Russ Hudson & Jessica Dibb
Wednesday, April 28, 2021
Thank you for your interest. We are no longer accepting applications for this program.
Immerse yourself in an interdisciplinary, comprehensive training in rigorous teachings, academic studies, and experiential practices transmitted by today’s leading Enneagram teachers... to awaken consciousness in human life.
You’ve likely heard the evolutionary phrase be here now.
It’s an often-referred-to sentiment, particularly among those who seek an understanding of existence and how to live a meaningful life. Most people find that being here now is a powerfully transformative concept, and, when they’re able to tap into it, each moment is profoundly enhanced.
So why don’t we live that way all the time? Why is it so challenging to live deeply in the moment — in full presence? Why do we — both personally and collectively — continue to skim over, or react to the circumstances and events of our lives, doing the same things time and again with the same disappointing results?
One central response to those questions is that many of us are unwilling or afraid to do the deep inner personal growth work to examine why we do what we do and why we respond to life in ways that don’t serve us.
And, as you know, one potent approach to doing that work is through the wisdom of the Enneagram.
As a recent student in Russ Hudson’s course — The Ancient Spiritual Origins of the Enneagram as a Path for Self-Discovery & Wholeness — you’ve been on a journey of awakening for a while, and you’re now deeply connected to the teachings of the Enneagram and its rich mystical roots.
How have you been integrating the wisdom and practices you’re exploring and experiencing in that course? How are your life and your relationships enhanced as a result of Russ’ guidance? Are you ready to delve even more fully into the concepts, implications, and applications of the Enneagram — so you can really live in essence and serve others with the Enneagram teachings?
We’re very excited to let you know about an extraordinary opportunity to participate in a first-of-its-kind, Shift Network, year-long intensive Enneagram certification program. This interdisciplinary certification is taught by Russ Hudson, who, as you know, is one of the foremost world-renowned Enneagram teachers, and Jessica Dibb, an Integrative Breathwork trainer and one of the great innovators in the Enneagram field.
They’ve invited other world-class Enneagram teachers and colleagues with expertise in specific topics to join them in transmitting a breadth of teachings — including Helen Palmer, Dan Siegel, A. H. Almaas, Cynthia Bourgeault, Beatrice Chestnut, Uranio Paes, Ginger Lapid-Bogda, Deborah Egerton, Mario Sikora, Tom Condon, Mike Alexander, Deborah Ooten, Katherine Fauvre, Milton Stewart, Roxanne Howe-Murphy, Tyler Sit, Andrea Isaacs, Marion Gilbert, Kathy Jankowski, Abi Robins, Jerome Lubbe, and more. (This list will be updated with additions as the program progresses.)
Joining this stellar team is Julie Harris, a certified coach, Enneagram teacher, and Integrative Breathwork facilitator. Russ and Jessica have specifically chosen Julie to lead two Integration Sessions per month and steward the remarkable group of coaches and facilitators who’ll be leading the Learning Labs. (More about all that later!)
The Year-Long Enneagram Certification Program in Conscious Living is an innovative training designed to meet the perennial desire for personal awakening and being in service to others while addressing the specific challenges and promises of the 21st century.
At the end of this robust journey to living an Enneagram-informed life, you’ll receive the Enneagram Depth Certification, which signifies that you’ve participated in a year-long immersion in the inner work and original teachings of the Enneagram... and their applications to personal development, consciousness, and human life.
The certificate will also signify that you have the knowledge and skills of value about human temperament, behavior, growth, and transformation that you can bring to your vocations, service, and communities.
Why Now?
If you’re reading this, it’s likely you’ve already experienced how powerful and helpful the Enneagram system can be — even if your course with Russ was your first exposure. You may have done some additional studies and read a few of the many books on the subject. Maybe you’ve even done some training but know there’s so much more to this amazing work.
Now you have the chance to work with some of THE most experienced pioneers and developers of the Enneagram, and really learn this work from the inside out. This training is a chance to learn the deeper background of the teachings and develop a more detailed understanding of the inner workings of each of the types — so you can use this knowledge in facilitating others, through coaching or therapy.
And, it’s an exciting opportunity to participate in a community dedicated to honoring the real core of the Enneagram teachings — while living them in the world.
On a global scale, it’s apparent that the world is in need of a collective leap in consciousness. It’s clear that the “solutions” we’re using to address national and global problems aren’t working. To create significant and sustainable change — to help us get through our collective traumas — we have to move into the cave of our own wounds and do the necessary repair work.
G.I. Gurdjieff, the man who brought the Enneagram symbol to the West, stated that its wisdom appears in the world in just such times — when a leap in spiritual consciousness is required, and when help to make this leap is available.
Has there ever before been a more urgent time for this work?
This leading-edge, year-long live online video program will provide the Enneagram language, wisdom, and guidance for living that’s necessary to support the real innovation we need in our world today.
Who Is This Program For?
This is an interdisciplinary, comprehensive training and an unprecedented opportunity to learn and participate in rigorous academics and experiential practices from leading Enneagram teachers in an immersive, supportive, community learning environment.
So, are you prepared to take an unprecedented journey into yourself with the support of a global community of heartful, clear, lucid, and coherent people who are embodied in the here and now and willing to practice being real together?
Are you prepared to step into something greater than yourself and be empowered to change the world?
This program will unveil your sublime qualities and help you discover your endless capacity and inner strength.
It will offer you a map for guiding yourself and others toward a shift in consciousness — bringing this transmission into everyday life.
