Would it be safe to say that you’ve been on a journey of awakening and personal growth for a while?
We know that cultivating the perfect healing path is a lifelong journey, and many people return time and again to their search for new roads toward inspiration, self-understanding, and transformation.
The truth is, lessons learned from outside yourself are not going to “fix” you... instead, it’s time to turn to a deep place within you — maybe deeper than you’ve ever gone — into the most jagged crevices of your inner world, where true healing can take place.
One of the most powerful resources for guidance and self-inquiry is the Enneagram. And the way to connect most deeply to its teachings is to understand its rich mystical roots — the Western spiritual traditions out of which its insights were born.
The rapid rise in the popularity of the Enneagram system has been remarkable. There are always new books and workshops addressing this approach to gaining insight into our personalities...
... and most of the popular wisdom centers on the Enneagram types and the awareness of our tendencies.
However, few of the modern purveyors of this system know much about its origins, or the ways it’s been part of spiritual traditions for quite some time.
According to renowned Enneagram teacher Russ Hudson, the most important Enneagram teachings take us on a voyage of internal inquiry and presence, and help us develop a vast awareness of the different components of our psyche.
Experience Russ and guest teacher Jessica Dibb in a unique and experiential 7-step exploration of this complex and rich system, and how its power lies in your orientation to the ancient traditions from which it sprang.
As Russ walks you through the Enneagram’s historical context — its origins in religious and wisdom orientations — your capacity to benefit from its teachings will increase exponentially...
... heightening your capacity to be with the stress and difficulties of this time, and bolstering your fortitude to go on. You’ll discover a reinvigorated sense of purpose and meaning, and an experience of your life in the greater cosmos.
The promise of all spirituality is to help us deal with our suffering. In addition to teaching us how to find presence, consciousness, and pure awareness, the Enneagram shows us how to navigate our suffering and the suffering of others.
In this groundbreaking program, Russ systematically takes you on a tour of the Enneagram’s ancient beginnings — including its roots in early Christianity, mystical Judaism, Sufism, and Islamic mysticism.
He’ll show you how it’s part of a deeper system that avails you of the transformative power of grace, and how it can transform the way you live, relate, and work with others.
You’ll explore the capacity of each of the centers:
One of the attractions of Eastern traditions is their explicit contemplative practices. In our modern world, many people are hungry for the integration of such practices into Western spirituality... and the Enneagram provides that.
In fact, two full sessions of this course are devoted to profound experiential practices, guided by Enneagram innovator Jessica Dibb.
George Gurdjieff brought the Enneagram symbol to the modern world and the West to guide humanity through a pivotal moment, much like the global crisis we’re currently enduring. Its goal was meant to help wake people up and keep them moving forward by responding to circumstances in a more productive way — based in love.
More dire than ever before, the Enneagram as a path to wholeness can assist you on your journey into your true humanity, your contribution, and a deep sense of truth and purpose — to help not only navigate, but survive these troubled times.
In this 7-part transformational intensive, Russ guides you through the fundamental wisdom traditions and practices you’ll need to successfully develop your spiritual growth and find your presence, true essential Self, and purpose.
This course features step-by-step teachings and experiential practices from Russ. Each session builds harmoniously upon the previous ones, so you’ll develop a complete holistic understanding of the practices, tools, and principles you’ll need to find your presence and create new ways of responding to others and the circumstances of your life — especially during trying times.
In this opening session, Russ explains some of the original orientations that gave rise to the Enneagram teachings, and offers ways to make use of these orientations on your spiritual journey. You’ll learn some of the history behind this system, and how it’s informed mystics through the ages.
Russ shares how the Enneagram grew out of the contemplative practices of Western mystical traditions — such as early mystical Christianity, Judaism, and Islam — as well as Greek philosophy and even more ancient spiritual traditions.
And you’ll learn that the Enneagram teachings represent an early form of psychology, which explicitly saw human beings as souls... and was more attentive to the mystery of our makeup than our psychological patterns and defenses.
In this overview module, you’ll explore how:
Western spirituality seems to overlook the importance of embodiment — the understanding that if we’re really present, we’re present in our bodies and in this world.
The more you live from a grounded relaxation in your body, the more sensitively you perceive the interconnectedness of life, and the subtleties of the spiritual realms beyond the physical.
In this second session, Russ focuses on this central teaching from spiritual tradition, while paying particular attention to types Eight, Nine, and One on the Enneagram. Each of those types offer lessons about the challenges and opportunities of awakening through your body.
You’ll also explore how the process of embodiment is crucial to entering into authentic relatedness with others... and is foundational in creating the kind of society our spiritual traditions present as a possibility.
During this session, you’ll discover:
This module features breathwork facilitator and Enneagram teacher Jessica Dibb.
