Exploring Instinctual Subtypes
Exploring Instinctual Subtypes
Wednesdays, Apr 2- May 7, 2025
Overview
Learn how the three instinctual drives influence your daily experiences, impact your relationships, and illuminate important variations among people of the same Enneagram type.
This event has prerequisites.
- In Exploring Instinctual Subtypes, you’ll deepen your understanding of the three primary instinctual drives and 27 Enneagram subtypes to support greater understanding of yourself and others. The three instincts are:
- • Self-preservation – guides our relationships with home, food, financial security, and family
- • One-to-one (sometimes called sexual) – fuels our vitality, sexuality, intimate relationships, and desire for personal and spiritual union
- • Social – forms our sense of belonging and participation in groups, our role in social causes and communities, and our social identity
- While all three drives are present in everyone, one tends to be more central in our daily lives and relationships. This primary instinct determines our Enneagram subtype, which may impact our everyday experiences even more than our type. By becoming more awake to your own subtype, you can improve communication, reduce conflict, and deepen relationships with friends, family members, co-workers, and partners.
- Students will:
- • Explore the three instinctual drives and related subtypes for each Enneagram type, including which instinct may be primary in your daily life
- • Learn how to work with the instinctual drives to build stronger, healthier relationships
- • Increase awareness of how the the emotional habit of your type gets expressed through the activities of your subtype
- • Engage in practices to cultivate greater access to all three instinctual energies and bring more balance to your life
- • Share experiences of your subtype on an expertly facilitated panel to highlight differences among those of the same type
- Exploring Instinctual Subtypes is one of our four Foundational Courses and a prerequisite to join our Professional Certification Program.
- Course includes:
- • 20+ hours of live teachings, practices, panels, and group work
- • Access to video recordings of the teachings to review online
- • 28-page PDF workbook and access to course slides
- • Access to an interactive online community of Enneagram learners
- Prerequisites
- Experiencing the Narrative Enneagram
- Things to know
- • Attendance: If you have a scheduling conflict, please contact the registrar. If you need to miss more than 2 hours, you will need to sign up for another training.
- • Scholarships may be available. Learn about scholarships and contact the registrar with questions.
- • We do not currently offer ICF CCE credits for this course.
- • Technical requirements: You will need a computer with internet access; headphones are optional but may be necessary.
- Tuition
- Standard registration: $650
- Early bird registration: $590 (valid through Feb 19, 2025)
- Transfers/cancellations
- Final day to register: March 31, 2025
- Final day to transfer: March 20, 2025
- Final day to cancel and receive a partial refund: March 30, 2025
Instructors
Schedule
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Location
All online events will take place on Zoom.
Fees
| Early Bird Standard Registration | $590 |
| Standard Registration | $650 |
Contact
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