This is a brilliant offering for you if you’re eager to:
- Commit to accelerated personal growth you can integrate deeply, both within yourself and in your work in the world
- Live the embodied consciousness of the Enneagram as both an interdisciplinary depth study and as its own deep field of learning
- Integrate and balance experiential learning, academic rigor, and community support
- Add additional depth to your practice and an advanced certification in your discipline... especially for long-time Enneagram enthusiasts and certified Enneagram teachers
- Bring this interdisciplinary approach into the way you work with clients as a professional healer, therapist, or human potential teacher
- Open to the three centers and the multidimensionality they bring
Because of the rigor and intimacy of the program, we’ll be limiting the number of students to 250 — to ensure individualized attention and maximum impact. To that end, if you decide you want to join this amazing opportunity, you’ll first undergo an application process.
What Are the Primary Teachings of This Program?
You already have a foundational understanding of the orientation of the Enneagram as an approach to integrating body, heart, and mind... enhanced by your new understanding of the ancient spiritual roots of the system.
While you already know the basic terminology and concepts, the beginning of this new training offers a comprehensive review of them in much greater detail to give you a deeper understanding of their application and how to work with them.
The first half of the year will be devoted to authentic transmissions of the core distinctions of the Enneagram, bringing you into a new level of depth and relationship to the essential truths that the system evokes:
- The 3 Centers: Integrating Body, Heart, and Mind
- The Instinctual Drives and Subtypes
- Higher Heart and Mind: The Virtues and The Holy Ideas
- The Metaphysical Foundations of the Enneagram Symbol and the Power of Essence
The second half of the year will explore multidimensional approaches for inquiry and application of the foundational distinctions in yourself and with others, including:
- The art of recognizing type
- A wide range of methods and practices, from breathwork to Qigong to facilitation techniques
- Using the Enneagram to support equity and inclusivity, and to build transformational communities
- How science supports what we know from the Enneagram
- Implications of the work: stepping into the world as presence
Beyond the benefits of the teachings, you ‘ll be supported on the journey by a robust community, discipline, consistent practice, and a nonjudgmental, compassionate environment. Some of the elements will be:
- Authentic Enneagram and consciousness teachings and transmissions
- Inner work for real psychological and spiritual transformation
- Time-honored and innovative practices, and a dedicated practice community
- Interdisciplinary study of the Enneagram, transformation, and consciousness
- Applications of the Enneagram teachings, 3-centered wisdom, and presence to many areas of human life
This is an alchemical process that can open you to your deepest untapped potential and gifts... and awaken your capacity to create even more profound connections with all beings and life itself.
The descriptions of the 11 multi-class units below detail the specific and far-reaching content of this program.
What Do We Mean by “Depth”?
Depth is a highly subtle and nuanced orientation to understanding the soul. It’s a commitment to do the lifelong inner work.
A depth orientation includes:
- A dimension of consciousness, a recognition that there’s an endless, infinite space of wisdom and presence
- A willingness to be in an ongoing inquiry
- The cultivation of presence, awareness, and compassion
- Embodiment of the teachings through experiential practices and other tools
- Learning HOW to think and understand through the subtleties and nuances of the Enneagram
- Knowing how to navigate all aspects of your shadow
- Knowing where someone’s heart is coming from
- A mysterious, beautiful, fascinating, and loving journey to who you truly are — and learning to BE that more fully in the world
- Knowing how to sustain awareness, awaken, and make the necessary adjustments in your perspective, so you can realize your fullest potential to live your biggest life possible
- A more effective understanding of how to be in better relationship with others
More About the Certification
Being certified means that you’ve done the deep inner work... and that you’ve demonstrated competency, rigorous personal growth, embodied awakening, and evidence that you’re walking the talk and applying it to everything you do in the world... no matter what your professional field is.
It means you’ve:
- Worked with and integrated the Enneagram in an interdisciplinary way
- Been intensively exposed to the material and have learned the soul of the Enneagram from inside out
- Gained enough expertise to answer other people’s questions about the Enneagram
- Engaged deeply in leading-edge wisdom and practices attached to this deep-root system
- Become a resonant source of the teachings
- Learned how to look at where we are in the real world at this time from an Enneagram perspective
- Learned how to live the Enneagram wisdom
- Developed the courage and capacity to reveal the reality of these times... and act on it
- Nurtured your capacity to help others cultivate the courage, confidence, and curiosity to dive into their own depths
The Structure of the Program
A team of experts has created one of the most comprehensive learning experiences The Shift Network has ever offered...
There will be a total of 11 units, each lasting from two to 11 weeks. There will be a live online video class every week taught by Russ and/or Jessica. In addition, you’ll have the opportunity to attend three Integration Sessions every month — one guided by Jessica or Russ, and two led by Integration Facilitator and Lead Coach Julie Harris.
Two live online video Learning Labs will be held each month with a cohort of 15-20 other participants. You’ll work with your small group throughout the year to integrate the material you’re learning, and make supportive and dynamic connections with other dedicated people on the same intensive journey as you. Labs are where you can have more personalized discussions and experiences, and practice embodying the teachings.
Each lab will be led by a coach or facilitator that has a depth of professional experience in studying and working with the Enneagram — many of whom are certified as Enneagram teachers. All are dedicated to creating an environment of exploration and belonging through presence, compassion, and a spirit of inquiry and discovery.
You’ll also be given the option to attend an additional 3-hour Integrative Breathwork Session, guided by Jessica, one of the world’s leading breathwork teachers.
What can you expect from the weekly primary classes?
Every class will begin with an introduction and a centering practice, which will get longer and deeper as the program progresses. You’ll also be guided in core practices that are very specific to the Enneagram. There will be time for Q&A in each weekly class, as well.
And, you’ll be working with academic assessment tools to gauge your progress.
The teachings Russ and Jessica provide in every class will be delivered as transmissions, in that the real learning comes from them and how they show up... how they live... how they bring their essence.
The three levels of learning you’ll receive are academic (or theoretical), embodiment, and application.
Are you ready to commit to this unprecedented personal journey into your soul and become a more authentic human being?
What You’ll Discover in This Year-Long Certification Program
In this year-long transformational intensive, Russ and Jessica will guide you through the fundamental skills and competencies you’ll need to take a comprehensive journey into a profound study of the Enneagram as a tool for awakening consciousness in human life.
