The shift from seeking love to becoming love is an immense transformational process. In this opening session, you’ll get grounded in the foundational principles you’ll need to embody the power of love for positively impacting your life and our world.

Get ready to start making a quantum shift in consciousness, exploring the 3 Stages of Love and finding out how to develop a way of being where you live from love in every moment.

In this module, you’ll:

• Envision what embodied, authentic love can do for your life and your contributions to the world
• Discern between emotional reactivity, attachment, and love
• Hear Robert, Russ, and Jessica’s journeys into becoming love
• Explore moving from concretized relationships to dynamic relatedness
• Discover the connection between love and creative action
• Experience a meditation through the 3 Intelligences and Expressions of Love: Somatic/Body Center, Emotional/Heart Center, and Awareness/Head Center

Our “Basic Fear” is one of the primary blocks to our full awareness of love’s constant presence. In fact, the Basic Fear is what gives rise to every other fear, including the fear of love.

This week, you’ll identify your own Basic Fear and meet it with loving awareness and acceptance of how it can help you undo every other block to love.

In this module, you’ll:

• Understand the origin of the Basic Fear
• Identify the Basic Fear of each Ennea-type
• Recognize the effects of the Basic Fear
• Learn an experiential practice to meet the Basic Fear with love
• Practice moving from Conditional Love to Unconditional Love

As you develop your awareness of your psyche, you see that it’s constantly running particular patterns. Both modern psychotherapy and the spiritual traditions behind the Enneagram recognize this, and work with these patterns. In some cases, there are beautiful correlations between the findings of both disciplines.

One such correlation comes from psychotherapy: the study of object relations. Our object-relations patterns form very early in our development, and our ego self is largely composed of these patterns.

As you’ll see, they form a significant root to how you address your needs, and offer enormous insight into your central relationship issues and possibilities. Like much else we encounter on the inner journey, we cannot get rid of these patterns. But with grounded, compassionate awareness of them, you can transform yours into direct paths to experience love.

In this module, you’ll:

• Recognize three basic groups of object-relation patterns
• Understand how and why these patterns form and what they seek to accomplish in our psyches
• Find out how to recognize our fundamental object relations as they arise in our relationships
• Discover how object relations play out in particular Enneagram types
• Engage in an illuminating exercise to transform these patterns into ingredients of authentic love

All love must include self-love or else it is not love.
— Robert Holden

Your capacity to love others, and to love the world, is mirrored by your ability to love yourself. Why? Because it’s all the same love!

Here we’ll examine nine ways of self-love. We’ll look through the lens of the Enneagram at what self-love really means. We’ll explore why self-love can be so difficult and how we resist loving ourselves more. We’ll discuss how to stop objectifying ourselves in different ways. And we’ll each open more fully to being loved and being love in every moment.

In this module, you’ll:

• Experience the miracle of self-acceptance
• Look into the mirror of non-judgment
• Sit upon each of the nine meditation seats (the nine points) on the Enneagram
• Explore nine powerful spiritual practices to cultivate a more loving relationship with yourself and others
• Feel a fresh willingness to let life love you more
• Build courage to show up more authentically
• Experience a potent practice for seeing your secret beauty

This week, you’ll explore the ubiquity of trauma and learn to reduce its stigma. We’ll look at some of the symptoms of various forms of trauma — seeing how they alienate us from groundedness in our bodies and hearts — and explore how each of the Enneagram types adopt strategies for coping with trauma.

As we examine types Eight through Two, you’ll understand how the Basic Fear of each type is exacerbated by trauma… you’ll find out how trauma leads each type to move toward its stress point… and you’ll explore ways to bring love and relief to triggers.

In this module, you’ll:

• Identify the many common symptoms of trauma
• Explore the relationship between trauma patterns and our capacity for relatedness
• Learn how the type patterns are an attempt to manage our trauma
• Look at how each type oscillates with its stress point as a trauma response
• Practice methods for recognizing trauma triggers and bringing loving attention to them

In this module, we’ll continue our exploration of trauma in the Enneagram types, looking at the remaining types, Three through Seven.

