As we deepen into this new year and decade, nothing is more important for humanity than awakening and integrating the power of love for transformation in our world.
It’s possible to have love become YOUR way of being... in all your relationships, in your vocation, and in all your actions in the world.
When Gandhi was serving as a force of love in the world, for example, he understood that love is a spiritual path, a practice, a way of life — and that love is our only true identity.
What is LOVE? Most of us assume we know the answer...
From the moment we’re born, though, society actually gives us many wrong ideas about love.
For instance, that love is an overwhelming powerful feeling... often sweeping and dramatic... or perhaps mushy and sentimental...
And so fear, attachment issues, wounds, and emotions are actually what many of us mistakenly describe as love.
What if you redefined LOVE as something you become — rather than something you feel or receive?
What if we all cultivated a deeper understanding of what real love is?
Not only would our lives change for the better — the world would change, too.
In an inspiring new live video course, renowned Enneagram teachers Robert Holden, Russ Hudson, and Jessica Dibb will guide you to follow the Enneagram’s wisdom for living AS love...
The ancient, multidimensional wisdom of the Enneagram will guide you to understand what love is — and what it’s not.
It reveals the nine ways each of us (unconsciously) distorts love, depending on our Enneagram type — usually from a fear-driven place of ego or separation.
The Enneagram shows you the way out of your delusions and helps you leave behind the suffering of isolation...
... and move into relaxed, abundant, creative, and authentic love, intimacy, and connection with ourselves — and with everyone.
Russ, Robert, and Jessica will draw upon inspiration and practices from the great wisdom traditions, saints and mystics, classic literature, philosophers and poets, leaders and activists, and theatre, music, and even cinema...
Together, you’ll explore what the power of embodied love and relatedness can do in your life — and for life on earth.
Jessica, Russ, and Robert will also walk you through the 3 Stages of Love:
As you’ll discover during this live online course — when it comes to love, we’re just dipping our toes into the ocean of what’s possible for our world...
We feel honored that Robert Holden, Russ Hudson, and Jessica Dibb have all chosen to collaborate with The Shift Network to offer this exclusive LIVE online training.
Any program with just one of these renowned thought leaders launches to great anticipation and enthusiasm from students... and this opportunity to interact directly with all THREE acclaimed Enneagram and Consciousness teachers is incredibly rare...
Jessica, Russ, and Robert’s insights and pioneering work are helping us heal and awaken ourselves and our world.
In this 5-month transformational intensive, Robert, Russ, and Jessica will guide you through the fundamental body-mind-spirit skills and competencies you’ll need to BECOME love, moving into an abundant, authentic connection with yourself and our world.
You’ll connect with Russ, Jessica, and Robert and experience their teachings through live video streaming. This connection will be easy to use and will enhance the impact of their powerful teachings. You can easily connect via audio-only if you choose — through your phone, tablet, laptop, or desktop.
This course will feature LIVE teachings, interactive training sessions, and experiential practices with Jessica, Robert, 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 live AS love using the wisdom of the Enneagram.
The shift from seeking love to becoming love is an immense transformational process. In this opening session, you’ll get grounded in the foundational principles you’ll need to embody the power of love for positively impacting your life and our world.
Get ready to start making a quantum shift in consciousness, exploring the 3 Stages of Love and finding out how to develop a way of being where you live from love in every moment.
In this module, you’ll:
Our “Basic Fear” is one of the primary blocks to our full awareness of love’s constant presence. In fact, the Basic Fear is what gives rise to every other fear, including the fear of love.
This week, you’ll identify your own Basic Fear and meet it with loving awareness and acceptance of how it can help you undo every other block to love.
In this module, you’ll:
As you develop your awareness of your psyche, you see that it’s constantly running particular patterns. Both modern psychotherapy and the spiritual traditions behind the Enneagram recognize this, and work with these patterns. In some cases, there are beautiful correlations between the findings of both disciplines.
One such correlation comes from psychotherapy: the study of object relations. Our object-relations patterns form very early in our development, and our ego self is largely composed of these patterns.
As you’ll see, they form a significant root to how you address your needs, and offer enormous insight into your central relationship issues and possibilities. Like much else we encounter on the inner journey, we cannot get rid of these patterns. But with grounded, compassionate awareness of them, you can transform yours into direct paths to experience love.