The Power of Live Streaming Video
You’ll connect with Russ and Jessica and experience their teachings through live streaming video via any connected device. This connection is easy to use and will enhance the impact of Russ and Jessica’s transmissions. Or you can listen audio-only by phone.
While we hope you’ll attend all sessions live, should you occasionally need to miss one, there will be recordings of the weekly classes and monthly integration sessions for you to download or stream. As you’ll discover, your live attendance is integral to your learning, understanding, and community connection.
Primary Weekly Class Sessions Wednesdays at 10:00am Pacific
There will be a handful of additional sessions on Tuesdays as well, and as a participant you’ll receive plenty of notice to accommodate your schedule.
This program will feature LIVE teachings, interactive training sessions, experiential practices, and Q&A with Jessica and Russ. Each session will build harmoniously upon the previous ones, so you’ll develop a complete holistic understanding of the practices, tools, and principles you’ll need to take a comprehensive journey into a profound study of the Enneagram as a tool for awakening consciousness in human life.
Unit 1: Foundations of the Enneagram — Integrating Body, Heart & Mind (9 classes in 10 weeks)
In this opening unit, Russ and Jessica will take you through the basic terminology and concepts you’ll need to understand the Enneagram and prepare for your in-depth journey. You’ll discover some of the building blocks you’ll be working with throughout the year-long program.
During this unit, you’ll explore the orientation of the Enneagram... discovering that the work goes is not just the nine categories of personality types. The Enneagram wasn’t designed to lock us in boxes. Instead, it’s about interrelationship, and development. It’s about the relationship between our ego, or personality, and who we truly are as presence — as essence. As you review the foundational information, Russ and Jessica will explain how the basic terms fit in the schema of development.
You’ll also be introduced to the idea of the centers — the intelligence of the body, of the heart, and of the mind — and how these apparently different aspects of our nature get integrated into a coherent and conscious whole.
Jessica and Russ will share their wisdom about the passions and the fixations... and discuss the inner lines of the Enneagram and what they mean. While these elements of the Enneagram are often discussed, their particular function and importance is not always well understood.
This 9-week unit is designed to bolster you with all you need to know about the foundations and tools that will help you experience consciousness (or awareness) from a non-fixated point of view.
This unit will also offer you an experiential approach to all these concepts, so you can integrate them at an unprecedentedly profound level.
During Unit 1, you’ll discover:
- A body of practices you can use throughout the entire year-long program
- Pristine and focused explanations of the key terms
- An understanding of the difference between personality and essence
- Definitions of key terms and concepts, such as core suffering, passion, shadow, fixation, essence, virtues, and Holy Ideas
- The Fourth Way to awakened consciousness in life — the “householder” approach to inner work in ordinary life
- An understanding and experience of the centers
- The concepts of balance, imbalance, dominance, and distortion of the centers
- Three gifts of being present with the centers on the path — grounding, kindness, and curiosity
Unit 2: Embodying the Power & Wisdom of the Instinctual Drives & Subtypes (8 classes in 8 weeks)
In the second unit, you’ll take a much closer look at the three instinctual drives — self-preservation, sexual, and social, which create the subtypes of the nine Enneagram points. You’ll gain a more specific understanding of the psychological patterns that block you from moving forward.
In addition, working with the instincts enables you to do the behavioral work that enables you to see the imbalances in your life... and how you leak the vital energies you need for the development of your consciousness.
In this unit, you’ll see more clearly your resistance to living in a body — meaning the split of spirit and the body — and start to dissolve that psychic disconnection. In doing so, you’ll be able to literally see the sacredness of the wisdom of the instincts... and how it can help you live in your body.
Russ and Jessica will be joined by Bea Chestnut and Uranio Paes, who’ll teach two sessions to provide a multidisciplinary approach to working with the subtypes.
This unit will help you understand:
- What the instincts are, biologically and phenomenologically
- How to work with the instincts for healthy living, transformation, and awakening
- Ways to work with your blind spots
- Approaches to working your dominant instinct
- Methods for working with your instinctual stack
- How to identify and work with your subtype from 2 different lenses and lineages — increasing the facets through which you can understand your motivations, challenges, and opportunities for growth
- The experiential journey from unconscious to conscious presence with the instincts — through guided practices and processes
Unit 3: Cultivating the Virtues — Developing the Potential of the Human Heart (5 classes in 6 weeks)
You’ll study the virtues in more depth — exploring the passions of the Enneagram type and how they can be transformed into the virtues.
How do you cultivate the virtues?
You’ll learn to develop a relationship between your deeper heart (or your bigger heart) and your ordinary emotions. You’ll gain a capacity to see past the ordinary emotions you identify with.
You’ll also learn the relationship between states of essence and the virtues. The virtues are one of the signs that someone’s doing their inner work... living from the virtues as a result of being transformed by their journey. In other words, the virtues are one of the fruitions of real work with the heart.
In this unit, you’ll be guided in many experiential processes — especially working with the heart — including awarenesses practices and methods you’ll be able to use long after this year-long program is complete.
As a result of the wisdom and practices shared with you in this unit, you’ll experience:
- A development of the neutral heart, which holds the virtues that are so important in today’s world
- A heightened ability to stay present with the changing and tumultuous vicissitudes of human life
- The growing capacity to respond to circumstances with an open heart
- Your own heart filled with new creative and wise capabilities
- Meditations, processes, and practices to help you develop the neutral heart
- How the neutral heart supports a creative heart, able to respond to the challenges and opportunities of life with more finesse and contribution
Unit 4: The Holy Ideas — The Higher Mind & the Flowering of Logic, Intuition & Vision (5 classes in 5 weeks)
For this unit, Russ and Jessica will bring in guest teacher A. H. Almaas, also known as Hameed Ali.
