Shows
SDI EncountersPreview Part 3: New Perspectives on the Enneagram - Chelsea Forbrook, Rev. Nhien Vuong
This is Part Three of our preview for our next 10-session course, New Perspectives on the Enneagram for Troubled Times, featuring Chelsea Forbrook and Rev. Nhien Vuong.
Those familiar with the Enneagram know what a powerful tool for self-discovery and insight it can be. With that in mind we are pleased to announce our latest 10 session course offering from SDI – New Perspectives on the Enneagram for Spiritual Directors and Companions. This unique online course offering from SDI offers spiritual directors and companions the opportunity to connect with peers who are on the leading edge of the Enneagram field...
2024-04-0127 minSDI EncountersPreview Part 1: New Perspectives on the Enneagram - Sandra Smith and Dina ElBadryThose familiar with the Enneagram know what a powerful tool for self-discovery and insight it can be. With that in mind we are pleased to announce our latest 10 session course offering from SDI – New Perspectives on the Enneagram for Spiritual Directors and Companions. This unique online course offering from SDI offers spiritual directors and companions the opportunity to connect with peers who are on the leading edge of the Enneagram field. This course will give seasoned Enneagram explorers the opportunity to take a deep dive and develop new perspectives about the use of this medium in spiritual direction and comp...
2024-03-2718 min
Totem ConfidenceBlessing My DemonsWe had a great time talking with Enneagram Teacher Chelsea Forbrook about her new book, Blessing My Demons, How to Name, Tame, and Transform Your Inner Critic. (available on Amazon). For more information about Chelsea's work with the Enneagram, visit Chelseaforbrook.com
2024-02-0347 min
International Enneagram Association Podcast10: Using the Foundational Values of the Enneagram to Undo Racism with Chelsea ForbrookIn this episode of the International Enneagram Association podcast, we speak with Chelsea Forbrook, an Enneagram educator, coach and spiritual director. Chelsea talks about the topic she’s presented at the IEA conference with Milton Stewart: igniting passion to undo racism by doing an Enneagram study on whiteness and white culture. They discuss how we can use the tools we already learned from the Enneagram towards our activism and our cultural bias. She shares how we can do this by using the foundational values of the Enneagram – compassion, curiosity and open mindedness.Connect with us:IEA2...
2024-01-1817 minSDI EncountersUsing the Enneagram to Name, Tame, and Transform Your Inner Critic with Chelsea ForbrookChelsea Forbrook is the President of Enneagram Minnesota and is a Spiritual Director and Enneagram Educator based in Minneapolis, MN. She teaches a 10 month experiential Enneagram Course and hosts a podcast called “The Enneagram of Essence.” Chelsea is author of the book, “Blessing My Demons: How to Name, Tame & Transform Your Inner Critic,” which will be released this October. She was part of the SDI New Contemplatives cohort for the year 2018 and continues to be an active member in our community of spiritual directors and companions. She will be hosting a 5-part webinar series at the end of October called “...
2023-08-2826 min
Enneagram & CoffeeObject Relations, A Perfect End Note and The Enneagram & Whiteness | Conference Notes Day 3In today's episode I'm wrapping up my last day at the International Enneagram Conference. Workshops like Object Relations & the enneagram with Belinda Gore, The Enneagram & Whiteness with Milton Stewart and Chelsea Forbrook Trauma with Sharon K. Ball and a perfect end note by Chichi Agorom.--Call/text your enneagram questions to (828) 338-9127Grab a copy of my books at www.thehonestenneagram.com & www.theenneagramletters.comCheck out my YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/sarajanecase Learn more about your ad choices...
2023-08-0414 min
The Enneagram of EssenceLovingKindness (Metta) MeditationThis is a great meditation for opening your Heart Center. Practice giving and receiving kindness, spreading your well-wishes to everyone you encounter, including yourself. This form of meditation was initially taught by the Buddha.
2022-05-2614 minThe Enneagram of EssenceWelcoming Prayer (Guided Meditation)This 10 minute practice of allowing, acceptance, and non-resistance will help stop your battle with The Way Things Are. Shout out to Father Thomas Keating for developing this powerful method of consenting to Reality and Divine Will.
2022-04-2110 minThe Enneagram of EssenceContacting the Inner Observer (guided meditation)An important development in our Inner Work journey is learning to contact the "Inner Observer" or "Inner Witness." This is the permanent, ever-present part of ourselves that is separate from our personality. The Inner Observer watches the activity of the personality (i.e. planning, fantasizing, remembering, feeling, thinking) without any judgement, and in a non-reactive way. When seeing ourselves from the interior space of Inner Witness, we have a profound experience and realization: I am not my thoughts! I am not even my personality! There's something more to me!
