Exploring the ENNEAGRAM

— exploring yourself

Inner Growth with the Levels of Balance

An interactive, experiential online course

The Enneagram is meant to help us grow — not just categorise ourselves. But sometimes, suggestions for supposedly growth-inducing exercises fall flat. ”Focus on your point of integration” or “Explore your type’s virtue” aren’t exactly helpful advice if I’m currently having a hard time and it’s a struggle to even just be present with myself. But what if we could cater the exercises we use to the level of development where we currently find ourselves? 

This course builds on the booklet (downloadable pdf) Climbing the Levels of Development, which is also included in the course, and guides participants through the developmental levels with teachings, guided meditations, exercises and open work. The course consists of 10 modules (outlined below) and the opportunity to schedule discounted private sessions with Cicci for the duration of the course. It also includes the booklet mentioned above, which means if you already bought it, you get €7 deducted from the course fee. (If this is you, please use the product link sent especially to customers who purchased the book!) Every module recorded and put up on the course page for streaming, for anyone who couldn’t make a particular session or wants to review it again. (These are not for download and only while the course lasts.)

Cicci speaks about the origins of this course.

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Format and scope

Purchasing the course, you get:

  • 10 course live modules (outlined below)
  • Climbing the Levels of Development PDF booklet (or discount if you already own it)
  • access to a recording after each module (not for download and only while the course lasts)
  • e-mail access to Cicci between modules
  • the opportunity to book individual sessions at a discounted price

Teaching the course

Teaching the course is Cicci Lyckow Bäckman, who is also behind this Exploring the Enneagram home page. Cicci has trained with Don Riso and Russ Hudson, is certified with the Enneagram Institute, USA, and has led experiential growth groups for more than 15 years.

Module 1: Introducing the “Levels of Development”

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  • Course introduction, layout and objectives
  • The origins of the Levels of Development
  • The scrambling of the centres as it relates to the Levels
  • The relationship between ego and essence as it relates to the Levels
  • The concept of the Basic fear, the Wake-up Call and the Red Flag fear
  • Centre of gravity vs short-term movement
  • Experiential exercises

Module 2: Working with the Levels

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  • Keys to working with the Levels
  • The unhealthy Levels
  • Guided work
  • Exercises
  • Open exploration

Module 3: Working within the average Level-span — Level 6

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  • A closer look at the Average Levels
  • Level 6: The level of overcompensation
  • How to meet the ego activity at this Level
  • Exercises
  • Open exploration

Module 4: Working within the average Level-span — Level 5

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  • Further exploration of the Average Level-span
  • Level 5: The level of interpersonal conflict
  • How to meet the ego activity at this Level
  • The fixations
  • Exercises
  • Open exploration

Module 5: Working within the average Level-span — Level 4

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  • At the top of the Average Levels
  • Level 4: The level of Fixation
  • How to meet the ego activity at this Level
  • Exploring the Wake-up Call
  • Exercises
  • Open exploration

Module 6: Working within the healthy Level-span, Level 3

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  • A look at the healthy Levels
  • Level 3:The level of social value
  • How to meet the ego activity at this Level
  • Exercises
  • Open exploration

Module 7: Living at the healthy Levels | Tolerating The Charge

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  • A closer look at the “health” of this Level-span
  • Discerning ego-identification
  • Non-judgemental awareness
  • Working with The Charge
  • Spotting our own avoidance tactics
  • Exercises
  • Open exploration

Module 8: Living at the healthy Levels | Self-image vs Self

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  • Keys to navigating the healthy levels
  • The need for something higher
  • How the loss of essential aspects create heart wounds and passions
  • An anchor for self-image
  • Awareness vs superego
  • Exercises
  • Open exploration

Module 9: Inner work at the healthy Levels | The Basic fear

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  • The challenges to high-level permanence
  • Noticing the Basic fear intellectually vs viscerally
  • Exploring your relationship to your Basic fear
  • The basic fear as springing from the deeper wound
  • Exercises
  • Open exploration

Module 10: Inner work at the healthy Levels | The passions & grace

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  • A longing for truth
  • Making yourself available
  • The interplay of essential qualities, passions, heart wounds and liberating insights
  • Inviting grace
  • Resistance vs relaxation
  • Exercises
  • Open exploration

Booking an individual sessions during the course

During the course, participants who wish to do so can book individual sessions at a discounted price. Just contact Cicci and tell her you’d like to book a session, and you can settle on a date and time. Discounted sessions need to be booked and paid for within the duration of the course, but the actual session can take place later.