Accessing and Integrating Essence

Workshop Description

This workshop will provide people with an intensive sacred space to experience and integrate:

• Non-ordinary states of consciousness
• Non-boundaried states of awareness
• Non-dualistic states of awareness
• Psychological wholeness
• Release of egoic perceptions
• Essence
• The Divine/God/Goddess…

During psychological opening and spiritual practice many people experience states of awakening such as presence, authenticity, compassion, unity, clarity, groundedness, empowerment, boundless awareness and others. Rarely are these integrated fully into ordinary consciousness. The Enneagram is an extensive map and intellectual underpinning of the territory and journey from fragmented fixated personality to psychological wholeness, self-liberation and Essence. It describes nine specific pathways each of us must practice inside ourselves in order to embody Essence fully as a human being. However, each type has characteristic ways of avoiding the fullness of true Awakening. And when we do experience Essence, each type has characteristic ways of dissipating or stealing the energy of the awakening, and using it for the ego fixation. Thus the fullness of awakened states are not integrated into daily life.

Participants will learn about nine pathways to realization and embodied Essence, the characteristic blockages to awakening and integration, and particular ways they can move through these blocks. Throughout the workshop they will guided into dynamic psychological processes and spiritual practices for opening and integrating more deeply and holistically. These practices will be attuned to the group during each day of the journey, but are likely to include things such as meditation, breathwork, movement, chanting, trance work, shadow work, self-inquiry, prayer, and presencing.

Location and Directions

The workshop will be held on the grounds at Inspiration Community, 9721 Sherwood Farm Road, Owings, Mills, MD 21117.

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1. Experiences of Essence through physical, psychological and spiritual practices
2. Practicing integration of psychological and spiritual breakthroughs more readily and more permanently
3. Deepening understanding of the Enneagram as nine pathways to self-realization
4. Unlocking deep states of awareness and presence by illuminating the central lynchpins of each enneatype’s egoic patterns
5. Practicing modalities for exploring the three intelligences – experiencing presence, wisdom and love
6. Maximizing transformation by understanding specific ways that each enneatype’s fear causes them to physically and energetically contract from the totality of psychological and spiritual breakthroughs
7. Maximizing integration of awakened states and Essence by understanding specific ways that each enneatypes’ habits dissipate these experiences

This is a workshop for serious and dedicated seekers. Participants should:

1. Have a deep commitment to Awakening/True Self and a desire to integrate that state into life
2. Have some prior knowledge or experience with the Enneagram and personal type
3. Have prior experience with personal growth work or therapeutic processes
4. Have prior experience with spiritual practices, self-inquiry and deep experiential processes
5. Preferably have an on-going transformational and/or spiritual practice

To Register

Please send a non-refundable deposit of $75, or a full payment of $375 (lunch included) to:

Jessica Dibb
9721 Sherwood Farm Rd
Owings Mills, MD 21117

Please print out the registration form and mail it with your check. We will mail confirmation information to you. Please include a brief description of your experience with spiritual practices, therapy and personal growth workshops.

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The Workshop Leaders

JESSICA DIBB is founder and director of Inspiration Community, Inc., an integral Consciousness School, dedicated to promoting personal, relational and planetary wellness. She is also the Co-Director of the International Breathwork Training Alliance, Co-Chair of the International Breathwork Foundation's Integrity Committee, and a Founding member of Ken Wilber's Integral Institute. Over the past 21 years she has developed a unique, highly-integrated model of psycho-spiritual healing and growth which supports people's self-actualization. This multi-dimensional approach includes the Enneagram, Breathwork, psycho-dynamic principles, eclectic spiritual practices, movement and wisdom teachings from several lineages. She designed and has taught a five year training program in Psycho-Spiritual Facilitation and Breathwork since 1984, and teaches internationally.

RUSS HUDSON is one of the principal scholars and innovative thinkers in the Enneagram world today. He is the co-author with Don Richard Riso of the best-selling books The Wisdom of the Enneagram, Personality Types (Revised Edition), Understanding the Enneagram (Revised Edition), and Discovering Your Personality Type (Revised Edition). Russ is the Executive Director of the Enneagram Institute and has been co-teaching the Riso-Hudson Enneagram Professional Training Programs since 1991. He is also a Founding Director and former Vice-President of the International Enneagram Association. He holds a degree in East Asian Studies from Columbia University in New York, from which he graduated Phi Beta Kappa. He lives in Manhattan and teaches in Europe, Japan, China, South Africa, South America, Australia and throughout the United States.