In order to transform your life, awareness needs to integrate with physical experience. Only then can your responses, choices, and actions flow powerfully and gracefully from the strength of physical reality... the fullness of feeling connected to life... and the transmission of your spiritual nature.
In this module, Jessica provides some instruction... but the primary focus will be on experiential learning.
She guides you through various practices to strengthen your living sense of vitality and the intelligence of the life force itself — using breathing, sensation, movement, and sound. In this way, you’ll receive the full flow of life energy and its innate wisdom.
Through these practices, you’ll also develop a sense of aliveness, relaxed groundedness, harmonious engagement, and inner balance and alignment.
In this experiential module, you’ll learn and experience:
The heart is a central theme in most spiritual traditions, and its importance can’t be underestimated. However, it can’t fulfill its specific role and purpose in our transformation without us having a correct relationship with the intelligence of the body and true mind.
Presence changes the experience of all three centers... certainly the heart center.
In this session, you’ll discover that emotions aren’t just feelings... they’re also characteristic of presence and Spirit. Presence shifts us from emotional reactivity to a deeper well of compassion, patience, kindness, positivity, and love.
Here, Russ addresses the ideas of the passions and virtues, and how they arise from early Christian teachings... as well as from elements of Greek philosophy.
You’ll explore how these ancient ideas pertain to you — here and now — and how to experience the alchemical transformation of the heart described in the practices and teachings of Western traditions.
In this middle module, Russ guides you to discover:
This module features breathwork facilitator and Enneagram teacher Jessica Dibb.
When you reconnect the heart with your embodied presence, you can hold your emotional reactivity and remaining unresolved issues with kindness, compassion, and a healing response.
The work with the heart center is often described as a process of purification. In this session, Jessica shares how, although your true heart, your deeper heart, is always here... it’s often overshadowed by the intensity and persistence of your emotional patterns and issues. Through practice, you learn to recognize the subtle yet oceanic depths of the heart and bring them forth to heal the egoic patterns you encounter.
Jessica enhances this work through breath, sensation, movement, and voice practices. You’ll directly experience your responsiveness to the hurts and contractions of your heart, as well as the energies of your heart’s life force and yearning.
You’ll learn how to build the capacity to focus on what arises in your chest and in the overall field of feelings and emotions... and use it as grist for the purification process.
In this experiential session, you’ll learn and experience:
In many modern versions of spirituality, the mind is often given short shrift. Some teachers will even say, “You don’t need your head. Just follow your heart.” But this presupposes a capacity to listen to the heart... and listening is a function of the head center.
Spiritual realization occurs in the mind. We begin to see reality and ourselves in a new way. And, it’s through the awakened mind that we discover new, creative ways to address the challenges in our lives and in our world.
In this session, Russ shows the relationship between the ordinary, personality-based mind and the deeper mind — which is the source of most of your innovation and creativity... as well as your sense of inner guidance and discernment.
You’ll explore the relationship between your inner mental activity and what Russ refers to as the “ground of mind” — which has always been a focus of any real spiritual tradition. You’ll look at how the Holy Ideas of the Enneagram fit into an ancient context, and engage in practices and orientations that facilitate access to your source of inner silence, peace, and direct knowing.
In this module, you’ll discover:
We live in an extraordinary time. Not only do we have many ancient teachings and practices readily available to any sincere seeker. We also have discoveries of modern psychology and science that offer profound new vistas of the inner worlds these traditions were exploring.
Modern Enneagram work partakes of both. We’re rooted in the clear vision of these teachings, but also acquiring new tools, methods, and insights from developmental psychology, evolutionary biology, modern physics, and many other sources.
It’s becoming increasingly apparent to more and more of us that we need to make a leap in human understanding and behavior, so we can co-create new systems for navigating the rapidly changing global situations now upon us.
Gurdjieff, who brought the Enneagram teachings to the attention of the modern world, openly asserted that this work is being brought to the public at this time to assist us in this transition.
So, how does this work help us contribute to a sane and equitable future? How will it help us create sustainable societies that our descendants can thrive in? How can this work help us access and put into action the necessary changes of habit and behavior that are demanded of us?
As this profound program wraps up, you’ll begin to see that your inner work is not an act of selfishness, but a way to support you in opening to a larger sense of purpose and contribution.
In this final course session, you’ll discover:
In addition to Russ’ transformative 7-part virtual course, you’ll receive these powerful training sessions with leading visionaries and teachers. These bonus sessions complement the course and promise to take your understanding and practice to an even deeper level.
Russ Hudson and Cynthia Bourgeault — a modern day mystic, Episcopal priest, writer, and internationally known retreat leader — share an extensive background in the work of George Gurdjieff... and the original ideas behind the Enneagram teachings. In this conversation, they discuss some of the roots of the system, as well as the importance of having a foundational orientation with the material. Cynthia and Russ also introduce some of the dynamic elements of the Enneagram that open its capacity to change lives.
