It’s an often-referred-to sentiment, particularly among those who seek an understanding of existence and how to live a meaningful life. Most people find that being here now is a powerfully transformative concept, and, when they’re able to tap into it, each moment is profoundly enhanced.
Russ Hudson & Jessica Dibb – Mastering the Foundations of the Enneagram 2022
With Renowned Enneagram Teachers
Russ Hudson & Jessica Dibb
Russ Hudson & Jessica Dibb
A 9-Module Online Video Training
Immerse yourself into the tools that will help you experience awareness from a non-fixated point of view, and awaken into higher consciousness.
You’ve likely heard the evolutionary phrase be here now.
It’s an often-referred-to sentiment, particularly among those who seek an understanding of existence and how to live a meaningful life. Most people find that being here now is a powerfully transformative concept, and, when they’re able to tap into it, each moment is profoundly enhanced.
So why don’t we live that way all the time? Why is it so challenging to live deeply in the moment — in full presence? Why do we — both personally and collectively — continue to skim over, or react to the circumstances and events of our lives, doing the same things time and again with the same disappointing results?
One central response to those questions is that many of us are unwilling or afraid to do the deep inner personal growth work to examine why we do what we do and why we respond to life in ways that don’t serve us.
And, as you may know, one potent approach to doing that work is through the wisdom of the Enneagram.
Are you ready to delve even more fully into the concepts, implications, and applications of the Enneagram — so you can really live in essence and relate with others more harmoniously using the Enneagram teachings?
We’re very excited to let you know about an extraordinary deep-dive Foundations of The Enneagram program. This 9-module 0n-demand course is taught by Russ Hudson, who, as you may know, is one of the foremost world-renowned Enneagram teachers, and Jessica Dibb, an Integrative Breathwork trainer and one of the great innovators in the Enneagram field.
This innovative training is designed to meet the perennial desire for personal awakening and being in service to others while addressing the specific challenges and promises of the 21st century.
Why Now?
If you’re reading this, perhaps you’ve already experienced how powerful and helpful the Enneagram system can be — even if you’ve only recently developed a curiosity about the teachings. You may have done some studies and read a few of the many books on the subject. Maybe you’ve even done some training but know there’s so much more to this amazing work.
On a global scale, it’s apparent that the world is in need of a collective leap in consciousness. It’s clear that the “solutions” we’re using to address national and global problems aren’t working. To create significant and sustainable change — to help us get through our collective traumas — we have to move into the cave of our own wounds and do the necessary repair work.
G.I. Gurdjieff, the man who brought the Enneagram symbol to the West, stated that its wisdom appears in the world in just such times — when a leap in spiritual consciousness is required.
Has there ever before been a more urgent time for this work?
Why Is the Enneagram Such a Potent Path for Growth?
The Enneagram’s ancient wisdom gives you a map for discovering and empowering your human purpose and possibility… and lays out a modern-day, personalized path to wholeness.
While this tool for transformation illuminates your gifts and provides a framework for our personal and spiritual evolution, it also reveals how we’re often held back by the shadow side of our personality — our own deeply rooted, unconscious patterns that are hard to see.
The Enneagram helps us dig deep into understanding our own type, and the emotional patterns that have structured (and often restricted) our lives for so long. It offers us a compassionate and objective way of holding our fears and defensive behaviors.
When we learn to meet our old, fixated patterns with understanding and kindness, our life force can be liberated to nourish the true potential of our body, heart, and mind.
The Enneagram’s insights can shed light on what may be preventing us from living harmoniously with our loved ones.
It’s a window into understanding the triggers and difficult behaviors of others, as well as ways we may be projecting our own shadow onto someone else.
It can help us cultivate a deeper sense of compassion for those around us — and for ourselves — by observing who we truly are, embracing our fears and disowned shadow side… and becoming empowered to create healthy, stable, loving relationships as we reach our own highest potential.
However, to truly benefit from the Enneagram technology in the deepest possible way, it’s important to know that our type is actually our camouflage.
The Enneagram wasn’t designed to lock us in boxes. Rather, it’s about interrelationship and development… and the relationship between our ego (or personality) and what we are as true presence, as essence.
The 9-module Mastering the Foundations of The Enneagram is designed to bring out your authentic self… without your camouflage.
