Writers' Workshop: Develop 3D Characters With The Enneagram // Delivered by Alison D. Stegert

WRITERS' WORKSHOP:
Developing 3D Characters with the Enneagram

Delivered by Crystal Leonardi

DATE: Sunday 10 March 2024
TIME: 9.00am to 11.00am
VENUE: Cairns City Library, Abbott Street, Cairns
PRICE: $35

SYNOPSIS:   

Workshop participants will gain insights and acquire skills to create characters who are 3D - Deep, Dimensional and Dynamic. The workshop for high school students or adults is an introduction to the Enneagram and character theory requiring no prior knowledge. 

The Enneagram is a model of the human psyche that breaks down personality into nine types and focuses on the way each type perceives and relates to the world. While primarily used as a tool for personal growth, the Enneagram can be applied to fictional characters to give them depth and authenticity.

Not only will participants learn how the Enneagram can be used in brainstorming, troubleshooting, and checking, but they will also acquire skills to develop satisfying character arcs by using the Enneagram’s various features of basic fears and desires, core vices and virtues, and points of stress and security. 

ABOUT ALISON D. STEGERT:  Alison D. Stegert has worked as an innovative school counsellor, a bumbling waitress, and an intrepid camp counsellor, but writing kids’ books is her dream-come-true job.  Her latest book, Her Majesty’s League of Remarkable Young Ladies, was published in the UK in July 2023 and released in Australia by Scholastic in 2024. Ali is the state director of the Queensland branch of the Society of Children’s Book Writers & Illustrators (SCBWI) and the chief scribe at the Sunny Coast Writers’ Roundtable.