Details
Facilitated by
Leslie Hershberger
Date/Time
Friday | 10:00 am - 12:30 pm | June 19th
Cost
$19 to Members | $39 for Non-Members
Location
The Hive: A Center for Contemplation, Art, and Action | In Person
1628 Hoffner St Cincinnati, OH 45223
About the Class
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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.
Enneagram Salon 1: The Conditioned Self
Regardless of our caregivers' best intentions, conditioned patterns begin very early in life, shaped by our instinctual first responses—to fight, to flee, freeze or to seek contact. This is our endowment as humans. As we meet the environment we are born into, patterning begins very early. We adapt.
We become a type of person, shaped by what helps us survive most effectively, based on the instinct that is most prominent in us.
This is conditioning. And it operates through reinforcement.
A child is constantly learning:
What keeps me safe?
What makes me acceptable?
Who do I need to be here?
Over time, these strategies become patterned ways of being until they feel like who we are. But the conditioned self, while necessary, tends to obscure something deeper. Beneath these patterns is the soul—the aliveness of our true nature, not organized around survival and trauma, but around presence, vitality, and essence. This work is not about getting rid of the conditioned self. It is about seeing it clearly so that something deeper can come forward.
In Salon 1, you will:
Enter a guided inner practice to explore how you came to see yourself through the eyes of significant people and groups—and how this shaped your type’s expression
Learn to recognize your Enneagram mental habit, emotional habit, and the somatic contractions held in the body
Share your inner experience through guided inquiry, held with care and supported by the collective presence of the group
Learn pause practices in all three Centers that allow you to shift from automatic patterning to conscious response in real time when under pressure.
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.