Details
Facilitated by
Leslie Hershberger
Date/Time
Friday | 10:00 am - 12:30 pm | September 11
Cost
$29 to Members | $49 for Non-Members
Location
The Hive: A Center for Contemplation, Art, and Action | In Person
1628 Hoffner St Cincinnati, OH 45223
About the Class
Domains
Description
Enneagram Salons: An Overview
People learning the Enneagram often reduce it to a description in a book, a meme, or stereotype. There is a profound difference between studying the Enneagram and encountering it in living form. If we are to carry the Enneagram forward in a responsible, integrative way, we must invite people into their own interiors—to develop the capacity to observe themselves with clarity and honesty. And we must invite them into experiences of listening to others—to hear, from the inside, how different types move through the world.
Through the Narrative Tradition’s skillful, relational inquiry method, we enter a field of living conversation—one where each type speaks from its interior landscape, revealing its struggles, adaptive strategies, strengths, and unique path of development: Enneagram Salons.
Learning the Enneagram through the INNER life of another is not a mental construct confined to the head—where we reduce people to a type from the OUTSIDE in. It is an unfolding across all three Centers: Head, Heart, and Body. You don’t simply understand the types cognitively. Rather, you feel them, recognize them and locate yourself within them.
The learning becomes embodied, relational, and real.
In this salon, we explore your Enneagram story through the core structures that shape your type and subtly guide your daily life. Together we’ll look at three key dynamics:
Your Core Idealization — the identity you unconsciously uphold
Your Core Avoidance — what you move away from to protect that identity
Your Primary Defense Mechanism — the “guardian at the gate” that keeps the idealized self intact
Understanding these patterns is central to Enneagram presence work. Each type expresses a distinct form of the conditioned self, organized around maintaining a particular identity. When we can observe our defenses with clarity, they soften. The structure becomes more transparent.
And beneath that defensiveness, many people discover a deeper reservoir of aliveness, freedom, and presence. What once protected us can become something we relate to consciously rather than something that runs us. This is where real inner freedom begins.
Intention of the Hive
When you join a Hive experience, you're invited into our intention to create a group experience that's inclusive, rooted in mindfulness, and dynamically relational. We aspire for each Hive experience to model these intentions, and even to refine them as we continue to learn how to gather in a way that's transformative! The embodiment of these intentions by Hive facilitators, Members, and class participants is what makes the Hive the unique and healing social container that many experience it to be. To view our Hive Intentions for gathering, click here.
More About the Facilitators
Leslie Hershberger
is a master facilitator, Enneagram expert, and transformational consultant. Leslie believes in the power of human transformation through intention, awareness, and practice. She is passionate about supporting people in cultivating self-awareness in their inner life, relationships, and spirituality.