Russ Hudson & Jessica Dibb – The Liberating Power of the Enneagram

This module lays out the basic structure of the Enneagram system, but also the orientation we will be working with in all of the subsequent nine modules. We will explore the real meaning of the three centers of Instinct, Feeling and Thinking. And, you’ll learn how they can be used to work with the type patterns – and how the cultivation of presence/mindfulness enables us to notice the deeper and more significant parts of our type structure in life. Repeatedly bringing presence and awareness to our usually unconscious egoic patterns is what transforms them into a full blossoming of our gifts and truest Self.

In this session you will:

• Learn the meaning of key concepts in the Enneagram, such as the centers, arrows, wings, passions and virtues, subtypes or instincts, etc.
• Develop the ability to recognize and discern the inner sense of the three Centers – Belly, Heart and Head
• Learn the basics of orientation that make Enneagram work effective, rather than just knowing random facts about types
• Discover how the Enneagram system uses the cultivation of presence – an inner observer – to notice the patterns of our ego activity in real time
• Learn how each type is also a part of the developmental journey of each one of us, regardless of our dominant Enneagram type
• Understand the unique ways in which the Enneagram works with both the horizontal and vertical dimensions of the psyche – to recognize distinctions AND to see how to leverage those realizations into genuine transformation in your life

This module will look at the basic question of what makes us strong and able to address the challenges of our lives, without shutting ourselves down. In the process of learning to live with an open heart, we will not get far without learning to find the inner power and confidence that supports our beautiful sensitivity and awareness. Without such inner strength, we will tend to withdraw from the world or enter it with our heart relatively closed. The core energy of point 8 addresses this. We will also look at how this basic human need also gets expressed as the ego pattern of type Eight, and the gifts and pitfalls of this orientation.

In this session you will:

• Learn how to recognize and attune to the presence of authentic strength and power in yourself
• Develop practices for cultivating this inner strength
• Discern historic patterns/fears/issues that come up around the possibility of being powerful in the world
• Tell the difference between real strength and “toughening ourselves up,” between being powerful and being controlling or dominating
• Learn key “Wake Up Calls” for type Eight
• Learn tips for interacting more successfully with the type Eight individuals in your life

This module will help us to better recognize what it is like when we are truly present and grounded in the moment. We will also explore the natural human tendency to slip back from that awakeness into various kinds of comfortable inner trances – including trances about spirituality – that actually dull the purity and power of us being more fully here. We will see how presence in the body is key to this, but that this also requires an open heart and quiet mind. We will look at how to carry centering practices into life, and to sustain them, and how crucial this is for the flowering of our practices. We will also see how the drive for groundedness and well-being also gets expressed as the ego pattern of type Nine, and the gifts and pitfalls of this orientation.

In this session you will:

• Learn specific practices for cultivating grounded presence
• Enhance our ability to discriminate the full aliveness of presence from the various spiritual trances that tend to form as we develop
• Deepen our recognition of being, not just as a quality of ourselves, but of everything – the “field” of presence
• Develop practices for cultivating this inner strength
• Discern historic patterns/fears/issues and other forms of resistance that appear as we begin to relax our egoic patterns into the ground of our presence
• Learn finer discrimination of the difference between comfort and real relaxation
• Learn key “Wake Up Calls” for type Nine
• Learn tips for interacting more successfully with the type Nine individuals in your life

This module focuses on how to recognize the part of our awareness that knows how to respond with integrity and intelligence to the needs of the moment. We will explore the difference between our “inner critic” – the part of our psyche that Freud called the “Superego” – and a deeper source of wisdom and integrity that exists in all human beings. We will look at the journey from our own patterns of self-criticism and judgment to this more profound fountain of what the Buddhists called “Right Action,” and the challenges and joys we find on that journey. We will also see how the drive for goodness and integrity also gets expressed as the ego pattern of type One, and the gifts and pitfalls of this orientation.