You’ll also explore experiential work for identifying and working with trauma patterns, and:

• Practice ways of holding trauma and building counterbalancing resources
• Explore triggers for traumatic responses in your relationships
• Perform breath and somatic exercises that support your healing and growth
• Discover resources for ongoing work with trauma

At this point in the course, you’ll be supported by your explorations and experiences of real love, and you’ll have a more profound and precise understanding of how trauma obstructs our capacity to give, receive, and be love.

Now you’ll have the opportunity to be guided with compassion and love itself to unwind your adaptive defense strategies around trauma, and to hold trauma in the field of love, healing, and transformation.

This will be a deeply moving and impactful, experiential session in which you’ll:

• Contact power and love
• Direct your attention and tenderness to places of psychological and somatic trauma
• Create breathing space and attunement for your trauma so it can reveal both its pain AND its resiliency
• Bring the strengths of your Enneagram type to meet the pain and fear of trauma
• Invite the “felt sense” of resiliency that your body/heart/mind has developed and that the gifts of your Enneagram type can support
• Be guided through a healing journey to work with internalized and patterned trauma using breath, movement, inner inquiry, poetry, meditation, and journaling

Love is natural and easy… until the first wound. And unfortunately, the first wound happens early. The need to forgive the unforgivable arises before we even know how to forgive.

Yet without forgiveness, we cannot love. Forgiveness is a quality of love that enables you to choose love when you’re afraid, wounded, in pain, or facing a dark night of the soul. It’s how you can raise yourself up when you stumble and fall. It’s how you can set yourself free from any hate or revenge.

In this class, we’ll explore how forgiveness relates specifically to each of the nine Ennea-points and Ennea-types.

You’ll discover:

• The great need for self-forgiveness
• How forgiveness can undo the Basic Fear
• How forgiveness can heal the passions
• How forgiveness can release us from our fixations
• The relationship between forgiveness and the virtues
• An impactful meditation for releasing all nine fixations and opening to the healing power of forgiveness in each Enneagram type

This week, we’ll explore the anatomy of childhood and social roles, and how they play out in adulthood — in our friendships, romances, and work and leadership roles.

Initially, our childhood roles are designed to help us adapt, fit in, be accepted, and love and be loved. But if you hold on too tight to your roles, they can become blocks to love and work against you in your actions and relationships.

This module will guide you to:

• Identify when a role is helpful and when it’s not
• See how roles are a compensation for the Basic Fear
• Recognize how roles block the inherent qualities of your Ennea-type
• Discern how roles are self-appointed and can be undone
• Take an experiential journey through the roles you’ve played (and may be unconsciously attached to)… and see what life is like beyond the role
• Discover ways how to help others relax out of their roles and show up as their authentic selves

With a group of 50 people who committed to a decade of inner-work together, Russ and Jessica identified seven misinterpretations of love, 7 Veils of Love. These are pseudo-versions of love that obscure the true experience and embodiment of love.

In this module, you’ll:

• Understand the first 3 Veils of Love
• Do experiential work to dissolve the illusory nature of the veils
• Experience love when it’s freed from the veils
• Explore love as a unified field. .. dissolving possessiveness and separateness
• Examine love as power. .. dissolving control, rejection, hatred, and annihilation
• Dive into love as intimacy, depth, and contact. .. dissolving confusion and withholding
• Discover practices to see how the veils operate in your life
• See what the veils open you to when you release them

This week we’ll continue our journey through the veils that keep us from directly seeing love in ourselves and exchanging it with others.

You’ll experience love as holding and responsive… dissolving false merging and isolation.

As you’ll discover, when you examine love as relatedness, your (unconscious) resistance can melt away.

• Deepen into experiential work to dissolve the illusory nature of the veils
• Explore love as emptiness and generativity. … dissolving attachment and identity
• Discover love as the Holy Now. .. dissolving the veils of the past, the future, and shame
• Take an experiential journey to see how the veils operate in your life
• Discover what it feels like when you open a direct experience of essential love

There is only One, it is true. And while this One is infinite and capable of infinite manifestations — they’re all reflections of One, of Love.