The Holy Ideas arise when you’ve worked through the fixated point of view of your ego.
The quality of mind is equivalent to the quality of a deeper heart (which rises to meet your emotions). The quality of mind — embracing whatever you think about — leads to new creative solutions and perspectives. As you develop the quality of mind, you learn to live more closely to your true mind (or higher mind) and a non-dual orientation. You see possibilities you’re not able to see from a fixated mind.
This growth is crucial to living with the challenges of our world today. While the quality of attention and mental perspective has always been important, it’s imperative right now. If we as humans don’t reach into the higher mind and open to creative views of possibility, our species may even perish. We have to learn to act in accordance and alignment with a greater truth.
During this unit, you’ll discover how:
- The Holy ideas relate to non-dual consciousness
- As the symbol of the Enneagram indicates, any authentic non-duality also contains discernment that includes dualistic perception
- To access and live in alignment with a truth much bigger than your own
- Urgent it is to cultivate a quality of mind perspective, so you can help heal the suffering in today’s world
- To cultivate practices that will serve you for the rest of your life
Unit 5: Living Closer to Essence (8 classes in 9 weeks)
For this unit, Jessica and Russ will bring in guest teacher Cynthia Bourgeault for one class.
At this midway point in the program, you’ll take all the wisdom, insights, and practices you’ve learned so far and put them in a larger context — that is, conscious living.
There’s an initial path we take when we start deepening our understanding of the Enneagram and its profound applications. This path is moving us closer to our essence... and our ability to refer to our essence and ask it for guidance. The goal is to live more and more each day as essence itself, while also becoming more and more profoundly human.
What do you need to study, practice, and cultivate to get there? In this unit, Russ and Jessica will guide you into the depth and breadth of the qualities of essence itself.
You’ll start to relax out of your fixations and suffering enough to access the energies of essence. You’ll explore the law of one, law of three, and law of seven. You’ll talk about AND experience more directly what’s traditionally been known as “the Divine.”
Jessica and Russ will teach you how to cultivate the experience of the Divine in human love, in your contact with reality, and in your contact with something larger than yourself... and what that can look like in your relatedness with other people.
You’ll gain a more profound understanding of the Enneagram in the context of traditional spirituality...
... and you’ll explore more of the Enneagram’s metaphysical aspects, more profound frameworks, and more advanced perception. You’ll also experience the humbling reality of how seldom we touch these higher states of reality, though they’re always available to us. This is when you’ll start to relate to the idea that humankind is asleep on a very personal level.
To awaken, you must enter another level of inner work and surrender... and cultivate a fire of the heart to stay the course and make the teachings of the Enneagram real in this time. Many people are tired of others talking about spirituality without walking their talk.
To live as essence is to be grounded in the vibrant experience of what the Enneagram has to offer — letting go of old ideas and beliefs. It’s an invitation to become more intimate with the material you’ve been learning, and understand what it might mean for your future way of life.
In this unit, Russ and Jessica will share:
- A distillation of the first half of this program
- An exploration of the various faces of the Divine, grace, and blessings
- About the missing piece and the transparent veil
- The laws of one, three, and seven
- Profound teachings on relatedness
- What it means to experience authentic love in human relationships
- Many practices and processes to integrate this intensive body of teachings
- Practices to develop your intuitive capacity
Unit 6: The Art of Recognizing the Types of Other People (3 classes in 2 weeks)
For this unit, Russ and Jessica will bring in guest teachers Ginger Lapid-Bogda and Katherine Fauvre for two sessions.
While the Enneagram was originally designed to show us the primary way that we avoid living in presence, and our primary way of forgetting the totality of who we are in our heart-centered nature... it’s also an invitation to remember all nine dimensions of ourselves and the reality of our true nature.
Modern psychology is contributing to the Enneagram by helping us see the most common way our mind becomes unconsciously fixated and invested in our emotional, physical, and cognitive energies. We develop these fixations to defend ourselves against the fear and emotional pain of separating from our authentic self, from others, and from the Divine. While these defenses once served a purpose, they now leave us in states of isolation and cut off from our deepest sense of meaning and purpose.
In this 3-class unit, Russ and Jessica will offer their insights about how the recognition of type helps us interrupt the patterns of our fixations. They’ll bring in two accomplished teachers — Ginger Lapid-Bogda and Katherine Fauvre — to help you understand the smaller things that can help you type people, such as facial gestures, languaging, word usage, and other patterns.
They’ll provide you with the knowledge and skills you need to recognize these characteristics in other people... as well as the “do’s and don’ts” protocol around discussing them and using them in support of others... instead of imposing our perceptions of them.
In this unit, you’ll explore:
- Ways to notice aspects of other people’s types, and use that information in service to them
- The importance of understanding our fixations
- How fixations keep us sheltered from our fears of separateness
- Why we become invested in the feelings of any moment — emotionally, physically, and mentally
Unit 7: Methods & Practices for Discovery & Transformation (12 classes in 9 weeks)
For this unit, Russ and Jessica will bring in guest teachers Helen Palmer, Andrea Isaacs, Kathy Jankowski, Tom Condon, Roxanne Howe-Murphy, Mario Sikora, and Marion Gilbert.
In this unit, you’ll discover and experience a wide variety of potent methodologies for transformation. Some will come directly from the Enneagram, and some from modalities people in other fields use to help illuminate some of the somatic, emotional, and cognitive pathways of growth needed for transformation.
By now, Russ and Jessica have provided you with basic grounding practices and introductions to the centers. In this section of classes, you’ll experience many more developmental practices, both for working on yourself with the Enneagram... and for teaching and helping others work with it.
Russ and Jessica and the other experts will guide both the teachings and specific practices of this part of the program. These processes will help you with your affect, healing, responsiveness, and sensitivity... and they’ll help you cultivate discernment, clarity, and vision.
