Many Enneagram entrepreneurs begin their journey alone—attending workshops, reading books, and seeking opportunities to teach. Driven by passion and purpose, they step into meaningful work. But entrepreneurship, no matter the field, can be both challenging and isolating. Without teammates, managers, or the safety net of a steady paycheck, the road can feel uncertain. And in a society that often prioritizes competition, it’s easy to believe that success means getting ahead rather than working together.

But what if that model is outdated? What if collaboration opens more doors—not just for us, but for our students and the broader Enneagram community?

That belief is what brought our three panelists together. Ben Campbell, Milton Stewart, and Chelsea Witbrook are emerging leaders in the Enneagram field, each with a distinct specialty shaped by their unique journeys. They’ve built successful Enneagram businesses, offering coaching and certification, and presented their work at global IEA conferences. But beyond their solo work, they’ve discovered the power of collaboration—creating partnerships, sharing resources, and supporting each other in ways that strengthen not only their own work but the community as a whole.

In this conversation, Ben, Milton, and Chelsea will share their personal and professional journeys, exploring the power of finding the right colleagues in an often solitary field. They will discuss:

• Why they chose to collaborate and how it has enhanced their work

• The challenges and rewards of building an Enneagram-based business

• The importance of professional community and mentorship

• Practical insights for those looking to deepen their own Enneagram practice

About the Panelists:

• Ben Campbell is the President and Founder of Enneagram Northeast IEA and founder of Wild Enneagram.

• Milton Stewart is an IEA Global Board Member, founder of Kaizen Careers, and hosts the “Do It For the Gram” podcast.

• Chelsea Witbrook is the former President of IEA Minnesota, founder of Nine Epic Journeys and author of Blessing My Demons.

• All three are International Enneagram Association–accredited professionals and IEA Global Conference Presenters.

Join us for an evening of conversation as they share their experiences, insights, and practical advice on how to build meaningful professional relationships in the Enneagram space. Whether you’re just starting out or looking for ways to expand your network, this discussion will offer inspiration and guidance on how to grow alongside others—because you don’t have to do this alone.

Human Higher Potential in Relationships (Gurdjieff and Sufi Teachings)

What would our human relationships look like if we were to approach those in our lives from a higher state of being—from our Essence?

Most of the time, we tend to relate to each other from the ego. We are preoccupied with our stories, our needs, and our projections onto the other person. We do not truly relate as human beings.

Fortunately, the Enneagram offers great support for bringing more consciousness to our human relationships. If we were to relate from an Essential Place even a little more than we currently do, it could completely change our experience of relationship. We could catch a glimpse of the miraculous mystery that occurs when two people come together.

Dina ElBadry is an expert in the spiritual truths underpinning the Enneagram, especially teachings from Gurdjieff and the Sufis. She will be sharing her expertise and experience with us on March 22nd, to continue our yearly theme of the Enneagram & Relationships. We hope you will join us!

From our presenter:

“When I first learned the Enneagram I was rather disappointed by my type, even more disappointed to know that it doesn’t change.

But when I started studying Gurdjieff, I was so fascinated by the concept of Essence. I found a lot of inspiration in realizing that the personality isn’t Humanity’s only option, and that the human can be so much more.

The Sufi tradition teaches the same thing. In this presentation I aim to correlate The Gurdjieffian & Sufi teachings about the The Full Potential of the Human Being, which Gurdjieff referred to as “Man Becoming Immortal,” and referred to by the Sufis as “Al-Insan Al-Kamil.”

Love and Power come together in this evening session with Dr. Deborah Egerton!

We are honored to welcome Dr. Deborah Egerton to speak for us this February. Dr. E is one of the foremost Enneagram thought leaders in the world today, author of Know Justice, Know Peace, and currently serves as President of IEA Global. She will be speaking for us on a topic which she has studied in depth: love, connection, and cultivating authentic relationships with the Enneagram.

When it comes to using the Enneagram in relationships, one of the biggest mistakes we make is putting the expectation on the other person. It’s understandable–when we encounter the Enneagram, it’s normal to find it incredibly helpful and we immediately want to share it with our loved ones, and have them find their Type so they understand themselves better, and we want to share our Type with them so they understand us better… but in our enthusiasm we often miss the point, which is that we need to connect with our own authentic self before we do anything else.

Because we cannot be in an authentic relationship with someone else if we haven’t first established an authentic relationship with ourselves. If we haven’t taken the time to find out who we truly are, it is not possible to truly see who someone else is! We will be too preoccupied with trying to promote and defend our own self-concept, unaware of how 

The Enneagram can support us in developing an authentic relationship with ourselves because it shows us exactly what we are doing instead–identifying with a self-image instead of who we truly are, and then spending most of our energy defending and promoting that self-image instead of living our truth.