Similarly, the nine clusters of the Enneagram form a beautiful map of varied-but-connected expressions. These Essence qualities manifest as particular gifts in each of us… and they support love in every aspect of our individual lives and our collective life.

In this sensitive, deep, and provocative module, you will:

• Review a compassionate and objective model for understanding the formation of type
• Meet the pain and terror of your type’s core wound
• Learn to relax the core fixation of your type
• Honor the gifts of each type
• See how the gifts flow from the embodiment of Essence
• Find out how to work with all nine gifts to create more richness in your primary gift
• Take an experiential journey from the core wound to the core Essence and gift of each Enneagram point

Everyone has an inherent and effortless gift of authentic love that’s present even in pathological states. Using the Enneagram, you’ll become aware of these nine gifts and how each of us can cultivate the gifts we need to create authentic love.

As you’ll see, understanding the nine gifts deepens your maturity to recognize and choose real love, which profoundly impacts every aspect of your relationships. That is, in the presence of real love, you can transform your neural wiring around sexuality, self-preservation, and connection.

In this module, you’ll explore:

• Each Ennea-type’s gift of love — with examples from movies, personal accounts, and poetry
• An experiential journey through each of the nine gifts — using breath, guided imagery, movement, music, and meditation
• A guided practice for you to apply the nine gifts of authentic love to a relationship with a beloved (such as a partner, friend, child, or God)

NOTE: this session will be 90 minutes long, followed by Q&A.

Whether you’re celibate, single, or partnered…

… the vulnerability, intensity, sensation, intimacy, and transcendence you can experience by being fully present to yourself and/or another in the sensuality of your body — from love, with love, and as love — is priceless.

The life force of sexuality is one of the most — if not the most — powerful aspects of human life, where you can experience profound and almost unimaginable coherence and oneness.

Yet the somatic, emotional, and cognitive defenses of your Enneagram type can severely limit your contact with this miraculous feature of being human… just as the gift of your Enneagram type can open you to the possibilities of embodied integration.

In this module, you’ll explore:

• How something so primal, so pivotal, and so precious to our human experience relates to being love
• The beauty of each type’s orientation to sensuality and sexuality
• The obstacles each type faces to a truly whole sexuality
• What each type looks for, and what they tend to overlook in sexuality
• How to communicate sexual desires and fears to a partner of another type and instinct
• A personal guided journey towards a whole and fully-lived sensuality (that is, the integration of all nine gifts and all three instincts)

This week, you’ll let love give rise to your purpose. We all feel most authentic and joyful when our vocation aligns with our purpose in life.

To help you live a life of love in which your vocation reflects your highest reasons for being, you’ll explore:

• Purpose and meaning in each of the nine Enneagram points
• The characteristic blockages that bar each type from connecting with their purpose
• What can help each type open to the call of their true purpose
• Pathways for cultivating all nine aspects of purpose in each one of us
• Love as a creative impulse for your purpose
• A guided meditation in nine powerful spiritual practices for helping you live your purpose

Every living creature has a unique and organic connection with the source of life. Whether we call that source Biochemistry, Life Force, Evolution, God, Goddess, Truth, Essence, the Universe, or the Divine, the exploration of it is sacred and necessary to the experience of being fully alive.

“God is love,” taught Rumi. “God is love,” said Jesus. “God is love,” affirmed Ramana Maharshi. “God is love,” sang Marvin Gaye.

In this class, you’ll encounter the mystical dimensions. Immersed in Robert and Jessica’s loving respect for your personal belief system, you’ll explore Love as the Mind of God, Love as the Heart of God, and Love as the Divine Energy that makes galaxies spin, bees pollinate, and us humans serve our planet.

Each type is motivated to contact one aspect of Essence. Thus, your type is a preference for one aspect of Source, and an avoidance of others. And by learning to relax out of your type’s view, you can experience all nine domains of Source… infusing your being with the depth, truth, mystery, and oneness we all long for.