Here are just some of the brilliant guest teachers and practices you’ll deepen your inner Enneagram work with:
- Breathwork and somatic practices with Jessica
- Movement, emotional expression, and mudras with Andrea Isaacs
- Qigong and 3-centered practices with Kathy Jankowski
- Facilitating with the Enneagram with Tom Condon and Roxanne Howe-Murphy
- Gurdjieff movements
- How and when to use logic and intuition with Russ and Mario Sikora
- Creating and facilitating 3-centered practices with Jessica and Russ
- Understand the Inner Observer and notice where you’re placing your attention, with Helen Palmer
Unit 8: The Enneagram as a Tool for Cultural Competency & Inclusivity (4 classes in 2 weeks)
For this unit, Russ and Jessica will bring in guest teachers Deborah Egerton, Tyler Sit, Milton Stewart, and Abi Robins.
You’ll learn how to use the Enneagram to support the movement toward equity within our culture — addressing issues of race, gender, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, and more. You’ll discover how the Enneagram can help accelerate and strengthen pathways to a more conscious intersectionality... and how to use it as a tool to avoid the pitfalls of spiritual bypass and ignorance around cultural challenges.
In this 4-class unit, you’ll discover how we can work with the Enneagram to address social issues in our society in a deeper way.
You’ll examine issues of inequity and how our fixations are often amplified by our cultural assumptions.
These powerful and groundbreaking sessions will help you see through those assumptions and meet people where they are — understanding what their concerns might be based on where they’re from. These are crucial teachings to empower you to teach the Enneagram.
Each session will help you build awareness that the transformational and spiritual tools you bring must be attuned to both our cultural and sociological suffering and inequities, and to the differentiated potentials that dwell within people of all origins and experiences. This creates the ground and understanding from which you can be in true intimacy, alignment, and responsiveness with reality — and become an agent for positive change.
Your remarkable teachers will show you:
- How to discriminate among a panoply of cultural assumptions that you might not be conscious of, but that are always present
- Ways to become culturally competent by cutting through the tendency toward spiritual bypass, spiritual inflation, and a premature declaration of transcendence
- Practices to let go of cultural assumptions and be present with people
- What each of the 9 types can be blind to in issues of racism, genderism, sexual orientation discrimination, and all oppressive “isms”
- How to cultivate your type’s contribution to racial-healing efforts and the building of an equitable culture
- How to use your inner work with the Enneagram to help you do the outer work of recognizing and ending oppression and racism, and cultivating healthy intersectionality and inclusivity
Unit 9: Building Transformational Communities With the Enneagram (2 classes in 2 weeks)
This unit will be taught by Jessica and guest teacher Deborah Ooten.
The gathering of people for a common purpose can be one of the most essential ways humanity gives birth to and builds structures for safety, learning, creativity, and innovation. This unit will address how the Enneagram can enhance and empower all of our communities — personal, therapeutic, business-oriented, and organizational... and those involved in service, social action, and spiritual fellowship.
Jessica and Deborah will help you paint a vision and give you tools to build a healthy Enneagram community for inner work, personal development, and conscious growth.
Enneagram teachings alone can, of course, provide meaningful insight... and, when Enneagram work is done in a community, it’s truly transformational.
You’ll discover how to integrate the wisdom of the Enneagram into communities by exploring applications used in already-existing Enneagram community models — local, national, international, and online.
These kinds of communities can support and encourage us to walk the challenging terrain of self-awareness and spiritual growth. They can serve as a mirror and container for our patterns... hold us accountable to our higher selves... and call us back home to our authentic selves when we slip into fixation. And they can support individual and collective development.
In this highly applicable unit, you’ll learn:
- How resistance and type can keep you from building or entering communities, and limit your receptivity to the gifts of community
- Pathways to enhance the gifts of different types in community
- Ways to create a culture of complete wholeness by understanding and inviting all 9 energies into the work of a particular community
- How to work with the shadows of the Enneagram and the shadows of community
- Community-building exercises you can use in your local groups
Unit 10: A Scientific Approach to the Enneagram (3 classes in 2 weeks)
For this unit, Russ and Jessica will bring in guest teachers Dan Siegel, Jerome Lubbe, and others who’ve been involved in studies that have a scientific orientation that’s inseparable from humanistic or spiritual principles.
You’ll explore science and research. They’ll discuss science as a doorway to consciousness and the scientific underpinnings of the Enneagram. They’ll share science-based validation that the Enneagram supports real transformation.
The scientific elements are very important if the Enneagram is going to be taken seriously in the long run — especially as we consider applying it in government, education, medicine, and a variety of other fields.
This unit will provide the resources you need to talk about the Enneagram as a system that’s grounded in reality.
You’ll discover:
- Scientific evidence that the Enneagram is a valid system to be applied in many arenas
- Physiological issues involved in Enneagram work
- How to discuss the Enneagram in a logical way
- What we know about the brain, neuroscience, temperament, and consciousness
- Brain-based methods for working with physical illness
- Brain-based methods for transforming psychological patterns
Unit 11: Implications of the Work (2 classes in 2 weeks)
Throughout this program, you’ve created a container — a reflective and dynamic environment — that supports you in multidimensional transformation. You’ve explored the depth of the Enneagram and you’re walking its talk. You’re living out the implications of what you’ve done together with your teachers, your cohort, and the whole program community over the last year.
In this final unit, Russ and Jessica will provide you with the encouragement and tips you’ll need as you continue to encounter the realities of life. They’ll reaffirm how these tools can help you meet various circumstances and conditions as presence itself.
You’ll have a direct experience of the power and efficacy of all you’ve learned throughout the program... and how it’s changed and will continue to transform your life.
Russ and Jessica will help you take stock of where you’ve landed at the end of this profound journey. They’ll help you assess the implications this work has and will continue to contribute in your personal life. They’ll guide you to integrate what’s arisen for you as you consider all the things you’ve learned.
