As Deborah interviews a panel of people who identify as Head types, she delves into their interior lives, including how they notice their thoughts, feelings, and physical sensations. Enjoy the revelatory give-and-take of this group conversation!
Body Types of the Enneagram
Video Teaching & Panel Moderated by Dr. Deborah Ooten
The Body Triad, also known as the Instinctive/Gut/Belly Triad, refers to types 8, 9 and 1. Watch as Deborah interviews a panel of people who identify as Body types. She takes a deep look into their inner lives, including how they feel emotions such as anger and indignation physically manifested in their bodies.
What People Are Saying About Dr. Deborah Ooten...
— Leighah Beadle-Darcy: “Deb Has a Capacity to Support and
Challenge in a Way That Is Underpinned by Such Deep Love”
“Anyone who wants to be with a real teacher should be with Debbie.”
Deborah Otten is not only a teacher, she is a great human being. I learn a lot from her, experiencing aha moments every time. One course with her is never enough. Her teaching hits the spot. It gives you a new, clear process of thinking and helps you eliminate limiting beliefs. I consider her teachings on Spiral Dynamics a masterpiece. It’s an eye-opener for seeing types accurately and better understanding career-related and personal-life relationships. Deborah teaches with her heart and is very generous when giving information. She is so patient and has the capacity to embrace all different types of thinking. Anyone who wants to be with a real teacher should be with Debbie. She accepts, validates, and can see you for who you are.
— Iman El Noamany, MS, educational psychology, Enneagram teacher and trainer, Cairo, Egypt
“Thank you, Debbie, for the human and the soul I found in you — a great inspiration to me.
With Debbie, something has truly touched my heart and changed the way I’d been projecting myself to the world. There is deep wisdom in her teaching style. Deeper than the information or the academic approach. Something I can’t explain happened to me through the sharings I did; the stories I heard. Something like a soul-opening experience to another level. I’d been stuck somewhere in my journey, and I’m now free. Thank you, Debbie, for the human and the soul I found in you — a great inspiration to me.
— Safy Mousa, holistic coach, Dubai
“Dr. Deb Ooten is a generous, beloved master teacher of the Enneagram to many who have studied with her in the U.S. and globally.”
Dr. Deb Ooten is a generous, beloved master teacher of the Enneagram to many who have studied with her in the U.S. and globally. There are many facets to her rich experience with the Enneagram (from Fourth Way inner work to corporate consulting to entrepreneurship and organizational leadership, to name a few). If you have an interest in Spiral Dynamics and the Enneagram, she is someone who has deep mastery in both and can convey a nuanced interplay. While you can read about her synthesis in some of the articles she’s written, this is a topic that would be greatly served by studying and exploring with her if you ever have a chance.
— Anne Arthur, Sacred Space for Soul Work
Join the Global Community
The Enneagram & Spiral Dynamics offers some of the most transformational online teachings available, within a thriving global community of learning and practice.
Join fellow students and practitioners to support and inspire each other as you integrate the teachings and practices Dr. Deborah Ooten will share in this powerful training.
You’ll join an international community on the leading edge of manifesting a world grounded in the principles of cooperation, harmony, and reverence for all of life.
Here’s What You’ll Receive
Seven 90-Minute Class Sessions With Dr. Deborah Ooten
Experience a unique opportunity to be mentored by and learn from Dr. Deborah Ooten, founder of the Conscious Living Center, from the comfort of your own home. Each class includes a livestreaming video option and will guide you to learn from a unique synthesis of Enneagram and Spiral Dynamics teachings — to help you truly understand who you are and bring more compassion into the world. Course sessions are on Wednesdays at 1:00pm Pacific.
Seven Video Recordings of Class Sessions
After each class, the digital video will be available for you to stream in a high-quality format. You’ll never have to worry about missing a session, and you can watch anytime and anywhere at your convenience.
Seven Audio Recordings of Class Sessions
After each class, the audio will be available for you to stream. You’ll never have to worry about missing a session, and you can listen anytime and anywhere at your convenience.
Seven Transcripts of Class Sessions
In addition to the high-quality videos and MP3 audios, you’ll also receive the entire class transcription after each session is completed. You can then review, print, and highlight the most important insights and practices you were given.
Interactive Exercises and Questions for Each Lesson
Between class sessions, you’ll have the option of completing related exercises, practicing new tools, and answering questions to accelerate your learning and integrate each week’s lesson.
Online Community
Our exclusive Facebook online community is the perfect place to continue your discovery process after each class. Here, you can continue the discussion about your course materials and interact with your fellow students to take your exploration to an even deeper level.
