Jessica Dibb – The Enneagram of Essence

Jessica Dibb – The Enneagram of Essence

Discover a New Experiential Path Into the Greatest Spiritual Gifts of the Enneagram.
Fully Embody Your Sacred Essence and Access Profound Presence, Unconditional Love and Unshakeable Joy.

As someone on a spiritual path, you probably have a sense of a loving presence, creative force or higher consciousness…

You may have an intimate connection with this energy. Or perhaps you’ve only felt its presence fleetingly in the awesome power of the ocean tide, a beautiful work of art, or your beloved’s eyes.

Sacred. Divine. God. Source. Spirit. The One… however you experience this loving presence working in your life, it is your essence, the Divine uniquely expressed in YOU.

It’s ever-evolving into a higher expression — transforming you, your relationships and the world around you.

9 Spiritual Gifts on the Path of Depth Awakening

If you’ve worked with the Enneagram, you know the transformation that’s possible… and you’ve had a small taste of the spiritual gifts.

This is only a beginning.

The Enneagram is one of the most direct paths to accessing your true essence and indwelling divinity…

The 9 Essential Qualities are the ultimate spiritual gifts and learning how to embody them creates what world-renowned teacher Jessica Dibb calls a “depth awakening.”

Liberating, intimate and truly profound, depth awakening spans consciousness and unconsciousness, uniting you with the One, the Beloved, Source. Your essence naturally flows into your life, bringing more depth and love to your relationships, more creativity to your work and more joy to your daily activities.

Reconciling Both the Shadow and Light of Your Type

Yet, depth awakening is not only a journey of love and light. It requires that you courageously recognize and hold the polarities within you, embracing both the light and dark — aspects in yourself you accept and admire and those you reject, resent or judge.

The Enneagram provides the perfect guide for this journey.

It serves as a multidimensional blueprint of every aspect of your being… from your fears and fixations to your most admirable characteristics. From painful blind spots that separate you from others and your higher Self, to the unique gifts you have to contribute to the world.

Reconciling the fixations and shadow with the higher aspects of your type can be challenging, even painful as the ego surrenders its defenses to something much more luminous and loving.

For example, a Type 2, known as the “Giver,” may be sensitive and caring, intuitive and generous. Yet, this type may unwittingly neglect their inner life, prioritizing pleasing others over their own needs. This self-rejection can continue for a lifetime, unless the 2 can see — and embrace — the shadow and blindspots.

Doing so allows authentic love and responsiveness, the spiritual gifts of this type, to emerge and flower.

Is Unconditional Love Really Possible?

Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution.— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Have you been taught unconditional love is the result of being a conscious, spiritual human being?

The reality is, that even when we meet our perfect partner, our soulmate or when we’re in our zone of genius or dream job… there’s still work to do.

Really loving another as they are (and allowing yourself to BE loved) can be extremely challenging, even impossible… until you’ve engaged in the deep work of embracing ALL of you, especially the shadow aspects.

In doing so, you begin to see yourself and others beyond the defenses of type and the filter of your own patterns and core wounding. You no longer relate out of reaction or resistance to what you’re experiencing, want to feel, or need to feel… but from your essence, a unique and necessary expression of LOVE itself.

And unconditional love simply flows…

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Integrating the Sacred in Your Daily Life

Many great mystics and other beings throughout history have been inspired by direct experience with the sacred… the Divine… the mystery, which is the energy at the core of everything.

You, too, have the capacity to realize a direct relationship with the Sacred, and the Enneagram provides a path.

As a result of psychological openings and spiritual practice, many people experience states of awakening such as boundless awareness, compassion, union and many others. However, rarely are these states of “self realization” integrated fully into ordinary consciousness and daily life.