And, they’ll talk about creating practices for yourself, maintaining a deep awareness of all three centers.
In this final unit, you’ll evaluate:
- What’s changed for you as a result of the program
- How spending a year immersed in this Enneagram program has transformed your contribution to the world
- Where you are now, as you look back at where you were a year ago
- Whether you’ve fulfilled the intentions and achieved the goals you set at the start of the program
- What surprised you about the journey you’ve taken
- What’s calling you forward as a result of your newfound awareness, insight, and knowledge
What Graduates of Russ’ and Jessica’s Programs Are Saying...
— Beth Ronsick: “I Grew So Much, and I Grew Up a Lot”
— Emily McCay: “Jessica and Russ Have Both the Capacity and the Authentic Desire to Facilitate an Evolution in Human Consciousness”
“I sensed even from the teachers that love was unfolding...”
The timing and my readiness for this program were synchronized perfectly. I believe that was true for many. I sensed even from the teachers that love was unfolding on the spot and that even their own words were fresh to their own ears. That’s how it felt — spontaneously creative. They were matched nicely with their different gifts and orientations, each so real and down to earth that now I feel like they are old soul friends. Community is changing. I believe these kinds of programs are going to be an important way to connect and create movements of change and support. I’m very excited to have identified this and look forward to the next offering. Thank you, Shift Network, for all you do for encouraging love in the way you do. I thank you deeply for allowing me to participate with a scholarship. This has been an enormous opportunity for me to grow and give back to my community. You made a good investment in me!
— Amaranth Rose, Nayarit, Mexico
“It helped me in my marriage, in my parenting, in my whole outlook on life...”
For me this program opened up so many barriers I had put up around me — barriers that I was not even aware of. It helped me in my marriage, in my parenting, in my whole outlook on life — to not see the universe and everyone as if they are against me, but all as love (not just me...)! I’ve seen a glimpse of how my life could be and everybody else’s if we are willing to let go of all our illusions or ego-patterns and live our true nature — love! It was life changing. Thanks again.
— Wilma Enslin-Geyser, Stellenbosch, South Africa
“... I received enormous moral and spiritual support from the faculty and the rest of the students.”
For decades I have only delved superficially into the Enneagram. I also had a lot of doubt about my ability to give or receive love. I learned a tremendous amount about both of these things; but more importantly, I received enormous moral and spiritual support from the faculty and the rest of the students. It was an expensive, but also extensive [learning experience], and perhaps the best investment I could have made!
— Chuck Riley, Charles Town, West Virginia
“Truly amazing, and I anticipate its effect will be life changing for me.”
This program was an amazing experience. 19 weeks, yet I was so sorry to have it end. While the faculty are all clearly experts on living with true-to-life applications of the Enneagram, they shared openly and vulnerably. With mediative sessions, breathing exercises, and deepening exercises, I experienced it in the Mind Center, Heart Center, and Body Center. Truly amazing, and I anticipate its effect will be life changing for me. Thank you!
— Laura, Ocean Springs, Missouri
“I have never witnessed such heartfelt emotional and intellectual synergy among faculty.”
With each session I was blown away by the expertise, openness, varied perspectives, and personal experiences. I have never witnessed such heartfelt emotional and intellectual synergy among faculty. This program is so full of wisdom, insights, and valuable information. I enthusiastically recommend it and will be revisiting again and again.
— Jeanne Bartlemay, Bellevue, Washington
“I came away from each session feeling more loving, more loved — in short, a better version of myself.”
This programme pulls together in a very practical way ideas on love, being love, knowing and removing your obstacles to love, etc. with the Enneagram. What I particularly enjoy is the many lenses and facets of life to which both love and the Enneagram could be applied — leadership, forgiveness, trauma, etc. I came away from each session feeling more loving, more loved — in short, a better version of myself.
— Emma Pearson, Sergy, France
“This course has taught me a whole new definition of what love is...”
This course has taught me a whole new definition of what love is and how I can bring and be love in this troubled world.
— Pauline Laurent, Santa Rosa, California
“We were guided with kindness and authenticity on a deep and experiential journey...”
This was a life-changing course and experience. We were guided with kindness and authenticity on a deep and experiential journey into our own hearts and the many ways we connect to the world. So grateful for it.
— Hanaa, Canada
“... brought peace and hope to me during this unprecedented time.”
This program allowed me to explore the Enneagram more deeply and to solidify my personality type. It also created an openness to face the growth patterns that I need to walk in to become my healthy self. I experienced love for myself and others through the class by tightening my awareness to my “wake-up call” to lead me to my essential nature of unity, wholeness, peace, and love. Isn’t that what we all have a desire for as we live and interact on this planet? The benefit of sharing with others in break-out rooms increases your awareness of the good in the world. The interaction with people from all walks of life, countries, and cultures brought together in unity because of LOVE brought peace and hope to me during this unprecedented time. That we can be united through LOVE.
— Chris, Omaha, Nebraska
“Every lesson hit home with direct relevance to my life.”
Every lesson hit home with direct relevance to my life. Continuously surprised by how well thought out each lecture was.
— Matthew Marcy Bluemont, Virginia
Join the Global Community
A Year-Long Enneagram Certification Program in Conscious Living offers some of the most advanced online teachings available, within a thriving, global community of learning and practice.
Join fellow students and practitioners to support and inspire each other as you integrate the teachings and practices Russ Hudson and Jessica Dibb will share in this powerful training.
You’ll be part of an international community that’s on the leading edge of a global movement of people manifesting a world grounded in principles of cooperation, harmony, and reverence for all of life.
Here’s What You’ll Receive
Sixty-One 2-Hour Class Sessions With Russ Hudson, Jessica Dibb, and Guest Faculty
Experience a unique opportunity to be mentored by and learn from renowned Enneagram teachers Russ Hudson and Jessica Dibb — online, from the comfort of your own home. Each class session includes a live streaming video option and guides you to discover specific skills and abilities to immerse yourself in an interdisciplinary, comprehensive training of rigorous academics and experiential practices... to awaken consciousness in human life. Program sessions are on Wednesdays at 10:00am Pacific, with a few additional sessions on Tuesdays.
