Enneagram Facilitator Certification - Level 1
An International Enneagram Association Accredited Program
NEXT PROGRAM BEGINS AUGUST 2025
A Yearlong Online Certification
Become an Accredited Enneagram Facilitator
Deepen your personal and professional practice with a fully online, IEA-accredited certification program rooted in the Embodiment Tradition. This immersive training blends psychology, somatics, and spirituality to help you embody and teach the Enneagram as a path of transformation—from fixation to Essence.
Recommended for counselors and psychotherapists, wellness and healing professionals, religious teachers & leaders, educators, writers, directors & facilitators, personal psychological and spiritual growth and awakening.
Next cohort begins August 2025
Key Dates
Opening Retreat Weekend
8/16-17 2025
10 a.m.-2 p.m. ET
Then, first and third Saturday of every month
10 a.m.-1 p.m. ET
Closing Retreat Weekend
6/13-14 2026
10 a.m.-2 p.m. ET
Graduates Earn
A Certification in the Enneagram School of Awakening’s Embodiment Tradition
75 points towards becoming an Accredited Professional with the International Enneagram Association IEA
75 Continuing Education Credits CEUs that can be applied to a variety of professional licenses
Participant Goals
Understand the Enneagram deeply
Learn how to teach, facilitate, and/or provide consultation using the Enneagram effectively
Transform your Enneagram patterns – from strategies (beliefs, feelings, and behaviors) that are painful and limited to strategies that help you get our deepest needs met and make you available for real connection to others and yourself
Discover the liberated Essence of the Types
Major Objectives
Transform Enneagram patterning and explore deeper truths
Learn to identify and demonstrate the energetics of the Enneagram including subtypes
Learn to integrate the Enneagram into professional practice
Learn how to differentiate types
Learn how to differentiate subtypes
Learn how to differentiate non-verbal aspects (energetics) of types
Explore your own type biases
Discover the strengths and growth areas of your type
Develop body awareness and centering practices
Learn Enneagram Embodiment techniques
Curriculum
Participants learn how to describe and demonstrate the types, instincts/subtypes, movement, and pattern transformation.
Participants learn that we are born with a pattern – a way of seeing, understanding, and responding that is not personal, unique or individual.
Participants learn how the Enneagram is a tool for liberation and freedom. They learn that recognizing and accepting these patterns is the first step in a much bigger journey to liberation.
Participants learn the Enneagram’s original purpose: psycho-spiritual awakening and liberation. When this is done well, people resonate and go on to delve deeper into their healing process. If it is not done well, people often find the information interesting but do not understand its deep importance and power. When the Enneagram teaching is clear and deep, it is a path to freedom from a contracted heart, mind, and body.
Participants learn that the Enneagram can be dynamic and demonstrative. They learn how to act out, embody, the energetic expression of each pattern so they see and feel the difference between each pattern. When the Enneagram is taught only descriptively it can be confusing because we all share so many behaviors, tendencies, and emotions. When the energetic dynamic is embodied and acted out, people get a feel for what is deeper than the personality or behavior. The underlying motivations influencing each type are presented in body language, talking style, and general demeanor. A skilled teacher has processed and transcended enough of their own Enneagram pattern to cleanly embody each of the other patterns.
Format
18 (twice per month) 3-hour virtual classes on Saturdays or Sundays
2 weekend intensives on Saturday and Sunday to open and close the program
Participants are encouraged to engage in a private on-going virtual discussion group created for each cohort.
Cohorts are small groups to provide an intense learning experience. Participants tend to bond closely and form connections that last beyond the program.
The first step is a weekend intensive to build a foundation of connection and trust so that we all move into the program receptive and ready to embrace the psycho-spiritual depth of this work.
After the initial weekend intensive each class focuses on an Enneagram type and related special topics. Types are described and demonstrated through recordings, videos, and panels. Panel volunteers are interviewed with respect and compassion to make their experience as comfortable as possible.
Each enneagram type is split over two classes which may include: an audio recorded panel teaching, panel processing, discussing reactions from our own fixations, teaching on instinctual stacking and how it affects type, learning how to embody the pattern, somatic and creative practices to explore type, and work at releasing and transforming patterns to return to Essence.
The final step is a weekend intensive, which provides the final supportive structure needed to move out into the world as an enneagram teacher, facilitator, and consultant in the Embodiment Tradition.
Meet The Faculty
Ali McGhee, PhD
Ali is the Director of the Enneagram School of Awakening, a writer, coach, and teacher who weaves together embodiment, psycho-spiritual inquiry, and creative practice to guide transformational learning.
Valerie Wanamaker, LCSW
Valerie is a licensed therapist and core faculty member specializing in somatic healing, trauma resolution, and the integration of Enneagram wisdom into relational and spiritual growth.
Price
Each month (2 classes) and each retreat is $200 payable in monthly installments. So, $200/month for 11 months.
This price includes 2 weekend intensives that begin and end the program.
A Certification Deposit of $400 covers the first and last weekends.
Students are obligated to pay for every class. If a class is missed, the instructors may schedule a private meeting to cover missed material (max of one per student), but payment is due at the date of the class.
Sliding scale spots may be available for students who are unable to afford the full cost; contact us for more details.
Reserve your spot in the Level 1 Certification Program
Make Your Payment Below
Payment of the deposit is nonrefundable. It holds your spot in the cohort and pays for the opening and closing retreat weekends. Each additional month is $200. You may choose to pay the deposit only or to pay in full (if you select this option please do not pay the deposit separately).
Deposit for the Level One Certification Program. If you are paying monthly, this is your first payment to hold your spot in the cohort. It covers the first and final weekends of the training.
Inquire About Apprenticeship
Graduates of our certification programs who feel called to support others on the path may apply to join our Apprenticeship in the Embodiment Tradition.
This advanced mentorship offers the opportunity to assist in live trainings, deepen your facilitation skills, and carry the work forward with clarity, presence, and heart.