Fostering An Integral Vision For The World

Winter Session for Sixes: Advanced Enneagram Group

THIS CLASS IS  NOW CLOSED.

Last summer, we did a Summer Session for Sixes and out of that, there came a request for more.  There was a collective feeling in the group that “we had only just begun.”

This class is a response to this request.

Transformation requires a deep desire to “wake up” from our habitual trance and a certain readiness to go inside of ourselves to do the challenging…and ultimately life giving work….of letting go of the tenacious resistance to change. It invites us into a more vulnerable place inside of ourselves.

For Sixes, this invites a movement from doubt to a deep, embodied sense of faith.

Beginning in January, we will do a 6 week session for Enneagram type Sixes.

When:  February 8,15, 22 and March 1, 8, & 15

Time: 7-9

Where: A Spiritual Direction center in Oakley (location will be given upon registration)

Cost: $185

Facilitator: Leslie Hershberger, MA

Core Topics:

• The Three Instinctual Subtypes for Sixes:  Self-Preservation, Social, One on One
• Stress and Relationships (personal and professional)
• Immunity to Change; exploring your resistance to change
• How Change Happens: Awareness, Acceptance, Action, Adherence

Session Format:

• Guided Meditations created for Sixes
• Cultivating an Inner Observer
• Grounding Practices: Shifting from Mental Scanning to Relaxed Grounding; Learning to Recognize Automatic Response of Fight/Flight/Fear;  Breathing into Points of Tension
• Sharing Specific Self-Development Practices for Sixes (through using natural strengths)

In this group we will explore common themes for Sixes:

• “Amnesia” of Past Successes
• Fear/Anxiety/Doubt
• Search for Certainty
• Thinking Replaces Doing
• Ambivalence
• Vigilance, Catastrophizing (Attention to Worst Case)
• Humor
• Trust/Mistrust
• Thoughtfulness

How do you know if you are ready for this “Next Step?”

• You have completed one Enneagram workshop with Leslie or another certified teacher in the Enneagram in the Narrative Tradition OR have been in spiritual direction/therapy/coaching with an Enneagram trained teacher
• You are willing to share your experience as a Six in a safe, confidential environment
• You are ready to commit to a meditation/Centering Prayer/mindfulness practice throughout the course of the session.
• You are willing to commit to 6 Tuesday evenings (if you must be absent for a session, this is okay, but we ask that you let Leslie and the group know prior to your absence).