• Learn why your Instinct is the root of suffering and yet the key to enlightenment
• Discover what each Enneagram Type reports they need on the spiritual path
• Learn how to manifest the Holy Ideas of types in your Tritype
• Make sense of your Soul’s journey through the Planes of Consciousness
• Work with the alignment between the Enneagram and Campbell’s Hero’s Journey
• Experience the joy and healing of daily Energetic Healing Circles
• Hike and enjoy great food and company in the southern California desert

Katherine and I are devoted seekers. We have studied the Enneagram, spirituality, and ancient spiritual traditions for over 30 years. When we met, our spiritual journeys took off bringing new dimensions to our individual work and profound insights into the nature of reality, growth and healing.

Together, we have visited the ashrams of Perfect Masters and studied their work. Our travels have taken us to the ashrams of Meher Baba, Sai Baba, Ammachi, and Mother Meera. In addition, we have studied in-depth with Perfect Master David Cousins. We follow the Universal Path of Truth and Love.

With these associations and experiences we learned to go beyond the common understanding of spirituality and the Enneagram. As a result, this intensive offers a unified paradigm of spiritual and personal growth unavailable anywhere else.

This material radically changed our lives and those we have mentored, and we have long wanted to share it with a group of like-minded Enneagram enthusiasts.

This is the first of many such intensives. Our hope is that those who attend can bond and join together to offer one another support, guidance and fellowship both during and after the intensive.

We look forward to sharing our work with you.

I have. It's fundamentally a model of the Core Fears and Motivations of our Ego structures.

So how is that spiritual?

The answer lies in understanding two key concepts.

First, what keeps us rooted in suffering is the illusion that we are separate.

Second, it is our growing beyond our identification with our Instinct and Enneagram Type and Tritype that is the key breaking the egos illusion of separateness and to living life from our Soul's purpose.

Your Instinct is the Key To Spiritual Growth

The 'Instinctual Self' is the more primal aspect of personality; the anchoring counter balance to the higher spiritual 'Essential Self.'

Rooting us in the dualistic world of ego consciousness, one's 'Instinctual Self' demands that we distort and habitually overuse one of three survival strategies: Self-Preservation, Social or Sexual.

Like a guardian at the gate of heaven, one's dominant instinct insures one's fundamental survival in the physical world but in so doing can block the way on one's spiritual path.

Discover the latest, research on the spiritual aspects of the three Instinctual Types representing the “Instinctual Self’.

• Learn how your ‘Instinctual Self’ triggers your more reactive nature, acting as both an asset and a liability to the 9 Enneagram Personality Types.

• Learn what the 3 Instinctual Types and 9 Types revealed were the obstacles to spiritual progress.

• Practice simple methods to release the tyranny of your Instinct to allow you to feel the joy of being ‘present’ to your higher ‘Essential Self.”

What are the Holy Ideas?

The Holy Ideas represent the Higher Mind and non-dual aspects of Being. Each Holy Idea also has a corresponding Virtue. The Virtues are Essential qualities of the heart. When one is awake to their true nature one can see reality as it actually is rather than through the lens of the ego.

This model of Meher Baba’s work has the power to instantly and permanently change your understanding of your life, suffering, and what your personal gift is to the world.

• Learn more about your soul’s journey from evolution to involution

• Learn why a Type 2 on the 3rd plane of consciousness can seem like a Type 3 or 8

• Learn why an 8 on the 4th Plane of Consciousness is compassionate and empathetic whereas an 8 on the 3rd plane is our stereotype of the tough, powerful, 8.