Upcoming events
Note: Events are held online unless otherwise specified. Times are in Mountain Standard Time (MST). For help converting to your time zone, here’s a time zone converter.
Peaceful and Wrathful Deities of the Enneagram, a Buddhist Perspective
Explore the Enneagram through a Buddhist lens, examining the Peaceful and Wrathful Deities associated with each point and how these energies can help you wake up and experience life with more presence.
America as a Type 3: Living in a Culture Under Stress (Intentional Living Circle)
Explore what it means to live in a culture shaped by the qualities of Enneagram Type 3 in the USA, especially when those qualities are under stress. We will look at how this affects us individually and collectively, and explore how we can respond in ways that support greater well-being in ourselves, our communities, and America.
Intentional Living Circle - Topic TBD
At each Intentional Living Circle, information on a particular topic is discussed, with time for personal reflection and conversation. We talk about themes related to the enneagram, and sometimes other personal growth tools. The topic for this date will be added once it’s available.
This Intentional Living Circle event is part of Connecting You with Yourself (CYWY).
Cost: Free
Join Online: RSVP on Meetup or contact Sophia at sophia@essentialwholeness.life for details.
Three Essential Forces in a Well-Lived Life
What helps us feel grounded and supported? What creates a sense of belonging and connection? What brings passion, vitality, and aliveness to our lives?
The instincts are among the most powerful and least understood dimensions of the Enneagram. In this experiential workshop, we'll explore the three instincts as fundamental forces that are active in every person. The self-preservation instinct supports well-being, sustainability, and our relationship with resources. The social instinct supports connection, belonging, participation, and contribution. The attraction/passion instinct supports energetic attraction, intimacy, intensity, creation, and aliveness.
Together, we will:
Explore how these instincts show up in everyday life
Learn to recognize them through embodied experience
Examine the ways they influence our life
Choose new ways to engage with them
Along the way, we'll clarify common misconceptions and develop a richer, more nuanced understanding of what the instincts are and how they operate.
Rather than focusing solely on identifying a dominant instinct or subtype, this workshop invites you to explore your relationship with all three instincts and consider how to engage with each for a more balanced, meaningful, and fully-lived life.
Whether you're new to the Enneagram or have studied it for years, you'll gain practical insight into the instincts and discover ways to work with them more consciously in support of personal growth, spiritual development, and the expression of your soul's unique purpose.
This workshop will be online over Zoom.
Intentional Living Circle - Topic TBD
At each Intentional Living Circle, information on a particular topic is discussed, with time for personal reflection and conversation. We talk about themes related to the enneagram, and sometimes other personal growth tools. The topic for this date will be added once it’s available.
This Intentional Living Circle event is part of Connecting You with Yourself (CYWY).
Cost: Free
Join Online: RSVP on Meetup or contact Sophia at sophia@essentialwholeness.life for details.
Navigating Polarities: Wisdom in the Tension Between Opposites
Not every challenge is a problem to be solved. Some are polarities to be managed. We’ll explore how seemingly opposing forces (like structure and flexibility, independence and connection, action and rest) can form a dynamic system rather than a conflict with a “right” side. Instead of choosing one and eliminating the other, we’ll explore how to move wisely between both poles to access the strengths of each.
Love & Understanding: Seeing Through Each Other’s Eyes (Intentional Living Circle)
Explore how personality shapes how we seek connection, express love, and relate to one another. By understanding where you and your partner are coming from, you can navigate differences more effectively and build a deeper, more meaningful connection.
Intentional Living Circle - From Awareness to Transformation
What if growth didn't require fighting with yourself? The 5 A's offer a practical and compassionate approach for creating more awareness and opening the door to lasting change.
Intentional Living Circle - Fear and Reward: The Chemistry Behind Your Personality
Explore the roles of cortisol, adrenaline, dopamine, and serotonin through the lens of personality. Reflect on how these chemicals interact with each type's desires, fears, and self-image, and how greater awareness can support healthier patterns and more skillful responses to life.
Intentional Living Circle - What You’re Not Seeing: Blind Spots and the Enneagram
Explore the blind spots of each Enneagram type and the questions that can help bring them into awareness. Through reflection and discussion, we will discover what we may be missing and how seeing it can open more self awareness and new possibilities for growth.
Intentional Living Circle - Understanding Our Emotional Habits
Learn how your habits around difficult emotions may be helping or hurting you, and explore practical ways to relate to feelings with more wisdom and intention.
Intentional Living Circle - A Seat at the Table: Beyond Self-Rejection
What if growth is not about rejecting your habitual patterns, but learning to relate to them differently? Explore how to work with difficult habits and reactions without either fighting them or letting them run your life.
Intentional Living Circle - Buddhist Perspective: Peaceful and Wrathful Deities of the Enneagram
Explore the Enneagram through a Buddhist lens, examining the Peaceful and Wrathful Deities associated with each point and how these energies can help you wake up and experience life with more presence.
Intentional Living Circle - Beyond the Ideal Self
Each Enneagram type strives to embody a specific image ideal. It shapes how we live, our values and strengths, but also our blind spots. Exploring and questioning this image can open the door to more freedom and self-understanding.
Description: Each Enneagram type carries an ideal image, a sense of the kind of person you want to be. This ideal can be inspiring, shaping your strengths and the ways you contribute to the world. It gives you direction and meaning.
