Level 1 Certification (Beginners)

Begin your Enneagram Awakening Journey and become a facilitator in the Embodiment Tradition.

NEXT PROGRAM BEGINS January 2024.

This program is recommended for healing professionals, educators, writers, directors, and facilitators looking to add this system to their professional modalities. Completing this program gives you 75 points towards becoming and Accredited Professional with the International Enneagram Association (IEA). 

It is also recommended for personal growth and psycho-spiritual awakening. The enneagram is a powerful tool for transforming painful patterns, becoming free from the contracted sense of self, and embodying the open and expanded qualities of our patterns.

Major Components of the Program

• Transform Enneagram patterning and explore deeper truths

• Learn to identify and demonstrate the energetics of the Enneagram including instincts and subtypes

• Learning to integrate the Enneagram into professional practice

Price

• Each type and each retreat is $180 payable in monthly installments. So, $180/month for 11 months. 

• This price includes 2 weekend intensives, which begin and end the program

• $360 deposit required by the first weekend – applied to the last 2 months of the program.

• Students are obligated to pay for every class. If a class is missed, the instructors schedule a private meeting to cover missed material, but payment is due at the date of the class. All classes will be recorded, but please note that the IEA awards points differently for live vs. recorded classes and prefers the former for accreditation.

• There are sliding scale spots reserved for students who are unable to afford the full cost.

Objectives

• Differentiate types

• Differentiate instincts and subtypes

• Observe and differentiate non-verbal aspects (energetics) of types

• Explore your own type biases 

• Develop interviewing and/or presentation skills

• Assess of your strengths and growth areas

• Body awareness and centering practices

• Learn Enneagram Embodiment techniques

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 and the open awareness/consciousness beyond the Enneagram

Continuing Education Units

This program provides over 75 face to face Continuing Education Credits CEUs that can be applied to a variety of professional licenses through the North Carolina Board of Behavioral Sciences.

Points toward becoming an IEA Accredited Professional

The hours you attend in this program may be applied toward becoming an Accredited Professional with IEA. Each hour is worth 1 point toward professional accreditation - a complete certification = 75 points.

Format

• 18 3-hour classes on Saturdays or Sundays (twice a month)

• 2 weekend intensives

Participants are encouraged to engage in a private on-going virtual discussion group created for each cohort

Cohorts are kept small. Our sweet spot is 8-10 people to provide an intense learning experience. Participants tend to bond closely and form connections that last beyond the program. The inter-cohort dynamics enhance both formal and informal learning components of the training.

We schedule all the meetings together in advance. When participants are unable to attend a class for extenuating circumstances, they are still obligated to pay for the class due at the date of the class and set up a private meeting with the instructors to cover missed material. All classes are recorded and shared with the cohort.

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 (two per month) focuses on an Enneagram type. Types is described and demonstrated by through videos, recordings, and panels. Program participants are strongly encouraged to invite friends and family to sit on panels. Panel volunteers are interviewed with respect and compassion to make their experience as comfortable as possible.

Classes include watching and processing videos and panels, discussion reactions from our own fixations, leaning how to embody the pattern, and working to release and transform the pattern to return to essence.

The last 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.

Curriculum

Participants learn how to facilitate using the Enneagram including how to describe and demonstrate the types, instincts and subtypes, movement, and pattern transformation. Participants will learn how to describe and differentiate the hierarchy of instincts, wings, movement and a second stage of pattern release.

Participants learn how to share with others the idea that we are born with a pattern – a way of seeing, understanding, and responding that is not personal, unique or individual. They learn how to share how to use the Enneagram as 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 how to introduce others to the Enneagram in a way that represents its psycho-spiritual power and original purpose. If this is done well and the teaching resonates, people often go on to delve deeper into their healing process. If it is not done well, people may find the information interesting but 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.

Facilitating the Enneagram can be dynamic and demonstrative. The energetic expression of each pattern can be acted out so that participants can 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 somatic 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.

Find more information about this year’s cohort and sign up here.