In this session you will:

• Learn to recognize the actions and activities of our inner critic, as well as ways to liberate ourselves from its control
• Recognize the ways in which deeper wisdom is experience and expresses itself in our lives
• Learn a kinder and more compassionate orientation toward ourselves and our life journey
• Practice ways of discerning the ways in which inner critic patterns manifest in our physical bodies and in our breath
• Discern historic patterns/fears/issues and other forms of resistance that appear as we begin to relax our egoic patterns into the ground of our presence
• Learn key “Wake Up Calls” for type One
• Learn tips for interacting more successfully with the type One individuals in your life

One of the greatest human challenges is to really show up as who we really are in the presence of other human beings. In this module, we will look at relationship as a field in which we either run our many unconscious patterns and issues most intensely, or we discover what being in real relationship really is. We will explore the dimensions of intimacy, heartfull connection, and responsiveness to the presence of others – as well as how these qualities can only manifest to the degree we are intimate, and in some connection, with ourselves. We will also see how the drive for heart connection, love and nurturing also gets expressed as the ego pattern of type Two, and the gifts and pitfalls of this orientation.

In this session you will:

• Explore some of the key historic relational patterns we tend to get into and repeat in our adult relationships
• Learn to recognize and support the development of the responsive and compassionate part of your nature
• Come to deeper understanding of what it means to love ourselves
• Recognize more deeply the difference between attachment and desire, and loving someone
• Learn how to work with the issues that arise as we are more directly aware of the presence of genuine love
• Learn key “Wake Up Calls” for type Two
• Learn tips for interacting more successfully with the type Two individuals in your life

In this module, we will explore what it means to be a truly authentic human being, as well as what makes us feel valuable in life. What does it mean to show up as who we really are in our life, our work and our relationships? What really brings the sense of personal value and fulfilment? Here, we will also examine the relationship between being and doing, and see how genuine being/presence makes our work more effortless and enjoyable – and connects it with the real wishes of our hearts. Whereas, when we are not present with our heart – no matter what we may have achieved in our lives – the sense of our own real worth will elude us. We will also see how the drive for finding the real value and sense of the meaning of our lives gets expressed as the ego pattern of type Three, and the gifts and pitfalls of this orientation.

In this session you will:

• Explore the connection between presence and real doing
• Learn to recognize the natural sense of value and appreciation that arises when we are present with our hearts
• Come to deeper understanding of what authenticity means in the specifics of our own lives
• Learn how we sometimes get “out of sync” with our own heart, and learn ways to get back into sync
• Learn key “Wake Up Calls” for type Three
• Learn tips for interacting more successfully with the type Three individuals in your life

In this module, we will explore one of the most ancient and important spiritual/philosophical questions: “Who am I really?” We will dive into this mystery, and investigate some of the windows into this deepest part of our psyche. We will look at how the experience of our true identity can be experienced in normal, albeit powerful, human experiences – such as beauty, intimacy and depth. We will see how this portal to the depth of our being is always available, but also how the ego tends to look for it in the wrong places. We will also look at how the drive for finding and expressing our true identity – and its beautiful qualities can also manifest as the ego pattern of type Four, as well as the gifts and pitfalls of this orientation.

In this session you will:

• Explore ways that we can experience deeper senses of who and what we are in our daily lives
• Learn to recognize the depth of our presence, as well as learning to notice when it drops out of our experience
• Learn about key psychodynamic processes from childhood that attempt to “hold the place” for the more direct experience of true identity
• Gain experience in how the depth of our own identity is the gateway to real intimacy with others and vice versa
• Learn key “Wake Up Calls” for type Four
• Learn tips for interacting more successfully with the type Four individuals in your life

How do we actually know things? What is the difference between memorizing a fact and really knowing something? Between data and wisdom? In this module, we will explore the nature of direct knowing – what the Greeks called “gnosis” – and how this amazing phenomenon of consciousness appears in our lives far more often than we might suspect. We will look at the natural curiosity in all of us, and how with presence it guides into deeper understanding of reality and of our place within it. We will see how this quality is not only the basis of discovery and innovation, but is also necessary for any authentic awakening process. We will also look at the difference between Mind in its deeper sense, and the restless inner talking that can often dominate our experience. We will see, too, how the drive for finding the real value and sense of the meaning of our lives gets expressed as the ego pattern of type Five, and the gifts and pitfalls of this orientation.

