At this workshop, participants took a day to explore the connection between personality and essence—to help clarify their inner genius. They returned to work and home with a fresh understanding of themselves and their families, friends and colleagues. Plus, they received tools and resources to support them in tackling whatever comes their way in the months ahead.
Led by Evolve Founder Jill Barrett, our time together was filled with self-reflection, deep listening, embodiment activities and refreshing breaks at Meridian Hill Park, just steps away from the inspiring Josephine Butler Parks Center.
Over the course of our lives, we create a particular way of being based on our nature, personality and experiences. As a personality system, the Enneagram reveals the strengths and gifts that each of us can bring to the world. Not only does it show us the ways in which we can forget who we really are, it also illuminates pathways back to our essential nature.
The Enneagram is a time-tested, holistic approach to emotional, mental and spiritual development. And, it’s an expanding field of innovation and creativity, constantly inspiring new processes and practices for consciousness in religion, business, education, health care, relationships, psychology, parenting, diversity work, social activism and mind-body healing.
Overlooking Meridian Hill Park, the Josephine Butler Parks Center is an 18,000 sq ft, 40-room Renaissance-revival style mansion in the heart of Washington, D.C. Once the home of the Hungarian Embassy to the United States, the Center has been transformed into an Embassy of the Earth, with a mission to be a beacon of green urban revitalization and cooperation.
During the workshop, participants:
Learned about the strengths of their personality types
Identified blind spots and habits that keep them stuck
Explored pathways to growth that are unique to them
Practiced empathy with the personality types of others
Connected with like-minded people
The workshop included:
Enneagram diagnostic and guidelines
Participant workbook and materials supporting sustainability
Investment: $175
ALL THE TRUE VOWS
by David Whyte
All the true vows
are secret vows
the ones we speak out loud
are the ones we break.
There is only one life
you can call your own
and a thousand others
you can call by any name you want.
Hold to the truth you make
every day with your own body,
don’t turn your face away.
Hold to your own truth
at the center of the image
you were born with.
Those who do not understand
their destiny will never understand
the friends they have made
nor the work they have chosen
nor the one life that waits
beyond all the others.
By the lake in the wood
in the shadows
you can
whisper that truth
to the quiet reflection
you see in the water.
Whatever you hear from
the water, remember,
it wants you to carry
the sound of its truth on your lips.
Remember,
in the place
no one can hear you
and out of the silence
you can make a promise
it will kill you to break,
that way you’ll find
what is real and what is not.
I know what I am saying.
Time almost forsook me
and I looked again.
Seeing my reflection
I broke a promise
and spoke
for the first time
after all these years
in my own voice,
before it was too late
to turn my face again.