Until now… The Enneagram of Essence

Over 26 sessions with Enneagram “depth” teacher Jessica Dibb, who’s widely recognized for her experiential approach, you’ll discover:

• A depth interpretation of a core wound and how it creates suffering, reactive ego and shadow
• How and why the core wound is differentiated in each Enneagram Type
• The Gift of each Enneagram Type
• The awakened self-preservation instinct — the path from the drive to survive to the commitments to self-care of ourselves and our lives as sacred
• Blind spots and inertia of self-preservation instinct
• The awakened sexual instinct — the path from the drive to merge and assimilate to developing unimpeded attunement and dedication to
• Blind spots and resistance of the sexual instinct
• The awakened social instinct — the path from the drive to be protected and belong to the developing stewardship and responsiveness to ALL
• Blind spots and distortions of the social instinct
• An emerging feminine and right brain perspective and orientation to the instincts that brings in new possibilities for the transformation
• A deeper understanding of the Instincts, Virtues and Holy Ideas
• Eros and sexuality in the type
• Relational field awareness and skills — relationships and relatedness
• The particular aspect of authentic love in the type — and how to work with all of the types as your initiation into unconditional love
• Understanding and contacting the 9 Aspects of the Divine, towards a boundless and creative spirituality
• Being present to increasing complexity and richness in yourself, your vocation and other people
• The gifts of the type in global and stewardship of the planet and working collectively with others

What you’ll learn in The Enneagram of Essence

The Enneagram of Essence sessions are on Thursdays at 5:00pm Pacific.

This advanced, groundbreaking course with Jessica Dibb, one of the world’s most skilled depth teachers, synthesizes transformative, experiential practices with the exquisite guidance of the Enneagram.

During The Enneagram of Essence, you’ll receive never-before-shared insights, techniques and processes designed to activate your depth awakening and build a truly sacred life.

You’ll learn about about, and practice, the nine pathways to realization and embodied Essence, working in particular ways with characteristic blockages of the types.

Each weekly, LIVE session will build harmoniously upon the next, so that you’ll develop a complete holistic understanding of the practices, tools and principles you’ll need to embody and sustain this profound awakening.

Note: Sessions begin March 23 and run through November 2 and dates are subject to change occasionally. There are breaks built into the schedule where you will occasionally have a week off to absorb the material you are discovering.

Module 1: The Builder, Materials & Architecture of a Sacred Life (2 Sessions)

Life is sacred, that is to say, it is the supreme value, to which all other values are subordinate. — Albert Einstein

Who is the builder of a sacred life? Is it ourselves doing the deep inner work that transmutes the fixated ego into presence and the flowered gifts of our soul? Is it Essence itself, and we just need to relax and surrender? What is the intersection between effort and surrender, between personal development and egolessness?

And what are the materials needed for a sacred life? Is it the prima materia, a genuine numinosum, a holy, psychic/spiritual substance which allows us to consciously experience both the light and dark sides of Essence/God within ourselves?

And what architecture can be revealed that can guide us that we can consciously partner with? From Newtonian to Quantum, from Cartesian to timelessness… What dynamics, principles, guideposts, processes and practices can we discover — within and without — to which we can consciously awaken and align? And how can we consciously partner with them to build power and capacity, without becoming attached to any one design that might limit the experience of the unique “burning bush” that each of us is in our direct contact with Love, Infinity, Essence, the Divine?

The first module will lay the foundations for this new approach to depth awakening. Embodying a sacred life requires stabilizing our attention to, our love for and our embodiment of the meeting point of essence and the present moment. Your awakened journey is then generated through each breath you take.

Over two sessions, Jessica Dibb will cover topics that provide a platform for contacting the builder, the prima materia, and the design and pathways for embodying Essence and experiencing a sacred life.

In Session 1 of the first module, you’ll discover and explore:

• A depth interpretation of a core wound and how it creates suffering, reactive ego and shadow
• How and why the core wound is differentiated in each Enneagram Type
• Basic understandings and definitions of the personal developmental journey, Inner Work and ways you can “build” your Self
• The Instincts — the higher or awakened somatic capacities
• The Virtues — the higher or awakened heart
• The Holy Ideas — the higher or awakened intellect
• The Gift of each Enneagram Type
• The great work which goes against one’s nature, Carl Jung’s opus contra naturam
• Dynamism, the Missing Piece, the Transparent Veil and Essence of Enneagram Types

In Session 2 of the first module, you’ll explore:

• Illuminating issues of self-care in Enneagram Types
• Eros and sexuality in Enneagram Types
• What the Enneagram teaches us about the relational field, relationships and relatedness
• The 9 Aspects of Authentic Love — and how to work with all of the types as your initiation into unconditional love
• Communication — speaking and listening with all types
• How the Enneagram can support you in being present to increasing complexity and richness in yourself, your vocation, other people and the world
• Understanding and contacting the 9 Aspects of the Divine — towards a boundless, creative spirituality
• How the Enneagram can contribute to being a 21st century global citizen and steward of the planet

Module 2: Building, Nourishing & Developing the Vehicle for a Sacred Life The Instincts, the Virtues & the Holy Ideas (3 Sessions)

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased. — Alexander Hamilton

Throughout the ages masters and teachers have talked about the potential of human beings to recognize and build a vehicle for higher consciousness within our body, heart and mind so that Essence can flow unimpeded through every aspect of our life, every breath.

