As a personality typology, the Enneagram can be illuminating...
Yet, the original intention of the Enneagram is something more profound: To serve as an evolutionary map for exploringand embodying the deeper qualities of human nature.
If you’ve studied the Enneagram, you’ve likely begun to work with these revelatory insights. You now have a lens into lifelong patterns that have kept you from experiencing wholeness and fulfilling your potential.
Yet, the Enneagram is rich and complex... and the opportunities for self-discovery and the potential for healing are lifelong as well.
Through depth teaching — rooted in the original Enneagram teachings — you can access and integrate the full mystical power of the Enneagram.
And when the depth teachings of the Enneagram are paired with holistic, experiential practices, you actually begin to transmute your patterns (physiologically, cognitively, and emotionally) into the sacred aspects of your type...
Living from your essence. Activating your soul’s purpose and sharing your gifts. Loving with all of your heart.
And perhaps most importantly, helping to heal our broken world.
World-renowned Enneagram teachers Russ Hudson and Jessica Dibb have been the innovators of a depth approach to the Enneagram...
And NOW... they’ve challenged themselves to offer the most comprehensive program on the Enneagram they’ve ever presented. It encompasses the rich and nuanced levels of the Nine types, including the:
...As well as what lies beyond the Enneagram Map — emergent for YOU.
This is your opportunity to join with a dedicated group — beginning seekers, advanced practitioners, and seasoned teachers — to share in this challenge to activate a higher level reality, so all of us and not only discover truth and love, but create a path of unprecedented authenticity and depth.
Jessica and Russ will bring a new level of intimacy, precision, inquiry and experiential practice to this intensive, experiential Enneagram journey, intended for both beginning and advanced students.
You’ll explore and experience:
Very few teachers have the knowledge, spiritual vision and techniques to help people truly navigate (and apply) the profound realizations available through the Enneagram.
Russ Hudson and Jessica Dibb have conceived this approach and new body of teachings and practices — integrating both the modern Enneagram and its ancient mystical origins — to guide you into the most exciting terrain of the Enneagram, yet.
Over 17 transformative modules, you’ll explore the deepest dimensions of the Enneagram — from personality to wholeness to the Higher Realizations that dwell in the territory beyond your type.
This unusually comprehensive program will guide you to apply inner realizations to social change and activism — transforming personal healing into meaningful contributions. You’ll be invited to explore acts of service that are authentic and ignited by the sacred qualities of the nine types.
In this Enneagram training, you’ll be guided by Russ Hudson, one the foremost and unique articulators of the Enneagram Teachings; and Jessica Dibb, one of the foremost and innovative creators of experiential practices in the Enneagram field.
Together, they will present an original evolutionary program to support your wholeness, consciousness, and awakening through the multidimensional guidance and transmission of the Enneagram.
Russ and Jessica will illuminate and articulate the higher aspects of the Enneagram, beyond type — sharing innovative practices to help you integrate and embody what you discover, in your daily life.
They’ll also explicate and build the architecture of what actually happens to your body, heart and head as you activate the deeper qualities of not only your own type but all nine types.
The ancient wisdom of the Enneagram can aid in true psychological and spiritual integration — and serve the compelling need of our species to develop in unimaginable ways so we can address, and heal, the collective wounds of our times.
This immersive training will be an stimulating, cutting-edge and personal. Each teaching and discussion session will build harmoniously upon the next and feature at least one of the two faculty.
The experiences and qualities of life which are most fulfilling and significant for our journey often get overlooked or forgotten because we spend our days more focused on other matters and activities... and often doing so from a contracted state of fear, separation, or inertia.
Many of us have the capacity to contact the deeper layers of our heart and soul, yet we haven’t learned to stay connected to this parts of us as we move through our busy lives.
Why it is so difficult to stay connected the sacred? Why do fear, separation and inertia tend to be our default modes?
While often we will learn about the Enneagram as a classification system for human beings — simply finding out which of nine types best fits us — it is actually intended as a study of bringing the depth of our awareness and kindness to the patterns in our psyche that lead us to forget our essence and disconnect from the Divine.