In this module, you’ll:
All love must include self-love or else it is not love.
— Robert Holden
Your capacity to love others, and to love the world, is mirrored by your ability to love yourself. Why? Because it’s all the same love!
Here we’ll examine nine ways of self-love. We’ll look through the lens of the Enneagram at what self-love really means. We’ll explore why self-love can be so difficult and how we resist loving ourselves more. We’ll discuss how to stop objectifying ourselves in different ways. And we’ll each open more fully to being loved and being love in every moment.
In this module, you’ll:
This week, you’ll explore the ubiquity of trauma and learn to reduce its stigma. We’ll look at some of the symptoms of various forms of trauma — seeing how they alienate us from groundedness in our bodies and hearts — and explore how each of the Enneagram types adopt strategies for coping with trauma.
As we examine types Eight through Two, you’ll understand how the Basic Fear of each type is exacerbated by trauma... you’ll find out how trauma leads each type to move toward its stress point... and you’ll explore ways to bring love and relief to triggers.
In this module, you’ll:
In this module, we’ll continue our exploration of trauma in the Enneagram types, looking at the remaining types, Three through Seven.
You’ll also explore experiential work for identifying and working with trauma patterns, and:
At this point in the course, you’ll be supported by your explorations and experiences of real love, and you’ll have a more profound and precise understanding of how trauma obstructs our capacity to give, receive, and be love.
Now you’ll have the opportunity to be guided with compassion and love itself to unwind your adaptive defense strategies around trauma, and to hold trauma in the field of love, healing, and transformation.
This will be a deeply moving and impactful, experiential session in which you’ll:
Love is natural and easy... until the first wound. And unfortunately, the first wound happens early. The need to forgive the unforgivable arises before we even know how to forgive.
Yet without forgiveness, we cannot love. Forgiveness is a quality of love that enables you to choose love when you’re afraid, wounded, in pain, or facing a dark night of the soul. It’s how you can raise yourself up when you stumble and fall. It’s how you can set yourself free from any hate or revenge.
In this class, we’ll explore how forgiveness relates specifically to each of the nine Ennea-points and Ennea-types.
You’ll discover:
This week, we’ll explore the anatomy of childhood and social roles, and how they play out in adulthood — in our friendships, romances, and work and leadership roles.
Initially, our childhood roles are designed to help us adapt, fit in, be accepted, and love and be loved. But if you hold on too tight to your roles, they can become blocks to love and work against you in your actions and relationships.
This module will guide you to:
With a group of 50 people who committed to a decade of inner-work together, Russ and Jessica identified seven misinterpretations of love, 7 Veils of Love. These are pseudo-versions of love that obscure the true experience and embodiment of love.
In this module, you’ll:
This week we’ll continue our journey through the veils that keep us from directly seeing love in ourselves and exchanging it with others.
You’ll experience love as holding and responsive… dissolving false merging and isolation.
As you’ll discover, when you examine love as relatedness, your (unconscious) resistance can melt away.
There is only One, it is true. And while this One is infinite and capable of infinite manifestations — they’re all reflections of One, of Love.
Similarly, the nine clusters of the Enneagram form a beautiful map of varied-but-connected expressions. These Essence qualities manifest as particular gifts in each of us... and they support love in every aspect of our individual lives and our collective life.
In this sensitive, deep, and provocative module, you will:
Everyone has an inherent and effortless gift of authentic love that’s present even in pathological states. Using the Enneagram, you’ll become aware of these nine gifts and how each of us can cultivate the gifts we need to create authentic love.
As you’ll see, understanding the nine gifts deepens your maturity to recognize and choose real love, which profoundly impacts every aspect of your relationships. That is, in the presence of real love, you can transform your neural wiring around sexuality, self-preservation, and connection.
In this module, you’ll explore:
NOTE: this session will be 90 minutes long, followed by Q&A.
Whether you’re celibate, single, or partnered...
... the vulnerability, intensity, sensation, intimacy, and transcendence you can experience by being fully present to yourself and/or another in the sensuality of your body — from love, with love, and as love — is priceless.
The life force of sexuality is one of the most — if not the most — powerful aspects of human life, where you can experience profound and almost unimaginable coherence and oneness.