During this soul-expanding course with Russ & Jessica, you’ll:
- Gain a solid understanding of the difference between personality and essence
- Dive deep into definitions of key terms and concepts, such as core suffering, passion, shadow, fixation, essence, virtues, and holy ideas
- Explore a body of practices you can use on a daily basis
- Gain a strong, unshakeable understanding and experience of the centers
- Explore and experience the concepts of balance, imbalance, dominance, and distortion of the centers
- Experience the gifts of being present with the centers on the path — grounding, kindness, and curiosity
What You’ll Discover in These 9 Modules
In this 9-module transformational intensive, Russ and Jessica will guide you through the foundations of the Enneagram and prepare you to start consciously creating an Enneagram-informed life to come into harmony with self and others.
This course will feature teachings, training sessions, and experiential practices with Russ and Jessica. Each session will build harmoniously upon the previous ones, so you’ll develop a complete holistic understanding of the practices, tools, and principles you’ll need to deepen into your inner work.
Module 1: Authentic Orientation to the Enneagram & Awakening
In this opening module, Russ and Jessica will be laying the groundwork for what you can expect during this wonderful inner journey you are about to embark upon.
You will be exploring the orientation of the Enneagram, discovering that the work is not just the nine categories of personality types. The Enneagram wasn’t designed to lock us in boxes. Instead, it’s about interrelationship, and development. It’s about the relationship between our ego, or personality, and who we truly are as presence, as essence.
During this opening module you’ll:
- Learn the true purpose of the Enneagram and orientation to life
- Explore the intelligence within each of the Three Centers
- Get grounded with a beautiful 7-minute daily presence practice
- Understand the meaning of non-fixated consciousness
- Explore the multidimensional aspects of the Enneagram
- Awaken to Personality and Essence
Module 2: Terms of the Enneagram
In this module, Russ and Jessica will explain how the basic terms fit in the schema of development. They will be providing pristine and focused explanations and definitions of key terms and concepts, such as core suffering, passion, shadow, fixation, essence, virtues, and holy ideas.
As Russ points out, for precise understanding, a precise language is needed.
During this module you’ll:
- Discover the ancient origins of the Enneagram
- Learn the key concepts and keys even, as Hameed Ali would call them, that unlock this timeless knowledge
- Explore the symbol as representing the union of what Gurdjieff called three laws, the Law of One, the Law of Three, the Law of Seven
- See how limited our perception of reality is. Only in seeing that limitation, do we open up to something bigger
- Discover the nine paths to liberated consciousness
- Gain insight into the evolutionary process
Module 3: The Body Center & Somatic Presence
In this module, you’ll be introduced to the idea of the centers — the intelligence of the body, of the heart, and of the mind — and how these apparently different aspects of our nature get integrated into a coherent and conscious whole.
Russ and Jessica will be guiding you to experience the 3 forms of human intelligence through body-based kinesthetic intelligence, heart-based emotional intelligence, and head-based cognitive intelligence. You’ll also delve into how Points Eight, Nine and One illuminate that intelligence for us.
During this module you’ll:
- Gain insight into how different parts of the body relate to the nine points
- Explore body centers of material intelligence and life force
- Experience groundedness and body presence with the Eight
- Awaken to your Inner Life and imagination with the Nine
- Discover aspects of union and balance with the One
- Feel a homecoming to your authentic self via the Nine energy
- See how your willingness to be present with what you’re feeling here and now expedites and empowers your journey into greater wholeness
Module 4: The Heart Center & Emotional Presence
In this module, you will be getting intimate with the heart, as the center that leads to true alchemy and transformation. You’ll begin to truly understand that with the blossoming of the heart, you begin to love the world as the Divine loves it.
You’ll discover how the heart empowers you with the capacity to respond instead of to react. Russ and Jessica share how there is great peace to be found in the ability to respond to life and to our inner experience versus reacting to it positively or negatively.
During this module you’ll:
- Learn about the transformative power and intelligence of the heart center
- Discover the value of the heart in each of the points
- Gain insight on The Two and connection with others
- Become aware that you are a treasure with the Three
- Relate with the depth and beauty of immersion with essence in the Four
- Find a way into the deeper mysteries of the heart, to discover authentic kindness, inherent value, and exquisite sensitivity and compassion for yourself and others
Module 5: The Head Center & Awareness Presence
In this module, you will learn that the activation of the head center is not merely coming to quiet and stillness. According to Russ, that’s the beginning, but it isn’t the ultimate destination. When the mind quiets down, the head center becomes an invisible antenna. It starts to pick up the quieter signals of wisdom. Creativity turns on. Brilliance turns on.