In this session on February 12th, Dr. E will focus on how we can use the Enneagram to truly liberate ourselves from the false self–drawing on each of the nine energies as they exist within us–and from that grounded place, learn to cultivate truly authentic and generative relationships with each other. 

She will cover topics including the wings, the stress point, and the growth paths for each Type, and how to apply them to our relationships with our loved ones, our peers, and ourselves. Dr. E’s vision for the Enneagram is for it to unite power WITH love in a way enables us to actually become allies and advocates, and to work together in creative and effective ways. Where we are able to respond to social ills from a place of presence, rather than reacting from a place of automaticity. 

We hope you will join us!

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Workshop Description

To mature and evolve as a human being it is imperative to work towards awareness, acceptance, and integration of every aspect of the self, including looking at topics that are taboo in our society. Sexuality is one of these topics! Many of us are unaware of the role of sexuality in our lives, and often lack the tools to talk about it—but it impacts us every day, even if we don’t realize it.

When we embrace who we are sexually, we obtain the capacity to accept who we are holistically. It’s the courage to understand that every part of ourselves, even the parts we hide, are important on the path to greater self-awareness.

Human sexuality is fundamental to life. It is a universal part of our humanity, yet there are few tools that incorporate or even acknowledge sexuality as an aspect of our psycho-spiritual development. At its core, the Enneagram is a sacred tool used to cultivate wholeness and union; as such, it is imperative that we look at sexuality as part of our psycho-spiritual development.

When we start to look at sexuality as a part of this development, we can understand the role the Nine Enneagram Types (and instinctual biases) play in sexuality. This results in more compassion for the self. 

We hope you will join us for this workshop with Lyndsey Fraser, MFT, as we explore how understanding our sexuality in relation to the Enneagram has a significant impact on our self-awareness and growth. The focus will be on the Enneagram Types and Sexuality with an interactive element for participants.

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***Special Update!*** In addition to speaking on Internal Family Systems, Joan is excited to share some things she learned while teaching with Daniel Siegel this past August. Siegel’s masterful weaving of the clinical with the spiritual has long been an inspiration to many of us and we are thrilled to be hearing about his new work with Joan’s expert insight. The subject of their event was his new book to be published next week,  “Personality and Wholeness in Therapy” which she describes as “a quantum leap forward in Enneagram theory and practice.” It’s sure to be a must read.

Internal Family Systems (IFS) is an evidence-based model of the mind and its component “Parts” created by Dr Richard Schwartz. In recent years it has gained extensive use in therapy and in coaching. Parts are “sub-personalities” that hold both positive and negative aspects of our personality. Parts may be Managers which activate to shield vulnerable Exiles (often young wounded or traumatized Parts) from triggering; Firefighters which activate to quench the “flames” when an Exile is triggered; or other Managers that hold some of our strengths. In addition, the IFS concept of Self is closely aligned with the Enneagram concepts of Essence, which are available when Parts make space in the internal landscape.

Knowledge of the structure of each Enneagram Type provides individuals a road map to key Parts. IFS provides Enneagram-informed individuals methods of internal inquiry that can be helpful in loosening the unconscious, habitual patterns of Type.

In relationships, personal or professional, the mapping of Parts connected to Type is a powerful method of exploring challenges. Finding Parts in either partner that might be polarized against each other is particularly useful in resolving disputes.

The Narrative style of Enneagram teaching is a good fit with the IFS method where the Practitioner helps the person locate, communicate, and get into relationship with their Parts.

Portions of the material in this workshop was published in “All Together Us: Integrating IFS with Key Modalities, Communities and Trends” edited by Jenna Riemersma, published in August 2023. It has been presented to IFS Conferences as well as to the IEA conference in 2023.

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In the context of long-term relational commitments we are beholden to the constrictive conditions that hold the potential for not only our most powerful shadow work but also our greatest individual and collective possibility – the birth of what G.I. Gurdjieff referred to as ‘Real I.’ Counter to the egoic drive to transcend our humanity in all of its glory and mess, the path of conscious love invites us to allow our heart to “break wide-open without resorting to despair, resentment or bitterness.”  Our Type structure, held in the mutual trust and safety of these relational exchanges, is made transparent, revealing the Type’s defensive structure as the veil of our greatest gifts.

