You’l explore the Somatic Enneagram — its foundational principles for accessing and working with your automatic survival strategies.

Marion will guide the class to illuminate the hidden, automatic defense system that creates the nine energetic underpinnings of our personality patterns…

… and explain how we cannot work with powerful dynamic impulses generated unconsciously and automatically.

You’ll also explore the somatic lens of perception as an entry point of self-discovery based on your type — and how to work with the necessary organization for your survival and your psychological beliefs.

In this session, you’ll:

• Discover the foundational principles of the Somatic Enneagram
• Explore the somatic lens of perception and the 3 Centers of Intelligence: head, heart, and body
• Learn to ground and orient yourself — and discover your inner landscape
• Understand how a part of you is always defending itself against another part of you
• Learn about the neuroscience involved as well as the defensive and nourishing reflexes that are in service to your survival
• Explore how your human nature becomes conditioned and splits into 2 opposing forces
• Move into smaller breakout groups to delve into how these preferred reflexes operate

What if we could observe how our three centers organize and react to the reality around us? You can, by exploring how your centers store and inform these experiences and filter reality based on satisfactory survival in nine different ways.

Marion will share the principles of conditioned behavior along with nine different strategies for creating behavioral patterns…

… and how you can begin observing and witnessing your inner landscape and approaching the patterns at the root of where they begin.

You’ll explore what’s necessary to balance and include the two opposing aspects and return to a sense of wellbeing, freedom, and choice in where and how you’re placing your attention.

You’ll also delve into what’s hidden behind your defenses, how to access and stay present to the driving force of the defensive patterns, and when to activate and when to relax these patterns.

In this session, you’ll:

• Explore unconditioned versus conditioned reality via 9 different pathways
• Learn about the Law of Three and how to access the “missing” third force
• Discover the best-kept secret hidden in plain sight — avoidance as the convertible energy
• Contemplate transformation versus change — distinguish between temporary change and transformation through radical inclusion
• Learn to turn toward and stay present with what you don’t want to feel
• Be guided in a somatic awareness practice that reveals the missing method in how to stay present as you are

The point is to reestablish what has been lost, not to acquire anything new. This is the purpose of development — the power of changing oneself lies not in the mind, but in the body and the feeling.

— Gurdjieff, Views from the Real World

This week, you’ll explore self-remembering as a path to rediscovering what is already fully available and is only available as a three-centered knowing, feeling, and sensing reality — as it actually is.

You’ll identify and do inner work with the deepest held contractions in the body as they act as inner disturbers that drive your attention outward.

In this session, you’ll:

• Gain an understanding of how to approach and apply the somatic awareness method with the defense system
• Be introduced to and develop inner observer attention by turning attention inward and becoming 100% responsible for your life experience
• Explore conscious placement of attention versus unconscious automatic placement of attention
• Discover the aptitude and obstacles to staying in the conscious placement of inner observer attention in 9 different ways

Through didactic, inner observer practice, somatic awareness, and the somatic inquiry panel facilitation, you’ll explore how the mental fixation (belief) and the holy idea in your mind can reconcile the inner split.

This week, explore, play, and seek contact with the two opposing forces — the affirming and denying force. The merging of these forces allows the Third Force to emerge through facilitated somatic inquiry work. See how this happens by observing a panel with Type 5, The Observer… Type 6, The Loyal Skeptic… and Type 7, The Epicure.

Ultimately, you’ll learn how true and lasting transformation creates new neuropathways and interrupts the habitual organization of the conditioned patterns that filter your perceived reality.

In this session, you’ll:

• Deepen your understanding of the human condition — moving from self-forgetting to self-remembering
• Explore how to consciously experience the Law of Three energetically to rewire the neuropathways and interrupt the automatic placement of attention according to the fixated beliefs you hold
• Observe live representations of Type 5, 6, and 7 Mental or Head Center on a panel with facilitation of the somatic inquiry method
• Give the panel feedback and explore questions of what arose in participants during the panel

Through didactic, inner observer practice, somatic awareness, and the somatic inquiry panel facilitation, you’ll explore how the vice or passion and virtue in our hearts can reconcile the inner split.

This week, explore, play, and seek contact with the two opposing forces — the affirming and denying force. The merging of these forces allows the Third Force to emerge through facilitated somatic inquiry work. See how this happens by observing a panel with Type 2, The Giver… Type 3, The Performer… and Type 4, The Romantic.

