Beatrice Chestnut, PhD – Own the Shadow of Your Enneagram Personality Type

In this opening session, Beatrice will share the definition of the shadow — and explain how becoming aware of your shadow aspects helps you develop enhanced self-awareness and wholeness.

As you’ll discover, the Enneagram reveals what you’re blind to in yourself — and why, as Beatrice says, you’re blind to the fact that you are blind to it!

You’ll explore the Enneagram map as a pathway for seeing and learning to accept your shadow — and why knowing the blind spots of the nine types helps illuminate the dark side within the human psyche and the people in your life.

Drawing on inspiring quotes and examples from Jungian literature and other great works, Beatrice will set the context for a deeper examination of each type’s unconscious patterns.

And you’ll explore how becoming more aware of your disowned habitual tendencies makes room for a revolution in your personal growth process.

In this module, you’ll discover:

• The meaning of the shadow, both generally and as an aspect of your Enneagram personality type
• Why integrating shadow aspects of who you are is an essential part of furthering your evolution
• Powerful methods for addressing blind spots — including the ways you can work with your shadow to become more whole, psychologically healthy, and self-aware
• The benefits of making your specific unconscious patterns more conscious
• What it means to compassionately chart a specific path of growth for yourself according to your specific Enneagram personality type
• The value of applying the Enneagram as a way to understand partners, friends, family members, and clients at a much deeper level

You’ll begin your exploration of the Enneagram’s shadows with types 8 and 9.

Beatrice will walk you through the blind spots in the type 8 shadow and the type 9 shadow — and share what these two body-based types can do to revolutionize their psychological and spiritual development.

You’ll develop a much deeper understanding of these types as you explore which emotions and other aspects of experience they tend to avoid being aware of — and what they can do to integrate these blind spots to further their growth journey.

In this module you’ll discover:

• The blind spots of Enneagram types 8 and 9 — including the shadows that remain unconscious in these types, and why they develop their particular blind spots
• The consequences of staying blind to parts of the self
• Specific emotions Eights and Nines avoid, often without realizing it
• How Eights and Nines can make their specific unconscious patterns, beliefs, and emotions more conscious
• Positive changes that happen when Eights and Nines integrate their blind spots — and ways healing practitioners can support them

What shadows tend to be most prevalent for Enneagram types 1 and 2? What tends to remain unconscious in these types — and how can they make these patterns conscious?

Beatrice will share the blind spots of Ones and Twos. She’ll share how to best recognize these blind spots — and how to become more aware of them to best grow psychologically and spiritually.

As you explore which emotions and patterns Ones and Twos tend to avoid, you’ll discover steps they can take to integrate these blind spots to deepen their growth path.

In this module, you’ll explore:

• The specific emotions Ones and Twos make an effort to avoid
• How Ones and Twos develop their blind spots — and what tends to remain unconscious for them
• How integrating their blind spots can result in transformation for Ones and Twos — and the kind of support they need most
• What happens when you remain blind to your shadow self
• The ways Ones and Twos can take their patterns, beliefs, and emotions from unconscious to conscious

During this class, you’ll discover which shadows tend to be most prevalent for Enneagram types 3 and 4.

You’ll explore which emotions tend to remain unconscious in these types — and how they can bring these patterns into their conscious mind.

As you explore which emotions and patterns Threes and Fours try so hard to avoid, you’ll discover steps they can take to integrate these blind spots into their whole person.

In this module, you’ll explore:

• The ways life can improve for Threes and Fours when they integrate their blind spots
• How healing practitioners can best support Threes and Fours
• The shadows that tend to remain most unrealized in these types, and why
• The consequences of turning a blind eye to your shadows
• The ways Threes and Fours can make their hidden emotional patterns more conscious

In this module, you’ll learn about the shadows of Enneagram types 5 and 6 — what tends to remain unconscious in these types and how they can make these type-specific unconscious patterns more conscious.

You’ll look at the blind spots of these two head-based types to understand how they can recognize them and work to become more aware of them as a way of revolutionizing their psychological and spiritual development.

You’ll develop a much deeper understanding of these types through learning about what emotions and patterns they tend to avoid being aware of — and what they can do to integrate these blind spots to further their growth journey.

In this module, you’ll explore:

• The blind spots of Enneagram types 5 and 6 — what tends to remain unconscious in these types, why they develop these particular blind spots, and the negative results of staying blind to them
• Specific emotions Fives and Sixes avoid becoming aware of
• How Fives and Sixes can make their specific unconscious patterns, beliefs, and emotions more conscious
• The positive outcomes Fives and Sixes can achieve when they integrate their blind spots — and how healing practitioners can most effectively work with them

As with all types, certain blind spots tend to remain unconscious for Sevens — and they can make these type-specific unconscious patterns more conscious.

Beatrice will share the blind spots in a Seven’s shadow — and explain how they can uplevel their psychological and spiritual development.

You’ll learn which emotions and other aspects of experience they tend to avoid being aware of — and what they can do to integrate these blind spots to further their growth journey.

In the second half of this module, you’ll explore the archetypal hero’s journey in depth.

You’ll explore how this journey maps a path of transformation and growth through a kind of “initiation” in which you confront your shadow. As you’ll discover, the Enneagram serves as a symbol of this journey.

You’ll deepen your understanding of your own archetypal path to wholeness through compelling examples of this life-changing process from myths, fairy tales, and great works of literature.

In this module, you’ll explore:

• The blind spots of the Seven, the shadows that remain unconscious for them, and why they develop these particular blind spots to begin with
• Specific emotions Sevens unconsciously avoid
• How Sevens can embrace their hidden patterns, beliefs, and emotions
• The ways healing practitioners can support Sevens — and the positive shifts that happen when they integrate their blind spots
• The path of transformation mapped out by the archetypal hero’s journey that you can apply to your own life — to deepen your understanding of your own path of development
• The role of facing the shadow within the hero’s journey, highlighted through examples from myths, stories, and fairy tales that clarify what it means to integrate the shadow