Through Russ and Jessica’s teachings, you’ll fall into the awareness and ability to hold greater and greater complexity, as we face the rising problems that we have in this world, and even just in our own personal lives.
During this module you’ll:
- Explore the main aspects of consciousness for different points
- Build the capacity to discern what’s real and what isn’t, what’s true and what isn’t, through point Five
- Learn how to move forward in life, and how to make decisions through the stillness and the brightness of the mind of point Six
- Begin to taste what inner freedom feels like through the essence of point Seven
- Relish in the desire to wish for the liberation, happiness and fulfillment of all
Module 6: The Levels of Development & the Hornevian Triads
In this module, Jessica and Russ will share their deep wisdom about the passions and the fixations. They’ll also be delving into the concepts of balance, imbalance, dominance, and distortion of the centers.
You’ll be exploring the levels of development, which are a measure of our capacity to be present. The higher the level, the more present we are, ergo the more free from our fixated patterns… and as we go down the levels, we become more ruled by the passion and thus more fixated in our thinking.
During this module you’ll:
- Learn about Enneagram work of Don Richard Riso and Personality Types
- Gain an understanding of the difference between personality and essence
- Explore the Hornevian triads by delving into Karen Horney’s three theories of psychology… neurotic solutions, moving against people, moving toward people and moving away from people
- See and understand how to improve your relationships, including with self
- Become aware of the fixations of the ego self
- Explore the unique combination of the centers, the types, and the triads
- Open to all 9 qualities within you, to meet each moment of life — easy or challenging, loss or gain, pain or pleasure — with wisdom, love, presence, and emergent creativity
Module 7: The Harmonic Triads & Inner Lines & Development Part 1
In this module Russ and Jessica discuss the inner lines of the Enneagram and what they mean. While these elements of the Enneagram are often discussed, their particular function and importance is not always well understood.
You’ll also be learning about each of the harmonic types as laid out by Don Richard Riso. For example, if you rang Nine like a bell, then Seven and Two would light up. This teaching helps reveal how we handle challenges and conflicts in our relationships.
During this module you’ll:
- Become aware that emotional reactions are tied to the ways we need to see ourselves
- Gain insight on the positive outlook group: Points Nine, Two, and Seven
- Understand where the emotional realism group – Points Four, Six, and Eight – are coming from
- Appreciate the value of the problem-solving group: Point One, Three and Five
- Learning about the ego and the shadow through the missing pieces – related to the concept of the holy ideas
Module 8: Inner Lines & Development Part 2
In this module Russ and Jessica talk about all the inner line movements… the inner lines do not go up or down. They’re lateral. The levels are a measure of how present we are or how identified with our personality patterns. That’s the vertical. All of the lines are compensations.
They will also teach you how to dissolve patterns of the ego (that are fundamentally defensive and reactive) without rejecting any part of yourself, so you can live in your most authentic, essential nature.
During this module you’ll:
- Explore the movement of the inner lines
- Become aware of your stress directions and survival compensations
- Learn about Integration directions and security points
- How to stop wrestling with the shadow in order to organically allow the higher side of your type to manifest
- Start moving from the false self to the true self
Module 9: Experiential Practices for the Path of Each Point
In this wrap-up module you will be provided a body of practices you can use daily to stay present and on your path of spiritual evolution.
Jessica will be introducing the concept of The Fourth Way. This is a path to awakened consciousness, using the “householder” approach to inner work in ordinary life. The good news here is that you do not need to retreat from the world to attain higher levels of consciousness and enlightenment.
During this final module you’ll:
- Discover experiential practices for the path of each point
- Experience directly all of the potential of the nine domains of the Enneagram
- Practice breathing exercises for each point
- Embodiment of the wisdom through breathwork
- Learn how to tune in to emotional awareness
- Perceive pathways and possibilities for living, for building, for healing, for transformation, for perfect self-expression and for fulfillment
- Understand how to apply the wisdom of the Enneagram to compassionately unpack layers of conditioning, of implicit and unconscious memories
The Foundations of The Enneagram Bonus Collection
3 Centers Meditation
Audio Meditation With Russ Hudson and Jessica Dibb
Your orientation to life and each moment is profoundly impacted by your ability to be present in each of the three centers — body, heart, and head. In this heart-opening session, you’ll be guided through a potent meditation that cultivates awareness and consciousness in each center and honors various gifts and capacities. As you learn to do this and to increase the communication and integration of the centers, the strengths of your type can function more radiantly — unimpeded by unconscious habits and reactions. Your gifts become infused with greater vibrancy, better enabling you to creatively participate in, and contribute to, reality.
