Our premier offering, Enneagram Intensive, offers a deep, transformative experience of the Enneagram, focusing on the integration of psychology, spirituality and somatics. This updated course offers a full examination of the nine distinct type structures, with expanded attention to the spiritual and somatic aspects of each type. Another key element of the training is how the types show up in relationships.

The first three days have been redesigned to include refinements to the basic proposition (psychology), the basics of self-reflection (spirituality), and body awareness (somatics).

The final three days are devoted to your path of self-development. You will learn the defense mechanisms for each Enneagram type and how to work with your own patterns of reactivity.

You also will be encouraged to find the aspects of your own type that offer opportunities for growth and transformation. We will explore the following questions:

• How do I experience the cognitive-emotional pattern of my type? Why is ‘seeing that
  pattern’ important in my life?
• Why is ‘being receptive’ important? Why does that help me access my spirituality?
• Why is ‘feeling my body’ important? How does that help me live with more consciousness?

Enneagram Intensive includes two rounds of type panels in the Narrative Tradition, an introduction to the Universal Growth Process, guided interactions related to current relationship issues, pre-recorded meditations by Helen Palmer, short didactics, self-observation and movement practices, and small-group exercises.

Deepening Spiritual Awareness is focused on the transformative potential of your own type structure for higher levels of being. Our format blends the profound somatic practice of grounded presence with contemplative methods for emptying and focusing the mind.

These “skillful means” build an inner capacity to recognize and relax emotional passions as they arise – thus “converting vice to virtue” – the pure life force that sustains us.

These spiritual activities will be debriefed from different type perspectives through panel interviews in the Narrative Tradition, short didactics, inner practices, somatic exercises and small groups.

Note: Ideally, Enneagram Intensive is the best place to begin our Core Program. However, we understand that many students have prior knowledge of the Enneagram, so this course also is open by permission to intermediate and advanced Enneagram students who have studied with other teachers.

Each Enneagram type has three important variations known as instincts. While everyone uses all three instincts – self-preservation, social and one-to-one – we each rely on one of these as our primary survival strategy. This combination of type and instinct determines our “subtype,” which creates a particular focus in daily life and distinctive style in relationships. In fact, subtypes are as important as personality types when it comes to daily life, where relationships, especially primary relationships, are largely shaped by instinct and emotion.

Our instinctual subtype also influences the decisions we make about major projects and life goals.

Working with the Enneagram’s instinctual subtypes is a vital part of inner work and returning to our essential self. The 27 subtypes also illuminate the important variations among people of the same personality type. In key relationships, understanding subtypes brings these primary areas of focus to each person’s awareness and provides a language to describe similarities and differences.

The primary subtype focus shows up in our relationships in three vital areas:

1. Self-preservation: Security issues reflected in personal warmth, finances, health and family
2. Social: Belonging and recognition through group participation, social structures and friendships
3. One-to-one: A quest for union in individual connections, sexuality, intimacy and spiritual
practice

The format consists of short presentations, panel interviews in the Narrative Tradition, guided
practices and discussion. This three-day workshop will invite you:

• Connect to a greater sense of security, well-being and purpose
• Gain a better understanding of why people think, feel and act differently
• Improve communication, reduce conflict and build new bridges with loved ones
• Learn to meet each other’s needs for security, identity, contact and withdrawal

Some knowledge of the Enneagram is expected.

In this expertly constructed training, you will learn how to facilitate self-discovery in your clients. From neuroscience we know that learning through experience rather than being given an insight is hugely impactful in creating new neural pathways that transform rather than merely inform.

You will learn step-by-step how to conduct typing interviews to assist Enneagram newcomers in determining their type. You will develop articulate questions, learn the process of inquiry and how to listen deeply, and provide interviewees with guidance that allows them to discover their Enneagram type.

Modules include differentiating one type from another, non-verbal aspects of type, and knowledge of your own biases in conducting interviews. The training culminates in a rare hand- on opportunity to practice your skills by interviewing volunteers from the community, with feedback from instructors.

The overall purpose of this process is to help clients discover what motivates patterns of thinking, feeling and behaving. Type cannot be determined from external behaviors, but only from a deeper understanding of focus of attention, underlying motivations and lived experience.

The Internship provides a supportive structure for gaining practice as a Narrative Enneagram Teacher. You will be working with a TNE mentor.

Internship Requirements

• Part 1: Enneagram Intensive
• Part 2: Instincts and Subtypes
• Part 3: Deepening Spiritual Awareness
• Part 4: The Typing Process 

Mentorship

• 20 Typing Interviews, 7 supervised by your mentor. The goal is to develop your skill and content knowledge to conduct a typing interview according to The Narrative Tradition. Candidates may begin typing interviews after completion of The Typing Process.
• 5 Panel interviews with a 10-minute introduction to the panel; 3 reviewed by your mentor. The goal is to gain the skills and capacities needed to effectively facilitate a panel in The Narrative Tradition.
• 2 Presentations, 20-minutes each, on an Enneagram topic reviewed by your mentor. The goal is to develop the skills and capacities to effectively present topics on The Enneagram.
• Written assignment to be reviewed by your mentor.

After completing the supervised mentorship process, you will return to the Part 1 Enneagram Intensive as a certifying candidate. During the training week, you will:            

• Conduct two panel interviews on designated topics for the type, with coaching and feedback
• Complete a full 60-minute typing interview and feedback before an evaluator

Upon successful completion 

Certified Narrative Enneagram Teacher