The Enneagram & the Tao te ching
9 Ways to Move from Fixation to Flow
A 5-week online course for people with a basic or advanced understanding of the Enneagram.
Living with flow is the aim of both the Enneagram and the Tao Te Ching. Both of these wisdom traditions are designed to free us from fixated and conditioned personalities that keep us caught in limiting patterns and perspectives.
This course is a contemplative journey into 9 themes that converge when the 9 Enneagram types are aligned with ancient wisdom from the Tao Te Ching.
Each theme is a spiritual pathway that illuminates ancient wisdom and speaks to our contemporary life-challenges. And, each theme invites us into the dynamic Enneagram that releases us from our constricted dominant type’s Fixation.
After providing an overview of the Enneagram, the Tao, and their inter-relatedness, the course will follow a contemplative process for each of the 9 themes in which there will be a presentation, silence for personal journaling, and then group reflections. We end the course by examining the spirituality that follows the flow of the inner lines, and takes us into a wholeness that weaves together all 9 types.
This course will be guided by two books:
The course books are optional but both of them are excellent. One book offers a unique perspective into the Enneagram, viewing it through the lens of the Toa Te Ching. If you enjoy studying the Enneagram, you will find this book a wonderful addition to your library. The second book is a beautiful, and highly readable, translation of the Ta Te Ching. It’s a book that should be savored and read slowly. It’s the book that I most give away to spiritual friends, and many of them tell me how this book has become an ongoing spiritual practice for them.
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Format
Five 90 minute classes that will be offered through Zoom. So, you can enjoy this course from the comfort of your couch!
Weekly on Wednesday evenings from 7:15 to 8:45 CST
From September 23rd through October 21st
Cost: $190 for the series