Foundation Programme
Our Foundation Programme offers a powerful introduction to personal and relational transformation. You’ll explore your own Enneagram type patterns while learning to witness and support others in theirs, deepen your understanding of the 3 core instincts and how they show up as subtypes, and gain practical experience of inner development work - learning how to loosen habitual patterns and access your higher qualities.
Foundation Programme
This programme forms the basis for all our courses; it is delivered face to face, in 3 modules: the 5-day Intensive Growth Journey; the 3-day Deepening Spiritual Awareness training and the 3-day Instincts and Subtypes training. (11 days total training.)
The Foundation Programme will give you:
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A deeper understanding of yourself, and compassion for others.
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A firm grounding in the psychological Enneagram, which you will need if you want to train to use it with other people.
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The required basis for undertaking the professional qualification programmes we provide.
Who this is For:
Men, women, young, old, experienced and inexperienced with the Enneagram; teachers, trainers, managers, coaches, counsellors, mediators, therapists, pastoral workers, social workers and many people on their own spiritual path have all found the Foundation Programme profoundly helpful.
The Foundation Programme is not a qualification; its focus is on your own personal development, which is essential if you wish to work with others using the Enneagram.
You can start your Foundation Programme journey with either the Intensive or the Instincts and Subtypes training. However, you must complete the Intensive before you can attend Deepening Spiritual Awareness.
You will receive a certificate of attendance, the CPD value of which is 94.5 hours of contact time.
The Intensive Growth Journey
This 5-day, in-depth, experiential development journey elegantly interweaves short theoretical pieces, interactive exercises, panel interviews and personal exploration.
The Course Programme:
The Intensive Growth Journey will help you:
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deepen your insight into the psychology of the nine types, and explore your own patterns
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learn about the defence mechanisms, limiting patterns of reactive behaviour and developmental growth paths
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learn skills and practices to reflect on, identify and take your next steps.
Many of our trainees choose to attend this training more than once and some many times, because they find it so powerful.
What you'll gain from attending:
This work offers profound self-knowledge and self-understanding, alongside growing compassion for and appreciation of yourself and others. You’ll develop essential skills such as self-observation, self-reflection, and self-management, while making progress in recognising and relaxing your ego-pattern.
This supports more sustainable, satisfying, and effective relationships - both in your personal life and at work. You’ll move towards being more present, conscious, grounded, and confident, experiencing greater happiness, freedom, fulfilment, and effectiveness. It also provides the solid foundation required if you wish to undertake further professional training with the Enneagram.
The Intensive Growth Journey has a CPD value of 43.5 contact hours.
"This programme created a uniquely safe but dynamic learning space. I grew in self-compassion and deepened my understanding of others."
- Alex Drew, Charity Director and Coach
Deepening Spiritual Awareness
This 3-day course follows on from the Intensive and provides an effective toolkit for continuing your personal development journey.
The Course Programme:
During the course you will learn practices and concepts which can help you to:
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lessen the compulsion of your type mechanism so as to give yourself more freedom to respond to life
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find alternative ways of being, using the wisdom of the other types, the wings and the arrows etc.
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identify ongoing inner work for your personal development
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gain the support of others who are also on this journey
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and find practices which work for you to help you transcend your type pattern and access your higher self.
What you'll gain from attending:
This workshop is slightly more retreat-like than the other two; we introduce different ways of working with your type patterns as they come up, giving you a rich tool box of practices to choose from. You will have plenty of time to reflect on these practices, both on your own and in pairs or groups. It takes our work together to the next level, enabling you to dig deeper into your type patterns and helping you identify which practices you want to take forward with you on your journey.
Deepening Spiritual Awareness has a CPD value of 25.5 contact hours.
Hear from a past student of our
Deepening Spiritual Awareness course:
Instincts and Subtypes
According to where we instinctively put most of our energy, our Enneagram type can show up very differently in the world, so people with the same Enneagram type but different dominant survival instincts – whether self-preservation, one-to-one (sexual) or social – can appear very different.
The blending of the dominant instinct with the type creates the subtype. This course will help you to understand how your subtype plays out and to learn to manage it so as to bring a better balance into your life. Understanding differences in subtype focus helps to improve relationships significantly.
The Course Programme
The Instincts and Subtypes course is unlike most other training courses on the Subtypes. We not only focus on the theory of all 27 Subtypes and the knowledge and insights you can gain, but also on practical ways in which you can work with this for yourself and with others.
What you'll gain from attending:
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insight and understanding about why you tend to be overly concerned with one domain and neglect another
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what this gives you and what it costs you
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improved understanding of your work and, particularly, personal relationships
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how to take action to engage all three instincts and the benefits this brings
Instincts and Subtypes has a CPD value of 25.5 contact hours.
"Nothing compared to the depth of learning that came through live, shared vulnerability. I left with a deeper understanding of myself, others, and the wisdom at the heart of the Enneagram."
- Christine, Retired Teacher of Psychology