In this module, you’ll take a journey to the sacred within you and explore:

• How and why each type prefers one aspect of God, and usually misses the others
• The nine dimensions of the Divine Essence and the Holy Idea of each type
• Spiritual practices that will open you to each of the nine expressions of God
• Your true identity

Imagine a new generation of politicians, industry leaders, and directors of NGOs and service organizations who demonstrate love-based values — like service and compassion — and who are elected or chosen for their vision, courage, and strength of character.

Imagine economists who offer us love-based policies that eradicate poverty and hunger… medical doctors who teach their patients how to love and be loved… biologists who show us that the survival of our species depends on cooperation, not competition… architects and lawyers who help us build a society on love…

In this module, you’ll explore:

• Leadership as a way of being — not just a title
• The leadership challenge for each Ennea-type
• Love as the highest form of activism
• How each Ennea-type can serve the world
• Love, relatedness, and leadership
• A practice to develop each of the nine types of leadership

Actualizing love in action, service, activism, the arts — in all human endeavors, with all of life, in every situation, in every moment — is the quantum shift we need.

Having realizations of Real Love is wonderful, but how can we open to the magnitude of love as guidance for humanity to evolve from protecting our small selves to being a loving presence in the world?

As you’ll see, it’s an enormous shift when you live as love, and it profoundly changes the quality of what you contribute, expanding your impact.

In this module, you’ll:

• Understand how relatedness is the basis for emergent creativity and loving ALL
• Explore the implications of loving everything
• See what creative evolutionary love does in the midst of pain, division, and chaos
• Explore the relationship between love and home
• Experience the gift of each type to our collective functioning and social evolution
• Discover how when sensation and love meet, it cultivates the soul as a tuning fork for living
• Tune into what it means for the environment when we love all
• Explore the Law of Three and Social Activism
• Practice evolutionary love

Throughout this course, you’ll have tapped into your willingness, strength, perseverance, receptivity, and curiosity to take a radical and challenging journey… moving from the fear-based ego’s version of love, to being love in every moment of your life.

Living with the implications of being love is a journey of never-ending and profound change. In this culminating module, Robert, Jessica, and Russ will open a circle of sharing and inquiry with our whole class community.

Together, we’ll open to love’s wisdom that’s moving through each of our lives. We’ll listen to one another and ask the questions that have arisen as our perceptions of what love is and what is possible in our lives and for the world have evolved.

You’re invited to bring to the circle:

• Themes and challenges of integrating love that you’ve discovered
• Personal stories of change and challenges
• Tales of relational transformation
• Questions about continuing to work through your type’s resistance to love
• Celebration of vocations and services that have come into being

We’ll conclude with a culminating meditation to receive love even more deeply in this moment and throughout our lives.

Join Jessica and Russ as they encounter the frontiers of how you can be in contact with unity AND completely available to an infinite, ongoing, diverse creativity.

In this guided meditation breathwork practice, you’ll discover how breath takes you directly into integration, and these powerful truths:

• All parts of ourselves are One
• We are One with everyone else
• Everything else is One with everything else

Jessica will lead you on a journey to activate all nine gifts of the Enneagram types.

With audio and video formats, you can choose how you’ll take in these teachings so you can more readily embody the gifts of each breath — and each moment of your life.

One of the most important elements of a human life — and one which is often addressed in coaching and counseling — is the issue of purpose.

In this audio dialogue, Robert Holden and Russ Hudson will explore the sense of purpose and meaning using the perspectives of the nine Enneagram points to illuminate different aspects of it.

They’ll delve into the energetic parts each type plays, approaching this work with camaraderie, humor, and gentleness.

This original audio features several couples explaining how learning about their own type and their partner’s type transformed their relationships — helping them overcome seemingly intractable issues, and uncovering enhanced levels of communication and co-creativity.

The Instincts (or subtypes) — and the roles they play in our lives and in our development — are one of the “hottest” topics in the Enneagram field. This teaching from Russ and Jessica examines the rarely discussed topic of the role of the instincts in inner work.