Sixty-One Video Recordings of Class Sessions
After each online class, the digital video will be available for you to download or stream in high-quality format. You’ll never have to worry about missing a session, and you can watch anytime and anywhere at your convenience.
Sixty-One Audio Recordings of Class Sessions
After each online class, the audio will be available for you to download in high-quality MP3 format. You’ll never have to worry about missing a session, and you can listen anytime and anywhere at your convenience.
Sixty-One Transcripts of Class Sessions
In addition to the high-quality videos and MP3 audios, you’ll also receive the entire class transcription after each session is completed. You can then review, print, and highlight the most important insights and practices you were given.
Three Integration Sessions Every Month on Mondays at 10:00am Pacific
In between the weekly primary classes, the 90-minute online Integration Sessions will offer you the opportunity to dive more deeply into the teachings and processes you’ve learned. One monthly online Integration Session will be guided by Russ or Jessica. The other two will be guided by Julie Harris. You’ll be required to attend at least two of these monthly online Integration Sessions, one with Russ or Jess and one with Julie. They’ll be recorded for you to refer to time and again.
Two Learning Labs Every Month
Twice each month you’ll have the opportunity to meet with a cohort of 15-20 fellow participants on Zoom. This is where you can have more personalized discussions and experiences, and practice embodying the teachings. Each lab will be led by a coach or facilitator that has a depth of professional experience in studying and working with the Enneagram. You’ll meet with the same coach and group for the duration of the program. You’ll be required to attend at least one of these labs each month. The labs will not be recorded, so they’ll not be available to watch later if you’re unable to attend. We will do our best to schedule them for a variety of days and times to accommodate participants’ schedules and time zones.
Integrative Breathwork Sessions
Each student will be given an opportunity to attend one group Integrative Breathwork Session with Jessica. These sessions will be three hours long, necessitating live attendance on Zoom. Because they are filled with highly personal experiential practices, to provide maximum safety for all participants, they will not be recorded. Several dates will be offered throughout the year to accommodate different time zones.
Interactive Exercises and Questions for Each Lesson
Between online class sessions, you’ll complete related exercises, practicing new tools and answering questions to accelerate your learning and integrate each week’s lesson. There will also be unit reports to help you integrate and digest the material as you make your way through the certification.
Online Community
Our exclusive Facebook online community is the perfect place to continue your discovery process after each class. Here, you can continue the discussion about your program materials and interact with your fellow students to take your exploration to an even deeper level.
Electives
Throughout the year, you’ll be invited to attend online monthly workshops by guest faculty on key Enneagram-related topics. These offerings will supplement and personalize your year-long experience as you choose what most interests you. You’ll be expected to attend three electives throughout the year.
Schedule Note
There will be no classes, Integration Sessions, Learning Labs, Integrative Breathwork Sessions, or electives during the following weeks:
- Week of May 10 (in recognition of Ramadan)
- Week of August 9 (summer vacation)
- Week of September 13 (in recognition of Yom Kippur)
- Week of December 20 (in recognition of Christmas)
An Unprecedented Opportunity to Join A Year-Long Enneagram Certification Program in Conscious Living
We feel honored that Russ Hudson and Jessica Dibb have chosen to partner with The Shift Network to offer this exclusive LIVE online training. This is a unique opportunity to interact directly with renowned Enneagram teachers whose powerful insights and pioneering work are helping us heal and awaken ourselves and our world.
If you’re serious about immersing yourself in a world-class certification and doing the intense inner work necessary for personal and global transformation, we hope you’ll consider taking this one-of-a-kind training. Russ and Jessica are deeply honored to journey with anyone who feels this level of calling and commitment.
If you’re ready to take the next step in evolving yourself, click the Apply Now button below to start the process now.
Note: If you have NOT experienced Russ and Jessica’s Ancient Spiritual Origins of the Enneagram as a Path for Self-Discovery & Wholeness teachings before (through their 7-module course), you’re welcome in this year-long certification program, but we ask that you register at a different page. Please click here to learn more and apply.
Investment and Application
Invest in yourself and bolster your contribution to our world with this immersive, first-of-its-kind Enneagram depth certification program with Russ and Jessica.
Please note: They’re only accepting 250 students in this exclusive training to ensure that each person receives an abundance of individualized learning, small-group coaching, and support.
Total Program Investment:
$5,000 when paid in full
or 9 monthly payments of $611
Thank you for your interest. We are no longer accepting applications for this program.
More Praise for Russ Hudson...
“... uplifting and healing at the same time.”
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
“My spiritual life is shifting away from ‘dogma’ into a clearer understanding of how marvelous and amazing creation is...”
Working with the Enneagram has been life altering, and Russ Hudson’s programs (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
“... helped me beyond imagination, to truly embrace the inherent traits of my type...”
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
“In his presence, something pure inside gets awakened”
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
“... patience, humor, and wisdom...”
Russ is an extremely gifted teacher. With patience, humor, and wisdom, he is able to guide us to places that are normally too defended to see or admit. This course definitely had that effect on me... I’m grateful to you, Russ, and to The Shift Network, who have made it their mission to create opportunities such as these for as many as possible.
— Scott, Madison, Wisconsin
More Praise for Jessica Dibb...
“... I have woken up in a way I did not expect to have happened in an online class.”
I have a more loving relationship with my essential self. I have the desire to embrace life in a more open and willing way. I can say with full honesty that I have woken up in a way I did not expect to have happened in an online class. I will hold appreciation for these teachings and our beloved teacher for a long time going forward. She assisted me in loving myself and LIFE more fully. That is amazing for not even being able to be live in the class, but it was through experiencing her presence in the teachings and her LOVE that came through so strong.