Yet the somatic, emotional, and cognitive defenses of your Enneagram type can severely limit your contact with this miraculous feature of being human... just as the gift of your Enneagram type can open you to the possibilities of embodied integration.
In this module, you’ll explore:
This week, you’ll let love give rise to your purpose. We all feel most authentic and joyful when our vocation aligns with our purpose in life.
To help you live a life of love in which your vocation reflects your highest reasons for being, you’ll explore:
Every living creature has a unique and organic connection with the source of life. Whether we call that source Biochemistry, Life Force, Evolution, God, Goddess, Truth, Essence, the Universe, or the Divine, the exploration of it is sacred and necessary to the experience of being fully alive.
“God is love,” taught Rumi. “God is love,” said Jesus. “God is love,” affirmed Ramana Maharshi. “God is love,” sang Marvin Gaye.
In this class, you’ll encounter the mystical dimensions. Immersed in Robert and Jessica’s loving respect for your personal belief system, you’ll explore Love as the Mind of God, Love as the Heart of God, and Love as the Divine Energy that makes galaxies spin, bees pollinate, and us humans serve our planet.
Each type is motivated to contact one aspect of Essence. Thus, your type is a preference for one aspect of Source, and an avoidance of others. And by learning to relax out of your type’s view, you can experience all nine domains of Source... infusing your being with the depth, truth, mystery, and oneness we all long for.
In this module, you’ll take a journey to the sacred within you and explore:
Imagine a new generation of politicians, industry leaders, and directors of NGOs and service organizations who demonstrate love-based values — like service and compassion — and who are elected or chosen for their vision, courage, and strength of character.
Imagine economists who offer us love-based policies that eradicate poverty and hunger... medical doctors who teach their patients how to love and be loved... biologists who show us that the survival of our species depends on cooperation, not competition... architects and lawyers who help us build a society on love...
In this module, you’ll explore:
Actualizing love in action, service, activism, the arts — in all human endeavors, with all of life, in every situation, in every moment — is the quantum shift we need.
Having realizations of Real Love is wonderful, but how can we open to the magnitude of love as guidance for humanity to evolve from protecting our small selves to being a loving presence in the world?
As you’ll see, it’s an enormous shift when you live as love, and it profoundly changes the quality of what you contribute, expanding your impact.
In this module, you’ll:
Throughout this course, you’ll have tapped into your willingness, strength, perseverance, receptivity, and curiosity to take a radical and challenging journey... moving from the fear-based ego’s version of love, to being love in every moment of your life.
Living with the implications of being love is a journey of never-ending and profound change. In this culminating module, Robert, Jessica, and Russ will open a circle of sharing and inquiry with our whole class community.
Together, we’ll open to love’s wisdom that’s moving through each of our lives. We’ll listen to one another and ask the questions that have arisen as our perceptions of what love is and what is possible in our lives and for the world have evolved.
You’re invited to bring to the circle:
We’ll conclude with a culminating meditation to receive love even more deeply in this moment and throughout our lives.
In addition to Robert, Russ, and Jessica’s transformative 5-month virtual course, you’ll receive these powerful training sessions. These bonus gifts complement the course and promise to take your understanding and practice to an even deeper level.
Join Jessica and Russ as they encounter the frontiers of how you can be in contact with unity AND completely available to an infinite, ongoing, diverse creativity.
In this guided meditation breathwork practice, you’ll discover how breath takes you directly into integration, and these powerful truths:
Jessica will lead you on a journey to activate all nine gifts of the Enneagram types.
With audio and video formats, you can choose how you’ll take in these teachings so you can more readily embody the gifts of each breath — and each moment of your life.
One of the most important elements of a human life — and one which is often addressed in coaching and counseling — is the issue of purpose.
In this audio dialogue, Robert Holden and Russ Hudson will explore the sense of purpose and meaning using the perspectives of the nine Enneagram points to illuminate different aspects of it.
They’ll delve into the energetic parts each type plays, approaching this work with camaraderie, humor, and gentleness.
This original audio features several couples explaining how learning about their own type and their partner’s type transformed their relationships — helping them overcome seemingly intractable issues, and uncovering enhanced levels of communication and co-creativity.