Original Ideas Behind the Enneagram
Audio Dialogue With Russ Hudson and Cynthia Bourgeault
Cynthia Bourgeault — a modern-day mystic, Episcopal priest, writer, and internationally known retreat leader — and Russ Hudson share an extensive background in the work of George Gurdjieff… and the original ideas behind the Enneagram teachings. In this conversation, they discuss some of the roots of the system, as well as the importance of having a foundational orientation with the material. Cynthia and Russ also introduce some of the dynamic elements of the Enneagram that open its capacity to change lives.
Enneagram & Enlightenment
Audio Dialogue With Russ Hudson and A. H. Almaas (Hameed Ali)
Join A. H. Almaas (Hameed Ali), creator of the Diamond Approach to Self-Realization, as he shares powerful teachings. He’ll describe the “inner core” and “outer shell” of one type from each of the three centers. He’ll focus on the various orientations of enlightenment in both Eastern and Western traditions. He’ll also be joined by Russ to highlight the synergy of the Diamond Approach and the Enneagram… presenting the Diamond Approach as a model for using the Enneagram to do inner work.
Integrated Depth Spirituality Through the Enneagram & Grace
Video Dialogue With Jessica Dibb and Miranda Macpherson
Join with spiritual teachers and feminine mystics Miranda Macpherson and Jessica Dibb to explore possibilities for living from multidimensional consciousness and authentic spirituality in the 21st century. In this illuminating conversation, they offer insights about how to contact the mystery, relax into the luminous presence at the core, and become a more whole, loving human… by learning to embody grace with all that life brings. You’ll discover how to work with your Enneagram type to support your experience of awakening, consciousness, and the Divine.
What Graduates of Russ’ and Jessica’s Programs Are Saying…
— Beth Ronsick: “I Grew So Much, and I Grew Up a Lot”
— Emily McCay: “Jessica and Russ Have Both the Capacity and the Authentic Desire to Facilitate an Evolution in Human Consciousness”
“I sensed even from the teachers that love was unfolding…”
The timing and my readiness for this program were synchronized perfectly. I believe that was true for many. I sensed even from the teachers that love was unfolding on the spot and that even their own words were fresh to their own ears. That’s how it felt — spontaneously creative. They were matched nicely with their different gifts and orientations, each so real and down to earth that now I feel like they are old soul friends. Community is changing. I believe these kinds of programs are going to be an important way to connect and create movements of change and support. I’m very excited to have identified this and look forward to the next offering. Thank you, Shift Network, for all you do for encouraging love in the way you do. I thank you deeply for allowing me to participate with a scholarship. This has been an enormous opportunity for me to grow and give back to my community. You made a good investment in me!
— Amaranth Rose, Nayarit, Mexico
— Amaranth Rose, Nayarit, Mexico
“It helped me in my marriage, in my parenting, in my whole outlook on life…”
For me this program opened up so many barriers I had put up around me — barriers that I was not even aware of. It helped me in my marriage, in my parenting, in my whole outlook on life — to not see the universe and everyone as if they are against me, but all as love (not just me…)! I’ve seen a glimpse of how my life could be and everybody else’s if we are willing to let go of all our illusions or ego-patterns and live our true nature — love! It was life changing. Thanks again.
— Wilma Enslin-Geyser, Stellenbosch, South Africa
— Wilma Enslin-Geyser, Stellenbosch, South Africa
“… I received enormous moral and spiritual support from the faculty and the rest of the students.”
For decades I have only delved superficially into the Enneagram. I also had a lot of doubt about my ability to give or receive love. I learned a tremendous amount about both of these things; but more importantly, I received enormous moral and spiritual support from the faculty and the rest of the students. It was an expensive, but also extensive [learning experience], and perhaps the best investment I could have made!
— Chuck Riley, Charles Town, West Virginia
— Chuck Riley, Charles Town, West Virginia
“I have never witnessed such heartfelt emotional and intellectual synergy among faculty.”
With each session I was blown away by the expertise, openness, varied perspectives, and personal experiences. I have never witnessed such heartfelt emotional and intellectual synergy among faculty. This program is so full of wisdom, insights, and valuable information. I enthusiastically recommend it and will be revisiting again and again.