At the same time, this image can become restrictive. When it turns into something you feel you must live up to, it can create pressure, triggers, blind spots, and a sense of falling short. Parts of your experience that do not fit the image may be overlooked or be subject to an inner critic.
In this Intentional Living Circle, we will explore the image ideal of each Enneagram type and how it shows up in your life. You will have space to reflect on what you resonate with and how this image shapes your life and sense of self.
We will also gently challenge these ideals by exploring where they do not fully hold true and what they means for you. By loosening your grip on the image, you open space for more flexibility, honesty, and a fuller experience of who you are.
This Intentional Living Circle event is part of Connecting You with Yourself (CYWY).
Cost: Free
Meetup Event: https://www.meetup.com/meetup-group-calgxpkd/events/314663801/
The Enneagram in Groups: Personality Traits, Stress, and Blind Spots (Intentional Living Circle)
Did you know you can apply personality typing to groups? Join us to explore group strengths, stress patterns, and blind spots, and discover practical ways to help groups function more effectively.
Turning Toward Each Other: Enneagram for Navigating Conflict (Intentional Living Circle)
Explore how each Enneagram type approaches conflict, where they are coming from, and how to work with these patterns so disagreements can lead to clarity, understanding, and stronger relationships.
Wisdom for These Challenging Times: How the Enneagram Can Help
When the world feels uncertain and overwhelming, how we respond matters. This workshop uses the deeper wisdom of the Enneagram symbol as a guide for staying grounded, acting with integrity, and navigating challenges with clarity and resilience.
Longing at the Core: Understanding What Drives You (Intentional Living Circle)
Each Enneagram type is driven by a core desire that fuels both its greatest strengths and its biggest struggles. We will explore how these basic desires shape our lives and how to work with yours in a healthier, more freeing way.
Awareness Before Reactivity (Intentional Living Circle)
Learn to recognize the “wake-up call” of your Enneagram type, early signs you may be slipping into less healthy patterns, and how to respond with greater awareness and care.
Lessons from Nine Different Perspectives (Intentional Living Circle)
An exploration of how each type’s emotional patterns create suffering and how the Virtues help us find relief and allow our natural gifts to emerge.
From Passion to Virtue: Freeing the Heart
An exploration of how each type’s emotional patterns create suffering and how the Virtues help us find relief and allow our natural gifts to emerge.
Letting Life In: Receiving What Actually Nourishes You
Explore what each Enneagram type is seeking, how its habitual strategy can get in the way, and how to truly receive what you long for.
Living Your Core Values in 2026
Reconnect with your core values and align your life with what matters to you most going into 2026.
How We Relate: Object Relations Triads
The Enneagram’s Object Relations triads show three ways we relate to others to get our needs met. We will look at how each type expresses its pattern and reflect on how they show up in us. (First in a two part series on Object Relations, come to either or both.)
Working With Triggers Through Object Relations
Object Relations helps us see how present triggers connect to past stories. Reflect on recent examples that activated us and learn practical tools for working with future triggers. (Second in a two part series on Object Relations, come to either or both.)
Widening the Field: Using Harmony Triads for Balance and Growth
The Harmony Triads show how each type can tap into all three centers of intelligence, life-energies, and emotional regulation styles. Learn to move beyond the limits of your core type to access a broader range of strengths and perspectives.
How We Move Through the World: Enneagram Stances
The Enneagram’s Hornevian triads (or stances) show three ways of moving through the world: toward, against, and away. Explore how each type expresses its stance and how awareness of these patterns can bring insight to the ways we connect, assert, and create space in relationships.
Navigating Polarities: Wisdom in the Tension Between Opposites
Not every challenge is a problem to be solved. Some are polarities to be managed. We’ll explore how seemingly opposing forces (like structure and flexibility, independence and connection, action and rest) can form a dynamic system rather than a conflict with a “right” side. Instead of choosing one and eliminating the other, we’ll explore how to move wisely between both poles to access the strengths of each.
Three Ways of Coping: Enneagram Types Under Stress
Discover how the Enneagram’s harmonic triads reveal three distinct ways of coping with life’s challenges. Explore how each type uses its style to regulate emotion, what strengths and limits come with it, and how understanding these patterns can open space for choice, connection, and compassion.
Head, Heart, and Body Types: Exploring the Centers of Intelligence
Explore how the Enneagram’s three centers of intelligence, the body, heart, and head, shape the way you experience the world. We will look at how each type relates to its center, the themes that emerge from each, and the core emotion that influences behavior and perception.
Rising and Falling: The Whole Spectrum of Type
Explore the high and low sides of the Enneagram points and learn how awareness can help you shift when unhealthy expressions of personality show up.
Seeing Ourselves through Enneagram Triads
Explore the Enneagram through its many triads and discover how shared patterns of feeling, relating, and responding shape your experience. This conversation offers space for reflection, connection, and new insight into the rhythms that live within us all.
What Each Type Seeks and How We Get in the Way
What each Enneagram type is truly seeking and how habitual patterns can get in the way. Gain insight and tools to recognize these patterns and open more fully to what is already available in your life.
Enneagram and the Process of Transformation
Explore how the Enneagram maps the cycle of change and reveals the “shock points” that call us to take the next step in growth.
Unmasking Identity: A Journey Beyond Who We Think We Are
Explore how your identity is shaped — and what becomes possible when you release it. A fresh, Enneagram-informed look at ego, essence, and the freedom of not needing to be who you've always been.