In this first module, you’ll discover:
In its original sense, the Enneagram does not describe “who we are” but invites us to look at what we are usually “taking ourselves to be.” Through the cultivation of presence in our bodies, hearts, and minds, we develop the capacity to actually see andfeel the psychological patterns that usually dominate our experience.
In this way, we begin to participate in an inner marriage of soul and personality. This brings about not only spiritual experiences, but a genuine transformation of our lives through a genuine transformation of what motivates our choices and actions.
In this class, you’ll discover:
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. And while there are many teachers involved with this subject, presenting different theories, applications, and perspectives, the role of the instincts in inner work is seldom presented.
Here we will have the beauty of Russ and Jessica bringing together different facets of this teaching arising from the different elements of this work that they have focused on. Together they will weave a rich immersion in the topic, not to give final answers, but to launch all involved on a deeper investigation of how these fundamental intelligences operate in our personal lives.
The three basic Instincts as described in Enneagram theory and in Fourth Way teachings are nature’s intelligence acting through us. When these instinctual drives combine with our primary Enneagram pattern, it produces a primary “subtype,” with a particular set of behaviors. First, though, it’s important to recognize the Instincts as specific energies and sensations in the body.
In this module, you’ll explore the sense of all three drives and how they manifest in particular behaviors in your daily life. While one of these drives may be more prominent than the others, all three are operating in you in some way.
A big part of inner work is learning to recognize the deeply ingrained habits in relation to your instinctual drives — and to also acknowledge the areas of life you’ve unwittingly neglected. As you develop awareness and more balance among the Instincts, you create a stable platform for opening to the deeper mysteries of your heart and mind. From this foundation, you can more easily integrate these expansive, spiritual experiences into daily life.
We will explore the direct experience of each instinct and look at common ways that it appears in daily human behavior. And a practice will be introduced of consciously using all three instincts together to create new neurological circuits for integrated choices and actions.
From a depth approach, each Enneagram point, beyond being a type of person, represents particular qualities of presence. When these finer qualities of presence come to bear on our ego patterns and their inherent suffering, they create an alchemical reaction, the result of which are the nine Virtues.
The Virtues are thus the result of inner work, and become the natural expression and way of being for a person. They represent a strength and fullness of heart, as distinguished the human tendency to get caught in endless reactivity or numbness.
In actualizing not only our own type’s Virtue, but all nine, love becomes the organizing principle of your thoughts, decisions, relationships and communities.
The first big step in this spiritual alchemy is learning to be compassionate with ourselves. The presence we have cultivated supports us in being with the inner hurts and reactions that have driven so much of our behavior.
As we look deeper, we may notice that the core of suffering in our hearts was created by a deep disconnection from Source, however we choose to define that. We discover how much of our ego’s motivation has been seeking ways to handle this core of suffering and to be able to get on with our lives despite it.
But if we keep looking, we see again and again, that as soon as we come home to ourselves and the living moment, real healing occurs. Our spirits can flower, and our capacity to be a vehicle of love and truth in each moment becomes REAL, sustainable and embodied.
You’ll discover:
Realization is awareness of a truth, and it does partially transform us. Actualization is a permanent and enduring state of transfiguring the body, heart, and mind. In this class, you’ll experience somatically, emotionally, cognitively and spiritually, the virtues of points eight, nine, one and two.
Jessica will guide you to experience in all three centers, these heart qualities within you:
We continue our journey, learning to bring Presence and Essence to our hearts, transforming them into the qualities of the awakened heart. In this module, we will focus on the virtues of point Three (authenticity) point Four (equanimity), point Five (non-attachment) point Six (courage), and point Seven (sobriety).
You’ll discover:
Now that we have discovered something of the qualities of the Virtues for points Three through Seven, Jessica will take us through a multi-textured experiential journey through these qualities. Practices will bring somatic, emotional, cognitive, and spiritual intelligence to bear on the Virtues of points Three, Four, Five, Six, and Seven, embracing all of ourselves from Essence, conception, gestation, birth, childhood, adulthood, now and the future as:
Throughout the ages masters and teachers have talked about the potential of human beings to recognize and build a vehicle for higher consciousness within our body, heart and mind so that Essence can flow unimpeded through every aspect of our life, every breath.
