The Experiential Enneagram From Jessica Dibb

This module will establish the terrain, guidance and wisdom teachings that will make it possible for you to fully engage every moment of your individual exploration and journey during the course. We’ll also look at the way we’ll relate to the nine domains of the Enneagram for expanded and nuanced embodied transformation. Additionally, we’ll explore an introduction to the experiential techniques we’ll be using, as well as recommendations for getting the most out of the 11 weeks.

In this session, you’ll:

• Receive key concepts and wisdom teachings from the Enneagram and other human evolution principles
• Come to understand some of the essential experiential techniques and change-promoting processes that will guide and define each module
• Learn about the spectrum of inner experiences, including healing and addressing developmental needs and actualizing love, wisdom and presence
• Discover the potential for personal transformation that the Enneagram may bring to your life and how to integrate the learning into your daily life
• Learn how to set up the physical space to do your inner work in a way that optimizes your journey
• Consider the relationships of outer support, including friends, family members, therapists, teachers and guides
• See how the Enneagram works with the body, heart and mind centers to cultivate three-centered presence
• Understand the nine doorways — from shadow to presence — in each of us
• Gain insight into how your particular Enneagram type will impact the work
• Find out why the Enneagram creates an extraordinary platform of compassion for ourselves and others

Actualizing the Gifts of Type Eight:

Every particle, atom and molecule in existence is empowered by the fundamental frequency of existence, by an infinite primordial force — chi, ki, shakti, the quantum field, the FORCE. This includes each of us. When embodied, we experience and are moved by power and aliveness that is irrepressible and “can move mountains.” However, because of our temperament, our childhood, our life experiences — or our cultural environment — we may have learned to mistrust, avoid and disconnect from power… or misuse or distort power out of fear or unmet needs.

In this module, we’ll explore the separations from our inherent life force, and the wounds and misperceptions we have about empowerment. There is a true empowerment that naturally arises when we relax completely into presence — into being “here.”

In this session, we’ll:

• Experience immediacy and aliveness without fear
• Heal childhood experiences of powerlessness
• Regain the potency of our sensations and sensuality
• Release fear and resistance to others’ power, and experience ways to invite them to show up fully
• Discover somatic, emotional and cognitive patterns that block aliveness, empowerment and presence
• Examine thoughts that promote helplessness and powerlessness
• Precisely Illuminate the power and vitality in our shadows
• Discern new pathways of relating to others when we are installed in full vibrancy
• Contact Reality and The Divine as Boundless Power and Life Force

Actualizing the Gifts of Type Nine:

Every particle, atom and molecule arises from the same substance, everything is the Big Bang. The sense that we’re “All One” is a phenomenological reality. This includes each of us. When embodied, we abide in the “peace that surpasseth all understanding,” and therefore we can live and make choices that reflect the fundamental unity of even seemingly contrasting values or situations. Paradigm shifts can occur effortlessly. Yet, often we are too afraid to live out the implications of this, out of a false sense that peacefulness is maintained by not making waves. Because of our temperament, our childhood and life experiences, or our cultural environment we may have learned to mistrust, avoid and disconnect from true inner peace and inherent connectedness or oneness with each moment and situation.

In this module, we will explore the separations from pure Being, and the wounds and misperceptions we have about harmony and unity. We’ll see that true harmony and unity naturally arises when we relax into fully showing up and participating.

In this session, you’ll:

• Experience being, peace and unity without fear
• Heal childhood experiences of feeling invisible or unimportant
• Release fear and resistance to connection with others, even those with distressing disguises, and experience ways to invite them to “just be”
• Discover somatic, emotional and cognitive patterns that block flow, blending and relaxing into belonging
• Examine thoughts that promote the sense that we, others or situations don’t matter
• Precisely illuminate the wholeness and holiness in our shadows
• Discern new pathways of relating to others when we’re installed in inner peace
• Contact Reality and The Divine as Boundless Being and the Unified Field

Actualizing the Gifts of Type One:

Every particle, atom and molecule in existence arises from the One, is therefore inherently sacred, and thus deserves goodness and blessing in each moment. There is an urge to wholeness as Abraham Maslow put it, and it animates us to move towards the light, the goodness that is in all things. This includes each of us. When embodied we become utterly aligned with action that will support the sacredness in each moment or situation. We become utterly willing with every cell of our body, feeling of our heart, thought of our mind, and atom of our spirit. And we, and everything around us, is blessed by this. However, because of our temperament, our childhood and life experiences — or our cultural environment — we may have learned to mistrust, avoid and even desecrate the sense of basic goodness that can be felt in each moment when we are present, and replace it with a compliance or defiance of things that are “right” or “wrong.”