The Enneagram & Spiral Dynamics Bonus Collection
- Heart Types of the Enneagram
Video Teaching & Panel Moderated by Dr. Deborah Ooten - Head Types of the Enneagram
Video Teaching & Panel Moderated by Dr. Deborah Ooten - Body Types of the Enneagram
Video Teaching & Panel Moderated by Dr. Deborah Ooten
An Unprecedented Opportunity to Join The Enneagram & Spiral Dynamics Online Training
We feel honored that Dr. Deborah Ooten has chosen to partner with The Shift Network to offer this exclusive LIVE online training. This is a unique opportunity to interact directly with the founder of the Conscious Living Center whose powerful insights and pioneering work are helping us heal and awaken ourselves and our world.
If you’re serious about liberating the next level of your evolution, then you owe it to yourself, your loved ones, and our world to take this one-of-a-kind training.
If you’re ready to take the next step in your own evolution, click the register button below to reserve your space now.
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More Praise for Dr. Deborah Ooten...
“I can’t remember the last time I experienced such a teaching that blew me away like Deborah Ooten’s!”
In one word: revolutionary! I can’t remember the last time I experienced such a teaching that blew me away like Deborah Ooten’s! Her revolutionary take on the Enneagram, paired with the Spiral Dynamics model, was a tremendous gift of insight into my own cultural memes and bias, and nothing like anything I had come across over the years. This brainchild is her unique gift to the consciousness community, revealing the relationship between Enneagram types and “tiers of consciousness” found in the Spiral Dynamics model, and offering a whole new frontier for Enneagram students! Her straightforward teaching style and depth of knowledge has significantly improved my insight and application of the Enneagram to better understand myself and others.
— Kristine Webb, program manager, life/parent coach, and lifelong learner of neurobehavioral concepts
“When I decided to study the Enneagram with Deborah Ooten, I had no idea what a life-changing experience it would be.”
When I decided to study the Enneagram with Deborah Ooten, I had no idea what a life-changing experience it would be. Not only am I growing in my understanding and application of the Enneagram, I am growing in consciousness. New possibilities are opening before me, and I have renewed optimism for what lies ahead!
— Rev. Rhonda Blevins, DMIN, pastor at Chapel by the Sea, Clearwater Beach, Florida
“Dr. Ooten’s work with overlaying the Enneagram with levels of consciousness is nothing short of remarkable.”
I do not know of another Enneagram school that teaches the Spiral alongside the Enneagram. I have been working with the Enneagram for over 10 years, and due to Dr. Ooten’s work with overlaying the Enneagram with levels of consciousness is nothing short of remarkable. Teaching the Spiral with it has added so much more depth and meaning. Moreover, her command of the Spiral and bringing relevance to it in our work has expanded my study and my journey of self-awareness to a level that far surpasses a mere examination of personality. I cannot imagine doing the work of self-observation and ego structure without knowing and understanding the Spiral and how it informs my personal journey to becoming my true self. Dr. Ooten is the perfect authority for anyone seeking to undertake a deeper dive into their personal journey.
— Dorothy Hatic, graduate of the School of Conscious Living
“Meeting Dr. Deborah and being one of her students was a life-changing experience for me and for my life path.”
Meeting Dr. Deborah and being one of her students was a life-changing experience for me and for my life path. In 2019, Dr. Deborah came to Cairo and I studied Spiral Dynamics and the Gurdjieff Fourth Way practices with her. Since then, I have activated a new perspective of seeing myself, others, and life in general. She is a compassionate and considerate teacher who really wants to offer more to her students and the whole community unconditionally.
— Noha Abo El-Magd, certified meta coach from the Meta Coaching Foundation, International Society of Neuro-Semantics (ISNS), and certified Enneagram practitioner, Cairo, Egypt
“I gained a new lens for looking at and moving through life!”
I attended classes with Dr. Deborah in 2018 in Cairo, Egypt. It was a life-changing journey with many milestones met. I gained a new lens for looking at and moving through life!
— Ghada M. Amin, student at the School of Conscious Living, Cairo, Egypt
About Dr. Deborah Ooten
Dr. Deborah Ooten is the founder and director of the Conscious Living Center and the founder and CEO of Conscious Dynamics, LLC. She has a doctorate in clinical psychology, and is an occupational therapist, a trained craniosacral therapist, and a Certified Enneagram Teacher in the Narrative Tradition. Deborah is certified by Don Beck, PhD, in Spiral Dynamics®.
Deborah founded Consciousness In Action, whose mission is working together to make a more conscious world, and serves as president of the board. She served on the board of the International Enneagram Association for six years, as the president of the International Enneagram Association, and as the vice president of the International Enneagram Association’s U.S. affiliate.
Deborah believes that lives can be transformed by attending to how our personality separates us from ourselves, others, and the Divine. She is a powerful presenter, a compassionate listener, and a dynamic change agent.
Frequently Asked Questions
Q: What’s a virtual course?
A: It’s a great way to engage live and pre-recorded teachings and each other from the comfort of your home! All you need is a computer, mobile device, or telephone. If there’s more than one person in your household taking the course, you’ll each need your own connection. We use Zoom video conferencing to make it just like an in-person event, where you can ask questions and deepen your exploration of the course themes.
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