The Instincts (or subtypes) — and the roles they play in our lives and in our development — are one of the “hottest” topics in the Enneagram field. This teaching from Russ and Jessica examines the rarely discussed topic of the role of the instincts in inner work.
If you’re serious about transforming the specific ways you’ve been pushing love away according to your Enneagram type, then you owe it to yourself, your loved ones, and our world to take this one-of-a-kind training.
You’ll get to welcome Robert Holden, Russ Hudson, AND Jessica Dibb as your mentors — for five full months...
Ready to take the next step in evolving yourself? Click the register button below to reserve your space now.
With Jessica and Russ’ expert holding of the space, 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.
Jessica Dibb brings to the work of personal development a compassionate, warm-hearted, and steady stance that makes it possible for her to benefit us with her deep knowledge and her moving and life-enhancing experiential exercises. Her insight and awareness also foster her outstanding work. You can count on Jessica to contribute significantly to your life and wellbeing. I recommend her without reservation.
— David Daniels, MD, Co-founder of the Enneagram Studies in the Narrative Tradition (ESNT)
Studying the Enneagram has been one of the greatest tools for understanding myself and my fellow humans. Whether you are new to the Enneagram or had serious training in the past, allow yourself the gift of learning the Enneagram with Robert. You will leave both knowing the Self and the "not self" in a way that will change your life and your relationships for the better — forever.
— Sonia Choquette, New York Times bestselling author of The Answer Is Simple: Love Yourself, Live Your Spirit
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
Being coached by Robert, and working closely with the Enneagram, has been an outstanding experience. I would recommend it to everyone.
— Alessandro Manfredi, President of Dove and the Real Beauty Campaign
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
Discovering the Enneagram has literally changed my life and I have Robert Holden to thank for that. His knowledge and experience with this model of growth is vast and it’s given me a powerful context for my life. When you take the time to learn about the nine points and your own personal number, you’ll uncover a clear path of development that will lead you to your most authentic and fulfilling life!
— Cheryl Richardson, New York Times bestselling author of The Art of Extreme Self-Care
Robert’s teaching of the Enneagram has empowered me to enhance my good relationships and understand the people I have found more difficult. I now play more to my own strengths and am able to manage the unhealthier aspects of my personality.
— Nick Williams, Author of The Work We Were Born To Do
Living as Love With the Guidance of the Enneagram 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 Robert Holden, Russ Hudson, and Jessica Dibb will share in this powerful training.
You’ll be part of an international community that is 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.
Experience a rare opportunity to be mentored by and learn with renowned Enneagram teachers Robert Holden, Russ Hudson, and Jessica Dibb — 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 become love, moving into an abundant, authentic connection with yourself and our world. Course sessions are on Thursdays at 9:00am Pacific.
After each class, the 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 — on any connected device and at your convenience.
After each 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 — on any connected device and at your convenience.
In addition to the high-quality videos and MP3 audios, you’ll also receive the entire class transcription in PDF format after each session is completed. You can then review, print, and highlight the most important insights and practices you were given.
With live class attendance, there will be a 30-minute optional interactive practice session directly following each class. You’ll be placed in an intimate group with several other participants on the conference call to interact, share, and do additional practices with to help further integrate the weekly lessons. Practice sessions are available for live attendance only, not recorded for playback. If you’re unable to attend the calls live, the Facebook online community group allows you to connect with each other and find alternative times to interact.
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 week’s lesson.
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 course materials and interact with your fellow students to take your exploration to an even deeper level.
Your satisfaction is 100% guaranteed! If you don’t absolutely LOVE The Living as Love — or don’t feel that it meets your needs — please contact our friendly Support Team on or before March 26, 2020 and we’ll happily issue you a refund.
Robert Holden’s work on psychology and spirituality has been featured on The Oprah Winfrey Show, Good Morning America, the PBS special Shift Happens! and in two major BBC-TV documentaries, The Happiness Formula and How to Be Happy.
He teaches a powerful “Leadership & the Enneagram” program for some of the world’s biggest brands, including Dove and the Real Beauty campaign, Unilever, IBM, and Google.
Robert, a 10-time bestselling author, has written Loveability, Life Loves You (co-written with Louise Hay), and his latest book, Finding Love Everywhere.