In this module, we’ll explore the separations from our inherent willingness to align ourselves with this goodness, and the wounds and misperceptions we have about surrender. You’ll see that Surrender and Right Action naturally arises when we relax completely into presence — into receiving the blessings and blessedness that flow to and through us in each moment.

In this session, you’ll:

• Experience willingness and responsibility without fear
• Heal childhood experiences of judgement, harm and feeling bad or wrong
• Regain the sensitivity of reverence and dedication
• Release fear and resistance to others’ beliefs, actions and missions, and experience ways to invite them to listen to their own alignment with the sacred
• Discover our somatic, emotional and cognitive patterns that block action and responsibility
• Examine thoughts that promote rigidity, judgement, and our inner critic
• Precisely Illuminate our inherent purity within our shadows
• Discern new pathways of relating to others when we are installed in basic goodness
• Contact Reality and The Divine as Boundless Blessing and Perfection

Actualizing the Gifts of Type Two:

Every particle, atom and molecule in existence is held by a boundless creation that is endowed with everything that would ever be needed, and a fierce energy to nourish and deliver itself and all. This includes each of us. This can be realized and lived from — it’s at the heart of every life-giving teaching, and has been spoken about in some form from every awakened being. Love is who and what everything is.

When embodied we discover that we have not ever, nor ever could be, abandoned by the rich boundless tapestry of nutrients, impressions, teachings and opportunity to experience our open hearts and how they can join the dance of giving and receiving every moment. Yet, in the field of human fear we have been hurt, abandoned, neglected, unseen…. and we become afraid that to live out the implications of contacting our unconditional love we will never get our needs met. Because of our temperament, our childhood and life experiences — or our cultural environment — we may have learned to mistrust kindness and care, or only be willing to receive it in a certain form.

In this module, we’ll explore the separations from Love, and the wounds and misperceptions we have about giving and needs. You’ll see that the ultimate sweetness of life and incomparable unshakable love naturally arise when we relax into fully receiving what we are being given each moment, and allow the buoyancy of existence to hold us.

In this session, you’ll:

• Experience love of self, love of other, and compassion, without fear
• Heal childhood experiences of feeling unlovable and rejected
• Regain the abiding in receptivity and affirmation of our inherent worthiness
• Release fear and resistance to opening to pain and the natural need for nourishment in others, and experience new ways to invite others to share their authentic need
• Discover somatic, emotional and cognitive patterns that block nourishment, worthiness and thriving, and our ability to respond kindly to ourselves and others
• Examine thoughts that promote unworthiness and perceiving rejection
• Precisely Illuminate the liberation and will to love in our shadows
• Discern new pathways of relating to others when we are installed in Receiving and Being Love
• Contact Reality and The Divine as Boundless Love and Holding

Actualizing the Gifts of Type Three:

Every particle, atom and molecule is literally some form of light, and it functions optimally and manifests its greatest capacities when it is nourished — it shines. This includes each of us. When embodied we can not “hide our light under a bushel.” In fact we discover it is not “our” light to hide. The light belongs to, and is, all of us. Light, energy and eternity are limitless, and thus, we experience that when we are the most authentic, the most what we truly are, the most acknowledging and receiving of the truth of our value and gifts, we remember and contact the inherent stream of creative life force that flows through everything effortlessly, and is generative. Yet, often we are too afraid to live out the implications of this, and try to function the way we think we need to to get approval or to be liked, or not rejected. Because of our temperament, our childhood and life experiences, or our cultural environment we may have learned to mistrust, avoid and disconnect from our true value, heart’s desire and gifts, and we then become inauthentic, and it becomes tiring to function with these masks.

In this module, we’ll explore the separations from our true wishes and capacities, and the wounds and misperceptions we have about value and being radiant. The true nobility and glory of our unique personhood naturally arises when we allow the true desires of hearts to flow unimpeded and form the basis for our actions and choices.