Level 2 Certification (Advanced)

This program is led by Lissa and for people who have completed one of our Level-1 training program.

• The program is 12 months.

• The cost is $150 per meeting/month $1800 total, with a 10% discount if paid in full before the program begins.

• Payment is due each month even if you miss. If you miss a meeting, you will receive a recording. You can miss 2 meetings and still complete the training.

• If you attended the last level 2 and would like to repeat it is half price.

• The first steps are to let us know if you are interested, sign up for the free zoom orientation meeting on Sunday April 25th at 10.

• If you are interested, pay deposit of $150.

• At this meeting we will decide if we will meet in person or on Zoom, if we have enough people for both we can do one in-person and one on zoom

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The topics are divided into 3 month phases: Energetics, Shadow Work, Essence

– and Typing see below.

Energetics will cover:

• the energy of each type when it is acting out fixated strategies of survival,

• the energy of each type when it is acting out the sacred purpose of its essential nature

Shadow Work will cover:

• connecting with the deepest shadow which is our true nature.

• the essence of our patterns that we are unconsciously imitating,

• the unconscious survival aspects of our patterns,

• the aspects in other people that give us a "charge" - the stuff that irritates us and that we wish we had,

• the aspects other people see in us that we don’t see or understand

Essence taught by Tammy will cover:

• the profound relationship between the types and essence

• how to emerge from the personality of seeking/suffering and return to the sacred nourishment of essence

• how to embody the essence of all the Enneagram types and begin a path of holistic embodiment

Typing

• Learn how to use the embodiment of the types, subtypes and centers to recognize enneatype

Contact us for more information and registration:

Enneagram Type 7

Type 7 - Sexual Subtype

Type 7 Characterization

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NICKNAMES: Enthusiast, Epicure, Entertainer, Optimist, Adventurer

ENERGETICS: Externalization and Projection - Project enthusiasm to harness fear

HIDDEN ESSENCE: Serene Bliss 

Subjective

People with the Seven pattern fixate on excitement in order to feel safe and avoid missing out. They stay positive at all costs and grab exciting experiences desperately.

They love to be the center of attention. They love to entertain, make people laugh, lift moods. If they can’t lift people’s spirits they get bored and leave.

They can be serious, but if the conversation is serious too long they will interject a joke to lighten the mood. They can stay with a deep conversation if it is not negative. Deep is exciting as long as it doesn’t involve feeling personal pain.

They hold expansive ideas and believe they are living them - e.g. they use mindfulness (being present) to run away from painful experiences. They are rarely really present in the moment, as they are always excitedly looking forward to their next adventure.

They love to plan - while having an experience they are enthusiastically planning the next one - planning is more fun than the doing. They fall into the trap of wanting reality to be more than it is - activities are more idyllic as fantasies.

When reality seems dull they think about the next event, fantasize about how to make it better, and/or tweak their mood or consciousness. 

They avoid painful emotions especially sadness and fear. They avoid feeling angry, but get angry when they feel trapped. They look to the positive side to pull themselves out of heaviness.

They fear feeling trapped - anything that limits or commits them. They keep options open and agree to things using open ended language. You may walk away from a conversation not knowing if they agreed or not.

Objective

They are enjoyable, fun and inspiring - filled with big ideas, possibilities, and enthusiasm.

They are wiry, bouncy, and energetic. They have boundless energy, and their bodies vibrate with excitement. They usually enjoy athletic and physical activities. 

Their excitement seems to engulf others and uplift them. Their enthusiasm is intoxicating. They are funny, witty, sarcastic, and upbeat. If you are down their main goal will be to lift you up.

Negativity is uncomfortable for the them. Looking at life in practical terms can seem negative. They have no use for heavy emotions and if someone close to them is in a dark mood for too long they leave.

They are generous, sometimes more generous verbally than in deed. They make offers but wiggle out or renegotiate. They are more affluent (financially and energetically) in their minds than in reality.

They rarely know how they affect others. They love to entertain and don’t realize when they are get obnoxious, tiresome, pushy, or monopolizing.