Ultimately, you’ll learn how true and lasting transformation creates new neuropathways and interrupts the habitual organization of the conditioned patterns that filter your perceived reality.

In this session, you’ll:

• Deepen your understanding of the human condition — moving from self-forgetting to self-remembering
• Explore how to consciously experience the Law of Three energetically to rewire the neuropathways and interrupt the automatic placement of attention according to the fixated beliefs you hold
• Observe live representations of Type 2, 3, and 4 Emotional or Heart Center on a panel with facilitation of the somatic inquiry method
• Give the panel feedback and explore questions of what arose in participants during the panel

Through didactic, inner observer practice, somatic awareness, and the somatic inquiry panel facilitation, you’ll explore how the defensive and nourishing reflexes in the belly can reconcile the inner split.

This week, explore, play, and seek contact with the two opposing forces — the affirming and denying force. The merging of these forces allows the Third Force to emerge through facilitated somatic inquiry work. See how this happens by observing a panel with Type 8, The Protector… Type 9, The Mediator… and Type 1, The Perfectionist.

Ultimately, you’ll learn how true and lasting transformation creates new neuropathways and interrupts the habitual organization of the conditioned patterns that filter your perceived reality.

In this session, you’ll:

• Deepen your understanding of the human condition — moving from self-forgetting to self-remembering
• Explore how to consciously experience the Law of Three energetically to rewire the neuropathways and interrupt the automatic placement of attention according to the fixated beliefs you hold
• Observe live representations of Type 8, 9, and 1 Instinctual or Body Center on a panel with facilitation of the somatic inquiry method
• Give the panel feedback and explore questions of what arose in participants during the panel

Fully realizing a sustained inner experience of your essential nature will set you free — and allow you to be in this world with a free choice in how and where you place your attention.

The deep peace and release from automatic and habitual placement of attention can now be recognized and interrupted with a deep understanding of the greater reality in an unconditioned mind, heart, and body.

We will explore the journey, the commitments, and the capacity to practice conscious awareness of the identification with your conditioned type patterns based on the need to survive…

… those patterns that are carried forward through memory, thinking, imagination, and planning in your conceptual mind, defended heart, and survival strategies in your body.

Explore and reinforce the practices each pattern can choose to implement to disidentify with the patterns, interrupt them when they are not congruent with the present moment, and freely choose to place conscious attention on your essence.

In this session, you’ll:

• Receive a recap on how to reinforce the 9 different pathways toward wholeness and essence
• Take with you guidelines for the steps to turn your attention consciously to what you don’t want to feel and the obstacles
• Join classmates in breakout groups per center or type for recognition of a shared understanding of how the mental, emotional, and instinctual conditioned perceptions created a dualist view of the life we live
• Share, if compelled, deeper insights and questions with the class

The Hidden Obstacles to Transformation in Human Development
Video Interview from the Enneagram Global Summit with Marion Gilbert

The missing piece of the Enneagram Work — 9 Different Aspects of Reality — has become hidden in each Enneagram-type structure. In this video, Marion Gilbert discusses with Jessica Dibb how the type structure lies beneath and fuels the type personality behavior. The defense system is an important and necessary aspect of living in a horizontal world. And that is where the original split began. Our essence is giving us the lived experience of our spiritual nature and self-remembering.

In this guided meditation, Marion Gilbert leads you through the practice of cultivating the Inner Observer, a heightened state of awareness that allows for “received knowing” beyond intellectual knowledge. By relaxing the mind and disengaging from the habitual lenses of perception — thoughts, emotions, and sensations — you begin disidentifying with automatic survival reactions and enter a deeper, more grounded state of presence. This practice helps you objectively observe your experience and attune to subtle states of being, opening the door to spiritual awareness and intuitive insight. As the noise of ordinary consciousness recedes, you connect with a profound sense of presence and spiritual nature, fostering a deeper connection to life itself.

Resilience is a state of optimal wellbeing with the capacity to adapt, learn, heal, and recover from challenging and often overwhelming situations. In nine different ways, we have aptitudes and obstacles to access resilience. In this session from the Enneagram Global Summit, we learn how to stay present in challenging times and be receptive to all aspects of the world we live in and the people in it. We discover how to turn our attention to our reactivity, and use somatic intelligence to relax it at the root of its arising.