— Jeanne Bartlemay, Bellevue, Washington
— Jeanne Bartlemay, Bellevue, Washington
“I came away from each session feeling more loving, more loved — in short, a better version of myself.”
This programme pulls together in a very practical way ideas on love, being love, knowing and removing your obstacles to love, etc. with the Enneagram. What I particularly enjoy is the many lenses and facets of life to which both love and the Enneagram could be applied — leadership, forgiveness, trauma, etc. I came away from each session feeling more loving, more loved — in short, a better version of myself.
— Emma Pearson, Sergy, France
— Emma Pearson, Sergy, France
“This course has taught me a whole new definition of what love is…”
This course has taught me a whole new definition of what love is and how I can bring and be love in this troubled world.
— Pauline Laurent, Santa Rosa, California
— Pauline Laurent, Santa Rosa, California
“We were guided with kindness and authenticity on a deep and experiential journey…”
This was a life-changing course and experience. We were guided with kindness and authenticity on a deep and experiential journey into our own hearts and the many ways we connect to the world. So grateful for it.
— Hanaa, Canada
— Hanaa, Canada
“… brought peace and hope to me during this unprecedented time.”
This program allowed me to explore the Enneagram more deeply and to solidify my personality type. It also created an openness to face the growth patterns that I need to walk in to become my healthy self. I experienced love for myself and others through the class by tightening my awareness to my “wake-up call” to lead me to my essential nature of unity, wholeness, peace, and love. Isn’t that what we all have a desire for as we live and interact on this planet? The benefit of sharing with others in break-out rooms increases your awareness of the good in the world. The interaction with people from all walks of life, countries, and cultures brought together in unity because of LOVE brought peace and hope to me during this unprecedented time. That we can be united through LOVE.
— Chris, Omaha, Nebraska
— Chris, Omaha, Nebraska
“Every lesson hit home with direct relevance to my life.”
Every lesson hit home with direct relevance to my life. Continuously surprised by how well thought out each lecture was.
— Matthew Marcy Bluemont, Virginia
— Matthew Marcy Bluemont, Virginia
Here’s What You’ll Receive
Nine 90-Minute Video Modules With Russ Hudson and Jessica Dibb
Experience a unique opportunity to learn from renowned Enneagram teachers Russ Hudson and Jessica Dibb — online, from the comfort of your own home. Each pre-recorded class session includes a video teaching and guides you to discover specific skills and abilities to immerse yourself in an interdisciplinary, comprehensive training of rigorous academics and experiential practices… to awaken consciousness in human life.
Nine PDF Transcripts of Class Modules
In addition to the high-quality videos and MP3 audios, you’ll also receive the entire class transcription in PDF format with each module. You can then review, print, and highlight the most important insights and practices you were given.
Exercises and Questions for Each Module
Between modules, you’ll have the option of completing related exercises, practicing new tools, and answering questions to accelerate your learning and integrate each module’s lesson.
The Foundations of The Enneagram Bonus Collection
- 3 Centers Meditation
Audio Meditation With Russ Hudson and Jessica Dibb - Original Ideas Behind the Enneagram
Audio Dialogue With Russ Hudson and Cynthia Bourgeault - Enneagram & Enlightenment
Audio Dialogue With Russ Hudson and A. H. Almaas (Hameed Ali) - Integrated Depth Spirituality Through the Enneagram & Grace
Video Dialogue With Jessica Dibb and Miranda Macpherson
An Unprecedented Opportunity to Join Mastering the Foundations of the Enneagram Video Training
We feel honored that Russ Hudson and Jessica Dibb have chosen to partner with The Shift Network to offer this exclusive online training. This is a unique opportunity to learn from renowned Enneagram teachers whose powerful insights and pioneering work are helping us heal and awaken ourselves and our world.
If you’re serious about immersing yourself into a deep dive on the foundations of the Enneagram system and doing the intense inner work necessary for personal and global transformation, we hope you’ll consider taking this one-of-a-kind training. Russ and Jessica are deeply honored to journey with anyone who feels this level of calling and commitment
If you’re ready to take the next step in evolving yourself, click the purchase button below to start the journey.
Course Features
- Lectures 0
- Quizzes 0
- Duration 10 weeks
- Skill level All levels
- Language English
- Students 0
- Assessments Yes
