Holy Ideas and Essential Qualities

Enneagram Holy Ideas and Essential Qualities

A weekend retreat this autumn, centred in the Holy Ideas and Spiritual Qualities that are at the heart of the Enneagram. These qualities resonate in the core of our being, our personality and our Soul Path.

More information and booking on the Ammerdown What's On pages.
Join us for a relaxed and exploratory weekend for really engaging with the material, yourself and others on a spiritual path, faith-based or otherwise. Immersing yourself in the 9 essence qualities is a delicious and enriching experience. You’ll also find practices, or re-member some you already know and love, that bring them closer, so these qualities are more freely accessible in daily life.

Over the weekend, in the company of a small group, we will gently:

• Enjoy exploring the 9 Essential Qualities in theory and in living practice
• Take time to experience more deeply the particular Qualities of our own EnneaPoint
• Appreciate how our Essence qualities (Enneagram-defined) already colour our experience: they shine in us and in each other
• Draw on a range of modalities to create space for in-the-moment, lived experience of essential qualities: music, meditation, breathwork, journeying, somatic movement and more.
• Identify practices to help anchor the experience of Essence and open to it in daily life
• Sense the shift in consciousness and presence that begins to happen as we open to our Enneagram-defined Essence Qualities.
• Open to the truer self within us, breathing with more freedom and ease
• Enjoy the space Ammerdown offers for peace, reflection and integration

A Soul Quality is identified with each of the Enneagram’s 9 points, defined as a quality of Being and of Essence. This takes us to a soul centred place beyond limited notions of self and familiar identity constructs. A place where we feel closer to Universal Presence, Source, Spirit and the life force in all things. We’re part of a wider field of consciousness where we are in Spirit and Spirit is within us: the individual self merges with the extensive ‘Is-ness’ of all life, in peaceful and expansive ease. It’s an extraordinary, golden place where healing is possible and well-being returns.

The Enneagram’s Holy Ideas and Holy Virtues are dimensions of this wider universal field, defining essential spiritual or divine qualities as found in all the world’s religious and spiritual traditions.

Exploring all 9 qualities can be a rich, beautiful and uplifting experience. Exploring the Essence quality of our own EnneaPoint helps us sink into deeper connection with who we truly are. It may be inspiring and uplifting, a catalyst to change in self-perception and consciousness. And over time, we have more access to these qualities: it’s not just in rare moments of prayer or meditation but becomes a familiar experience in daily life. Everything in our experience shifts.

“Thank you again for the course at the weekend. I found it illuminating, rich and full of treasures. It also fitted my need for clear structure and good holding. Head, body and heart are feeling full at the moment… No doubt more thoughts, feelings, questions will arise over the weeks and months as it all gets processed and sinks in - but for the moment I just wanted to touch base and say thank you. The course, the surroundings and the group were all great! I will carry this forward in the best way I can.. Go well both and I look forward to the next one…..”

More Workshop and Venue Information: Ammerdown Centre
Facilitators: Helen English with Joanne Bonnett assisting
Websites: Positive Space and Enneagram Space