Constriction or commitment—seemingly a narrow gate from one side—is discovered to be a gate that opens up to an abundance and authenticity that we’ve always longed for. We call forth the “other’s” essence in allowing them to love and accept us as we are (and vice-versa). In the end, only the giving itself matters. Our wings of flight are borne in and through our transfigured wounds held in love.

Drawing from his experience of this path and the Western esoteric roadmaps that inform it, Jonathan will offer a talk on the transformational potential lying at the heart of, and often within the very necessary coarseness of, committed partnerships.  

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Relationships can run into trouble whenever there is a clash over values or a clash over styles. People in a relationship—whether it be personal, professional, or social—may enter conflict because they prioritize needs differently, causing frustration when we feel the other person doesn’t take our needs seriously. Or, they may agree on what is important but have different styles for meeting those needs.

These dynamics aren’t limited to just one-to-one relationships. They also affects teams and whole organizations, shaping group politics, power structures, and organizational effectiveness in general.

The Enneagram, properly understood, is a system of values (the three instinctual biases) and of styles (the nine Ennea-type strategies). Mario Sikora will share lessons learned from over 25 years of working with organizations and the leaders who guide them to help participants understand the impact of (primarily) the instinctual biases and the nine strategies on individual performance, coworker and team relationships, and the whole organization.

This program will explain how to understand the Enneagram through this lens and, more importantly, how to use this understanding to transform your professional relationships. Participants will be equipped with a deeper—yet simpler—understanding of the Enneagram in a way that they can apply to all their relationships, especially if they work in organizations. 

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Enneagram Minnesota and Enneagram Northeast USA invite you to join us for our first collaborative event! 

Many therapeutic and coaching professionals have experienced exceptional personal growth and transformation through understanding the Enneagram. Naturally, we want to help our clients benefit from the power and wisdom of the Enneagram as well, but this can be a daunting proposition. Do I have to take all the trainings and become a credentialed Enneagram expert myself? Or is there a simpler, more accessible way to begin?

Being an Enneagram-informed professional can also feel isolating if our colleagues, mentors, and supervisors are not aware of (or are openly skeptical of) the system. As IEA Affiliates, we want to help you connect with and learn from your fellow Enneagram practitioners, and gain confidence using the Enneagram effectively in your work. 

We warmly invite you to attend our interactive online panel with two therapeutic professionals who have years of experience incorporating the Enneagram into their professional practice. This event will be especially relevant to therapists and coaches who are seeking practical ideas and community support for using the Enneagram with their clients.

We hope this panel will help you answer questions such as:

• What are the potential benefits of using the Enneagram with my clients? How might the Enneagram enhance or even transform how I work with people? 

• How might I begin to incorporate the Enneagram into my existing professional practice?

• How do I help my clients learn the Enneagram? Do I have to train as a teacher myself?

• How might my use of the Enneagram evolve over time, and how might that affect my clients and my career?

Moderator Lindsay Read of Enneagram Minnesota will facilitate this conversation, which will include your questions for the panelists! Please note that this event will NOT be recorded as we intend this to be a highly engaging, community-building experience– so mark your calendar and plan to join us live! (Also please be aware the Event is being hosted by Enneagram Minnesota and begins at 6:00 Central Time, 7:00 Eastern Time.)

Members: please reserve your free ticket by clicking the “Member Registration” button below.

Non-Members: please purchase your $20 ticket by filling out the scheduling form below.

***We are using a new software for events this year. If you have any trouble registering, please email info@enneagramnortheast.org***

Who we are and how we engage with the world are much stronger predictors of how our children will do than what we know about parenting.”-  Brene Brown

Many caregivers and professionals are shifting away from authoritarian and permissive models of disciplining children and moving towards relationship-focused models that prioritize healthy attachment and connection. Effective leadership in families, schools, and communities is born out of fostering a culture of connection that is built on a foundation of Presence.  This workshop is for parents, grandparents, and any professional who works closely with children and youth to help:

·      Pinpoint where we over-utilize or under-utilize the gifts of all nine Enneagram points when guiding children.

·      Use the strengths of all 3 intelligence centers to become more responsive and less reactive during those tough/triggering moments.

·      Compassionately illuminate what’s hindering our capacity to be present with children and ultimately the leaders we most want to be.

By showing up and committing to Presence, we courageously give children a secure place to land. Just as an acorn transforms over time into a mighty oak, children can go about self-actualizing into who they are meant to be, when they can rest in our Presence and love. Understanding both the strengths and challenges we bring to relationships can significantly improve our effectiveness as leaders and will impact families not only today, but for generations to come.

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