The triadic intelligence of the Enneagram shows us how we can awaken, build and flower these dynamics by doing Inner Work with the higher instinctual drives (the awakened Instincts), higher emotional capacities (the Virtues), and higher intellect (the Holy Ideas). Module 2 will offer a full class on building each of these aspects.

Session 1: The Awakened Instinctual Drives for Creating a Sacred Life

In this session, you’ll discover: 

• The awakened self-preservation instinct — the path from the drive to survive to the commitments to self-care of ourselves and our lives as sacred
• Blind spots and inertia of self-preservation instinct
• The awakened sexual instinct — the path from the drive to merge and assimilate to developing unimpeded attunement and dedication to what really matters and what generates emergence
• Blind spots and resistance of the sexual instinct
• The awakened social instinct — the path from the drive to be protected and belong to the developing stewardship and responsiveness to ALL
• Blind spots and distortions of the social instinct
• An emerging feminine and right brain perspective and orientation to the instincts that brings in new possibilities for the transformation

Session 2: The Virtues: The Awakened Heart for Creating a Sacred Life

Taught With Guest Teacher Russ Hudson

In this session, you’ll:

• Explore the 9 Virtues, which can open you the deepest, qualities of your own heart
• Discover and begin to cultivate the Virtues, refining and embodying them through selfless acts of courage, unconditional love and service
• The specific relationship between the heart’s suffering, and qualities of presence and grace
• The 9 Virtues as doorways to a new kind of human community — an alternative to fear as an organizing principle

Session 3: The Holy Ideas: The Awakened Heart for Creating a Sacred Life

Taught With Guest Teacher Russ Hudson

In this session, you’ll:The Enneagram of Essence

• Explore the 9 Holy Ideas, a profound map to awakened perception and experiencing nondual reality
• Discover and begin to cultivate and refine the Holy Ideas
• Learn how to make choices aligned with liberation and higher, emergent creation
• The specific relationship between the mind’s ego fixation and the direct experience of unity of being
• The 9 Holy Ideas as doorways to a human community based on higher consciousness — an alternative to separation and fear as organizing principles

Module 3-11: The Enneagram Types Gifts, Shadows & Relationships (2 Sessions Per Module)

In modules 3-11, you’ll explore each Enneagram type in relation to gifts, shadows and relationships; awakening Essence and building a life infused with the sacred. You’ll work with your own type and the types of the people in your life, considering the gifts and shadows of each type as essential to your awakening and ability to practice unconditional love.

Each module will focus on one type and will be presented in two sessions.

The first session of each module will be both a deep didactic and experiential journey about pathways from unconscious fear and pain-driven responses of that Enneagram Type to Essence.

In Session 1 of each of the Modules 3-11, you’ll discover:

• A depth interpretation of a core wound and how it creates suffering, reactive ego and shadow
• How and why the core wound exists
• Basic understandings and definitions of the personal developmental journey, inner work and ways you can “build” your Self
• The Instincts — the higher or awakened somatic capacities
• The Virtue — the higher or awakened heart
• The Holy Idea — the higher or awakened intellect
• The Gift and healthy attributes
• The specific great work which goes against one’s nature, Carl Jung’s opus contra naturam
• Dynamism, the Missing Piece, the Transparent Veil and Essence of Enneagram Types
• The particular aspect of the Divine — the face of the Beloved
• Insightful deep transformative three-centered practices for this journey

In Session 2 of each of the Modules 3-11, you’ll discover:

• Illuminating specific issues of self-care
• Eros and sexuality in the type
• Relational field awareness and skills — relationships and relatedness
• The particular aspect of authentic love in the type — and how to work with all of the types as your initiation into unconditional love
• Video movie clip, poem or song, depicting the authentic love gift
• Understanding and contacting the 9 Aspects of the Divine, towards a boundless and creative spirituality
• Being present to increasing complexity and richness in yourself, your vocation and other people
• The gifts of the type in global and stewardship of the planet and working collectively with others.