— Eva, Ireland
“... the biggest help in understanding the journey of my life, the dark places, the personality, and the soul essence...”
This has been the biggest help in understanding the journey of my life, the dark places, the personality, and the soul essence... Jessica was so at ease as she led us to experience each ego point, and I feel my own wholeness in embodying these energy patterns — but I also feel like I also understand many friends and family so much better. Incredible tool and fantastic teacher!
— Jackie, Fremont, California
About the Faculty
Russ Hudson
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
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 was co-host of the Breathwork Summit in 2012 and 2020. Jessica was the weaver and visionary behind the innovative conference, Breath Immersion: From Science to Samadhi, at Omega Institute and Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health. Jessica, who initiated the understanding of the Unified Breath Field, is currently writing a book on integrating breathwork into psychotherapy.
Jessica is a founding member of the board of Convergence Center for Policy Resolution, a nonprofit organization working to promote dialogue and innovative solutions for challenging social issues of our time and now serves on Convergence’s Leadership Council. She was an engaged advisor to the the U.S.-Muslim Engagement Project which published the report Changing Course: A New Direction for U.S. Relations with the Muslim World. She’s also the Founding Director of Silent Peacewalks, and the Liaison Officer of the United Nations Emergency Peace Service Project.
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.
Guest Faculty (click photo to learn more)
Helen Palmer
Dan Siegel
A. H. Almaas
Cynthia Bourgeault
Beatrice Chestnut
Uranio Paes
Ginger Lapid-Bogda
Deborah Egerton
Mario Sikora
Tom Condon
Mike Alexander
Deborah Ooten
Katherine Fauvre
Marion Gilbert
Milton Stewart
Roxanne Howe-Murphy
Tyler Sit
Andrea Isaacs
Kathy Jankowski
Abi Robins
Jerome Lubbe
Integration Facilitator & Lead Coach
Julie Harris
Julie Harris is a certified Riso-Hudson Enneagram teacher, an IEA Accredited Professional, and an innovator in transmitting the gifts of the Enneagram through powerful visuals. As founder of Riverbend Coaching, Julie has used the Enneagram in client engagements for nearly two decades. She excels at blending diverse streams of wisdom into unique and actionable development plans that help clients move their ideas from concept to contribution.
A core part of Julie’s approach centers on working with the body, heart, and mind to move what is stuck, focus what is scattered, or open what seems closed. Her studies in this area include embodied development and breathwork at Inspiration Community, coaching certification with New Ventures West, hatha yoga certification and yogic studies in the Rajanaka tradition, Polyvagal Theory, and creative explorations in writing, art, photography, and voice.
Julie has taught Enneagram workshops, webinars, and retreats for personal growth, corporate team development, as part of university curricula, on The Shift Network’s Enneagram Global Summit, and at IEA conferences in California and Egypt. She is a co-founder of New York Enneagram.
To consider you for this Year-Long Enneagram Certification Program in Conscious Living, we must receive your completed application. If you’ve already submitted an application, thank you. We’ll begin responding to applications in mid-March.
Note: If you have NOT experienced Russ and Jessica’s Ancient Spiritual Origins of the Enneagram as a Path for Self-Discovery & Wholeness teachings before (through their 7-module course), you’re welcome in this year-long certification program, but we ask that you register at a different page. Please click here to learn more and apply.
Frequently Asked Questions
What Is The Price-Point, And Do You Offer Payment Plans?
- $5,000 - Stand-alone price for the year-long Certification Program. Price only eligible to graduates of The Ancient Spiritual Origins of the Enneagram as a Path for Self-Discovery & Wholeness. 9-month payment plan ($611 every 30-days) available.
- If you register with a payment plan, your first payment will be due upon registration. The total price includes a 10% finance charge.
Are Scholarships Available?
A limited number of partial scholarships will be made available. To be considered for a partial scholarship, please fill out the program application. If accepted into the program, a link to apply for one of our limited partial scholarships will be included in your acceptance email.
What Is The Refund Policy?
Your purchase will be refundable on or before the third session of unit one, the Foundations Unit, May 19, 2021. Upon relinquishing your seat in the program, we will open your slot to the next person on our waitlist.
Will This Program Certify Me To Teach The Enneagram?
No, however, successful completion of the program will provide you with approximately 200 hours for International Enneagram Association-approved training. These training hours can be applied to applications through the IEA to be an Enneagram Accredited Professional. (200 hours covers their requirement.) Additionally, this certification program is a prerequisite to attend a 4- to 6-month training to receive certification as an Enneagram Depth practitioner and teacher.
What Programming Is Involved In The Certification Program & Schedule?
The program starts April 28, beginning with a 9-week Foundations Unit. The Certification Program will run over the course of 12-months, beginning April 28, 2021.
All sessions will be held online through Zoom Meeting. No in-person engagement.*
*For more programming details, please see the “What Programming Is Involved In The Certification Program & Schedule?” question on our extended Frequently Asked Questions support page here .
If I Participate, How Many Hours Per Month Should I Plan On Dedicating To This Certification Program?
This will vary depending on whether a student chooses to attend all offerings or the minimum requirement, but on average, you can expect to spend approximately 24 hours per month on this program, more if you attend all offerings, electives, etc.
For answers to additional questions about the Year-Long Enneagram Certification Program in Conscious Living, please see our extended Frequently Asked Questions support page here .
To consider you for this Year-Long Enneagram Certification Program in Conscious Living, we must receive your completed application. If you’ve already submitted an application, thank you. We’ll begin responding to applications in mid-March.
Note: If you have NOT experienced Russ and Jessica’s Ancient Spiritual Origins of the Enneagram as a Path for Self-Discovery & Wholeness teachings before (through their 7-module course), you’re welcome in this year-long certification program, but we ask that you register at a different page. Please click here to learn more and apply.
