INSTRUCTORS: Connie Frecker and Lisa Bueche
This virtual workshop has a limited number of participants to allow for an engaging online event, and registration may close a few weeks before the workshop.
As with all of our workshops, we strive to create an ethos of welcome. In believing everyone has essential value, we are committed to being radically hospitable to people of all races, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, and spiritual perspectives.
This Workshop is about unlocking the full wisdom of the Enneagram for the greatest opportunity for transformation. Our instinctual nature, while extremely powerful in our decision-making processes, lifestyle choices, and orientation to day-to-day reality, is often given little emphasis in many spiritual paths, and the Instincts are often treated as an inherent problem – a distortion to be eliminated. This is understandable since this part of our nature is usually a little interested in our spiritual or psychological development. Yet, without a clear and viable relationship with this aspect of our souls, it is extremely difficult to maintain an integrated approach to our path.
The Enneagram deals very directly with this aspect of the Self through teachings about the Three Instincts – Self-Preservation, Sexual (Attraction), and Social (Adaptation). Seminal ideas about the three Instincts go back at least to Gurdjieff’s teachings about the Centers and have equivalents in other spiritual traditions. In recent years, many Enneagram students have discovered the explanatory power of seeing how their instinctual bias operates in combination with their dominant Enneagram type. Learning how their type plays itself out through one of these instincts can be as exciting as when we first learn about the Enneagram.
In this Subtypes workshop, we will first clarify and deepen our understanding of the Instincts, seeing them at work in our personal experience. We will also examine how our particular instinctual “stack” – the way we prioritize our basic human needs and values – is the pattern that most keeps us locked in the repetitive habits of our personality. (One of the quickest ways to unlock the Passion and Fixation of our type is to understand and work on the imbalance in our Instincts.) Recognizing how we give energy to certain needs while neglecting others brings balance and helps us integrate the deeper experiences of Essence and Being that we may have had. Without such Inner Work, even profound experiences of Spirit and Oneness cannot affect our lives the way they could.
This Workshop will employ experiential dyads and triads, meditation, movement work, and music to help participants recognize how these patterns express themselves in their lives. We will also explore concrete practices in order to bring greater balance in our approach to our instinctual life. Our approach is relaxed and conversational, emphasizing the development of our capacity to remain in Presence.
Location: The zoom link will be sent a day before the class.
Price: $295.00 Standard, $250.00 Early Bird by April 13.
Scholarships are available. Inquire at Enneagramohio@gmail.com
Registration fee is refundable minus PayPal fees two weeks before the class. After that, the fee may be applied to future classes.
Times: Saturday 9:30-4:30 pm, Sunday 9:30-5:00 pm [EDT]. Both days will have a one-hour lunch break and at least two 15-minute breaks.
All Participants will receive handouts for the workshop before class and copies of our PowerPoint afterward.
Thank you for registering; we look forward to seeing you there.
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