Module 3: Journeying With the Inexhaustible Power & Vitality of Essence A Life of Sacred Empowerment & Vibrant Presence (The Awakened Eight in All of Us)

The miracle is not to walk on the water, but to walk on the green earth, dwelling deeply in the present moment and feeling truly alive.— Thich Nhat Hanh

Module 4: Journeying With the Unending Peace & Being of Essence A Life of Sacred Acceptance & Unity (The Awakened Nine in All of Us)

You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean — Alan W. Watts

Module 5: Journeying With the Eternal Blessedness of Essence A Life of Sacred Alignment & Right Action (The Awakened One in All of Us)

There are no unsacred places; there are only sacred places and desecrated places. — Wendell Berry

Module 6: Journeying With the Boundless Love & the Nectar of Essence A Life of Sacred Responsiveness & Unconditional Love (The Awakened Two in All of Us)

Whatever happens or doesn’t, a presence is helping. — Rumi

Module 7: Journeying With the Inestimable Radiance & Glory of Essence A Life of Sacred Value & Emergent Functioning (The Awakened Three in All of Us)

And everything we now can accomplish will seem derisory to us when the powers of our divine nature flower in glory and act through us — Iqbal

Module 8: Journeying With the Unbounded Mystery & Depth of Essence A Life of Sacred Beauty & Intimacy (The Awakened Four in All of Us)

Every creature is a word of God — Meister Eckhart

Module 9: Journeying With the Unending Gnosis & Awareness of Essence A Life of Sacred Truth & Clarity (The Awakened Five in All of Us)

Everything we think we know is only the beginning of another knowing that itself has no end — Iqbal

Module 10: Journeying With the Immeasurable Awakeness & Interconnectedness of Essence A Life of Sacred Guidance, Faith & Purpose (The Awakened Six in All of Us)

The sacred duty of being an individual is to gradually learn how to live so as to awaken the eternal within you — John O’Donohue

Module 11: Journeying With the Limitless Possibilities, Freedom & Joy of Essence A Life of Sacred Fulfillment, Positivity and Gratitude (The Awakened Seven in All of Us)

There’s a bankruptcy that is pure gain. The moon stays bright when it does not avoid the night. A rose’s rarest essence lives in the thorn — Rumi

Module 12: Ongoing Transformation & Integration of Depth Awakening Teaching

A life is sacred — Martin Luther King, Jr.

By the final module, you’ll be deeply engaged with Depth Awakening teachings and practices. You’ll have created a new inner terrain, making you available to embody love, wisdom and presence in every moment.

Living with the implications of this is a journey of profound change, and in this culminating module, you’ll explore:

• Themes of integration
• Challenges of integration
• Ongoing practices
• Personal stories of change and challenges
• Self-care
• Service
• Surrender
• The Mystery…

About Jessica Dibb

Jessica Dibb is the founder, spiritual director and principal teacher of the Inspiration Community School, an integral consciousness school dedicated to promoting personal, relational and planetary wellness. Over the past two decades, Jessica Dibb has designed and facilitated unique workshops, classes and ongoing experiential trainings which are grounded in a highly integrated model of psycho-spiritual healing and development to support self-actualization.

Her teachings assist people in cultivating consciousness through all stages of life, from conception onward. Using Integrative Breathwork, psychodynamic principles, the Enneagram and established and emergent wisdom teachings, Jessica facilitates embodied awareness of each moment, using methods which combine attunement, psychodynamic principles, intuition and physical sensation.

Jessica Dibb teaches nationally and internationally, including teaching Integrative Breathwork and the Enneagram at the Psychotherapy Networker Conference for several years. Jessica Dibb also is the co-director of the Global Professional Breathwork Alliance (GPBA) and current chair of the GPBA’s Ethics Committee.

Jessica Dibb is a founding member of the board of Convergence, a nonprofit organization working to promote dialogue and innovative solutions for challenging social issues of our time. Jessica Dibb was one of the co-hosts for The Shift Network’s Breathwork Summit in 2012, as well as the host of their Enneagram Global Summit from 2014-2016. Jessica Dibb is the weaver and visionary behind Omega’s annual conference: Breath Immersion: From Science to Samadhi (at the Omega Institute).

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