They can be pushy con-artists - trying to talk others into exciting experiences. It is very hard for them to accept not having an experience of desire. They use strategies to get others to agree - promise things they may not fulfill or try to renegotiate later. 

Childhood

Children with the Seven pattern feel cut off from the nurturer, causing frustration and anxiety. They feel there was not enough love for them in the family.

Sometimes there is someone needier who requires more attention. Sometimes the nurturer is distracted by emotional pain to give to all the children.

Their role is to be positive, not need much, and help everyone be happier, particularly the nurturer. As adults they often have a close bond with their mothers.

Subtypes

SELF-PRESERVATION, THE GIFTER

They build relationships with people for protection. They are opportunistic people who make good connections for safety. They focus on getting their needs met and they are more energetic and driven.

SOCIAL, THE SACRIFICER

They postpone gluttony for an ideal and they are conscious of this sacrifice. They want others to see them as good and feel pulled in many directions while trying to please everyone. They are more concerned about missing out then the subtypes with the seven pattern. They don’t “look” like other people with the seven pattern.

SEXUAL/ATTRACTION, THE LOVE ADDICT

They are in love with being in love and when the excitement of falling love wears off, they move onto their next love. They often have 2 or 3 lovers at once and one may be primary. They are overly enthusiastic and have a desire for the ideal, not the ordinary.

Wings

6 WING, THE PHILOSOPHER

Manic entertainer, very excited, witty, nervous, skittish, easily confused, more introverted.

8 WING, THE COMPETITOR

Workaholic, materialistic, more realistic in relationships less fantasy oriented, more grounded, can be aggressive, more extroverted.

Continuum

LOWER - Trapped, overwhelmed, manic depressive, explosive, escaping

MIDDLE - Excessive, wasteful, self centered, distracted disoriented, restless, enthusiastic, entertaining, positive

HIGH - Optimistic yet practical, enthusiastic, present, satisfied with this moment, able to commit in relationships, feel all emotions, still ego based

Essence

INTRINSIC BLISS AND SERENE PRESENCE

The essence of each type is the quality of character - a particular expression - that remains when the fixation softens and releases. While these qualities are human they are not personal and cannot be developed.

The essence is revealed when fixation is recognized and freed through awareness and compassion. We all have the potential to realize the essence of our type - our more subtle authentic nature. This authenticity means living from open, free, wholeness.

The essence of the type Seven is serene bliss. When liberated, people with type 7 embody divine bliss, free from mental activity and serene presence. 

Each type has a blind spot that creates a unique experience of separation. Each blind spot is directly related to the essential nature of each type. People with the Seven pattern have a blind spot for intrinsic bliss and wisdom. 

This blind spot prevents them from perceiving and experiencing authentic beauty and love. All nurturing environments are inadequate to some extent. This inadequacy is experienced personally and interpreted through the enneagram pattern. When this is experienced by the child with the type Seven, they fixate on missing out.

Type 7 - Social Subtype

Type 7 - Sexual Subtype

Type 7 - Social or Self Preservation Subtype

Type 7 - Social Subtype

Enneagram Type 8

Type 8

Type 8 - Social Subtype

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NICKNAMES: Leader, Solutions Master, Maverick, Protector, Intimidator

ENERGETICS: Externalization and Projection - Project anger to avoid vulnerability

HIDDEN ESSENCE: Divine Innocence, Sacred Power 

Subjective

People with the Eight pattern fixate on protecting in order to avoid vulnerability and feel powerful. They believe their role is to right all wrongs, take care of the weak, and protect others from injustices.

They feel strong, capable, direct, and just. They are always looking outward for the cause of what is wrong and they can’t see their contribution. Their life styles are big with overindulgences - live hard and play hard.

There is a sense of challenge and pleasure in lustfulness, a satisfaction from getting what they desire, and even more so if they have to fight for it.

Anger is the most energetic human emotion, and they are ready to be angry at anytime. It makes them feel powerful and alive.

