Daniel J. Siegel is teaching during the Wisdom & Wellbeing Weeks at Blue Spirit in the Multi-Faculty Multi-Faculty Week 2: Practicing Presence and Deep Connection | January 18 – 25, 2025 and Multi-Faculty Multi-Faculty Week 3: Transformation, Resilience and Relational Intelligence | January 25 – February 1, 2025 about the following topic:

Personality and Wholeness:  Nine Ways We Burnout; Nine Ways to Reignite

In this presentation we’ll explore an interpersonal neurobiology approach harnessing the insights of developmental neuroscience to illuminate how early temperament interweaves with attachment experiences in the cultivation of nine patterns of personality.  Agency, bonding, and certainty are deep motivations that combine with an attentional orientation of inward, outward, and dyadic as both to form nine patterns of personality that shape the developmental pathways of our lives.  These patterns mold how we experience and express emotion, focus our attention and find meaning in life, and even how we interact with others in our world.  These nine patterns offer us ways of growing toward wholeness, a lifelong journey this “Patterns of Developmental Pathways” model helps see and shape in our inner and relational lives.  Inspired by tens of thousands of narratives from the perspective of the Enneagram system of personality, this PDP framework helps us to gain insight into how we became who we are and offers practical steps into how we can intentionally open what may have become a prsion of personality into a playground of possibility.  Informing us into the individual-specific routes of overwhelm and burnout, this model of personality also provides strategies for reigniting passion and purpose in our lives as we regenerate and reignite with a renewed sense of resilience and meaning. Welcome!

Dr. Siegel is a clinical professor of psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine and the founding co-director of the Mindful Awareness Research Center at UCLA. He is also the Executive Director of the Mindsight Institute which focuses on the development of mindsight, teaches insight, empathy, and integration in individuals, families and communities.

Dr. Siegel has published extensively for both the professional and lay audiences. His five New York Times bestsellers are: Aware: The Science and Practice of Presence, Mind: A Journey to the Heart of Being Human, Brainstorm: The Power and Purpose of the Teenage Brain, and two books with Tina Payne Bryson, Ph.D: The Whole-Brain Child, and No-Drama Discipline. His other books include: IntraConnected (coming November 2022), The Developing Mind, The Pocket Guide to Interpersonal Neurobiology, Mindsight, The Mindful Brain, The Mindful Therapist, and Becoming Aware. He has also written The Yes Brain and The Power of Showing Up with Tina Payne Bryson, Ph.D. Dr. Siegel also serves as the Founding Editor for the Norton Professional Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology which currently contains over eighty textbooks.

For more information about his educational programs and resources, please visit: www.DrDanSiegel.com and www.mindsightinstitute.com