2022-03-0913 minThe Enneagram of Essence"Titration" Presence PracticeUse this short Titration exercise as a way to get grounded, centered, open and regulated. You will practice resourcing the grounding energies from the Earth and the expansive energies from the Heavens and bringing them into your body. (A different form of Titration is used in trauma therapy, and it has been adopted and adapted in spiritual circles. I learned this practice from my Enneagram teacher Anne Muree).
2022-02-2307 minThe Enneagram of Essence"That shirt is NOT salvation!" - Type 7 with Tyler Sit"As it turns out, buying that shirt is not salvation! It just feels like it is because I can convince myself of a lot of things! ...The gap between a stimulus and your reaction is your freedom. That's very counterintuitive for a Seven, because for a Seven, it's like, 'I'm free if I can have a stimulus and react right away. No impulse control - that's what freedom means!' But actually, in the contemplative life, freedom means that you're not allowing the stimulus to take control of your life, and you're adding in breath and pause to exercise...
2021-12-281h 00The Enneagram of EssenceGo In & Down- Type 6 with Karen Carlsen"Hearing that '6's are afraid of Being' resonated so deeply, because I thought of all my years of running, and being busy, and thinking about being present, but not being present. Now I have much more of a practice of going in and down first before I go up and out."Karen takes us on a courageous journey through loss and grief, mistyping herself as an Enneagram Two, and finding her own voice and inner guidance and authority.
2021-12-2154 minThe Enneagram of Essence"Wait, what's next?"- Type 5 with Ben Linzmeier"I had an experience where my thinking stopped, utterly and completely and pretty suddenly. My instant reaction was, "Wait what's the next thought?" and there was no next coming. So that resulted in this terror, but then I would have this realization of, "Oh, this is what it is, without content." And I would feel blissed out...Since then, I have no conscious fear of death. It just opened deeper and deeper levels of Reality without any content at all."
2021-12-131h 01The Enneagram of EssenceGarbage Man of the Soul - Type 4 with Jenny Campbell"The one thing that makes everybody else want to hide, makes me want to come out. It's like being Called to be a garbage man. Nobody wants to do this job, but I love it!" Jenny takes us on a journey to the true opening of the Heart through recognizing its layers, and to contact genuine grief in a cleansing way. She explores body shame, the non-linear path of spiritual development, and the traps of feeling misunderstood and fatigued. Check out Jenny's workshops at www.enneawake.com
2021-12-0554 minThe Enneagram of EssenceThe Inevitable Breakdown- Type 3 with Emi"I had one more work trip to complete for the year to "feel successful," like I had achieved enough. And I came to in a hospital bed with tubes hooked up to me and I couldn't breathe. And I thought, "This is it...wow, this is not how I want to leave the earth. I'm not ready!" Emi tells her story of adapting between two worlds as a daughter of immigrants, the Enneagram cultural overlays of the US and Japan that influenced her personality, how overwork almost killed her, and how she recovered and learned to listen t...
2021-11-1556 minThe Enneagram of Essence7 Minute Presence Practice (Meditation)Here's a quick little guided centering exercise you can use whenever you need to check in with yourself and slow down. This practice helps contact our three Centers: body, heart and head in way that is honest, real, and compassionate. Enjoy!
2021-11-0110 minThe Enneagram of Essence"Selfless" is some Horse Sh*t!- Type 2 with Lynn O'Brien"Who wants to be selfless? Without a SELF?? Absolutely not!...but for a long time, that's what felt like being spiritual and loving was supposed to be." Lynn shares her journey with learning to set boundaries, asking for help, receiving, and feeling and loving her own darkness.
2021-10-2556 minThe Enneagram of EssenceDoomed Missions - Type 1 with Chelsea ForbrookTRIGGER WARNING: this episode mentions alcoholism and suicide."I was like, 'There's a hurting, lost soul! I can help that one!' And so off I went on lots of doomed missions, because they weren't asking to change, and they weren't willing to change. And so all my efforts in helping were lost. It was such a waste of my life energy." In this episode, Chelsea shares her journey from perfectionism towards accepting life's mess just as it is. Life's lessons taught her to let go of opinions through culture shock, to name her repressed f...
