An interactive, experiential online course
Usually, for inner work to be meaningful, we must engage all three faculties of inner intelligence. We typically scramble instinctual, emotional, and mental material, which muddles up our communication, relationships with others and, not least, inner work.
Thus, a big part of this work, for everyone, is seeing what goes where. For this reason, this course explores inner growth from grounded presence in, and from insight into, the cognitive, emotional and instinctual functions.
This course also exists as a self-study course, where the live sessions were recorded. Find it here.
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The course includes:
- 7 live, interactive sessions with teachings, guided sittings, practical exercises and exploratory feedback
- Optional written materials with deepening practices for download, which you complete, should you wish to, between modules
- One guided recording on mp3 for grounding yourself in presence
- The option to book individual sessions at a discounted price
- Access to connection to Cicci via email for questions and feedback for as long as the course goes on
Course modules
Module 1 — What is inner work really about,
and how can working with the centres help us?
Exploring …
- How self-image, world-view and various issues are forged in early childhood
- What role our Enneagram type plays in this chain of events
- How this affects our centres and understanding of ourselves and others
- To what extent personality is defined by our Enneagram “home base” in our given centre triad
- How the three centres operate individually and together
Module 2 — The Instinctual Centre
Exploring …
- What the instinctual centre does for us
- Unbalanced expressions of the instinctual centre
- The felt sense of this centre
- How our Enneagram type typically affects our use of this centre
- How this centre shows up for the individual in balance as well as hi-jacked by the ego
- Practices for nurturing and balancing the instinctual centre
Module 3 — The Heart Centre
Exploring …
- What the heart centre does for us
- Unbalanced expressions of the heart centre
- The felt sense of this centre
- How our Enneagram type typically affects our use of this centre
- How this centre shows up for the individual in balance as well as hi-jacked by the ego
- Practices for nurturing and balancing the heart centre
Module 4 — The Head Centre
Exploring …
- What the head centre does for us
- Unbalanced expressions of the head centre
- The felt sense of this centre
- How our Enneagram type typically affects our use of this centre
- How this centre shows up for the individual in balance as well as hi-jacked by the ego
- Practices for nurturing and balancing the head centre
Module 5 — Finding your way in
Exploring …
- The nature of presence work
- Formal practice vs everyday awareness
- Letting life provide the fuel
- Working with “the charge”
- Noticing our primary ways of circumventing actual inner work
- Transmuting discomfort into joy (without spiritual bypassing )
Module 6 — Aligning the centres
Exploring …
- What an unbalanced centre looks like
- What a neglected centre looks like
- How different Enneagram types tend to scramble the centres
- Discerning wants, wishes and dreams
- Discovering centred intention
- A closer look at the nature of forgiveness
- How to bring attention to the relevant centre
Module 7 — Wherever you go, there you are
Exploring …
- The nature of evolution
- The unfolding life journey
- What I expected, and what I got — a look at perfection
- The power of initiative vs the magic of being guided
- Taking inventory
- Conscious letting go
- Intentions: my willingness to being open
Individual sessions during the course
Participants can book individual sessions at a discount for the duration of the course. Sessions need to be booked and paid for before the course finishes but can be booked for a date occurring later. Normally, in individual session is €85, but for the duration of the course, participants pay only €50. A session typically is 60 minutes, but there is always time to finish whatever is going on before we break. (This means we don’t start new explorations coming up on 60 minutes, but we aim to finish what we’re doing so nothing is left hanging. It’s worth mentioning, too, that I don’t normally book sessions back to back, as I never want to be forced to “close a surgery before the operation is complete” ).