Their over the top bravado is a protection from feeling vulnerable, weak, powerless, needy, or sensitive. They have an armored shell of protection blocking tender emotions - sadness, sensitivity, vulnerability, and love.  To keep this wall up, they constantly push against their own limits, and sometimes the limits of others.

Objective

They have physically strong bodies - muscular and big or heavy. Their physical presence appears to take up more space than their actual size. They often use their arms, in addition to their bodies when they speak.

Their bodies seem to be pulsating with energy as if their muscles are constantly flexing. Even when they are in repose or quietly listening there is an alert dynamic attention as if they are always ready to pounce.

They are usually loud, and their voices command attention. They feel they are right, know the truth, and dare you to contradict or to argue with them.

People are attracted to their dynamic energy. Many find them intimidating. They are often unaware of the affect they have, and lack a sense of their relative size and power. 

Childhood

Children with the Eight pattern grow up quickly for a variety of reasons. There is violence in the family or around the family. The protector is missing and they must protect and provide for the family at a young age.

They survive in bad neighborhoods - survival issues are important. It is not safe to be gentle or giving, that seems weak and soft. They feel rejected/betrayed and learn to be tough.

Subtypes

SELF-PRESERVATION, THE SURVIVALIST

They are more armored. When they want, they must have and are intolerant of not having. They don’t need to talk much. They have an exaggerated selfishness. They can survive in the most difficult situations. They are no nonsense, gruff, isolated, and dominate and control their turf.

SOCIAL, THE GODFATHER

They band with others against authority - thunder before injustice. They are the most loyal and intellectual. When they trust, their friendship bonds are like family. They value honor and trust. They can be violent in order to defend someone in their "pack".

SEXUAL/ATTRACTION, THE POSSESSOR

They are more provocative, intense and charismatic. They must be in control in relationship and then they can be vulnerable. They like to argue, compete, and be bad. They can be emotionally hysterical and possessive.

Wings

7 WING, THE RISK TAKER

Impulsive, big plans, enlist others, exaggerate, social, pushy and demanding, more extroverted

9 WING, THE BEAR

Quiet behind the scenes, warm, suddenly aggressive or explosive, more introverted

Continuum

LOWER - Remorseless aggression, attack potential rivals, ruthless outlaws

MIDDLE - Defiant, confrontational, grandiose, big energy, shrewd business people

HIGH - Protective, leaders, strong, active, surrendered heroes, still ego based

Essence

DIVINE INNOCENCE, SACRED POWER

The essence of each type is the quality of character - a particular expression - that remains when the fixation softens and releases. While these qualities are human they are not personal and cannot be developed.

The essence is revealed when fixation is recognized and freed through awareness and compassion. We all have the potential to realize the essence of our type - our more subtle authentic nature. This authenticity means living from open, free, wholeness.

The essence of the type Eight is true power. When liberated, people with type 8 embody an intrinsic power, free from guard, and they deeply know sacred innocence. 

Each type has a blind spot that creates a unique experience of separation. Each blind spot is directly related to the essential nature of each type. People with the Eight pattern have a blind spot for intrinsic power. 

This blind spot prevents them from perceiving and experiencing authentic beauty and love. All nurturing environments are inadequate to some extent. This inadequacy is experienced personally and interpreted through the enneagram pattern. When this is experienced by the child with the type Eight, they fixate on avoiding vulnerability.

Type 8 - Sexual Subtype

Type 8 - Self Preservation Subtype

Type 8 in childhood

Type 8

Enneagram Type 9

Type 9 - Social or Sexual Subtype

Type 9 - Social Subtype

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NICKNAMES: Peacemaker, Mediator, Naturalist, Accommodator, Abdicator

ENERGETICS: Avoidant and Adaptive - Adapt boundaries to seek harmony and avoid anger

HIDDEN ESSENCE: Divine Harmony  

Subjective

People with the Nine pattern fixate on being comfortable and avoiding anger.

