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Light and dark lie in every human heart.
How we wish that we could cancel the distasteful parts of ourselves by assuming they live only out there in others. The more siloed we are in our tightly held worldview, the more unconscious our shadow.
We empower the shadow by cutting it off or pretending it doesn’t exist inside of ourselves.
The Enneagram is helpful in shadow work. It helps us identify our defense strategies, avoidances and what we project onto other people.
Shadow work is a gift to ourselves as a practice for wholeness, creativity, self honesty and authenticity.
It is a gift to our community as it reduces projection and conflict as we become less likely to blame or judge others for traits we have not yet owned in ourselves.
With this in mind, Enneagram teachers Leslie Hershberger and Lee Fields introduce:
Enneagram Winter Sessions 2025:
Embodied Shadow Work
Using Enneagram Wisdom to Awaken to Shadow in
Self and the Collective
SHADOW CLASS 2025:
In Winter 2024, Leslie taught a class on the shadow of each Enneagram Center and type.
She heard consistent feedback:
"I learned love shadow work AND I want MORE. Specifically, participants listed:
- more embodiment practice
- more time to for group conversation
- more time for panels
- more exercises to help me bring my shadow home
So we have extended the class from 4 weeks to 5 weeks.
There will be pre-work to have more time in session.
Specifically, this means the teaching and slides will be recorded and participant through short video and/or audio modules to be watched BEFORE class.
We will do actual Shadow Work during the live Zoom Sessions.
Given the current tensions in the world, Leslie and Lee will include not only the materials from last year, but also explore how shadow energies show up in the Collective now and throughout history.
So much of conflict in these fraught times comes from standing in each other's shadows!
We'll delve into how our enneagram type interacts with the Collective Shadow and impacts our daily lives and communities.
What is projection? from Psychology Today
GOOD SHADOW WORK IS 3 CENTERED
Learning about your Enneagram shadow and the collective in the Mental center is only a start.
When we stay in the Mental center, we go back to our default strategies.
Our predictive emotions take over and drive habitual thought patterns and projections.
Embodiment, panels and practice takes us beyond an intellectual understanding of the shadow.
In this class, you will learn how to bring the other 2 centers online.
You learn practices to bring the Heart Center into compassionate attunement.
You learn to embody your new insights and values through your actions in the world
Details:
The teachings will be recorded for you to watch BEFORE class. They will be available through our Teachable platform.
Zoom class time is LIVE. Because you watch the teachings before each class, we have time to focus on:
- Work with your Enneagram shadow through powerful exercises, dyads and panels
- Learn practices to manage your "atmosphere" which is foundational for responsible self maintenance and group hygiene.
- Learn how your Enneagram defense mechanisms serve to keep your shadow hidden
- How to spot projections in yourself and the collective.
- Learn powerful practices of somatic awareness and embodiment to support you in actions that align with your values as you do this work.
- Q and A
You will have access to all of our slides, written material and links for your personal use during the course. Access will continue after the class is over.
When: Consecutive Wednesdays: February 12, 19, 26, March 5, 12
Time: 6:45-9:00 PM
Cost for Teachings and LIVE Zoom sessions:
PRICE: $129
ACCESSIBILITY PRICE: $179 (if you're in a financial position to support scholarships for students with financial limitations)
TEACHING ONLY:
$79: No access to Zoom session which include panels, dyads, exercises, process work.
You will have access to Leslie's teaching on 3-2-1 Shadow and limited exercises and meditations.
Where: Zoom for LIVE sessions
Teachable for recorded Teachings.
Leslie Hershberger
Leslie has been working with psychologist Carl Jung’s Shadow for over 24 years both with the Enneagram and in her work Ken Wilber's Integral Life.
She believes that healthy integral living is to continually work to recognize and reclaim these broken pieces of ourselves, and to reintegrate them back into our Whole self so that we can practice being less reactive and more responsive to what a moment asks of us.
Leslie is, at heart, a practice based teacher. For her, projection and shadow work is a non-negotiable as she has seen and experienced the havoc that projection of our Shadow can cause to families, groups and the collective.
Because she doesn't see Shadow work as a simplistic self improvement project, she has much compassion for the courage it takes to work to reintegrate splintered pieces of ourselves that we may have unconsciously pushed away over the course of our lives.
She believes Courage calls us to:
Wake up...to our patterns through 3 Centered Wisdom practice
Grow up...claim personal agency/ practice emotional maturity
Clean up...do our Shadow Work
Show up...serve humanity in whatever way we are called
In these intense, polarized times, the collective is highly reactive. Conscious people willing to own their shadow is no small thing. Leslie welcomes you with gratitude to Individual and Collective Shadow work.
Lee Fields
Lee first met the Enneagram in 1994, but it was a brief encounter that didn’t go very far until 2019 when her work began in earnest.
Her particular interests are practical applications of the Enneagram for personal growth and in relationships - with ourselves as well as personal and professional relationships.
She’s an Enneagram teacher/practitioner certified through Enneagram Applications with Nan Henson and Lynda Roberts, The Narrative Enneagram’s Practitioner track and with Mario Sikora and Maria Jose Munita’s Awareness to Action, International. She is currently expanding her study through The Narrative Enneagram’s teacher track and Marion Gilbert’s Somatic Enneagram. ,
Lee’s an associate with Awareness to Action and is a teaching assistant with their certification program, she also serves on the board of the International Enneagram Association Southeast’s affiliate as the Programming Committee Chair.
Leslie knew she had found a kindred spirit through countless conversations with Lee who has incredibly insightful observations about the Enneagram, shadow and how it plays out in the collective.
Leslie also has a heart for people like Lee who walk the talk and do their own inner work and show up in the world to serve.
Lee, an Enneagram One, offers homework practices, journaling prompts and skillful listening to needs of participants.
Featured Items from our Enneagram Shop
As a gesture of appreciation of those doing Shadow work Shadow Course registrants receive a 30% discount for tools that will help you with your Enneagram Wisdom Practice:
The Enneagram Report,
Enneagram Awareness and Accountability Cards
ALL of the 9 types Learning and Practice Modules (Type 9 is Featured below, but all 9 types are included in the offer).