In this session, you’ll:

• Experience value, capacity and radiance without fear
• Heal childhood experiences of feeling irrelevant or worthless
• Regain the ability to flow with effortless functioning
• Release fear and resistance to ours and other others’ potency and focus and and experience ways to play and work with others
• Discover somatic, emotional and cognitive patterns that block personal growth and evolution, and manifesting our inherent dreams and logos
• Examine thoughts that promote unworthiness and not feeling good enough, and unnecessary efforting
• Precisely Illuminate the personal gold in our shadows
• Discern new pathways of relating to others when we are installed in authentic being
• Contact Reality and The Divine as The Glory of Boundless Creative Flow and Manifestation

Actualizing the Gifts of Type Four:

Every particle, atom and molecule of infinity is unique and itself infinite, thus an endless mystery filled with ever arising qualities. The beauty of this boundless depth is that each moment is both new, and yet deeply home. This is an intimacy we all long for in ourselves, our relationships, in the life we lead. This includes each of us. When embodied we are gifted with the visceral experience of a beauty so vast that we feel the very nature of life is utterly transformed from agony to ecstasy… an ecstasy that transcends and includes all experiences… the seemingly good… the seemingly bad… all of it… Yet, often we are too afraid to live out the implications of this, out of a false sense that if we experience the elixir of beauty in everything our unique story will be lost. Because of our temperament, our childhood and life experiences — or our cultural environment — we may have learned to mistrust, avoid and disconnect from the capacity to be affected by the unbearable lightness of being of each moment and situation.

In this module, we’ll explore the separations from our original nature as this beauty, and the wounds and misperceptions we have about suffering, depth and intimacy. The yearning of our hearts to remember and experience ourselves as one with what is beloved… one with the Beloved, even as Beloved ourselves, naturally arises when we dissolve the false sense of tension between individuation and falling into Love.

In this session, you’ll:

• Experience shameless yearning, being and becoming, without fear
• Heal childhood experiences of feeling invalidated, invaded or abandoned
• Regain the contact with the ephemeral and real beauty of you, others and reality
• Release our fear and resistance to others unconsciousness or unique ways of being, experience ways to be intimate with what shows up
• Discover somatic, emotional and cognitive patterns that block real depth, surrender and being fulfilled
• Examine thoughts that promote depression, shame, internalized and projected rage and meaningless
• Precisely Illuminate the Beloved in our shadows
• Discern new pathways of relating to others when we are installed in contact with the earth
• Contact Reality and The Divine as Holy Origin and Endless Mystery

Actualizing the Gifts of Type Five:

Every particle, atom and molecule in existence is inherently endowed with a logos of its “suchness,” its capacities, and its definition within existence. Jung said that the way something is constellated will forever define its ability to expand, and its limits. Thus everything has a differentiated and yet interconnected truth. This includes each of us. When embodied, we have appreciation and respect for the capacity to experience quiet awe as we observe the “suchness” of form and formlessness, being and non-being, complexity and simplicity of life… and out of this stillness and singularity of seeing we can feel the stimulation and joy of seeing more clearly what is actually here and real, and what is not real. However, because of our temperament, our childhood and life experiences — or our cultural environment — we may have learned to mistrust, “grade” or disconnect from our natural intelligence… or we may trust facts and knowledge, rather than our own direct knowing.

In this module, we’ll explore the separations from our inherent clarity, and the wounds and misperceptions we have about awareness. You’ll see there is a true brilliance that naturally arises when we relax into ever-widening rings of curiosity and living into the questions, when we cultivate our capacity to listen, to be receptive to the spaciousness within and without.

