Contemplative Enneagram community
Evolving Enneagram is known internationally for its unique contemplative, community-based approach to transformation. Our Contemplative Practices & the Enneagram practice & support groups (aka CPE groups) are facilitated online circles in which individuals of diverse backgrounds from around the globe come together to hold sacred witnessing space for one another’s ongoing journey of revelation and transformation–informed by the Enneagram.
If CPE participation calls to you, check our 2023 schedule and apply to register below.Â
Spots are limited. The ideal participant already knows their Enneagram Type or and has some experience with meditative practices. However, sometimes, sheer enthusiasm can open you a spot! What we are looking for are individuals who are devoted to their own conscious awakening!
WHAT IS CPE?
CPE groups are unique, transformational, interspiritual cohorts ranging from 6 to 16 people of diverse spiritual backgrounds from around the world. (You do not have to be spiritual or religious to join. You can simply be spiritually open and curious.)
CPE is for individuals who already know their Enneagram type and who seek to cultivate a discipline of contemplative practice in a compassionate, non-dogmatic Enneagram-literate community.
Each CPE cohort meets weekly for 90 minutes per session. We start our time together with a brief guided meditation, check ins, and then practice at least 20 minutes of centering prayer (a practice of sacred silence & surrender) each meeting. Each meeting, we also explore a topic related to the Enneagram &/or contemplative practice.
Starting in 2023, groups will be held on a quarterly basis. The commitment is to a 12-week period followed by a one week break and then a new 12-week cohort begins. You may register for as many quarters in the year as you wish. See the Schedule below.
Group sharing is held in a sacred listening context, under the belief that you already have wisdom within you and our group’s presencing you, we support you in discerning and embodying your own truth.
Prior knowledge of Centering Prayer is a plus but NOT mandatory as the practice will be taught in the first group meeting.
WHY CPE?
EE Founder Nhien Vuong shares reflections on contemplative practices & the Enneagram
Journey with our global, inter-spiritual community.
Our contemplative Enneagram groups are inclusive of individuals from all nationalities, backgrounds, sexual orientation, and gender identification. We honor the innate wholeness in all humans everywhere. Applications are required because we keep our groups under ~20 people to make space for deeper sharing and so we look for individuals who have done some work already on their own path and who are ready to go deeper.
Our vision is to continue to train CPE facilitators from our own community so we can offer more and more of these sacred spaces to all who seek it.
Where an intentional community may be built around a myriad of different goals or intentions, a Conscious Community is an intentional community whose members are actively engaged in the work of relating to each other and the world around them from a place other than their habitual and unconscious patterns, both on an individual and collective level. Individually, this means that each person is working with their type in relating to each other person both inside and outside the community.
Abi Robins
Our CPE Facilitator Team
Nhien Vuong, J.D., M.Div.
Angela Joy Eby, M.A.
Kristina Frank
Macha Greenleaf- Maple, MSW
Rev. Dr. George Gordon
2023 CPE COHORTS
BIG NEWS! Changes in effect starting 2023…
There will be no mandatory tuition for CPE. Instead, all CPE groups will operate on a Pay What You Can basis. (For those curious about the suggested contribution, tuition was previously $20/pp per session.)
All CPE groups will be facilitated by a team, rather than by just one facilitator. The team will include core Evolving Enneagram faculty (shown above) as well as leaders drawn from our own EE community.
Groups will meet for 1.5 rather than 2 hours each session.
4 CPE COHORTS
Winter Session
Session A
(12 weeks)
begins week of
Jan 9 – March 27
(followed by 1-week break)
Spring Session
Session B (12 weeks)
begins week of
April 10 – June 26
(followed by 1-week break)
Summer Session
Session C (12 weeks)
begins week of
July 10 – Sept 25
(NO BREAK)
Fall Session
Session D (12 weeks)
begins week of
Oct 2 – Dec 18
(followed by 1-week break)
days & times of the week
Mondays 6-7:30 PM CST
- (then CDT in the fall, in observance of Daylight Savings Time)
- Team led by Nhien + Kristina + Macha
Tuesdays 3-4:30 PM CST
- (then CDT in the fall, in observance of Daylight Savings Time)
- Team led by Angela + Kristina
Wednesdays 1-2:30 PM CST
- (then CDT in the fall, in observance of Daylight Savings Time)
- Team led by Nhien + Angela
Thursdays 1-2:30 PM CST
- (then CDT in the fall, in observance of Daylight Savings Time)
- Led by Nhien + Core Faculty & Community Members
Voluntary contribution to CPE program
Please consider that your voluntary contribution to our CPE programs is not meant to be “in exchange” for services offered but rather is intended as a pay-it-forward offering to keep these groups open to all who need it.🫶❤️
Our participant experiences....
FREE RESOURCES
To help you along your journey, Evolving Enneagram is pleased to provide the following free resources:
– Both the Welcoming Prayer and Centering Prayer steps are provided below as downloadable pdfs (simply click the image to download)
– Guided meditations by Rev. Nhien (click the image to go to the EE Podcast page to listen)
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