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.

Three Essential Forces in a Well-Lived Life
Oct
18

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 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.

Location: Zoom

Date and time: Oct 18, 12:30pm-3:30pm MST

(2:30pm-5:30pm EST / 19:30-22:30 GMT)

Registration: $65

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What Are You Resisting? (Intentional Living Circle)
Nov
10

What Are You Resisting? (Intentional Living Circle)

What do you tend to push away, avoid, or resist? Using the Enneagram, we’ll explore the patterns behind our resistance and what might become possible when we meet what we resist with greater curiosity and openness.

Description: Each Enneagram type has particular things it tends to resist. Sometimes we resist certain feelings, experiences, ways of being, or aspects of life that feel uncomfortable, threatening, or contrary to the way we believe things should be. When we automatically push something away, we also close ourselves off from what that experience has to offer.

In this Intentional Living Circle, we will explore what each Enneagram type tends to resist and how these patterns show up in our own lives. Rather than trying to overcome or eliminate our resistance, let’s approach it with curiosity and gentleness. What are we resisting? What might be underneath that resistance? See what becomes possible when we stop fighting with the experience and allow ourselves to meet it more fully.

Through reflection and discussion, you will have an opportunity to recognize your own patterns of resistance and explore new ways of working with them. By making more space for what we habitually push away, we can create greater openness and freedom in moving through life.

This Intentional Living Circle event is part of Connecting You with Your Self (CYWY), a free online community that has been gathering since 2006. Join multi-level yoga classes, a grief support group, energy alignments, and more. Intentional Living Circles like this focus on Enneagram teachings that invite self-discovery.

The most important relationship you have is the one with your Self. Learn more about CYWY at www.connectingyouwithyourself.com

Date and time: Nov 10, 7pm - 9pm MST / 9pm - 11pm EST

Cost: Free

Join Online: RSVP on Meetup or contact Sophia at sophia@essentialwholeness.life for details.

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Intentional Living Circle - Topic TBD
Dec
8

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 Your Self (CYWY), a free online community that has been gathering since 2006. Come for multi-level yoga classes, a grief support group, energy alignments, and more. Intentional Living Circles like this focus on Enneagram teachings that invite self-discovery.

The most important relationship you have is the one with your Self. Learn more about CYWY at www.connectingyouwithyourself.com

Cost: Free

Date and time: Dec 8, 7pm - 9pm MST / 9pm - 11pm EST

Join Online: RSVP on Meetup or contact Sophia at sophia@essentialwholeness.life for details.

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America as a Type 3: Living in a Culture Under Stress (Intentional Living Circle)
Sep
8

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.

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Navigating Polarities: Wisdom in the Tension Between Opposites
Aug
26

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.

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Intentional Living Circle - Beyond the Ideal Self
May
12

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/

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How We Relate: Object Relations Triads
Jan
6

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.)

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How We Move Through the World: Enneagram Stances
Nov
18

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.

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Navigating Polarities: Wisdom in the Tension Between Opposites
Nov
5

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.

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Three Ways of Coping: Enneagram Types Under Stress
Nov
4

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.

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Seeing Ourselves through Enneagram Triads
Oct
14

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.

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