2021-10-1858 minThe Enneagram of Essence"Anger? What's that?"- Type 9 with Curtis Wilson"There was one in me that felt that it wasn't really worth the energy. Like, if I had a choice, why would I get angry?....When I do actually express anger I feel a lightness afterwards that I wasn't previously aware I could feel."Curtis takes us on a journey through his experience with "The Work" (Gurdjieff's esoteric teachings- he's the guy who brought the Enneagram to the modern world!), his evolving relationship with anger and time, re-membering himself through radical embodiment, and questions about the Enneagram and childhood.
2021-10-111h 06The Enneagram of EssenceThe Godzilla Suit - Type 8 with Phil GebbenGreen"As a kid, I would pretend to be Godzilla. I would literally think of myself as covered in green scales, being this monster who could stomp and blow fire at anything that threatened me. I can do a lot of affecting, but I am not affected. I am armored against the world."Phil walks us through his journey from self protection to a place of connection through vulnerability, learning to listen to his heart, and finding interior freedom.
2021-10-011h 00
The Enneagram of EssenceThe Essence of Type 7 with Joe DavisJoe brings us on an inspiring journey into radical self care, embodying an abundance mindset, and envisioning and creating a better world while simultaneously holding space for pain. He also shares one of his original poems, entitled "Show Up." Joe is a nationally-touring artist, educator, and speaker who employs poetry, music, theater, and dance to shape culture. For more on Joe's work and to listen to his poetry and music, visit joedavispoetry.com
2021-07-0956 minThe Enneagram of EssenceThe Essence of Type 6 with Ben CampbellBen Campbell is a certified Enneagram teacher and coach, and he shares beautifully about what it took for him to "grow up" as a Six, how to detach from anxiety, how to tap into his inner Guidance and learn to follow his path. We also nerd-out about the Six-ness of the Lord of the Rings. For more on Ben's work and his upcoming courses and coaching, visit dragonguidance.com
2021-07-0249 minThe Enneagram of EssenceThe Essence of Type 5 with Kathleen GrittnerKathleen is an artist, spiritual seeker, and retreat facilitator. She shares her journey through the depths of her mind, her conflicts with religion, how art and science compliment each other, and how curiosity leads to kindness. She is a wonderful testament of how the mind is an essential (though often neglected) part of spiritual growth.
2021-06-281h 04The Enneagram of EssenceThe Essence of Type 4 with Andrea SorumThis episode with Andrea Sorum is amazing! Andrea shares her incredible story of moving out of a sense of separateness and into Belonging, her journey with creative expression, and letting go of old victimhood narratives and choosing gratitude and happiness. To listen to Andrea's music, visit andreasorum.us
2021-06-221h 05The Enneagram of EssenceThe Essence of Type 3 with Janet HagbergJanet is an artist, writer, spiritual director and baseball enthusiast. In her story, she brings us on a journey that moves through overworking and constant doing and into the possibility of resting in Being. This story of how she found her unique creative expression is a testament to the 3's growth away from external affirmation and image consciousness and into a place of true authenticity that comes from the heart and soul. To see Janet's artwork and other spiritual resources, visit JanetHagberg.com
2021-06-1648 minThe Enneagram of EssenceThe Essence of Type 2 with Anne MureéAnne is a master Enneagram teacher and coach, and more importantly, she is a beautiful soul who has lived an amazing life. Join us in this conversation on shame, how our personality can literally kill us, and how to find our way home to true Self Love. You are invited to join in with us for the opening centering meditation and lectio divina practice with the poem at the end. For more on Anne's work, visit annemuree.com
2021-06-101h 05The Enneagram of EssenceThe Essence of Type 1 with John KoonJohn is a spiritual director who shares about his journey toward connection with his body's intelligence, relationship with his Inner Critic, toxic purity culture, and a journey through grief that leads to direct contact with Goodness and Sacredness. For more on John's work, visit www.underthesweetgum.com
2021-06-021h 03The Enneagram of EssenceThe Essence of Type 9 with C.John HildebrandC. John helps us understand the inner workings of the Enneagram 9 personality. He is a hospital chaplain, spiritual director, and activist who approaches life through a stance of ease, connection and Being. Enjoy!
2021-05-2756 minThe Enneagram of EssenceThe Essence of Type 8 with Chelsea MacMillanChelsea MacMillan guides us into a deeper understanding of the qualities of Strength, Aliveness and Immediacy found in Enneagram Type 8. She is a climate justice hero, activist, and spiritual director who navigates us through the spaces between action and contemplation, fierceness and gentleness, expression and silence. For more on her work, visit chelseamacmillan.comFor more on my Enneagram offerings, including coaching, classes and workshops, visit chelseaforbrook.com
2021-05-2059 min