Introduction to the Enneagram

In this three-hour Introductory workshop we will get an overview of what the Enneagram is. We will answer questions like, what does the symbol mean? What does the information represented by the symbol mean to our spiritual unfolding? Where did the Enneagram come from? What are the nine types of the Enneagram? This workshop will be a combination of lecture, experiential exercises, meditation, and discussion/question and answer. The Enneagram is a powerful tool for spiritual growth. When we heal and grow spiritually, our relationships and personal lives heal and grow, as well as our self-leadership and community leadership capacities. When we can see clearly and compassionately how we have been unconsciously interfering with our own unfoldment, we begin to heal and truly unfold. That is what the Enneagram is for. Please join us for this rich beginning exploration of the Enneagram. We look forward to seeing you.

Our Facilitator:

Maggie Simpson-Crabaugh is an Insight Approach Certified Enneagram teacher. She received her certification with High Honors from the Enneagram Institute in New York in January, 2020. After twelve years of studying the Enneagram on her own through books and audio material, Maggie began her formal studies at the Enneagram Institute in 2012 under its co-founder (her primary teacher), Russ Hudson. Russ Hudson passionately emphasizes the spiritual work and purpose of the Enneagram in his teaching and writing. He is also one of the top teachers and developers of the Enneagram personality typology in the world today, while his books are widely considered to be groundbreaking contributions in the field of Enneagram studies.

Maggie’s personal interest and purpose in learning and teaching the Enneagram is compassionate personal and interpersonal healing through psychological understanding and spiritual growth. The Enneagram is not a spiritual path in itself. It is a phenomenal tool for supporting, informing, augmenting, even co-guiding our spiritual journeys in whatever religious or wisdom tradition we follow and practice. The Enneagram is meant to be a compassionate tool (or map) for deep psychological insight as that relates to the spiritual journey and our unfoldment. “I love it because it is brilliant, non-pathologizing, compassionate, and the learning, like all spiritual learning, goes endlessly deeper, wider, and higher if I keep using it.”

Prior to discovering and pursuing certification in the Enneagram, Maggie was a performing singer/songwriter/storyteller for twenty years. She taught a unique “performance and freedom-of-expression" class to singer/songwriters and performing poets for ten years at Planet Bluegrass’s Rocky Mountain Song School in Lyons CO., as well as a free-form, exploratory, expressive dance class called “The Movement Gallery” drawing from her four years of training at Boston University’s professional theater training program.

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