The triadic intelligence of the Enneagram shows us how we can awaken, build and flower these dynamics by doing Inner Work with the awakened instinctual drives, the higher emotional capacities (the Virtues), and the higher intellect (the Holy Ideas). In the next four classes we will focus on the transformation of mind — from inner chatter boxes and dull states of consciousness, to bright, peaceful and spacious qualities of direct knowing. These qualities are referred to as the Holy Ideas, nine perspectives or vantage points of nondual awareness or of the Higher Intellectual Center, George Gurdjieff’s term for the Illumined Mind.
The Holy Ideas aren’t to be strived for; nor is there a finish line in this process. Yet, as we bring more presence to the habitual patterns of our thoughts and perceptions, alternative views of reality can empower us to open to a much broader range of understanding and response, softening rigid ego patterns, without rejecting them.
In Module 8, you’ll discover:
The Holy Ideas cannot be grasped in the usual ways that we understand things, and indeed they are an experience of Mind beyond our usual mental activities. They are not qualities, and not exactly any felt sense.
Yet without an ability to abide in our felt sense, they remain elusive. We come to understand that these qualities of Mind need to be experienced directly, and that all of our centers are needed for this to occur. In this module, Jessica will help us come to deeper realizations and experiences of these perspectives.
In this class, we will bring somatic, emotional, cognitive, and spiritual practices to support the realization of this non-dual ground of our consciousness, embracing all of ourselves from Essence, conception, gestation, birth, childhood, adulthood, now and the future.
We will explore presence from the perspectives of:
In this class, we’ll continue our exploration of the Holy Ideas, discovering the non-dual perspectives of points 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7.
We will explore presence from the perspectives of:
At some point, it becomes clear that the Holy Ideas cannot be grasped in the usual ways that we understand things, and indeed they are an experience of Mind beyond our usual mental activities. They are not qualities, and not exactly any felt sense. Yet without an ability to abide in our felt sense, they remain elusive. We come to understand that these qualities of Mind need to be experienced directly, and that all of our centers are needed for this to occur. In this module, Jessica will help us come to deeper realizations and experiences of these perspectives. We will bring somatic, emotional, cognitive, and spiritual practices to support the realization of this non-dual ground of our consciousness, embracing all of ourselves from Essence, conception, gestation, birth, childhood, adulthood, now and the future.
We will explore presence from the perspectives of:
We’ve spent many weeks opening pathways to the true depth of what we are, practicing embodying presence and integrating its many qualities into our lived lives. We have of necessity focused on our own internal work as a necessary foundation for this development.
However, if we truly want to live from our essential being, we must learn to stay present with other people — which for many of us is a more challenging journey.
Most of us may be able to stay awake and focused in meditation or other solitary spiritual practices, but quickly revert to our egoic patterns when other people are around or when we need to accomplish tasks with them. So we need to understand and experience presence and radical relatedness with others.
This relatedness is alive and ever-changing. We encounter ourselves, others, and reality freshly moment by moment, and it is in the immediacy of this encounter that we gain much greater freedom from our egoic patterns, but also come to a deeper love and appreciation for our lives and for the people in them.
In this module we will:
If we take in the learning from the previous module, we can see the disparity between our persistent relationship patterns and the actual experience a true relatedness. The Enneagram teachings offer a uniquely effective way of recognizing and holding these patterns with compassion. For most of us, each significant encounter has been a way of keeping our ego self intact and unaffected.
We may even be drawn to people with whom we can continue to play out these patterns as a way of keeping our familiar self going, even when it causes us great suffering. Thus, working with them can be a fast track for awakening to a new Self. As we are liberated from our historic identity systems, we are more able to listen, to share, to love, and to show up authentically for others and for ourselves.