In this session, you’ll:

• Experience direct knowing and truth without fear
• Heal childhood experiences of feeling stupid, confused or terrified of not knowing
• Regain the natural delight of discovery
• Release fear and resistance to others’ intelligence, knowing and inventiveness and experience new ways to invite their contributions
• Discover somatic, emotional and cognitive patterns that block silence, stillness and genuine inquiry
• Examine thoughts that promote confusion, misunderstanding and unconsciousness
• Precisely Illuminate the brilliance and inventiveness in our shadows
• Discern new pathways of relating to others when we are installed in full awareness
• Contact Reality and The Divine as Gnosis — Infinite Intelligence and Awareness

Actualizing the Gifts of Type Six:

Every particle, atom, and molecule in existence is impacted by the being, movements and expressions of every other thing, and under optimal conditions naturally searches to move in ways that optimize survival, thriving, and cooperating in something that becomes larger than itself. This includes each of us. When embodied we experience a sense of belonging, ground and inner guidance, that stewards our development, choices and becoming, both for our own wellbeing and flowering and the wellbeing and flowering of the collective. Rudolf Steiner called this capacity moral intuition. However, because of our temperament our childhood and life experiences — or our cultural environment — we may have learned to mistrust, avoid and disconnect from inner knowing and our essential interdependence with all life, and we may unconsciously capitulate to, or reject, authority that seems to “know” or others guidance in general.

In this module, we’ll explore the separations from our inherent inner guidance, and the wounds and misperceptions we have about choices and purpose. We’ll see that our lives have an inherent and natural evolution, through which we are grown, when we relax completely into being, serenely awake to each moment of self, other and reality, and participate with all of it.

In this session, you’ll:

• Experience interconnectivity and inner guidance without fear
• Heal childhood experiences of worthlessness, inadequacy, anxiety, harm from outer guidance, and being unsupported by a lack of outer guidance
• Regain receptivity to seeing “the way,” and excitement about purpose
• Release fear and resistance to others’ journeys, and experience new ways to invite them to trust their path
• Discover somatic, emotional and cognitive patterns that block trust, faith and participation
• Examine thoughts that promote anxiety and ungroundedness
• Precisely Illuminate the devotion and courage in our shadows
• Discern new pathways of relating to others when we are installed in grounded presence
• Contact Reality and The Divine as Companionship, Trust and Guidance

Actualizing the Gifts of Type Seven:

Every particle, atom and molecule in existence is part of infinity, and probably has an infinity of possible ways it could continue in the next moment. There is an inherent freedom and hope — nothing is static. In the Bhagavad Gita Krishna says that everything is in dynamic motion every moment — that the stillness is the moment. Confucius said that if we want to be constantly happy we must become the friend of change, because change is the only constant there is. Thus we are never really stuck. This includes each of us. When embodied, we experience sheer delight in the inherent joy that has no reason, and needs no reason. We feel the fullness of being — complete gratitude for getting to experience whatever we experience. Our cups runneth over. However, because of our temperament, our childhood and life experiences — or our cultural environment — we may have learned to mistrust, avoid and disconnect from this happiness and joy that is causeless, and starved of its life-giving elixir we may seek pleasure or stimulation outside of ourselves in ways that can never restore us to the real delight and freedom.

In this module, we’ll explore the separations from our inherent joy and celebration of possibility, and the wounds and misperceptions we have about hopefulness and positivity. We’ll experience there is a natural creativity for each moment that arises when we relax into profound gratitude and treasure the blessings of each moment.

In this session, you’ll:

• Experience joy and hope without fear
• Heal childhood experiences of hopelessness and despair
• Regain trust in our capacity to open to new possibilities
• Release fear and resistance to others’ happiness, rejoicing and ingenuity, and experience new ways to partner with them
• Discover somatic, emotional and cognitive patterns that block emergence and fruition
• Examine thoughts that promote being scattered, grasping and escaping
• Precisely Illuminate the abundance in our shadows
• Discern new pathways of relating to others when we are installed in causeless joy
• Contact Reality and The Divine as Boundless Creativity and Fulfillment

By the final module, we’ll have engaged deeply and consistently with three-centered awareness and practices that unmask our blind spots, open up multidimensional awareness and differentiations and nuances of growth, and support transformation and awakening. We will have created more possibility that our internal structures and inner terrain are more available to embodying love, wisdom and presence in every moment. Living with the implications of this is a journey of profound change. We come together in this culminating module to open more fully to integration.

We will explore, practice and dialogue together about:

• Themes of integration
• Challenges of integration
• Ongoing practices
• Personal stories of change and challenges
• Self-care
• Service
• Surrender
• The meeting of the vertical axis and horizontal axis in daily life
• The mystery…