Heart Work:
Working with the Defence Mechanisms of the Enneagram
IN-PERSON & ONLINE at 47 Bronstone Blvd. with Dale Bially
3 Monday Evenings, October 23, November 6, 20, 2023
***This group gathers in person in Winnipeg. Anyone wishing to attend from outside of Winnipeg can join through Zoom.
“For anyone looking to reconnect to their hearts.”
We all come in to this world with unique gifts and equally unique ways of uncovering them. The compulsions of my enneagram space helps me see where my patterned behavior is, but what about my work on meeting my heart?
Defence mechanisms are shock absorbers or buffers, that protect us from the big reactions we meet as we live our lives. They are coping strategies that smooth out our experiences of anxiety, shame, anger, sadness, etc.
Over three 2-hour sessions we will shine a light on those times where our unique defence pattern helps us skip over our hearts and creates an inauthentic response to the people we love, cutting us off from opportunities to grow.
This event is offered through the Inscapes Centre for Enneagram Studies and Inspired Enneagram
The cost for this event is what you can afford: $85 or $120 + GST
“If you have worked to understand your enneagram space and are looking for a new angle that will challenge you, the work with the defence mechanisms of the enneagram is a great next step.
When we begin working with our enneagram number, we think we can quickly figure it all out and then we can go back to our lives. The challenge is that we are very creative creatures. The more we understand something the craftier we are at avoiding it.
People who have attended this group in the past have been amazed at the places in their lives that they are no longer attuned to. You will be surprised how you may be passing off a sense of transformation, but you may just be lying to yourself. Some people call this spiritual bypassing.”
Dale Bially has worked extensively with the enneagram in his professional and personal life since 1993. Under the guidance of my mentors Carol Ann Gotch and David Walsh (students of Bob Ochs), he completed the Enntrain: Inspirited and Embodied Enneagram training program in 2012 and began teaching workshops and study groups with Inscapes Centre for Enneagram Studies. In 2012 he began working with the leadership team of Prairie Jubilee, to train spiritual directors and help other seekers find the truth of whom they are and how to live differently making our world a better place.