The urge to be comfortable is so deep they often don’t even know when they are uncomfortable. They self negate to avoid discomfort.

They neutralize - if you are too down they bring you up, too up they bring you down. They tend to be in denial around negative issues - may not perceive the problem at all. They can minimize, or reject a problem if it feels unpleasant. 

They lack a sense of self, of separate identity, due avoiding intensity. They believe they have a limited capacity to handle intensity so they numb out.

They feel inferior - “it doesn’t matter” really means "I don’t matter". This makes it difficult to initiate or go against the flow. They disappear if they really don’t want to do something - not respond to phone calls, or become sick.

They dissociate in a daze or day dream and not hear when people are talking to them. They will often not be aware of what they may have been thinking.

Avoiding anger leaves them lacking energy. They are afraid their anger is homicidal. They often use the expressions “that would be too much for me” or “I couldn’t handle that” when it comes to feeling emotional pain or anger.

Objective

They have rock like, solid, and dense bodies. Their pace is slow and methodical, lacking spontaneity. They want to please and go with the flow, but are immovable in ways.

Their avoidance of anger, confrontation, and intensity makes them passive and passive-aggressive. There is a glazed look in their eyes, at times vacant. This happens more when they feel threatened, judged, or anger.

They pleasantly sink into the background. People feel accepted. When they judge it is often of people who are judgmental, demanding, critical or too dramatic intense.

Childhood

Children with the Nine pattern feel overwhelmed by their families. They try to disappear and/or make peace. They dissociate from drama by becoming invisible or mediating.

They are very low maintenance. They learn that having needs, getting angry, or having difficulties is not acceptable. They lose energy and become listless.

Subtypes

SELF-PRESERVATION, THE CONSUMER

They merge with and get sense of self from the material world - I consume therefore I am. They consume many forms of stimuli at the same time. They are very loving people with no sense of being loved. They avoid social interaction and would rather be at home watching TV. 

SOCIAL, THE NETWORKERS

They merge with and get sense of self from groups. They are peacemakers and bring people together. They are emotionally disengaged. They need to join groups because they feel like they don’t belong anywhere. They are generous and mindful of satisfying the needs of others.

SEXUAL/ATTRACTION, THE MERGER

They merge with and get sense of self from a partner. They take on the characteristics of their partner - likes, dislikes, passions. They lack their own passion and needs.

Wings

8 WING, THE JOLLY GOOD FELLOW

More out going and social, sensual, energetic, and expressive, can be explosive but quickly become calm, extroverted

9 WING, THE SECRET CRITIC

Create external order to simulate internal order, get caught in nonessential details, less energy, detached, proper, introverted

Continuum

LOWER - Unresponsive to life, dissociated, depressed, and listless

MIDDLE - Ignore problems, get lost in routines and habits, and agree to things they don’t want to do

HIGH - Maintain peace and harmony, easy going, kind, truly peaceful and dynamic, spontaneous, still ego based.

Essence

ALL INCLUSIVE INTRINSIC HARMONY & DIVINE AWARENESS

The essence of each type is the quality of character - a particular expression - that remains when the fixation softens and releases. While these qualities are human they are not personal and cannot be developed.

The essence is revealed when fixation is recognized and freed through awareness and compassion. We all have the potential to realize the essence of our type - our more subtle authentic nature. This authenticity means living from open, free, wholeness.

The essence of the type Nine is true harmony. When liberated from fixation/conditioning, people with this type embody all inclusive, intrinsic harmony and divine awareness. 

Each type has a blind spot that creates a unique experience of separation. Each blind spot is directly related to the essential nature of each type. People with the Nine pattern have a blind spot for all inclusive harmony. 

This blind spot prevents them from perceiving and experiencing authentic beauty and love. All nurturing environments are inadequate to some extent. This inadequacy is experienced personally and interpreted through the enneagram pattern. When this is experienced by the child with the type Nine, they fixate on avoiding intensity and confrontation.

Type 9 in childhood

Type 9 - Sexual Subtype

Type 9 - Self Preservation Subtype