He teaches a “Love & the Enneagram” public workshop and has taught the Enneagram on spiritual retreats to Assisi, Galilee, and Montserrat. He’s a student of A Course in Miracles, and the author of Holy Shift! 365 Meditations on A Course in Miracles. He’s also the creator of a 6-month “Love-Centered Coaching Mastermind” program for therapists, coaches, and wellbeing practitioners.
Russ Hudson, the co-founder of The Enneagram Institute, is one of the principal scholars and innovative thinkers in the Enneagram world today. He’s also President of Enneagram Personality Types, Inc. He’s been co-teaching the Enneagram Professional Training Programs since 1991, and is a founding director and former vice-president of the International Enneagram Association.
Russ is co-author of The Wisdom of the Enneagram... Personality Types... Understanding the Enneagram... Discovering Your Personality Type... and The Power of the Enneagram. Russ also assisted Don Riso in writing Enneagram Transformations. He holds a degree in East Asian Studies from Columbia University in New York, from which he graduated Phi Beta Kappa.
Jessica Dibb is the founder, spiritual director, and principal teacher of the Inspiration Consciousness School, an integral consciousness school dedicated to promoting personal, relational, and planetary wellness. Over the past two decades, she has designed and facilitated unique workshops, classes, and ongoing experiential trainings which are grounded in a highly integrated model of psycho-spiritual 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, the Enneagram, and established and emergent wisdom teachings, Jessica facilitates embodied awareness of each moment, using methods which combine attunement, psychodynamic principles, intuition, and physical sensation.
Jessica is the founder and host of The Shift Network’s annual Enneagram Global Summit. She was also one of the co-hosts for The Shift Network’s Breathwork Summit in 2012. She’s 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. Jessica is the weaver and visionary behind the annual conference Breath Immersion: From Science to Samadhi at the Omega Institute.
Jessica teaches nationally and internationally, including teaching Integrative Breathwork and the Enneagram at the Psychotherapy Networker Conference for many years. Jessica also is the co-director of the Global Professional Breathwork Alliance (GPBA) and current chair of the GPBA’s Ethics Committee.
Q: What’s a virtual course?
A: It’s a great way to engage live and pre-recorded teachings and each other from the comfort of your home! All you need is a computer, mobile device, or telephone. If there’s more than one person in your household taking the course, you’ll each need your own connection. We use Zoom videoconferencing to make it just like an in-person event, where you can ask questions and deepen your exploration of the course themes.
There’s no additional charge for connecting to Zoom with your computer or mobile device. Please note that dialing Zoom from your telephone is a toll call; your telephone service provider will charge you according to your existing long-distance calling plan. International access numbers are available.
“I’ve never seen a course so well put together ever...”
I had never participated before in an online course. The packaging, presentation, inclusion, and Facebook postings created a wonderful, safe cocoon within which to participate. I’ve never seen a course so well put together ever — not in all the years of taking college classes — and I had my doubts about doing an online course. The wealth of organization and ease of learning materials and support made this fun as well.
— Claudia F., Medford, Massachusetts
Q: Can I get benefit from the course if I miss the live classes?
A: Absolutely! You can download the recordings and transcripts of all course sessions from our online media archive, so you never need to worry about missing live calls. You can also engage the full community and leaders on our private online community group.
Q: Can you tell me about the private online community group?
A: We’ll have a private online community group for all course participants that will support you in making connections with others, sharing insights, engaging in discussions, and completing homework assignments that can supplement your transformational journey. You’ll have the ability to share your experiences, projects, and growth throughout the course.
Q: Are there scholarships available for this training?
A: Yes, we always make a certain percentage of spaces available for partial scholarships, giving preference to those in developing countries or doing important but underpaid work to which they can apply the training material immediately. If you’d like to apply for a scholarship, please review our guidelines, which include a link to our online application form.
Q: What’s your refund policy?
A: Your satisfaction with The Shift Network and this course is our highest priority! We offer a satisfaction guarantee so that you can sample the course risk-free. The deadline to receive a full refund is March 26, 2020. To request a refund, please click on this refund request form and submit your request. Your refund will be processed within five business days and we’ll send you an email confirming your refund. However, we’d love to have a chance to address and resolve your concerns first. If there’s something we can assist you with, please email us at [email protected] and we’ll be happy to help! (No refund requests accepted after the above date or with scholarship awards.)
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