Inspiration
Consciousness School & Community

Essence and Relationships

A new and unique workshop
for therapists, breathworkers, coaches, spiritual teachers
and people who want to cultivate personal relationships with Essence

This ground-breaking workshop synthesizes deep and dynamic transformative practices
with the exquisite guidance of the Enneagram.

with

Jessica Dibb and Russ Hudson

Friday, April 23    7 pm - 10 pm
Saturday, April 24    9 am - 9 pm
Sunday, April 25    9 am - 6 pm


Workshop Description

At the core of the desire to heal, grow, and self-actualize is the yearning to experience Essence, the desire to be reunited with the Beloved, to experience True Self, to dwell in the Absolute. People who are called to vocations that support the growth, self-realization and self-actualization of others are able to fully assist others only when they can personally embody Essence themselves. In order to do so, they must also understand how to work through the blockages between their personality and Essence. Then they can help their students on the same journey.

The Enneagram is an extraordinarily insightful map for identifying the personality features that everyone inadvertently develops to protect themselves from the pain of separation from their Divine nature. It brilliantly explicates the compensating mechanisms we create in an attempt to prevent further pain. However, as hidden as they may be, the strivings of the ego contain within them the desire to reunite with the Absolute.

Because our personality fixation has a natural inclination for one aspect of our essential nature, it cannot access a whole experience of the Divine. This leads to distortions which adversely affect psychological development, life choices, spiritual practices, and even the choice of a spiritual path. Unless the persistence of the "invisible veil" of one's type is dissolved, even real spiritual Teachers will not be able to permanently integrate their awakenings into daily life, or truly facilitate the integration of essence with students.

This Workshop synthesizes deep transformative practices with the exquisite guidance of the Enneagram to give psycho/spiritual facilitators a more comprehensive, holistic, and radically transformative tool kit for creating and integrating psychological and spiritual breakthroughs. We will explore how a facilitator's ability to access and embody all nine domains of Essence creates a quantum shift in the capacity to support clients' and students' ability to move from average levels of personality functioning to healthy and liberated levels of personality and embodied essence.

Workshop Location

The Park School
(a beautiful private school
located on 100 acres).
2425 Old Court Rd.
Brooklandville, MD 21022
Directions / Mapquest

Hotel suggestions:
  1. Pikesville Hilton (410-653-1100)
  2. The Radisson at Cross Keys (410-532-6900)
  3. Gramercy B&B (800-553-3404)
  4. Ramada Inn in Pikesville (410-486-5600)
  Note to those who have taken the Part 1 Essence training: This workshop will move faster, spend more time in experiential work and process to deepen the facilitator's capacity to embody Essence, and introduce facilitation processes.

In the Part II Essence workshop participants will:
  1. Practice accessing and integrating all nine domains of Essence leading to embodied Essence experiences in themselves through practices such as meditation, breathwork, self-inquiry, chanting, shadow work, movement, guided journeys into Essence and deepening the ability to maintain Presence
  2. Learn about the nine pathways to accessing and integrating Essence
  3. Learn about obstacles each personality type has to experiencing and integrating Essence
  4. Learn about the Transparent Veil - the last illusory dynamic each type must dissolve to be in Essence
  5. Learn about ways each type blocks the integration of Essence into daily life
  6. Learn ways to help each type integrate breakthroughs more readily and permanently
  7. Learn particular body movements for each type to practice in order to access and integrate Essence
  8. Practice facilitation of Essence journeys with others and receive guidance from the instructors
This workshop is for serious and dedicated seekers who are also professional therapists, coaches, psycho-spiritual facilitators, or spiritual teachers; it is not for beginners or for those unfamiliar with the Enneagram or with Inner Work. Participants must have:
  1. A deep commitment to "awakening," and a sincere desire to integrate that state into their daily lives;
  2. Some prior knowledge of or experience with the Enneagram and personal type;
  3. Prior experience with personal growth work or therapeutic processes;
  4. Prior experience with spiritual practices, self-inquiry, and experiential processes;
  5. An on-going personal transformational or spiritual practice.
 

To Register

Please send a non-refundable deposit of $75, or a full payment of $375 (includes lunch on Saturday and Sunday, and a light dinner snack on Saturday) to:

Jessica Dibb
9721 Sherwood Farm Road
Owings Mills, MD 21117

Please print out the registration form and mail it with your check. We will mail confirmation information to you.

For more information please contact Jessica@inspirationcommunity.org, 410-998-9777.

Use this button to pay for the course with a credit card or a PayPal account.

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. The multidisciplinary trainings assist people in awakening and cultivating the unfolding of consciousness through all stages of life, from conception and birth through death. 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.
 
Contact | Directions | Comments

Inspiration Community, 9721 Sherwood Farm Road, Owings Mills, MD 21117
Phone: (410) 998-9777, Fax: (410) 356-8642, Email: essence@InspirationCommunity.org