Join A.H. Almaas (Hameed Ali), creator of the Diamond Approach to Self-Realization, as he shares powerful teachings. He’ll describe the “inner core” and “outer shell” of one type from each of the three centers. He’ll focus on the various orientations of enlightenment in both Eastern and Western traditions. He’ll also be joined by Russ to highlight the synergy of the Diamond Approach and the Enneagram... presenting the Diamond Approach as a model for using the Enneagram to do inner work.
Join with spiritual teachers and feminine mystics Miranda Macpherson and Jessica Dibb to explore possibilities for living from multidimensional consciousness and authentic spirituality in the 21st century. In this illuminating conversation, they offer insights about how to contact the mystery, relax into the luminous presence at the core, and become a more whole loving human... by learning to embody grace with all that life brings. You’ll discover how to work with your Enneagram type to support your experience of awakening, consciousness, and the Divine.
In this special session, Russ Hudson and Mirabai Starr — a spiritual teacher and prolific author of books on feminine spirituality — engage in a lively conversation about the Enneagram’s capacity to illuminate new expressions of the Divine Feminine and Divine Masculine within us all. They explore how both energies dance together within our individual awareness. Russ and Mirabai also share stories from their own journeys... and how the Enneagram supported and deepened their own explorations.
Russ’ course coincided with the tragic breakup of my relationship due to my own lifelong defensive patterns of behaviors. Following this course has helped me beyond imagination, to truly embrace the inherent traits of my type (4) as biased by the instinctual drives. I would go so far as to say this course was life-changing and I cannot thank Russ enough.
— Mark Drax, London, England
Working with the Enneagram has been life altering, and Russ Hudson’s courses (including his latest) have opened up new avenues of thinking for me. My spiritual life is shifting away from “dogma” into a clearer understanding of how marvelous and amazing creation is — and how our diverse views are all part of that. I look forward to continuing to work with the insights that these Enneagram teachings have brought me.
— Harriette Heibel, Martinez, California
Russ Hudson is the best Enneagram teacher I know. His knowledge, presence, warm humor, and genuine caring is uplifting and healing at the same time. One learns so much new about the Enneagram in every module, and at the same time you also have this amazing feeling about getting this deeper understanding about yourself and others. Thank you, Russ!
— Sari Heiskanen, Finland
Russ has such a deep and experiential connection with the Enneagram and such an open mind that I came away after each session with a deeper understanding, more clarification around my stuckness, and more clues and practices on how to go deeper spiritually and move forward in life. It opened my mind to more questions, my heart to more relatedness, and, for the first time, the simple, repetitive practices engaged my body in my process of transformation.
— Mary, South Africa
With in-depth practices, I was able to use the tools from this class to effect significant shifts in some of the important interactions of my life. And now that I’ve been able to see and feel the effects, it will be easier to continue to use the practices in other situations where I would normally get caught up in reaction or avoid stepping out into the unknown.
— Mary Jane, Centre Hall, Pennsylvania
Deepening understanding and trusting the wisdom of the Enneagram. Using it gently and wisely as I live life, listening more deeply to my way of being in the world, and noticing my blind spots with gentleness and compassion.
— Susannah, New Zealand
Deeply insightful and no-nonsense Enneagram teaching. Thank you so very much, Russ.
— Isabelle, Belgium
— Anonymous
Experience a unique opportunity to learn from renowned Enneagram teacher and co-author of Wisdom of the Enneagram Russ Hudson — from the comfort of your own home. Each session includes a video teaching and guides you to discover specific skills and abilities to navigate these troubled times more effectively, find your true essential Self, and propel your purpose and contribution in the world by understanding the Enneagram from a spiritual perspective.
In addition to the high-quality videos and audios, you’ll also receive the entire class transcription in PDF format. You can then review, print, and highlight the most important insights and practices you were given.
Between class sessions, you’ll have the option of completing related exercises, practicing new tools, and answering questions to accelerate your learning and integrate each lesson.
We feel honored that Russ Hudson has chosen to partner with The Shift Network to offer this exclusive online training. This is a unique opportunity to learn from a renowned Enneagram teacher whose powerful insights and pioneering work are helping us heal and awaken ourselves and our world.
If you’re serious about going on an in-depth journey into the Enneagram to learn how to navigate these troubled times more effectively and propel your purpose and contribution in the world, then you owe it to yourself, your loved ones, and our world to take this one-of-a-kind training.
If you’re ready to take the next step in evolving yourself, click the register button below to reserve your space now.