In this class, you will:
Something is more vast, more intelligent, more capacious than our individual sense of self and life. It is the Divine, God, Goddess, Source, the All that is. Whatever one may call it, our quest to be in contact it is limited by the blind spots of our personalities. The Enneagram offer us an immediate way of seeing and exploring the ways we have avoided contact Divine, as well as how the personality devalues certain expressions of it. The Enneagram invites us to immerse ourselves in the many qualities which are reflections of the Divine and that contribute to our wholeness.
From our fear, and the defenses and lenses of our unexamined personality reactions, we will have a poverty stricken relationship with the Divine. However, from the examined personality and through the cultivation of Presence in our bodies, hearts and minds, we become more receptive and available to the fullness of God.
In this class, Cynthia Bourgeault will join Jessica Dibb to guide you in a deep exploration of the Divine and the ways it is reflected in each of the nine types.
You’ll discover:
Cynthia Bourgeault is a modern-day mystic, teacher and Episcopal priest, and the internationally renowned author of The Wisdom Jesus: Transforming Heart and Mind, The Heart of Centering Prayer: Nondual Christianity in Theory and Practice, and The Meaning of Mary Magdalene: Discovering the Woman at the Heart of Christianity.
In our work with the Enneagram, we can come to sense, love and know the Divine with its infinite faces, expressions, qualities and possibilities. In this class, Cynthia and Jessica further illuminate the ultimate purpose of the Enneagram: To restore us to our intimate contact with Source and learn to live from this Truth.
You’ll be guided to explore and open to the ways in which:
Anyone sincerely being transformed by this work will be engaged in a process of dissolving their usual polarities. We stop rejecting parts of ourselves and our world, and begin seeing, loving, and experiencing the unitive nature of reality.
Perhaps more than ever, we appreciate the value of the differentiated ways of being and the diverse intelligences of people, creatures. We can now contextualize the situations we find ourselves in, relating to them to the richness of a new reality.
Similarly, the usual pull between inner and outer work softens and begins to dissolve. We see that our inner work requires heartfelt commitment and collaboration with others, as well as a growing awareness that our soul matures in proportion to our sense of service.
The Enneagram offers real tools for collective creativity, functioning, wisdom, and guidance.
This course is very comprehensive and Jessica and Russ, sincerely hope that Love, Wisdom, Presence and Essence have had their way with you, and taught you many things, as well as created pathways in you that are unique to your life and manifestation.
In this final session, we’ll spend the whole 90 minutes in dialog with the class about the healings, insights, transformations and emergent surprises that have happened for you.
Russ and Jessica will listen, reflect back and offer any guidance, experience and wisdom that may flow through them. This last class together will be a celebration and experience of our collective growth.
In addition to the transformational 17-part virtual course, you’ll receive these powerful training sessions with leading visionaries and teachers. These bonus sessions complement the course — and promise to take your understanding and practice to an even deeper level.
This original audio features several couples explaining how learning about their own type and the their partner’s type transformed their relationships, overcame seemingly intractable issues and brought an enhanced level of communication and co-creativity.
In this original audio recording, two people of each Enneagram type share what has been the the most powerful transformational impact for their lives because of working with the Enneagram. Listening to the voices of that type using their own language to describe significant change brings us a visceral sense of the journey of that type.
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. So rather than simply saying for example, “Type Eight gets a sense of purpose by X,” they will look at what the deeper teachings around Point Eight tell us about finding our own sense of purpose. What energetic part does each type play? Robert and Russ are old friends, and approach the work with camaraderie, humor and gentleness.
Robert Holden 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. His work has been featured on Oprah, Good Morning America, a PBS special Shift Happens! and in two major BBC documentaries. He’s the author of Happiness NOW!, Shift Happens!, Authentic Success, Be Happy, Loveability and Holy Shift!: 365 Daily Meditations from A Course in Miracles. His latest book is Life Loves You co-written with Louise Hay, and he hosts a weekly show on Hay House Radio called Shift Happens!
This very special session is a 90-minute panel of five inspiring African American leaders, coming together with Jessica to discuss pivotal, important, tender, painful, and transformative issues facing people of color using the Enneagram in underserved environments, as well as confronting head on the issues people of color encounter in interfacing with the current professional Enneagram community. This is a deeply welcomed conversation because many in the Enneagram field have felt the poverty of lack of representation of people of color in the professional community. This is an authentic, raw, and unplugged conversation amongst six people who are speaking from radical love and listening.