In this session you will:

• Explore the distinctions between “chattering mind” and the quieter part of our mind responsible for our big discoveries – both personal and professional
• Learn to recognize the operation of this illuminating quality of Mind in our daily lives
• Learn some of the psychodynamic issues that cause our direct knowing to shut down
• Gain experience in the connection between embodied presence and direct knowing
• Learn key “Wake Up Calls” for type Five
• Learn tips for interacting more successfully with the type Five individuals in your life

In the previous module, we looked at direct knowing as a way to see into reality. In this one, we look at how this knowing also shows us how to choose and what to do – how best to respond to the situations we find ourselves in. We will see how being more present makes us more awake – more aware of everything within us and around us. We will further see how this amazing human capacity gives us the courage to lives our live fully, and to find the best way to contribute our energies to constructive and evolutionary processes. We will see how body, heart and mind can align with deeper knowing, and cooperate with others toward goals that can transcend our immediate personal interests. We will see too how the absence of this inner knowing of what to do can cause us to react to the world in anxiety and stress much of the time. And finally, we will see how the drive to find out what we need to do and how to orient to reality gets expressed as the ego pattern of type Six, and the gifts and pitfalls of this orientation.

In this session you will:

• Learn to recognize and access deeper sources of inner guidance
• Discern the difference between the clear movement of inner guidance from impulsiveness and reactivity
• Learn some of the psychodynamic issues that tend to create the most stress and anxiety in us, and how to work with them
• Recognize the power and consistency of the inner guidance in your life
• Learn key “Wake Up Calls” for type Six
• Learn tips for interacting more successfully with the type Six individuals in your life

In this module, we will investigate freedom as an inner phenomenon – a quality of our consciousness. This freedom is not just a state, but actually is a form of intelligence – simultaneously, sweeping and creative. We will see how the place of inner freedom is also the place of abundance – the sense of feeling delighted and grateful for existence. Generally speaking, when we are more present, we feel freer and more grateful. And when we seek to be happy or free without presence, we end up inevitably avoiding something in ourselves – which makes it harder to have real freedom or sustainable joy. Rather than embrace our difficult feelings from a place of lightness and expansiveness, we tend to suppress them, and they come out in even more difficult ways later on. We will also see how genuine freedom and joy are qualities of Mind that have an immediate effect on the heart and the body, and are the reliable signs of real awakening. And finally, we will see how the drive to find freedom, fulfilment and happiness gets expressed as the ego pattern of type Seven, as well as the gifts and pitfalls of this orientation.

In this session you will:

• Learn to recognize the presence of freedom and lightness that are always here in the background of our psyche
• Discover more fully the intelligence of joy and gratitude – real engines of liberation
• Learn some of the psychodynamic issues that tend to dull our sense of joy and to send us off in ultimately frustrating pursuits
• Recognize the secret doorway of abiding – patiently being with what is here now and letting the deeper treasures of reality reveal themselves
• Learn key “Wake Up Calls” for type Seven
• Learn tips for interacting more successfully with the type Seven individuals in your life

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The Enneagram symbol, and the ideas associated with it, do not have a clear and simple lineage. But the various perspectives on the human condition that the Enneagram work is based in have a long pedigree woven richly with the history of western religion, philosophy and science. This talk will focus on the pivotal work of George Gurdjieff, and later of Oscar Ichazo, as well as the rich traditions that they were drawing upon. We will look at the actual meaning of the symbol, the sources of the typology, and trace the work back through the Hermetic doctrines to Classical Greece and Egypt. In the end, we are left with a dazzling sense of how deep the roots of this system are, and just how ancient the quest for self knowledge actually is.

In this original meditation, created specifically for this course, Russ and Jessica will guide you through this unique meditation designed to support and illuminate each type. This meditation will highlight the most important growth areas for your personal journey — and help you better understand and relate to others. You’ll find this meditation to be a unique and powerful addition to your 10-module journey.

Why do we get stuck in habitual patterns which often create conflict, hurt, and anger? We will explore the basis of why and how we get stuck in these repetitive often negative patterns and most importantly the process of how to release from them and at the same time reclaim and integrate into our lives our essential qualities, our virtues such as love, faith, and hope. This is a session for all those who wish to be all of who we can be. The magic is in converting stuck unhealthy behaviors into reclaiming and integrating our higher essential qualities into our live.

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