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Russ is the best Enneagram teacher for his presence and dedication to the Enneagram world. I highly recommend learning with him if you’re looking for a transformational experience and what the Enneagram really is meant to be.
— Pongsathorn, Bangkok, Thailand
I was able to grasp what happens to pull me away from my experience of presence, as well as the operation of all of the nine Enneagram energies in me. Puzzles that I had been pondering for years about my relationship to receiving were resolved, as I experienced the energy of my “missing piece.” The term “life-changing” is used a lot, I know. But I can’t think of another one that more accurately describes my experience.
— Ann Kirby, RH, certified teacher, EnnCourage, Inc.
I am a longtime student and certified teacher of the Enneagram, as well as a seasoned meditator. This workshop... leveraged my understanding of the Enneagram as a spiritual path to a very exciting new level, both for myself and in working more strategically with my coaching clients.
— Anne Wotring, certified Palmer-Daniels teacher
Having had the privilege of studying this material with a number of teachers, I was completely impressed with Russ’ quality of training and input on this topic. His willingness to be present, open, and incredibly allowing and compassionate whilst staying totally on track with the content was fantastic.
— Marie Pierre Cleret, Sydney, Australia
Russ is a master in the Enneagram and in heartfelt understanding, respect, and kindness to fellow beings... In his presence, something pure inside gets awakened.
— Sajili, Mumbai, India
Russ Hudson has established himself over the last three decades as one of the top teachers and developers of the Enneagram personality typology in the world today. Actively involved in the Enneagram community, Russ is the co-founder of the Enneagram Institute and President Emeritus as well as a Founding Director and former Vice-President of the International Enneagram Association, a global organization advancing knowledge of the subject. He has been writing and teaching full time with The Enneagram Institute as well as on his own since 1991.
He’s co-authored with Don Richard Riso five bestselling books on the subject, including The Wisdom of the Enneagram and Personality Types. These books are widely considered to be not only groundbreaking contributions in the field of Enneagram studies, but also important contributions to the literature of psychological type. The pair developed a scientifically validated test instrument, the Riso-Hudson Type Indicator (RHETI), now considered a standard test in the Enneagram field. The RHETI has been used by numerous Fortune 500 companies.
Russ has a solid background in science as well as in studies of philosophy and religion and has approached his work with the Enneagram holding both perspectives. He originally encountered the Enneagram through the Gurdjieff Work and sees it as a map for personal development and awareness more than as merely a system for categorizing people. He has emphasized the importance of cultivating presence and mindfulness as a foundation for authentic work with the Enneagram, and has worked to align the study of the Enneagram and spiritual practice and bring their mutual benefit into greater public awareness.
He has appeared on Good Morning America, and The CBS Morning Show, as well as on several dozen radio and television shows as an expert on personality type. He has become a popular speaker at conferences and retreat centers around the world, including the Esalen Institute, the Wisdom 2.0 Conference, and the Science and Non-Duality Conference (SAND).
Jessica Dibb is founder, spiritual director, and principal teacher of the Inspiration Consciousness School and Community, dedicated to promoting personal, relational, and planetary wellness. For over 25 years Jessica has designed and facilitated workshops, classes, and ongoing breath-centered trainings that are grounded in an integrated model of psychospiritual healing and development to support self-actualization. Her teachings assist people in cultivating consciousness through all stages of life, from conception onward. Using integrative breathwork, psychodynamic principles, movement, meditation, expressive modalities, the Enneagram, and many other established and emergent wisdom teachings, Jessica facilitates embodied awareness of each moment.
Her intuitive teaching style — individualized and attuned to her students — along with an integrative approach, helps to facilitate long-lasting transformations. She teaches nationally and internationally, including teaching integrative breathwork at the Psychotherapy Networker Conference for over a decade, and being a principal presenter at the International Enneagram Conference for 20 years. Jessica is also co-director of the Global Professional Breathwork Alliance (GPBA) and current chair of the GPBA’s Ethics Committee. She is founder and host of the annual Enneagram Global Summit, and co-host of the Breathwork Summit in 2012 and 2020, (also produced by The Shift Network). Jessica was the weaver and visionary behind the innovative conferences: Breath Immersion — From Science to Samadhi, at Omega Institute and Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health. She initiated the understanding of the Unified Breath Field. Jessica is currently writing a book on integrating breathwork into psychotherapy.
Jessica is also a founding member of the board of Convergence, a nonprofit organization working to promote dialogue and innovative solutions for challenging social issues of our time. She was an advisor to the US-Muslim Engagement Project, and served on the board of the United States Consensus Council for Search for Common Ground.
Her deepest passion is to support evolving creativity and positive possibilities on our planet by supporting awakened consciousness, and the embodiment of love, wisdom, and presence in every moment... for all life.
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