Jessica’s holistic teaching about the Enneagram and her loving and warm presence are truly a blessing to the world of the Enneagram, and to the world in whole. Taking her course has made me feel better about myself and my journey as a human being. I also feel she has given hope to the world in general and to the humankind. Thank You Jessica!
— Sari Heiskanen, Finland
This course on the Enneagram was way beyond my expectations. Russ’ wisdom, compassion, and deep experience with the spiritual journey and the Enneagram brought a powerful path to living a life with heart.
— Kay Hogan, Grass Valley, California
Any Enneagram course taken with Jessica Dibb drives home the realization that all the Points of the Enneagram are within all of us... turning self-compassion into a compassionate way of being in the world.
— Anonymous
Russ Hudson is a master teacher. His insights are powerful and always helpful. The Shift Network made it easy to attend this program (virtually) and receive the related materials. I would definitely take another program with them. Great helpful team.
— Carol Schindler, Morristown, New Jersey
In releasing old childhood patterns and beliefs, I’m now able to see people from a new perspective — without judgement. And, so it is.
— Ruth, Honolulu, Hawaii
The Enneagram course with Mr. Russ Hudson will delight and amaze you. It will create more self awareness as to how you operate in the world you live in. More engagement and awareness will only deepen your understanding of yourself and others and Russ Hudson is the best guide to guide you in your deepening practice.
— Patricia Dougherty
This course has been a great help to fill in the gaps of my understanding of the Self. I have become more aware of my people pleasing tendencies as I move through the day, and can decide when it is appropriate and when my help is not needed. This has made me realize I can be loved for myself, not for the things I do.
— Audrey, Iowa
Russ goes straight to the core of Enneagram wisdom. His understanding of how and why ego defends the original experience of suffering is liberating and hopeful. He speaks and writes in a style both down-to-earth and exquisitely sensitive.
— Anonymous
The emphasis on understanding and experiencing each of the types within myself greatly expanded my compassion for humankind, and especially for people in my life with whom I have had difficulty, such as my parents and siblings.
— Anonymous
Seventeen 90-minute Recorded Class Sessions With Russ Hudson and Jessica Dibb
Experience a rare opportunity to learn from two “depth” teachers of the Enneagram — from the comfort of your own home. Each class session guides you to learn the specific skills and abilities to evolve beyond simple personality categorizations to see the Enneagram as a blueprint for transforming your life.
Seventeen PDF Transcripts of Class Sessions
In addition to the high-quality videos and MP3 audios, you’ll also receive the entire class transcription in PDF format. You can then review, print, and highlight the most important insights and practices you were given.
Exercises and Questions for Each Lesson
Between class sessions, you’ll have the option of completing related exercises, practicing new tools, and answering questions to accelerate your learning.
The Depth Approach Bonus Collection
We feel honored Russ Hudson and Jessica Dibb have chosen to partner with The Shift Network to offer this exclusive online training. Two teachers of the Enneagram coming from different major schools will unite to explore a deeper understanding of the Enneagram. This is a rare opportunity to learn from “depth” teachers of the Enneagram, whose powerful insights and pioneering work are helping us to effectively bridge the highest spiritual octave of our being and the most practical day-to-day realities.
If you’re serious about evolving your understanding of yourself, your personality, and even your soul, then you owe it to yourself, your loved ones and our world to take this one-of-a-kind training.
If you’re ready to take the next step in evolving yourself, click the register button below to reserve your space now.
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 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)
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
Russ is a master, in the Enneagram and in heartfelt understanding, respect, and kindness to fellow beings... In his presence something pure inside gets awakened.
— Sajili, Mumbai, India
Russ Hudson is co-founder of The Enneagram Institute, and is one of the principal scholars and innovative thinkers in the Enneagram world today. He is also President of Enneagram Personality Types, Inc. He has 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 also co-author of The Wisdom of the Enneagram, Personality Types, Understanding the Enneagram, Discovering Your Personality Type andThe 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.
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