Enneagram Global Summit
What's Sufism Got To Do With It?: Enneagram from the Perspective of Sufi Practice
For the Enneagram as a self-development model to be meaningfully placed within a spiritual practice like Sufism, I will use a model of esoteric anatomy that is based on the traditions. I do not see the Enneagram as a part of 'growing up' not 'waking up', and I think confusing the two creates false expectations about spiritual development.
In This Session:
- A model for human esoteric anatomy based on the traditions
- Sufism is a comprehensive spiritual approach while the Enneagram as a self-development model only has a specific function within that approach
- Waking up is about realising that you there is no such thing as a self
Abdul Hayy Holdijk
Abdul Hayy Holdijk was one of the first people to organize homeopathic training in Egypt with the stated goal to spread homeopathy in Egypt at the grassroots level in order to create public demand for quality homeopathic treatment. Abdul Hayy L. Holdijk has been running professional three year homeopathic training courses for Egyptian physicians and lay people for the past 12 years In addition to homeopathy, he is very interested in incorporating a clearer concept of consciousness and the notions of self (and Self) into the homeopathic discipline and how this impacts on our whole notion of what needs to be healed. As part of his teachings on self-development, he uses a number of different modalities like Shadow Work, and Voice Dialogue as a means of therapy.
In his other incarnations Abdul Hayy worked full time at both the American University in Beirut for several years, and for 35 years at the American University in Cairo. He was instrumental in setting up the Department of Rhetoric at AUC and finally retired after many years as Associate Chair of the Department of Rhetoric and Composition. In his final eight years at AUC he focused on developing and teaching a course called "Who am I?: Self and Consciousness Across the Disciplines," which was incorporated in the 1st year core requirements at AUC and is still being taught there. In addition in his final three years, he developed a course called "Integral Living" for final year students, designed to integrate the multiple perspectives of religion, science, social conditioning, and work in preparation for their careers after university. This course too, is still being taught at AUC. In 2014, he received the Excellence in Teaching Award from the American University in Cairo.
Abdul Hayy believes that no change in consciousness can take place unless an awareness of these obstacles to our own development are addressed. Seeing an opportunity outside the academic context, he retired from university in 2015, and continued his career in teaching courses on self-development and alternative medicine.
He has been doing his best to follow the Naqshbandi Sufi path for the past 40 years.
