The Dance of Development
New 7-Week Course
Begins Sep 9 on Zoom
Join us for a powerful 8-week journey into the emotional blueprint of your personality type—a living map formed in childhood that continues to shape your life today.
The personality structure emerges as a dynamic constellation of adaptive strategies designed to secure love, safety, and a sense of identity. The four ego factors—fear, anger, shame, and superego—represent the core emotional tones and internal mechanisms that drive this adaptation.
Each personality type tends to orient around one of these ego roots:
- Fear dominates the Head types
- Anger fuels the Body types
- Shame underlies the Heart types
- The Superego—our internal system of judgment and “shoulds”—shapes all types across the board
Together, these forces form the ego shell that defines and defends our identity. But they aren’t static. They dance in response to our early relational environment and continue shaping our patterns long into adulthood.
What You’ll Explore:
- Ego Factors: Fear, Anger, Shame, Superego
- Driving Forces: The Need to Belong & the Need to Be Seen
- Liberating Dynamics: Curiosity & Acceptance
This course isn’t about learning the types—it’s about exploring the emotional conditions that created them.
Understanding this interplay enables us to see that personality is not just a pattern, but a living, reactive system formed in the crucible of early need. Belonging and being seen animate the formation of type. Curiosity and acceptance open the door—not by fixing ourselves, but by becoming aware of the living forces that move within us.
About the Course Format
This 8-week online course follows a flexible, college-style seminar model. As the instructor, I’ll be teaching the same core material three times per week — once in the morning, once in the evening, and once on the weekend. Each session will cover the same topic and teaching focus, but the live group interaction will naturally vary. Think of it like a university course with multiple discussion sections: the lecture is the same, but each group brings its flavor and insight.
You’re welcome to attend the session that works best for you each week — or drop in to more than one if you’d like to deepen your experience. Life changes week to week, and so does your availability. This course honors that. The heart of this offering isn’t just content—it’s engagement, presence, and reflection. Whether you show up once a week or three times, you’ll be met right where you are.
Course Schedule
Begins September 9 on Zoom
Each session explores a core emotional theme through teaching, guided inquiry, and experiential practices. While the content is the same across all three weekly sessions, the live group interaction, questions, and discoveries will naturally differ, which means every session offers something new. Some participants attend the same session each week. Others float between times. A few come to all three, discovering how different angles of the same topic unfold with each group.
Each class is 2 hours long. You’re welcome to join any or all of the weekly sessions.
Weekly Session Times (Starting September 9):
• Tuesdays at 10:00 AM PT / 11:00 AM MT / 12:00 PM CT / 1:00 PM ET
• Tuesdays at 5:00 PM PT / 6:00 PM MT / 7:00 PM CT / 8:00 PM ET
• Sundays at 1:00 PM PT / 2:00 PM MT / 3:00 PM CT / 4:00 PM ET
Cost: $347 (Bring a friend and you each save $50)